Sitting here now still waiting for our bill after another 2 hour unmitigated Christmas disaster of extremely poor service and a disorganized mess. I'm typing this review at the end of a 2 hour dinner that felt like a 7 day cruise.
Yes we know Christmas here is mushuganah. But we arrived an hour after opening (early) and ordered Peking duck and 2 other dishes and some potstickers. Nothing too crazy mind you.
So we arrived at 4:30.
Since then we've been here impatiently tapping our fingers. Potstickers took 75 minutes to arrive - after I complained to the harried waitstaff (you could tell they were harried as I could hear them yelling in Chinese from the kitchen at each other throughout the night).
After 60 minutes the waitress came out and said they had inexplicably run out of duck. The ole 86 - just 2 hours after opening on Christmas Day. Go figure. Ok we sighed...we'll get mushu chicken instead.
Then we waited. And waited. And waited.
We've had their potstickers here before and they were usually pretty good - but these tasted half cooked and doughy.
About 1:45 minutes after ordering two dishes arrived - not the three ordered. Oops forgot the mushu chicken.
What drove us truly nuts was watching many tables get served while we twiddled our fingers. Quite a few arrived 30-40 minutes after our arrival yet somehow they were served 1st. That led us to think the issue was more our disorganized and inattentive waitress than the admittedly busy kitchen.
Food tasted fine - not as good as past years.
Bottom line is that this will our last and final visit to China Village. They just can't seem to get it together. We didn't leave a tip - took another 25 minutes after eating to clear the table and get the tab.