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I came here on a Sunday night for grandparent's birthday. We had called earlier to make a reservation and also telling them what we wanted to order since we ordered off one of the set dinner menus for 6-8 people.
The location of the restaurant itself isn't hard to find at all, literally just the first one to your right once you turn into the plaza. But as for the entrance, it wasn't big or obvious and only had a little sign on the door saying Health Gourmet. There's a lot arrows along the side of the building leading you to the entrance and it's exactly like that with the restaurant beside it too, so it makes it a bit confusing.
The place inside looks extremely empty like a food court, interior design is none, no decorations whatsoever and just boring green paint all around. They have a seafood tank on the side near the entrance to the washroom, which looks kinda sketchy because it's dark and looks musky too. The bar/cashier looks unfurnished with no additional lightening showing that it's a bar that serves alcohol.
The dinner combo we ordered came with soup, Taiwanese tofu stir fry, stir fry mixed vegetables, 2pcs of big lobster stir fried in garlic, steamed fish, honey garlic beef cubes, Peking duck, stir fry Peking duck and vegetables and sago taro coconut milk dessert.
Peking duck and lobster were my 2 favorites:
Peking duck - they roll out the freshly cooked duck on a trolley and you can see the waitress thinly slice off each piece of duck along with the crispy skin onto the plate. Then they bring a bamboo steam basket with small pieces of wraps for the duck, it's steaming hot, so it's so soft. They also provide with condiments that you can choose to put inside your wrap, like hoisin sauce, green onions, carrots and crispy wonton strips. It's like building your own taco but with cripsy duck skin and duck meat!!
Garlic lobster - the portion size of the 2 lobsters that we had were plenty, we had 7 people and we could hardly finish it with each having over 5 pcs. They chop up the lobster into smaller pieces where it's so easy to eat, you don't really need to get your hands dirty. It's fried off first then stir fried with garlic afterwards which makes it so flavorful!
The dessert was disappointing because it was flavorless and tasted watered down. But like any other Chinese restaurant, you can expect the dessert to taste good when it's free.
Since it was my grandmother's birthday, we told the waitress before dinner and she timed it perfectly to give us a complementary steam bun stuffed with red bean for her birthday!
***Steamed bun with red bean that looks like a peach on the outside is more of a traditional Chinese dessert for older people meaning to wish them a longer life***
Overall, the food wasn't bad, especially for the price we paid. The whole dinner set cost $138!!! I would definitely come back to eat if it's with a group of friends that wants cheap, good, Chinese food.
And as for service, we constantly had waitresses checking up on our table refilling our tea pots with hot water, clearing empty plates from the table, switching our side plates filled with lobster shells.
I also saw their menu for lunch where they serve dim sum, I would say it's the cheapest in town, $2.18, that I've seen. I would be coming back for dim sum if I'm in the area!
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