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| - I'm a fan of Dim Sum, and usually try to make it a point to try them when I come across one. To this day, I have yet to find a place that blew my mind. Din Tai Fung was probably the closest (is that even considered dim sum?), but in the more typical joints where they come around with the trays, I've never been super impressed. We decided to try Ping Pang Pong since it was in a casino, and we figured it would provide the necessary cleanliness that I find to be generally lacking in dim sum spots.
We got there 15 minutes before they opened on Sunday, and there was a line of 3-4 parties waiting in front of us. By the time they opened, there were another 5-6 parties behind us. Shortly after we began dining, the place was full. Good sign. The wait staff was surprisingly Chinese - I say that because this is inside the Gold Coast and I would have thought the wait staff would be more diverse - and resulted in a service very typical to other dim sum restaurants. They spoke little English, and often called out the dish in Chinese even after realizing we were not Chinese. The décor was clean and typically nice for a casino restaurant, so this part we enjoyed quite a bit - dim sum in a clean environment.
The food was actually quite good. It was quite distinctly lacking of the dumplings and shumai that we were looking for, they just kept telling us it would come later and they would come in trickles. But what did eventually come - shrimp shumai and shrimp & pork shumai - were very good. But alas, no har gow, no rice noodle rolls with shrimp (they had one with beef...), and just not enough choices of these little pieces. What they did have though, were interesting and not common. Congee porridge is common, and theirs is good. They have a large bowl for the table and a smaller bowl for one. They had cooked congee in spice broth which were excellent, and clams in similar sauce that were great also. Their souffle-type dessert (they only make 10 per day) was delicious, as well as the custard flavor rolls.
One big issue I had with them were that the dessert dishes started coming out first, and just kept coming around. Why do they do that? Bring out the porridge and dumplings first! We kept having to tell them "later, after we eat!" as the dessert trays passed by probably at least half dozen times. They've got to fix this.
But all-in-all a good meal, and our meal for 4 came to $49 plus tips. That's not a bad deal, and perhaps I can overlook some of their glaring shortcomings. 3.5 stars is more appropriate, but I'll bump up a half based on the quality of what we actually did get to eat.
Table-for-1 Factor: May be for regular lunch & dinner, but for the dim sum brunch it's probably not a great option.
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