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| - Chinese New Year, my husband and I wanted dim sum, so we decided on Orchids Garden but they were shut down by the Health Department...yipes.
So quickly looking up another dim sum place since we were only a few streets over from Spring Mountain, we found this place.
We pulled into the parking lot and it was packed. My husband dropped me off so he could find parking. This place was crazy, but of course because it was Chinese New Year. We ended up getting seated in the "party" room which was almost full.
I'm just going to list what was wrong...
1. We were seated next to a door that I thought was locked, but the smokers kept going in and out of. Eventually an employee locked the door for me as I made a motion that I was cold. As one of the smokers tried to re-enter, he was startled that the door was locked. My husband gave him the look and hand motion, Go Around!
2. The table linen was soiled from the previous diners. Ugh!
3. The tea pot! Was it someone elses tea pot and they just refilled it with more tea leaves and hot water! Their was tea leaves stuck to the top of the lid. As I looked around the other tables, they had nice clean tea pots!.
4. Wait time. I know, it was Chinese New Years.
And because the list of things above made me feel icky, so did the utensils and dishes. Even though they appeared and felt clean, unless I knew it was fresh and hot out of the wash, it was still icky for me.
Our server did apologize for the wait and thanked us for our patience.
We ordered house pan fried noodles, honey walnut shrimp, sweet sour pork, and opted for house fried rice instead of white rice. At least the food was good. Unfortunately, we didn't get the dim sum we was hoping for.
Icky experience + icky ambience = 1-icky star :(
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