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| - Maybe it's a bad timing, though considering that the place was relatively empty for a Saturday at 12 (there were still empty seats around us) and they had two staff members, the service wasn't up to par the general quality of the their non-desserts were pretty bad.
As for the service, it seemed very unresponsive and uncoordinated rather than being maliciously lousy like some other restaurants. It felt like these people were are the first day of the job and have no training. Granted it is a relatively small restaurant and you can see how things go from the waiter area.
As usual they served us with date tea, back when this was called the Sugar this was one of the reasons I came here because it was a bit soothing, the only problem with it was the version they have now is so diluted you can barely taste it.
For the meals I got ramen with popcorn chicken and my wife got wonton noodle soup. We both ended up getting the same noodles which were no better than the ones you get at Ajisen with bean sprout filler (yuck) and the same soup base.
I didn't get to try her wontons (normally I don't like them anyway unless it's from Chung King) but their popcorn chicken was okay for me when I ate it first since it wasn't salty, though it is very tough and as I was eating it got even tougher.
The saving grace was the soup base wasn't too bad, I drank it down all the way and didn't get the MSG feel I normally get when I eat at Pho. However, because the noodles were not the same quality as you would get from Niwatei and they used the Taiwanese tea egg, I would call this ramen experiment a failure.
My dad and aunt got some rice dishes. Although they appear nice on the picture, they were pretty much loaded up with rice and not much of the meat. So it felt more like a rip off.
The only reason I bumped this up to two stars is because of their dessert. I still like this place for the night time desserts I had the strawberry and ice cream crepe. It was a good finisher and the ice cream wasn't too heavy for me.
I would still come here again, but only for the desserts and maybe small dishes. However, I do know they have the capability of being better depending on the time of day because I was here for dinner once and I liked it too.
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