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| - I love Chinese food ("real" or western). And having lived in San Francisco, I'm always looking for a great Chinese restaurant. I really wanted to like this place for a multitude of reasons. And while it may satisfy some homesick cravings for those fresh off the boat, the food wasn't good enough for a second chance.
Although you CAN dine in, don't. The staff are indeed really nice, but this place is dingy, way overlit with one of the most disgusting bathrooms I've seen in Canada. So if you decide to eat the food here, take it out.
Some of the dishes (bok choi shanghi style aka with lots of garlic and the pork w/ green onion dumplings) were delicious. The double-cooked pork was popular and might be good, too, but we didn't get it. The lamb soup? Seriously? No way. Maybe I'm missing something but little fatty pieces of overcooked, tasteless lamb in a huge bowl of thick, pasty noodles and seaweed? It actually tasted like Chinese grocery stores smell.
Place is cheap, however (all under $10 with the dumplings being 20 for $7.50).
This one could fall down onto the one-star side of the fence if i weren't for the staff and dumplings, which were hand-made by a lady sitting in the dining room stuffing them with chopsticks.
Rating Scale:
1 Star: Avoid the town in which this place is located just to be safe.
2 Star: With so many great places to choose from, why risk this one?
3 Star: I'll try it again or consume here in a pinch.
4 Star: I go here regularly if financially and/or calorically feasible.
5 Star: I look forward to taking my wife or friends here.
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