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How many here can speak chinese? Well, for those that raised their hands, you'll probably think this place is OK. For those like me that aren't able to speak chinese, there may be a chance that you'll have a tough time here and basically be ignored.
We got here right around lunch time on a Saturday and were seated quickly even though it was pretty packed. First question from the young hostess was what kind of tea we'd like. I asked her if they had black tea and she said she had no idea what black tea was...really? She said they have oolong tea so that's what we ended up with.
First few minutes, the ladies rolling carts noticed we just arrived and had an empty table so the carts quickly came by and stopped to see if we were interested. After about 4-5 cart visits, we had some pork shu mai, a char siu pork in sort of a pastry, some rice noodles with bbq beef, and some fishcake balls with chives in them. These all were so-so, not good, not bad, but pretty much just OK.
I was really hoping for some xiao long bao and some char siu bao but no carts had any. I asked one of the cart ladies if we could just order them but she said those would be coming around soon so we waited. After about 10 minutes with the same carts with the same food going by we got the attention of one of the servers in black and tried to order them from her. An attempt at a discussion went back and forth between us for a bit and it was finally revealed that she can't speak english so she gave up and walked away.
A few more minutes go by and all the same cart ladies with all the same food go back and forth by us and they know we're not interested in the food they have so they don't look our way. Busboys scurry to and fro clearing plates and turning over tables. Servers in black shuffle around the dining room bantering with diners lucky enough to speak the language. And we kind of just sat there feeling invisible for what was a good 20 minutes. I see a guy who I think was the manager and ask for the check. He notices we don't have too much to total up and asks "is this all you guys are having?" I answer back, "yep, we're definitely done here" and that was definitely the truth.
One thing to add, the table of four behind us was having the same problem as we were...difficulty communicating and no one coming by. After a long time, one of them actually got up and chased down one of the speedy busboys that didn't already have his hands full so I know I'm not just being an overly picky diner. I've had A LOT of dim sum in my time, some good and some not so good and sadly this place is at the bottom of the rung. Dim sum that's just so-so but with some really bad service.
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