Met a couple friends here for lunch one day and it was really packed. Luckily we had a reservation but I felt the entire restaurant was super busy and turnaround seemed fast. The restaurant isn't that big and every bit of space was taken up.
I had been to the Ding Tai Fung in Seattle and had an excellent experience and I was hoping this would be as good but it didn't quite meet the same standards.
The steamed soup dumplings were pretty good, definitely one of the better ones I have had. We had several different varieties all of which were consistently good, with lots of hot soup.
We had fried rice cakes that were not very good, it was flavourless and too oily. We also ordered noodles and pot stickers which were both average. The cold dishes we ordered and the vegetable dish were all standard for any Chinese restaurant and did not stand out. Overall, food quality was decent but I definitely thought the Ding Tai Fung in Seattle was several times better.
I would come back again for just the soup dumplings but everything else I would not order again. I also felt it was too busy, loud and rushed for my liking but maybe we just picked the absolute busiest time of the week to go. Bottom line: Come for the steamed soup dumplings, if you come for anything else you will be disappointed.