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| - Sigh. It was too good to be true.
When at a banquet not too long ago, I noticed that the quality of the food seemed to have gone a bit downhill. I had heard that the restaurant changed hands, but that shouldn't have affected standards, or was I being naiive?
At that banquet, well...
- the fish wasn't properly de-scaled... having to spit out scales as you're eating really isn't all too palatable;
- shrimp dishes were basically overdone. It wasn't tender, it was tough;
- is there a premium for rice requests?
- I was served the wrong dishes, and even given extra dishes (we tried to alert the resto as we didnt order it, and did not want to be charged for stuff we didn't even want). But admittedly they redeemed themselves by knocking off the wrong stuff and so on.
These were the big things, but really, in the end, while the rest of the food was ok, it just wasn't, well great. I might still give it another shot, since I really want to host a chinese banquet meal one more time before Xmas for my friends and I.
Ever since I moved to Calgary, this place has been my fall back position when it came to dim sum and large banquet meals. The food has been good is not legendary, everyone has always enjoyed it, and there was rarely any problems. Now... hmm... hard to say.
I've yet to go back for Dim Sum lately, so they might still redeem themselves hopefully.
#UPDATE 5 in Yelp's 30-Day Review Challenge
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