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| - If you have a fetish for receiving poor service with FANTASTIC food, then this is your place! We have dined here a few times now, and the story is always the same...
We get quickly greeted and seated, which then eludes us to believing that today is the day that we will receive satisfactory service. Excitedly we scour the menu looking for something new to try. We find it, the menu is pretty extensive and there's always a dish that looks appealing. Once our food has been strategically selected, we then look around for our server... and reality sets in. She isn't coming. She doesn't care that I am now drooling over the idea of Empress Chicken and some Vegetable Fried Rice. Anticipation grows with every tummy growl. Then, only 19 minuted later, she returns to take our order!
My thoughts then become a bit sassy, and I start saying things aloud to our fellow guests such as "this had better be worth the wait" and "Who do I need to sleep with for a soda refill?". Within a reasonable window of time, our food arrives. Things are starting to really turn around.
I attack the piping hot food as if it were my first meal after a colonoscopy fasting. The table is now silent, the hunger pains and snarky comments have ended. We are devouring our dishes and experiencing pure bliss. I am now looking around the table and thinking that I might want to start the usual "share-a-bite" program that is certain to accompany any meal that I am a part of. Every dish, and I mean EVERY dish is better than the last. The Chicken with Asparagus and Shiitake Mushrooms is robust and saucy, the Szechuan Beef is tender and perfectly seasoned. My salivation is stuck on overdrive and my taste buds have exploded from the intense flavors.
... it is now that reality sets in and I know, that my glass is beyond half empty with no likelihood of change in the near future... Why can't I learn beverage moderation? So thirsty from the savory delights.
In fairness, the manager will now visit our table and apologize for the service delays, and get us all boxed up. His witty repertoire of well-versed phrases will calm the stirring crowd, and we will all end the experience with a chuckle. For a few moments, we all have forgotten about the poor service, and head out to our cars to call it a night. After a brief food coma we then begin to verbally reflect the night's pros and cons and are left with pretty much the same thoughts on Pearl of the Orient...
Such astounding food with a side of sub-par service... Yes, we will inevitably return.
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