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| - I can sum up Zine in one sentence: the most expensive mediocre Asian dinner you'll ever eat.
$18 for pho. Yes, the beef noodle soup that you can get a decent bowl of for $5-7 depending on your locale, just weaker and three times the price.
The jellyfish salad - OK flavor, could have used some ponzu or some other acid, but cut way too thick. Jellyfish should be the consistency of soba, not chow fun.
Steamed pork buns - OK, but nothing to order again.
Duck and winter melon hot pot - If I'm paying almost $20 for it, I want the duck deboned. Nothing is more annoying than picking out tiny shards of bird bones from your food. If it were cheap-n-rustic, I could forgive. Yes, the bones lend flavor, but turn 'em into a stock for cooking.
All in all, the flavors were OK, but nothing really stood out as particularly good. I could go to any Chinatown diner and get similar, for much, much less. Eat here if it's comped, maybe, but don't pay for it.
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