Lets see where do I start? Food, Service, or Price? Either way it's only a 2 star resturant at best.
Food - The food is far from its east end counter part. The food is bland, no taste, and under cooked. Walking in you can already tell from the left over partially full dishes previous patrons have left (not only food but full plates of desert). Ordered the Cheesy Japanese Curry Baked Rice as well as the Unagi Cheesy Baked Rice. Both were equally horrible tasteless lack of sauce dry and worst of all the Unagi is NOT fresh and tastes funny, never eaten chewy unagi before with a wierd fishy plastic taste. The rice was under cooked and hard. We also ordered the hk style rice noodles which were again undercooked and the hoisin and peanut sauces were so watered down they had no taste nor did it stick to the rice noodles. Talk about skimping. To top it off the size of their bowls/plates are 20% smaller which hardly makes up for the price.
Price - This brings me to the price. The size of the bowls are 20% smaller yet the pricing at this place is almost 30% more expensive! $9 for a similar type of baked rice dish anywhere in the east end they are selling for $12 in a 20% smaller size. IF it tasted good I could justify but not in this case. On top of it all the resturant is cash only *facepalm* I wonder why.. *rolls eyes*. $9 for a bowl of hk style sweet tofu desert LOL what does it have in there gold on flakes? The same desert is under $5 in the east end. For 2 people we ended up with a $40 bill ordering only 2 rice dishes and an appetizer leaving unsatisfied and still hungry.
Service - While the waitresses are really nice the service in food delivery is extremely slow. You would think that for the amount of time it takes for them to spit out food it would be properly cooked no.. Rice is under cooked and stuff just tastes bland. Total wait time for appetizer was 25min and then an additional 10minutes for each of the baked rice.