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| - Was headed uptown for a birthday dinner and decided to pickup some Chinese food so of course I Yelp'ed the nearby places and decided to check out this place because of the strong reviews.
Placing the order was a bit of a challenge with the communication breakdown. My attempt to order the eggplant dish resulted in describing it as "that purple vegetable" and eventually giving up, saying "forget the eggplant". Managed to convey that we wanted the lamb kabob, the spicy boiled fish, kung pao shrimp, dan dan noodles, some kind of minced bean and beef dish (although I'm pretty sure I ordered those as two separate dishes - lol).
Despite these challenges, the food was ready within 15 minutes. The lady at the counter seem quite amused that a group of non Chinese would come to their place so I proceeded to show her Yelp on my smartphone and explain to her that this is what brought me here, to which she simply smiled and nodded. Upon picking up the food, I realized the two orders of lamb kabob were literally two single kabobs, so we asked for two more, which they produced in next to no time.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the food. In particular, the steamed fish, the dan dan noodles and the spicy lamb kabob were hits..actually I think pretty much every dish except that inadvertently ordered minced bean/beef dish was absolutely delicious. The food was spicy (lots of red chillies, which was to our liking) but also very salty...there was definitely a sensation of tongue numbness after eating the meal, but overall this is a small complaint and the meal definitely made us all very happy.
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