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| - First off, only 2 or 3 people can speak/understand English. All the dim sum ladies do not speak or understand English at all. You will not get sauces from them, clarify what they just brought to your table, and you will not be able to order anything with them. Seemingly, their sole role is to bring dim sum out. Period.
The two guys/hosts speak English and they were the only people who understood fully what we requested.
Menu is in English and Vietnamese but they have so many items and it was obvious the tiny font was because they wanted to squeeze everything on one page. You mark down the quantity you want, make sure to only fill one per table to not confuse the kitchen and to keep track of your order.
F O O D :
Cheese wontons: oil was definitely old and it was nauseating to eat
Chicken feet had such little meat on them, it was just sad for many reasons.
Char siu buns/ baked BBQ pork buns: the buns were too dough-y and seemed undercooked
Siu mai/pork+shrimp: meaty and juicy
Egg tarts: bland
Har gow: bland
Banh cuon tom/shrimp rice noodle: bland and shrimp was fishy
Banh cuon char siu/char siu rice noodle: nobody touched
Vegetable rice noodles: we didn't order but dim sum server said to just keep it
Spareribs: wayyyy overcooked, was mushy
Curry squid: too chewy
Congee: baby liked it
Beef tripe: decent, not too chewy
Bo vien/Beef balls: bland
Egg yolk bun: bland! How?!
Mango pudding in fish-shaped form: the only item really enjoyed
Never received: steamed pork buns, second order of baked BBQ buns, pork tripe
This was disappointing. I worked in a dim sum restaurant -besides helping myself to dim sum, I also learned how dim sum service and taste should be executed. This was horrible. Food was delayed and when we asked about it, the host or another lady wearing a different colored vest would say the food is coming. 40 minutes later, when we were almost done eating, stacks of dim sum came to our table. We had over 6 orders of chicken feet, 4 orders of har gow, some random leek dumplings. We were still missing some orders but we were horrified at the amount of food they had placed on our table. The lady in the vest insisted we had ordered them all. What...
A lot of things were lost in communication due to language barrier. We didn't receive some items and we received more items than what we ordered. The bill calculated probably wasn't correct.
I also noticed the dim sum ladies were burning their hands as they carried the orders to the table. Is there not a less harmful way of serving dim sum?! Such as mandatory use of trays or even carts? The whole restaurant wasn't in use, why not clear some space so carts can be navigated ?!
Also, asking for more sauce (soy sauce/sirarcha/chili oil) was akin to me asking my sister for my clothes back. Carries out the request by only giving one item back and ignoring the following repeated requests. Also, lady in vest only gave three sauces on a small plate for a table of 15. What. Asians share a lot but when it comes to sauces, come now. It's hard to share that.
Dining here was just awkward and exasperating. I've never experienced such bland food and hair-wrenching service. There were some good moments when Homer and the other host got us more sauces/cleared out plates/checked on our orders, clarified items that were brought to our table.
Return? Nah, bruh.
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