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| - 3.5? 4? Somewhere in-between. The food is a 4. The service loses them some stars, for the most part. There was one table occupied when we got here around 6:30pm (Valentines Day, mind you). By the time we left, there were probably at least 8 tables occupied. Service is still quite difficult. The servers really struggle with languages other than Mandarin. They do have one waitress (or manager) who speaks Cantonese, but she wasn't there for most of the night. She was very nice though. She gave us heart chocolates before we left.
We ordered a number of things on the menu that they ran out of. Some of those they told us about as soon as they tried to place our order and found out they were out of stock. One, however, they did not tell us about until we had received everything else we had ordered. Then, they asked us if we wanted to order something to replace it. We declined. We didn't want to have to wait as they made us something else.
On Tuesdays, they have half price lamb skewers. Regular price, they're $4.99/4. That means today, they were $2.50/4. At that price, I don't care if they don't really taste like lamb. If they taste like meat and cumin, I'm getting them. Some of the ones we had were on the dry side, but some of them were also fairly juicy. I'd come again to get them (on a Tuesday, mind you). We didn't know if there were limitations on how many we could order at half price. We ended up ordering two orders. We asked the waitress if both orders were half price. She took it to mean that we wanted half an order of skewers, and she said we could only get them in quantities of 4 skewers, which is how many come in one order. We struggled back and forth for a while before she got another waitress to come over and we cleared things up.
The cumin chicken rack ($2.99) is a decent portion of chicken bones with meat scraps. The sauce on these is delicious. It's slightly sweet, slightly spicy, slightly smokey, and fairly savory. It's quite complex. We enjoyed it a lot. It could have been hotter, temperature-wise. My dad said he had a piece that was still cold. That was slightly worrying. Most of it was quite warm though.
The BBQ chile ($3.99) is quantified as in a dish. It's not chili. It's chive, if the translation I'm using is correct. A dish has three skewers and each skewer has a good number of these chives threaded to it. It's oilier than I expected it to be, but I still quite enjoyed this dish as well. It's unique.
Dried bean curd kebab ($3.99/4). While I enjoyed this dish, the price to portion ratio was way off. These were not rolls of bean curd. These were dried bean curd strips (not bean curd stick kind of sheets, but the textured dried bean curd) on skewers, one strip per skewer. In other words, this was 4 thin strips of tofu for $4. I do really like how the edges of the tofu were crisp though.
My favorite dish of the night went to the skewered fish ($5.99). In English, it says the portion is (1), or presumably, 1 fish. In Chinese, it says 1 portion. When we received it, we had 3 decent-sized fish on skewers. I was quite concerned. We had to call a waitress over to make sure she didn't put in 3 orders for us by accident. Thankfully, with a little bit of struggle communicating, we figured out that this was indeed the correct portion, and that a portion could have 3-4 fish depending on the sizes of the fish. The fish were super crispy on the outside, and the flesh was juicy, tender, and flavorful. I basically ate the entire fish save for the spine. The tail and the head were the crispiest part. Yes, eating the head looks gross, but there's something to be said about knowing you're eating the fish's teeth (yes, rows of teeth you could eat), and finding them deliciously crunchy. At $5.99, I'd come to get them for lunch if they were open for lunch, but they're not. A light dinner it is, I suppose.
I'll come again for the food. I'll put up with the service. The fish and those 1/2 price lamb skewers are worth it.
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