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| - For Valentine's Day this year, I decided my girlfriend and I should skip the traditional Italian place, or expensive steak or seafood place, and go for something different. Gourmet Chinese food sounded good and it was in the hotel/casino(MGM) that we were staying in. Why not? I made a reservation on opentable.com and boom. It was set.
Very lovely colors inside, red with very plain walls. They could definitely use a little artwork on the walls, maybe they'd like to commission me. :-) heh heh
The preset Valentine menu looked excellent, so we both got that.
First came the very good soups. Hot and Sour, very hot and very sour. Nice! Not just a cleaver name. The Corn Crab Chowder wasn't bad either. It's their specialty apparently. The main meal of Wok-Fried Spiny Lobster tail and Black Pepper Tenderloin Beef, along side a favorite General Tso's Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice. Now If you know me, I went straight for that beef. WOW!! It melted in my mouth. It was like the cow was on crack, and this was the meat that was made from that crack cow. It was sooo good!!! About Medium Rare, wonderful flavor on the sauce, and high quality tenderloin. I would just order this next time I went. Then came the Lobster....tender, sweet, not overcooked and chewy. Very nice. The General Tso's chicken was tasty as expected, not a difficult thing to make I think as well as the vegetable fried rice.
Now the best part. DESSERT!!
Raspberries Chocolate Soft Cake and little cups of a champagne strawberry gelatin concoction. They both were perfect, but that Soft Cake was amazing. My girlfriend and I were stuffed but this kept getting shoveled and savored into our mouths like we had just sat down. The smooth texture of the moist cake dissolved in the mouth as the top thicker raspberry mousse like chocolate candy melted away with a strong natural raspberry flavor. It was perfect. All accompanied by white chocolate decorations and accented syrups on the plate. This was nice. No...This was perfect!
Not a cheap price at $79 a person, but then again, this was no panda express. The only reason it didn't get 5 stars was because although being a very tasty meal, the price was a little high. Vegas fine dinning needs to step down about 10-20 dollars for me to continue to eat out. Only on a special occasion like this, was it even worth it.
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