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| - 2.5 stars. My son and I had passed by so many times on the way to school and the "All You Can Eat Wings" sign was enticing. When we walked in we were greeted by a friendly server and told that we could sit wherever we wanted (there were around 12 or 13 tables here). I did find it odd that the air conditioning was running at full blast on a cool day (plus bubble tea = brain freeze!), but the server explained that the landlord controlled the temperature of the entire building and the individual shopkeepers couldn't do a thing about this, unfortunately.
Most of the items on the menu were under $10.00 and with a Yelp Check-in you can get a free bubble tea with a $20.00 purchase. Our son enjoyed his Phoenix Tear bubble tea (a gigantic glass with a generous portion of pearls) and his "create your own noodle soup". He chose thick rice noodles with enoki mushrooms, fried egg, won ton, and Chinese sausage. The soup base was flavourful and the won tons were very toothsome (not the one-bite kind). The Chinese sausage was too sweet for his (and my) liking, though. We were expecting more of a lap cheung taste.
The pork, Chinese chives and shrimp boiled dumplings were bland; the dumpling wrappers were too thick. They definitely needed the vinegar that was provided on your table -- or not. The flavour of the vinegar was very harsh so we had to mix it with some soy sauce. My son and hubby said that they preferred my homemade dumplings.
The hot teas were pretty good, though -- I had a steaming hot, strong ginger honey green tea and hubby had a fragrant lychee tea.
The deep fried squid tentacles and lemon pepper chicken wings were delicious (I originally wanted to try a half order of sweet ginger as well as the lemon pepper wings but was told that it would be too complicated for the new chef).
However, the deep fried scallops and Taiwanese fried chicken were disappointing; there was a delightful crunch when we bit into the scallop coating, but we couldn't taste the scallop (it was like eating mush). As for the chicken, it was seasoned with too much pepper and not enough five spice. The pieces were also unusually small (compared to Lazy Monkey) and consisted of mostly batter, bits of skin and fat.
There is an All You Can Eat menu from Sun to Thurs ($18.95 per person; includes chicken wings, vinaigrette cucumbers, shrimp wonton soup, french and Mexi fries, spring rolls, onion rings, and Taiwanese minced meat on rice).
I missed out on wings specials again. Darn. We would probably return on these days when the regular chef is around.
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