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This place is in my neighborhood and one weeknight in March we went for the first time when family was visiting. We ordered fried dumplings to start, sautéed green beans, double sautéed sliced pork, beef with broccoli and chicken with mixed vegetables with an order of steamed rice for the table. I must say we all thoroughly enjoyed our food! I didn't care for the pork, thought it was too "porky" but everyone else liked it so I'm the outlier. The woman manager/owner comes up to us at the end, asks us how we liked our meal. I tell her we really enjoyed it, we live in the neighborhood and we'd definitely be coming back. Then this is where it went south. She asked us if we'd like boxes for our leftovers and we were debating whether to take the steamed rice. She says she can give us a carton of steamed rice packaged already and my husband says that if we take rice, we'd just take our leftover from the table rather than the carton she was offering. "We wouldn't want it to go to waste and take new rice." Her reply??? "Oh that doesn't go to waste, we use for something else." Oh really?? My husband asks what it is used for and I'm not joking...she replied "We use that for fried rice". We were speechless. And just so there is no confusion about what rice she was talking about, that we are absolutely clear we were talking about the half eaten rice ON our table she says, pointing to the bowl on our table, "see, it's like nobody really touches it anyway." I'm not joking. We left absolutely devastated! And though I really liked the food, I will not eat here again and cannot recommend it to anyone else. There are basic minimums I expect from a restaurant I patronize and reusing leftovers from the table is outrageous and unacceptable. So sad.
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