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| - Came here during the week of Chinese New Years for dinner with my family. It is located inside of Market Village.
The restaurant prior to Miu Garden was actually nice and higher end. Miu Garden would've been the eunuch compared to the last establishment that was housed here.
Perhaps the most embarassing and tacky ritual practised at Miu Garden is the soliciting of luxury dried goods (shiitake mushrooms, conpoy etcetera). No, they did not just let solicitors sneak their way in - this is I guess what you would call a "side business" of the restaurant. The last thing I want to happen, is for my meal to be interrupted with bags of shiitake mushrooms invading my dining space. I do not consider myself to be a savvy business women at all, but to me, anything that interferes with my core business (in this case, a restaurant) is bad for business.
We ordered a set menu for our table of 9. For $168 we got served the following dishes:
Chinese "Charcuterie" Platter: Consisting of jellyfish, duck, and char siu pork. I am usually a stickler for dining etiquette but I actually spat out the so-called "char siu pork." Whatever it was, it was not char siu.
Fish Maw Soup: Nothing too stellar, wasn't particularly flavourful.
Basa Fillet with "Trees": This was a dish of fish that was served with gigantic stems of Chinese broccoli (hence the nickname trees). It was extremely greasy and oily and whatever benefit of eating vegetables was probably destroyed.
Chinese "Fried" Chicken: These usually are served with a colourful accompaniment of "shrimp chips." While the chicken itself was pretty decent, the shrimp chips were stale. Yuck!
Yeung Chow Fried Rice: The blandest I've ever had.
Yi Mein: One of the better dishes of the night. Not too oily and not bland like I've had at other restaurants. There wasn't much shiitake though that is usually thinly sliced and mixed into the dish.
Ginger & Scallion Lobster: Mostly shell, very little meat. Rip off!
Honey Spare Ribs: Pretty good. Rivals some Korean restaurants' Kalbi. My aunt found it a little too sweet though.
Shrimp, Celery & Snap Beans Stir Fry: Again, swimming in oil. Not very flavourful either.
Bok Choy & Shiitake Mushrooms in an Enoki Mushroom & Conpoy Sauce: This was the most flavourful dish of the evening, but again quite oily.
Desserts for me were the most enjoyable part of the evening. Aside from the standard Red Bean Soup, we were also served Honey Pound Cake & Almond Cookies.
I also noted that one of the dishes was dirty.
I will NOT be coming back to Miu Garden any time soon. Yuck!
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