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| - This place rocks for Dim Sum. Excellent quality, and if you go before 11:00 a.m., the value is unbeatable. My partner and I have been twice, once just on our own, and then several weeks later with our families. Everyone enjoyed it, and my mother liked it so much, she decided to try it for dinner the next day with us.
Our favs for dim sum:
Turnip cake - this is the real deal. You can actually taste the turnip (a rarity) and it was seasoned perfectly. My favorite on the menu.
Vegetarian Dumpling - awesome. Vegetables remained crunchy despite being steamed. Not bland as one would expect. On top of it all, a very interesting Chinese name for this dish.
Bean Curd Sheet rolls - this dish went fast. It was so good, we ordered seconds. Loved how the outside was soft and the insides crunchy. Just the way it should be.
Shrimp dumplings - surprisingly good for something so "normal". However, the dumpling skin seemed to be variable as it was a little over cooked the first time we went resulting in slight mushiness.
Dumpling in soup with scallop and shark fin - OK, so I splurged on this dish. Felt a little bad about ordering shark fin, but just had to do it once. It was excellent. The broth was sweet and there really was scallop and shark fin in the dumpling! Expensive dish, which I will probably order only once.
Thousand layer cake - yum yum yum. An old fashioned favorite (it even says so in the Chinese name) - an excellent finishing touch.
We had a few very small issues with the food. I felt the tea was consistently weak, which seemed a little unacceptable to me in a Chinese restaurant. There was also no true vegetarian option for the steamed rolls, which is a shame. I am still looking for a restaurant that serves good pure veggie steamed rolls.
Dinner was also good, but pricey. I would recommend: (1) the sweet and sour pork for the fact that it was not battered to death and their use of fresh pineapples and grapes, (2) the crab meat and fish maw soup for the crunchy texture of the fish maw and (3) the bean curd sheets with veggies for its clean and fresh taste.
Service can be spotty with some waiters making the extra effort and some indifferent. The restaurant also seemed to attract "Princess" clientele. We watched a prima donna customer say some nasty things about the food to one of the waiters, who took it in stride. I don't know what he was talking about since the food was way above average. I am definitely going to be back!
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