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| - Big crowd on a Sunday for dim sum (to be expected). After we were seated, I reviewed the menu and noticed that it was different from the ones posted by other reviewers here on Yelp (sorry fellow Yelpers, I forgot to grab a pic of the current menu)! This was slightly disappointing, because there were a few items I wanted to try. No matter -- I'll make do. The menu contains a number of the classic dim sum dishes, but then also has a large variety of more unique, modern dishes.
The quality of the food didn't quite live up to the expectations set by the decor of the place and the long lineup for a table. The rice noodles were coarse and not smooth, the congee was lacking of flavour, and many of the other items were mediocre at best. One of my dining companions, who had been to this place before, remarked that the food quality was not as good as it once was.
The service left a lot to be desired as well. As mentioned by other reviewers, they have a very clear delineation of labour (which isn't uncommon for dim sum places) -- the servers pretty much only deliver food while there are a small handful of the actual waiters/waitresses/managers who handle all of the real customer interaction, taking orders, etc. In other words, there's a big underpaid workforce doing all the grunt work and the number of actual waiters/waitresses is way too few for the size of the place. It took us forever to get someone to give us a knife so that we can cut some of our food into smaller portions, and finding someone to add a few items to our order was a real pain.
I think I'll pass on this place in the future, if given a choice.
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