I feel bad doing this... I've gone to Li Wah so many times for dim sum without ever having any difficulty. But I feel that I just have to update my review based on my last visit there.
I was there with the bf and some of his family that were visiting in town. We went for a late night dinner (they're open until midnight!). The staff were fabulously friendly and my visiting family were pleased with the service and the food. So was I... until about an hour later.
I got home and developed very unpleasant GI symptoms of food poisoning. I was in quite a bit of pain and discomfort until the middle of the next day. Time course and symptoms all fit with food poisoning. I always get the bugs much worse than the bf. He had some mild discomfort as well. The bf's father also had unpleasant GI symptoms that night. I would have passed it off as who-knows-what... maybe I caught some bug from all the kids I work with... except that multiple members of our party had the same symptoms, all at the same time, just after eating there.
Very sad. I had a hard time re-covering faith in restaurants after bouts of food poisoning. We'll see... I'll probably give it another try after a period of initial avoidance. It's only happened this once out of many times eating there... so I'll just knock 1 star off and leave the rating at a 3*, although really... one should never get food poisoning from decent restaurants. Hygiene & proper food handling, peoples!!!
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Explanation of my rating system -
5*: Epitome of something, the best I've had, would LOVE to go back
4*: Great food and happy to go back regularly, but not the best of the category
3*: Food is fine. I may spontaneously decide to go there based on convenience. But no need to go back either.
2*: If you insist, I guess I'll come along. I'll find something to eat. But I wouldn't have picked it.
1*: No plans to come back. I'll try to talk companions out of going.