Food: 4.5/5
Service: 3/5
Price: way too overpriced.
40 dollars for 5 small dishes and a big bowl of congee? That is seriously overpriced. They really need to lower the price to attract more traffic (the place was basically empty around 11 on a saturday morning, and only half full around 12:30, when it should be packed!)
Food itself is pretty amazing. I tried a new dish today, baked tapioca with lotus puree, and it was so good that I will most likely go back for this dish a few times next week. Egg tarts was hot juice inside with flaky crust, perfect execution.
How about service? pretentious I would say. They try to be attentive and nice like some other high end restaurants in Yorkville, but you can tell that they simply don't care. What is worse? They give you such a cold face when you don't pay a overly-generous tip (seriously, how can you guys be not happy with 15%??)