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| - My sister found this place through Yelp and we decided to try it out. A small little place but quite spacious. They mostly have booths along the two walls which can seat up to 4 people or 6 if you just squeeze in, and two separate tables that can be combined into 8-9 top.
So funny!!! As soon as we walked in, the hostess/waitress told us "We do not have American BBQ, we have no chicken or beef!" :) I tried to hard not to laugh, I guess we look like we only eat chicken and beef.
As soon as we sat she gave us water, they also have a variety of teas that I have not seen before. I tried the grapefruit tea and it was delicious! We tried a bunch of their skewers: croaker fish (just tasted like salted fish), beff tendon, beef honeycomb, chicken heart, chicken gizzards, baby octopus, pork kidney and fish ball with roe. All were very good, some more flavorful than others but were overall delicious!
We also tried two of their main dishes, the Dongbei style egg plant which was absolutely delicious. Very creamy and soft eggplant, the sauce smelled of garlic and just simply delicious, amazing with a bowl of white rice. We also tried the Dongbei style sweet and sour pork, also delicious. The pork were cut into smaller pieces which made it easy to eat, tasted fresh and crispy, sauce was very garlicky and tasted like a plum sauce. Very yummy! We also tried the kimchi fried rice, this dish was average. Flavors were good, but pretty plain in the sense that it literally only came with rice, egg and kimchi, pretty plain for a fried rice. It was also very wet, I am not sure if that is their style or it was a fluke but the rice was very wet. I don't hate but also don't like it.
Don't come here expecting service like you are on the strip or at other places. Service was great for us in a sense that the waitress quickly took our order, food came out as we ordered, drinks were re-filled and all that. But this is a very casual place, typical of most local Chinese places, they take your order, drop off our food and that is that.
Overall I really enjoyed my first experience here, I will definitely come back to try more of their main dishes.
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