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| - I actually agree with one of the previous reviewers...there should be an option for negative stars. I was at Perfect Chinese Restaurant last night for dinner with my family, and I can honestly say it was THE single most WORST dining experience I have ever experienced. The food was sub-par, and the service was totally unacceptable.
We ordered a set dinner for 6, two additional dishes, chicken and salted fish fried rice, and the peking duck. Upon our arrival, I was not impressed, as their chairs were stained, and very unappetizing. Their lazy susan was also wet (I found out why later, as i observed the waiters pour water onto them to "clean" them after another party left). One of the dishes had an unidentifiable object stuck onto it.
First the soup arrived. It was just plopped down in the middle of the table. Suffice it to say, we were not served and had to serve ourselves. Then our dishes arrived one by one. Now, one would expect the peking duck to be served immediately after the soup, but that did not happen. Everything arrived BUT the duck. We asked for several pairs of communal chopsticks (which incidentally never arrived throughout the duration of the meal). We finally asked about the peking duck, and we found out the order was missed (how is that possible, when we didn't order much, and they had an electronic ordering system?) Oddly enough, all the other dishes we'd ordered which did not have promotional pricing, arrived.
The food itself was not very good, as most of the dishes arrived room temperature (lukewarm is generous). The peking duck that arrived at the end of the meal was the blandest and driest piece of meat any one of us had ever had the misfortune of tasting. The wrap was extremely thick and extremely small (our guess is that they are several gyoza wrappers stacked on top of each other). I almost forgot to mention that the waiter just plopped the dish of duck on the table (not even the lazy susan, since he seemed to be in a terrible hurry to torture the next table with his poor service), expecting us to figure out everyone ourselves. The duck (not for the wraps) did not come with any sauce, and the blandness and lack of moisture were overwhelming.
Now, onto the service. The failure to bring communal chopsticks and to serve us soup was the least of our concerns. NO ONE, and I repeat, NO ONE refilled our tea. We were so thirsty, my dad had to refill it himself. When he went to the station, there were two waiters there, but they did not acknowledge him at all. This is totally unacceptable, as I'm sure many many people would agree. All the dishes were just plopped onto our table (not just by the waiters, but also other servers from the kitchen). When we asked for the bill, the waiter DID surprisingly pour the dessert for us, but only because he needed an opportunity to make snide comments to us about us having to refill our tea ourselves. It seemed like a poorly disguised attempt at fishing for tips, but at that point, we just wanted to get out of that place pronto. He brought us the bill, but my mom had already paid.
Also regarding the waiters, all of them are in their 50s, perhaps coincidentally with recent deaths in their families. I cannot fathom why else their service would be so poor, or why they did not smile at all. The feeling I got throughout the meal was that not one of the waiters could wait 'til they got out of that place.
I would encourage every reader to pay this restaurant a visit, since only will first-hand experience convince you that their service was truly that poor. As diners in the Scarborough/Markham area looking for Chinese food, there are wayyyy better options, both taste-wise and of course service-wise (as it is not possible for service to be worse). In fact, several days ago, we'd visited the Pearl Chinese Restaurant (?) on the second floor of Oriental Centre (perhaps 100 metres away from this "fine" establishment), where we received excellent service and good food.
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