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| - After trying this place once and reading other reviews, I must conclude that this place has different chefs on weekends and weekdays. We came on a weekday morning. It was nearly empty. After seeing people line up for this place on prior weekends, and finally getting to try, we felt very disappointed.
This place is evidently trying to brand itself as a high end place. The decor, utensils, and plates are certainly nice. But the food is definitely crappy. Like Miu Garden or Landmark Restaurant level crappy. But the difference is Miu and Landmark are dirt cheap so they still attract customers.
We ordered several dim sum items and one fried noodle plate in the morning before their lunch hours. Their S starts at 3.75 and goes up. So it's pretty steep.At this price range you would expect finely decorated dim sum, non-oily food, no msg, and using high quality ingredients. Nope...the only noticeable achievement was not using msg (or so I think). The fried items were even greasier than the cheap dim sum places. There's no decoration on the food aside from nice plates. We had the beef ball (english name escapes me) and the color was funky. The bean curd veggie roll were simmered in too much sauce. Crazy!
The portions were smaller too. Most places give you 4 beef balls in one order. This place gives you 3!!! . The only items I did not have a problem with were the fish congee and the fried noodles. The fish congee was fair at 5.99 and didn't taste like msg. The fried noodles were...ok. For a place that charges 3.75 for S dim sum, and only $12.99 for fried noodles, I would say the noodles are much more worthwhile.
Good service doesn't make up for mediocre food. My guess is...this place caters to western people who don't understand Chinese food enough to criticize. Western places seem to emphasize service more than the food. Go to Congee Queen across the street instead which is less contentious, has decent decor, AND have (mostly) good food.
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