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| - I went to Wah Sing for dinner a couple of weeks ago with a couple of friends. The last time I stepped into this place was over 8 years ago for their lobsters and I remembered it was different than most Chinese restaurants but in a good way. But a few months ago I bought a Teambuy voucher and looked forward to returning.
When I went through the reviews here and saw some of the low ratings, I was skeptical and wasn't very hopeful with my dinner experience, mostly expecting bad service and food being overpriced according to some??
But fortunately, none of this was true when we had dinner there. It was a warm, slightly breezy summer night. We arrived at around 8:30pm and the place inside well packed, so we took the tables in the patio, which turned out probably even the better choice as the inside did look somewhat old-fashion, dark, dingy and stuffy. Outside was perfect as it wasn't too hot, nor windy.
We ordered the double ginger and green onion lobsters, a Yeung-Chow/Cantonese fried rice, a beef rice noodle, and a plate of snow pea leaves. Like I said, I was ready and expecting something bad from the bad reviews here. But the lobsters came first, served on a long oval plate. The portions was huge. By comparison to some other Chinese restaurants, the quantity of lobsters looked like more than just 2. Anyhow, the lobsters was just as I remembered from 8 years ago, excellent. Their lobsters here are different than most places as I think it's the combination of spices they used and I think they were more deep fried than other places.
All the other items arrived and they were all well cooked and tasty. Everything was average price; fried rice at $9-10 and beef rice noodle the same. I especially liked the snow pea leaves as the quantity was pretty good; a full heap on an oval plate, while still priced at $12-$13, an average price for this dish.
The service was also great. Not sure if maybe because 1 server is specifically placed in charged to tend the 4 tables in the small patio (as opposed to being 1 of the closely packed tables inside). So we had no problem getting the server's attention for anything e.g. more water, more tea, extra bowls to share, etc. Our server was attentive, giving us extra napkins for our lobster mess without asking. She had gentle mannerism, never rushing or hasty. Whenever my friend make a request such as more tea, she always responded politely and a gentle 'no problem' whenever we say thank you.
So I am still puzzled at the low ratings here. I guess I can see how service may not be so great if I was sitting inside during peak hours. It's probably a more hectic environment for the servers inside. That's just my guess. I also didn't get any problems from using a voucher and we left a very good tip for the server.
Anyhow, I had a good experience and I will come back again, maybe next time for the their Tuesdays and Thursdays lobsters special.
Oh yeah, it's funny to see their competition next door 'Hua Sang'. As a person who can read Chinese, their names similar sounding and only differs in the second word. I got confused and almost went into Hua Sang. I do noticed they got good reviews here on yelp so maybe I will actually try their lobsters one day to compare with Wah Sing, and see if it's better like some reviewers claimed here :)
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