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| - I really wanted to like this placed, but both my friends and I are all quite disappointed. At first we all thought it was a Japanese fusion, new American cuisine, but it turns out to be more of a mixed Asian cuisines, like half Korean, half Chinese?
We have a party of 6 with 4 grown up men and 2 girls. We ordered 3 main course- the steamed brazino fish, rotisserie chicken and fried bone, and the braised Korean short ribs, a few buns, some 1/2 shell oysters and some chinese broccli as our green. The server suggested us to at least order 4, it is definitely an over kill. The portion was listed to serve 2, but each entree definitely can serve 4 . That are huge!!
1/2 shell oysters with melon ice - taste 5 stars, price and value 3 stars. Over all 4 stars. They are very fresh, and love the touch of the melon ice with citrus taste. It brings out the sweetness in the oyster but not over powering. I do enjoy it very much, except they are very small. For a price of $26 , which breaks down to $4.5 a pieces, it's very pricey.
The pork bun- it's okay 3 stars.
If I compare it to the Taiwanese style pork buns, the momofuku buns are not as juicey and lack of garnishing. If I compare to the vietnames/ Chinese style pork buns from bao hoag, they are lack of the crispness of the pork belly and flavors too. It is not bad, but nothing special about them.
The main dishes:
My favourite is the Korean braised short ribs. It's so tender and loaded with flavors. I didn't think it was spicy from a glance, but they do put in the chilli pepper in, which live out to a Korean dish without all being red. Loved that they lined the claypot with rice cake and lotus root and potatoes. They soaked up all the flavors from the meat and the claypot kept it warm the whole time before we can finished the pot. Honestly, we could have just ordered this dish, have our greens and that would be plenty enough for us. The meat cubes / short ribs are huge . But it was braised all through out soft and moist. Love it. ( 5 stars)
The whole steam branzino fish- it was pretty good. But it seems like I was the only one enjoys it. We have half a fish not finished at the end of the meal. Although it says steamed, it's really not very steamed. It's more on the drier side and seems more baked. Which i dont mind. I like the lemon taste on it, because I am afraid of the fishy ocean taste. It's actually fairly well down considering cooking such a big fish to not let the meat went soggy, and maintain the fish taste with good dressing. Except it is not quite steamed, which my friend wished it was. Overall 4 stars.
The rotisserie chicken- I think it was an epic fail. The big pieces are very very dried. The fried bones are super salty. Nothing of us can eat a full piece to ourselves. We ended up sending it back to the kitchen. We have the whole chicken almost untouched.
In exchange we asked to try their ginger scallion noodle. It was a cold noodle with shiitake mushroom. It was another average dish, the flavors are good, but it was a bit on the oily side. Each of us could only do a small bite without feeling greasy.
Last but not least, their Chinese broccoli is very good. A typical Chinese style fried broccoli, not overcook, crunchy, and not over salty either.
Overall, I feel like people who gave good reviews are there for lunch instead of dinner. The Ambience is very nice, but the portions are very large and expensive. I much rather it be a smaller portion and shaved off the price a bit instead. They have lazy Susan on most table and intended it to be a family style sharing plates. I'd like to sample more dishes than to be over power by the portions they give.and I actually wanted more new American food then it being mostly Asian style allover then place.
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