Checked out Mr. Guo for the first time on Saturday afternoon with the family. We normally go to Snow Palace (the previous owners) but decided to check the new place out for lunch.
Big mistake.
Once inside, we were greeted by an extremely dirty restaurant. Listen, we go to tons of ethnic restaurants and I get how sometimes they may not be as "clean" but this was alarmingly dirty. We were surrounded by tables with food and drinks from the previous night. Bottles of beer bottles, lobster shells on the floor and flies - both fruit flies and the black ones were swarming around. What was crazy is that the place wasn't even busy. We were the only ones in the restaurant at 12:30pm.
The waitress/owner? that greeted us just sat behind the cash register and never lifted a finger to clean up all the dirty tables. The place smelled, the napkins at our table looked used and the bowls had a film of grease on it. As i cast my gaze towards the kitchen, I spotted the trolley of used dishes and yes ... They were full of dirty dishes with old food in the them.
The lack of cleanliness made us quite doubtful of the kitchen and food preparation. We decided to order ... and made a bad mistake of not leaving immediately.
Mr. Guo's menu is humongous with many traditional Chinese dishes. The problem is that the spelling in the menu is horrendous and not descriptive of what you're actually going to get (unless you read Chinese). The waitress/owner was no help as her English was quite poor.
Our congee came out in a slimy consistency. Even worse, it had the residual taste of mutton (also on the menu). I suspect cross contamination with uncleaned pots and cooking utensils. Congee with the musky taste of mutton ... is just disgusting.
The spicey beef dish was passable but was loaded with MSG. The only thing that was remotely decent was the steamed buns with condense milk.
Folks - we're banning this place. What a waste of money and time. Establishments like this should not even be allowed to open. We were totally disgusted with the experience.