Sorry Ting's, I was having a pretty good dinner with my wife until we found something in our food (silica gel packet perhaps?, see the attached picture) which turned both my wife and I off. As such, this will be a quick review unlike my usual ones.
My wife and I headed here for dinner because I was excited to order their chongqing chicken. We ordered the red chili dumplings as our appetizer and they were decent and comparable to others we have gotten recently. Then for dinner I went with the chongqing chicken while my wife ordered the salt and pepper squid. My chicken came out first and actually was quite good. It was hot temperature wise and super crunchy. Actually it was some of the better fried chicken that I have had recently. There also was some numbing from the Szechuan peppercorns but what I thought the dish was really missing was some spice. Yeah it had the dried red peppers on it but I never had to take a drink of water. After finishing my dish I started to help my wife with hers. The squid itself was overcooked and so chewy and the whole dish felt rather dry. After having only a few bites we noticed the item in the dish that shouldn't have been there and immediately called a manager over. They thought it was a rice noodle at first but we persisted and they saw it wasn't. At that point they assured us not to worry and that it wasn't a big deal and that they would bring us another. Umm, no thanks. They did take it off of our bill and my wife and I quickly paid and headed out of the restaurant.
The bottom line for me is that I won't be heading back here again in the future. While mistakes do happen, I actively avoid places where you find something in your food that shouldn't be there.