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| - Not impressed with this restaurant one bit. My group and I booked a reservation for 1:15pm on a Sunday afternoon. We arrived at 1:00pm and asked the hostess for our table to find that she had given it away. Why??? We decided to wait anyway to try the food. 40 minutes later, we get a large table with a stinky lazy susan. The hostess came by with the plates, bowls, and cutlery and asked us to grab the sets for ourselves.
For a group of five people, we ordered about $120 (before tax) worth of food including: truffle xlb, pork xlb, shrimp/pork xlb, crab meat/pork xlb, king size shark fin xlb, king size crab roe xlb, pan seared mini pork bun, onion pancake with beef, deep fried crispy rice cake, chilled bamboo shoots, drunken chicken, braised marinated duck, shredded jellyfish, and deep fried steamed bun.
All of the regular xlb was great in that it was filled with a LOT of soup and the skin was thin but other than that, the filling was rather bland.
The two giant xlb was disappointing and definitely not worth it's price; filled with piping hot soup and an underwhelming amount of other fillings. The inside of the crab roe giant xlb contained four pieces of small shrimp and a TEENY TINY pinch of crab meat and ground pork. No crab roe to be seen.
The pan seared mini pork bun was filled with lots of soup! I was surprised how it didn't soak into the bun. The bun itself wasn't quite pan fried enough and seemed stale.
The onion pancake with beef was flavourful but the pancake was rock hard.
The deep fried crispy rice cake is literally white rice bricked together into a large rectangle, crisped on all it's edges then stacked fancily together. Bland, boring, expensive, not worth it.
The bamboo shoots and drunken chicken were great! GET THESE.
Braised marinated duck lacked flavour.
The shredded jellyfish was under-seasoned, rubbery, dry, and was a chore to eat. Again, not worth it's price.
To conclude: not coming back. For a lower price, better quality, better flavour, better service, I could go to other shanghai dim sum restaurants.
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