Mom and I needed a good lunch option at Market Village/PMall area. I didn't feel like food court or subpar dim sum, so we walked past a long line of hair salons and beauty spas to arrive at ALa. I liked that there was a lunch combo menu. I just didn't see anything I like there. I ended up ordering a salty rice roll ( ???), and a set of pork and leek dumplings. Mom ordered a spicy tofu lunch combo. I will give you the good part of the food first: the ingredients were fresh. Unfortunately, it went downhill from here. I hoped the salty rice roll had had more pork in the roll. If too expensive, I would also take pickled vegetable. But there was none, so I was stuck with an average rice roll (because the rice was good) with minimum flavour. Kinda disappointing. The dumplings gave me even less excitement. Skin was too thick. The pork inside was not flavoured enough. Very insufficient leek. I almost want to not recommend it. But then pork and leek dumpling is such a staple. Mom's tofu was indeed spicy. For $5, the portion was very generous.
Kindly note that the seating was nice, the place was clean, and we got to use clean washroom. These three are pretty rare at PMall.