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| - I rarely eat Chinese food for 2 reasons: 1. Their service is usually guaranteed sucky. 2. The place is almost always filthy. Now I don't want to further the stereotypes for Chinese restaurants, but I have to admit that the culture is different within one compared to others. As someone who admires, appreciates, and recognizes good service, I tend to stay away from Chinese restaurants. Nonetheless, with a grandma who eats nothing but Chinese food, I came to this place on a weekend night for her birthday.
The place was pretty full at 8:15pm on a Saturday night and they were clearly understaffed since half the tables were not cleaned up yet. We stood around trying to get ANY server's attention but they kept waving us away. 5 minutes later, they finally ask how many of us there were and started to clean the table closest to the door for us. I requested to be seated elsewhere and the server said there was no other place (even though a family just left and nearly half the place was empty because of dirty tables). Then I pointed out an empty table for 4 (that's us), and asked to be seated there. 10 minutes later, we finally get seated. There are no English signs anywhere in the restaurant aside from "open," but thankfully, the menu had English and since we didn't know how to write Chinese, we just wrote the numbers down. We had the following:
1. Tofu and Snow Pea Leaves ($18) - loved this because the tofu is usually fried at other places but it's super soft here. It was also delicious with the sauce and the combination of tofu and snow pea leaves is perfect! I have to say though, it's overpriced.
2. Grandfather Chicken (half size $13.75) - don't ask me if grandfather chicken means that it's actually a grandfather chicken because I have no clue. Certain parts of the chicken were pretty good and juicy, but the breast was way too dry. I liked that it was served with jellyfish because I love that! Pretty decent size for the price.
3. Scallops and Mangos on Bird Nest ($18.75) - don't be alarmed by the bird nest. This is not the traditional bird nest delicacy made from bird spit - this was a mimic of it made of fried taro, which gave the dish a really good texture. The mango was the perfect accompaniment of sour with the sweet scallops. I really enjoyed this dish.
The server also gave us free soup (carrot and pork stew) and dessert (hot read bean soup) and we paid for 2 bowls of rice. We didn't get our first dish until around 25 minutes after we put in our order and the 2 tables beside us were full of people until we put in our order and the dirty tables stayed uncleared for almost the entirety of our meal, which I find disgusting and unappetizing.
All in all, I'm quite sad to have to rate this a two because I would want to come back for the food, I really do. However, I can't put up with mediocre service and a filthy atmosphere - it just makes the dining experience dreadful for me. Nevertheless, if you're okay with all that, definitely try the dishes that I mentioned or be adventurous and try something different!
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