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I went to this restaurant several years ago with a chinese friend, and I had a great experience. She ordered food in mandarin, so there was no problem at all in getting what she wanted.
Last month, I got a voucher and decided to go there again. When I called for reservation, my big surprise was that the person spoke little English, so I had to use my "best" mandarin to be able to reserve a table.
The day we went, the waitress again spoke little English (I think she's the one I spoke to the day before) and so when it was the time to take the order, we failed to communicate that the dishes are quite big enough for two people to eat, so I ended up ordering two plates of each thing we ordered.... (with no possibility of cancelling)
The food was great though! the dumplings delicious, and the crepe a bit oily, xiao long bao (my significant other's favorite) lacked soup, but they were tasty.
There was also a red bean soup that is great as a dessert in my opinion but in the menu, the picture looked like another kind of soup...
I noticed close to us a small group of westerners like me and an Asian man, again the waitress was having trouble understanding their English, and even addressed the Asian man who told her he only spoke a bit of Cantonese...
So in all I was lucky to be able to speak a functional mandarin (not without glitches) and this way perhaps saved ourselves from a potential ordering of the whole menu...
In all great restaurant, bring a ??? along ;)
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