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| - Food: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Atmosphere: 3.5/5
Food:
Meat platter: good for sharing, consists of different meats including: pork jowl (delicious), beef (cooked very well, texture wasn't too chewy) and chicken thigh and drumstick (flavour was good but hard to share). It came with the ginger and green onion sauce, which I love.
Soft shell crab rice: my favourite but a bit on the salty side.
Papaya salad: with octopus . Refreshing on a hot day but nothing extraordinary.
Their version of The beef spring roll?: the meat was the wrap, which surrounded a mouthful of cilantro. I hate cilantro, so needless to say I hated this dish, I didnt know when I ordered it. There aren't any descriptions under each item, so you have to ask the waiter. We did but I still failed to comprehend I guess. So warning: stay away from this dish if you aren't a fan of cilantro.
Dessert was this yam and coconut ice cream? We weren't really sure what we were eating. Not sure if the yam was infused into the ice cream or if it was the bread-textured purple cubes under the ice cream. It is something interesting to try if you are feeling adventurous. I personally wouldn't order it again.
Service:
Great service. Our waiter was very informative and patient, especially since we had to ask him what everything on the menu was. For some reason, he was insistent on us ordering everything at the same time. We had a friend who came later, so we wanted to order her dish after, but he seemed to be highly aversed to it.
Atmosphere:
The decor is beautiful. There are no signs on the door. It looks like a regular home from the outside. The place is small. It's fun and intimate to bring a date because you can sit closer. Having said that, when you are going with four other girlfriends, whom you have known for many years, it was a little crowded for me. The five of us sat at a table for 4. These tables are smaller than the regular sized tables. Our dishes couldn't all fit on the table, along with our drinks. So I didnt like having to rush to finish a dish.
Fun place to try, but not a place I would go back to again. Maybe I can the soft shelled crab rice to go?
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