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| - Visiting Phoenix from the Bay Area, we were in search of some good Chinese food since it had been almost 3 weeks. I looked on yelp for suggestions and this restaurant popped up...with nothing to lose, we decided to go try it out.
Walking in, it gave off the ambiance of a PF Changs, but letting that vibe slide we decided to give it a try. The hostesses were young girls in short and tight skirts, they seem like they were dressing up to go clubbing instead of working at a Chinese restaurant.
Walking to our table, I noticed that the clientele were mainly older folks dining on Chinese food accompanied by a glass of white wine.
Our waiter came over to take our order and we were given a choice of having either white or brown rice, or you could have the option of having half and half.
A bowl of wonton chips along with a side of sweet and sour sauce and yellow mustard arrived as we got our drinks.
Our dishes come all at once. The waiter comes and sets up a serving stand and all the dishes are set upon a large tray. I noticed that most everyone in the restaurant ate a la carte style, while we ate family style so we shared all the different dishes.
I soon found out that if you want chopsticks, you are going to have to ask for them at this restaurant.
General Tso's chicken - fried pieces of chicken in this sweetened dark brown soy sauce with a bit of spicy kick. It was pretty good.
Shrimp with lobster sauce - no real lobster in sight but this was a dish where the shrimp had a nice almost brothy sauce over it. Traditionally, it should have black bean in it, but we didn't find any in this version of the dish.
Twice cooked pork - we were actually looking forward to this dish the most as it is fairly labor intensive, given the name the pork should have been cooked twice so it would make it very tender. Instead, we were surprised and not in a good way to see that they used Chinese bbq pork (char siu), which is lean and harder. This type of bbq pork /char siu is often used in bbq chow mein or fried rice, but definitely not the type to used for "twice cooked pork." Although there is an argument that the bbq pork had in fact been cooked once already, so now they are using it in another dish with dark soy sauce and green onion it would satisfy the "twice cooked" portion. Booo!
I think the manager was Chinese, and he definitely catered to the Caucasian crowd.
Prices are higher than most Chinese restaurants, but given the PF Chang feel I can't say I'm surprised.
On the weekend, sometimes they have a musician playing the 7 stringed zither (gu jung).
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