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| - Went here for a UYE (unofficial Yelp event) one Friday evening at 7pm and when I pulled into the parking area, the parking area was packed so I parked close to the entrance of the parking area.
Going inside the restaurant, it was very busy and I was asked how many people. I mentioned that there was a reservation but forgot the name so I had to consult my cellphone. After consulting my cellphone, I mentioned "Jason" and she informed me that there wasn't a reservation for a "Jason" but after flipping through her book, she mentioned that there was a mix-up and they were in the other dining room area. The restaurant is divided into 2 dining areas.
I walked into the second dining area and tried to look for two of the people whom I would recognize (Kandi R. & Julia D.) and eventually saw Kandi waving at me. I sat down at the table and was introduced to D'Arcy L. and the organizer Jason M.
We were provided with the "a la carte" menus but decided to go for the AYCE so the server brought us the AYCE menu and we ordered items from it.
We then waited for the server to come back to us to pick up the paper where we indicated what we wanted which she left on our table. We waited and waited but the server didn't return. We then decided to bring our paper to one of the servers in the other dining room area. When we did this, our server returned and asked us how many people we are ordering for since 2 people had not arrived yet (Sarah M. and her +1)
For the soup, I opted to get hot & sour soup. I found it to be very good. Our party was evenly divided into hot & sour soup and wonton soup. It wasn't the best hot & sour soup that I've had but it was still very good. After we had our soups, Sarah and Lucas showed up. In terms of the items that we ordered which I really liked, I liked the deep fried shrimp wontons, peanut butter dumplings and the sesame beef. The orange beef was okay. I liked the General Tao chicken but most people in the table didn't seem to like it. The beef and broccoli was good as was the beef and fried noodles dish. I wasn't crazy about the pulled or shredded pork dish that we ordered nor did I really like the salted dry spare ribs.
To end off our dinner, I had a cup of coffee and green tea ice cream which were included. Kandi misunderstood and thought it was actual tea when she asked for it but didn't realize it was ice cream so I actually had 2 ice cream scoops as she didn't want the one which came for her. :-)
Kandi ordered something take out and there was some confusion over her order where we had a good laugh about it.
We didn't manage to finish everything that we ordered but we didn't leave a lot on each plate and unlike in most AYCE restaurants, we weren't charged extra for this. It was also not mentioned on the menu that extra charges would apply for wasting food so it was good that we weren't charged extra. Another thing is that when ordering from the AYCE menu, things are not specified in terms of the number of pieces and they just give a plate of what is ordered based on the size of the table. In my opinion, this sort of encourages waste since when ordering for the second round, they basically gave us the same portions on the dish as what we ordered during the first round and some people in the table were already full or didn't want to have that item during the second round.
When paying, they brought their portable credit card machine which made it easier for us to pay. The place appears to have free WiFi. I didn't test it but saw an open/unencrypted hotspot with a name which I assume belonged to the restaurant. It is also a BYOB restaurant or bring your own wine restaurant. The cost for the AYCE dinner option on Friday was $28+tax+tip per person.
The service could be better in terms of coming to pick up our order papers. For water, they left us a pitcher which was good as we didn't have to hail the server for more water.
I give them 3.5 stars which I've rounded up to 4 stars.
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