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| - The atmosphere of this restaurant is five star. Decor and lighting set a great mood. I actually felt a bit under dressed in a tee-shirt and jeans but I wasn't the only one dressed so casually. The food was so so. If you like Americanized Chinese you will be delighted as it was certainly a cut above most with that sort of menu. I, on the other hand, love Chinese cuisine and even cook it extensively at home and do not appreciate the hybridization so much. I ordered the tofu vegetable soup, pork dumplings, gai lan with oyster sauce, eggplant in garlic sauce, and the steamed basa in black bean sauce. The soup had a nice chicken broth but the tofu was lacking, just a couple slivers. The vegetables in the soup were a frozen medley* variety with the processed baby carrots, snow peas, and cauliflower. The pork dumplings were certainly made in house and quite good. The gai lan with oyster sauce was actually shanghi tips (baby bok choy) with a thin brown sauce that was quite light in flavor and a sprinkling of jarred minced garlic ontop, not what we ordered (or on the menu as we could tell). The eggplant in garlic sauce came to the table as eggplant with a szechuan style sweet and sour sauce. The fish came to the table as a steamed fillet on a plate with the same frozen vegetable* ontop except the medley was peppers, onions, carrot, broccoli. The sauce was not radically different than the sauce accompanying the shanghi tips with the addition of a sprinkling of fermented black beans in lieu of the garlic. We gobbled it up, afterall it was Thanksgiving for these out-of-towners, and it wasn't bad. In the end the name says it all: an American imitating a Chinese accent asking if you "want food".
*After reading my post I should add that everything was cooked to proper tempurature. The frozen vegetables I referenced were in fact cooked!
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