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| - I really really wanted to like this place! After walking past its doors at least a hundred times, I've always envisioned this place to be like the Hogwarts 9 3/4 platform where inside was a magical place with really really super tasty food. #Gryffindor4Life
H*ll to the no! While nothing really technically "bad", nothing is really "good" either. Full disclosure, they were trying out their new menu, so maybe it was an off night? I apologize if i can't remember all the fancy pants names of the items.
Food:
Tuna Tartare & Cerviche: Best dishes of the night. Great start! Tuna almost reminds you like a poke. Keep on ordering these!
Pork & Bao: This is where things started to go south. Bao was good, but the pork was a tad dry, leaving you with a stringy feel to it.
Chow Mein with Shrimp?: tasty, but nothing next level. Great flavour development and there were bites of something sour that woke up the entire dish. The only grippe I would have is that there is no "wok hay" (essence of wok?) that usually comes with great chow mein. Shrimp was cooked perfectly. I kinda felt like asking them if they had XO sauce?
Octopus with asian Chimichurri, miso paste on eggplant: Let's start with the octopus, apparently it was first steamed and then seared for some Malliard browning goodness. That's cool, except it really over done and lost one of the key elements of amazing asian fare-"freshness" and it just turns out to be rubbery mess. The other components however were OK?
Fried chicken and waffles: Chicken thats been brined and has heavy traces of five spice and apparently waffles with condensed milk? Pros: Chicken is crunchy and crisp. Cons: the five spice is really overpowering. Once you put the 2 parts together, you realize there's nothing bridging the two distinct elements together and you really just have a piece of fried chicken and a waffle.
Service: It was orite. I just don't think they cared. After the "chow mein" came the Fried Chicken and Waffles. Yay! Except that the chow mein had so much excess sauce that we had to pour it out into an empty bowl before we tried the waffles.
Overall: great place to lounge out and impress, but if you're like me, where the stars need to be greater or equal to the dollar sign on the review, I would stay away.
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