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| - I gotta say. My friend and I got SUPER confused when we found this place. We didn't know whether or not we found the right place. When we looked at the picture of the restaurant front on yelp and the actual restaurant, there were some differences. But then we compared the chairs/background and it matched what was in the restaurant so we were at the right place. No worries guys, I am extremely helpful: I completely forgot to take a picture of the front of the restaurant. But also no worries, it's the ONLY Chinese restaurant in that plaza! And I also believe it has the word "CHINESE" on their sign after all the Chinese characters.
Anywho, we went for dinner and it was kind of empty, which is sort of weird. You know how when a restaurant is empty during the peak hours of dinner, it's a bad sign. But we walked right in anyways because we have to try their SPICY WILD MUSHROOM HOT POT that I've been seeing so much on this page. I just gotta try it!
The hostess was very friendly. Asked if we wanted tea or water. We opted for both and she didn't even blink and eye and got it for us. After much decisions, we ended up going for the Spicy Wild Mushroom Hot Pot (of course) and the Lamb with Cumin Sauce. At first we weren't sure if we had to order rice or not but rice auto came with our meals.
There are three spiciness levels from 1 to 3, 3 being the spiciest. My friend and I LOVE spicy stuff so we choose 3 for both of our dishes. We figured, hey, why not. Let's enjoy our meal now and we'll deal with the bathroom portion of it later if our stomachs did not agree.
Spicy Wild Mushroom Hot Pot? Yelpers definitely don't steer you wrong. It tasted AMAZING. It wasn't bland because they had strips of pork in it to give it some flavor. The spicy peppers add a kick to it as well. It is definitely something you should order and try if you like mushrooms. As for the Lamb with Cumin? It was good too! Though the pieces of lamb kind of bunched up together because they probably used sliced shabu shabu style lamb. The only problem I had with these dishes was that it was SUPER oily towards the bottom of the dish. But it was SO GOOD. We ate some of the peppers too and they were SPICY. You know how in some dishes, it'll say "Jalapeno ____" and you eat the supposed jalapeno and it's not spicy at all? You won't have a problem here. But be sure you can handle it.
Oh, remember how I said the rice was auto'd into our meals? It was also auto'd into our bill. Rice is $0.60 per person. Which isn't bad at all cause we took some of the food home and there was a good portion of the rice that we took home as well.
I would definitely come back to get their mushroom hot pot and to try more dishes :)
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