Stopping in for a quick meal with no expectations and left incredibly happy. The waitress was so friendly and delightful. She was constantly running around to deliver things to a bunch of tables - I was super impressed.
5+ stars service. 4 stars tastes. Subjective 3.5 stars temperature (see below).
The waitress brought me some tea, which was pretty warm but not hot. For the record, I love things scalding hot, so this is obviously subjective. I've also had a bunch of xlb up in ny and dc as my only real comparison.
I got an order of the xlb (obviously), an egg roll and scallion noodles. The egg roll came first and it was spring rollish, in a good way. It was bigger than most spring rolls but smaller than most egg rolls.
The xlb came next. The wrapper is pretty sticky and fairly thin. I poured some vinegar over an xlb on my spoon and then devoured. The soup inside was pretty hot, though I've had way hotter. It was probably the perfect temperature for a single one though, not scalding but hot enough I had a mini panic attack the first second it was in my mouth. The subsequent dumps were way less hot though, so either I ate them too slow or just lost their heat quickly through the wrapper. They had decent flavor but I want to come back to try them them again.
The scallion noodles came last and were really good. The noodles were chewy and the sauce wasn't overpowering.
I'm definitely going to come back and try more stuff and have another pass at the xlb. I love dim sum / small plate asian places - can try so many things bc they're so cheap! For some reason, tapas style places (non Asian) usually are way more expensive per plate which defeats the purpose! Anyways i digress.
Would definitely recommend!!!