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| - One of the many chinese restaurants that my family frequents, mainly for its large space, close location and very reasonable prices. My grandfather holds his birthday banquet there every year (that classic 10 course cantonese dinner affair).
I recently went again on a Sunday evening for dinner, so I will base my review on that since that's the freshest in my mind.
We had the 6 course Peking duck set menu. Definitely good value - for $68, you can feed 4 -6 people with soup, peking duck, fried prawns, pork neck with vegetables, stir-fried fish vegetables, and the meat from the peking duck also with vegetables in a brown sauce, all topped off with red bean soup as dessert.
PROS
- good value, which is key to a chinese restaurant's success
- big space, so it's pretty easy to get a spot. Sunday night we went was a bit unusual because there was a wedding banquet there, so we were relegated to one of the rooms on the side
- good-sized portions
- pork neck dish was very good!
- I really enjoyed the way they cooked the remaining duck meat - with lots of vegetables, making for a large dish
CONS
- prawns didn't seem that fresh - the meat was slightly soft and lacked the "crunch" of freshly cooked seafood. My mom said that it was better the last time she went.
- rice was a bit hard
- peking duck was ok... wasn't as crispy as it could've been
- Service was BAD. ok, they were busy, and service is never that great in this caliber of chinese restaurants, but it was just bad that night. we had to constantly go find the waitress to order, and everytime we asked for something, she looked annoyed at us for asking. several times she told us she was too busy and will come back later. So maybe it was due to that wedding that night, but if they are planning to serve other diners the same night, they need to be staffed appropriately.
Overall, I would give it another try as long as they don't have a wedding that night. The food was fairly good overall, and for the price, I can't complain too much.
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