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Atmosphere: Half filled dining room, but it was 6:30 on a wed evening, rainy day outside. Otherwise, it was nicer than the typical chinese restaurant, but still casual dress. Don't bring your fancy hot date here unless you've been dating for a while and want to stuff your faces with great food rather than gaze in each other's eyes for hours.
Got the lobster 4 ways (6lbs, approx $19/lb), + chinese broccoli (needed SOME veggies). Ended being approx $175 (inc tax and tip). (for 2 ppl, because yours truly is a glutton. Easily could have fed 4. Ended taking some little leftovers home.
So they bring out one big-ass lobster on a platter (still alive and moving), to show it off, and to get your approval, before they cook and whack it into the appropriate pieces. Cool and a little unnerving.
Food: Delicious.
way #1: Lobster in a garlic and scallion sauce with thin vermicelli noodles.
way #2: wok-sauteed lobster with onions in soy-garlic sauce.
way #3: lobster deep fried (at other restos, i've heard this style called "aromatic," also heard it called, "salt and pepper fried") it is fried, and it is salted, but doesn't really fit either of the above names.
way #4: lobster guts?/brains? innards in stir fried rice. Rice is great, the innards are great if you love that sort of thing, not that great if you don't (me), but regardless, it gives the fried rice that extra lobster flavor and aroma.
All 4 styles were great, but I liked #1 and 2 best. I've had style #2 many times before, but #1 was new to me. I like the sauce in #1 so much, i spooned some into my fried rice.
Broccoli was good, but nothing too special.
Dessert (included): Red bean soup was perfect after a big meal. (is there a bit of milk in there?). Little mochi balls with light sesame syrup, not heavy with the sweetness like other places. Last were little puffs, sugared like donuts, with a bit of red bean sweetness inside. I wasn't a fan, mostly because it had a bit too much egg flavor to it, which was weird with the spongy donuts.
Quantity: Fantastic, even for a glutton like me.
Price: It's pricey, so bring plenty of dough
OH, BIG THING: Most of the waiters/waitresses don't speak English, and their menu's have NO English on them. Our waiter did ask, "4 ways lobster?" when he realized that it was our first time there and we didn't speak Chinese. Later, a younger waitress came up and spoke english, and explained how they would do the 4 ways lobster for the two of us.
So, expect it, and ask to have the one waitress who speaks English. hahahaha
All in all, a fantastic find, and a great place to take a group of 4-6 ppl.
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