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| - Okay, I really give this place a 4 1/2 stars, but I'll round up to 5.
Although the name is deceptive because a bistro? Really? Maybe it's the new wave of younger Chinese? The restaurant is clean and the people working there are Chinese and super friendly, polite. That is a huge plus and caters to non-Chinese.
When we came in, they gave us the non-Chinese menu. My daughter asked what Moo Goo Gai Pan is. I said, something non-Chinese people order. My friend who brought us there said they have a Chinese menu, so we asked for that.
Most of the food is Cantonese, but I did see a couple things that were more northern, Mandarin food. I don't know if they spoke Cantonese, because I only heard people speaking in Mandarin, but their English is very good.
As for the food, it was good and it was normal portions similar to a regular Chinese, Chinese restaurant. During our near hour there, we saw mostly Chinese people come in, and only 1 table had non-Chinese people there.
You know when you go to a Chinese restaurant and you see mainly Chinese people eating, it's more authentic and caters to the taste of the Chinese. We are no exception.
The food was good. We ordered 5 dishes - Curry Chicken (tasty), Salt & Pepper Pork Chops (decent, but I have had better), Singapore Mai Fun (good), Sizzling Pepper Beef (good taste and very sizzling), Eggplant with Minced Pork Garlic Sauce (I would not recommend as it had a slight sweet taste in it, which is not normal to me). Four out of the 5 dishes we got were good. The eggplant wasn't terrible, but it would not be a dish we would get again. It really wasn't hot & spicy as we expected. This was an odd taste for this dish that I've had many times at other places.
Service was good.
My only other comment is that most of the dishes did not come with serving spoons. That was a bit odd that we had to ask for spoons and then they gave a small spoon for one of the dishes. That is odd.
But, everything else was good. The food came out hot. The service was excellent. We didn't have to wait too long for the food. We would come back again and I would recommend to my siblings & their families.
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