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  • Egregious. Travesty. Unmitigated gall. If I could give negative stars, I would. The restaurant is staffed with native Chinese servers and presumably cooks. Our server was rather disinterested and standoffish...I imagine it is because she was embarrassed to be associated with such a place and the blatant cash grab that it is. I have to admit we did not hit it at peak time...it was about 3:30 pm and the place was mostly empty. However, we had just checked in after a tiring day of travel, so at least it was conveniently in the hotel. We also did not get any noodles, though they were being stretched in front of us...I wish we did. The little one usually likes congee, so we chose the congee with century egg and pork ($15!!). Now, I absolutely cannot resist XLB anytime I see them on a menu (even though they are Shanghainese in origin and this was presumably a Beijing restaurant...they also had DanDan noodles, a Szechuan treat. We got the regular pork XLB ($14!) and seafood/pork XLB ($14!). We finished the ordering with some Shiu Mai ($12!), and a $5 diet coke!!! OK, so I thought the prices were rather high (understatement). But I felt the same way at Yank Sing in SF, but at least the food was really good and I didn't feel robbed. The congee was made from water, not broth, bits of century egg, and a smattering of pork strips. There was nary any salt nor any seasonings of any sort. As a result, it was devoid of any flavor (surprise, surprise). $15 for raw ingredients totalling 25 cents. Both varieties of XLB were off as well...though they both had ample soup, the skins were very tough and discolored a dark hue, as if they had been sitting out awhile. The filling was surprising tough and chewy as well. The four shiu mai were fine, though at $3 a pop, you'd think they had foie gras or truffles in them. Really, nothing different from the 50 to 75 cent version you'd find in any Chinatown. However, the meal was salvaged by the best diet coke I'd ever had, definitely a bargain at $5. Did you catch the sarcasm there? 'cause I was laying it on pretty thick. So, the total damage for a very mediocre (actually, the food was aspiring to become mediocre) meal was just about $75(!!!). Really, no kidding. Pretty incredible. Run as fast as you can away from this place.
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