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| - The Skinny: the food is subpar (2) service: pretty much non existent... even for a Chinese joint which is saying something (1) value: there really isn't much value in bad food and poor service (2).
How to begin?
We hit this joint on Christmas day with the parental units who had come from out of town. We had called ahead to reserve a table at 6:30pm. It was a good thing we called ahead and made reservations but I am not sure if we just lucked out because there was no reservation card on our table.
We were seated promptly but that was about the only thing we got in a timely manner.
Menus? Sorry we only have 3 menus in the restaurant and someone else is using it so you have to wait. Hot water? Sorry we don't have hot water only tea.(yeah...WTF, right?) Tea? Oh yeah sorry, we forgot it. Oh and not to mention that several items on the menu were not available.
Of what was left, we tried their lamb soup, stir-fried beef, yellow croaker with tofu, home style tofu, potstickers, Mongolian pancakes. We ordered two additional dishes however one of them they forgot to add it to our tab so it never got made. The second one they ran out but forgot to tell us.
Okay let's get down to the details.
Potstickers were nothing special. The wrappers were too thick,and lacked the crispy bottom. Plus they skimped on the filling.
Lamb soup was okay - it was a chicken based soup with vermicelli, nappa cabbage and cilantro. This was a decent dish.
Mongolian pancakes had minimal filling and were really soggy and doughy.
The stir-fried dishes had way too much goopy sauce and were overly salty. The yellow croaker fish dish was especially offensive.
Between the lackluster dishes and the poor service I see no reason to return. Honestly, the only reason they get a 2 starred review is because the food was at least edible but not palatable.
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