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| - Taste: 5 stars. The food here is delicious. I have only eaten here once, but I went with a group of four, each of us ordering a separate dish. We ordered the honey walnut shrimp, baby bok choy, some kind of chow mein (the name of it escapes me now), and a fish dish. I opted out of the fish dish but everything else was exquisite and came in decent sized portions. The honey walnut shrimp had decent sized pieces of shrimp that were cooked nicely. They were a little tough for my preference now that I think back, but in no way did that impede my enjoyment of the dish. The sauce spread over the shrimp was sweet but not too heavy and the walnuts were toasted to give an amazing counter balance to the texture of the shrimp. The baby bok choy was made to perfection, and as a lover of garlic, the dish touched close to my heart with bits of friend garlic sprinkled on top, bursting with flavor that complimented the bok choy perfectly once mastication started in my mouth. The chow mein was definitely something I was not used to. The noodles were thinner, fried, and the vegetables on it were in a little bit of what looked like a starchy cream sauce. A little bland to taste at first, I wasn't sure what to think of the dish, but the more I ate it, the more the "blandness" turned into an appreciation for the different and simple components of the dish.
Everyone at my table was extremely happy and when we gave our compliments to our waiter, he informed us proudly that their chef was straight from Hong Kong. He even told us a story about how the chef shakes his head in disappointment when people come in, requesting beef and broccoli and other dishes of the like. Their response to these requests? "There's a Panda Express down the street but if you want real Chinese food, then stay."
Service: 3.5 stars. I'm kind of conflicted trying to score this. The staff was very nice, the hostess and waiter were extremely polite and both were attentive and very helpful, but nothing seemed extraordinary. Nothing really seemed to stand out as either good or bad. They did their job and they did it well, but other than that, there was little interaction. The best part about the service was the story our waiter told us at the end of our meal. I really appreciated the interaction he finally gave us but it was after we had already paid.
Environment: 3.5 stars. The restaurant is very clean and is separated from the rest of the market enough that you feel like you are actually eating at a restaurant. They did a great job making a restaurant in the corner of a supermarket but with the cooks tucked away in a room where you can't see them and only two people working the floor, I didn't get much from the environment of the place. Maybe it was also because when we went, the restaurant was dead.
Lee Lee's restaurant is a great place to grab a bite with friends. I highly recommend going with friends so you can do what I did and split up dishes and taste multiple ones. I hope that this place picks up in popularity. The vast population of Caucasians in the greater Phoenix area should add a bit of culture into their lives and give this place a try. All of the Americanized Asians (such as myself) and all other ethnicities should do the same.
Because the food was so great and that, quite frankly, is what is most important, I am going to round up for my final star total.
4 stars.
Oh one more note, they only accept Visa!
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