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| - This is a vegetarian review. My hubby and I were amazed to see that this place has an entire vegetarian tasting menu. Though the restaurant is pretty sizable (it takes up the whole lower floor under the club), they break up the dining areas using wooden screens, creating a bunch of semiprivate mini dining rooms.
The variety of dishes was awesome, starting with vegetarian dim sum and Shanghai pan fried dumplings, followed by baby book choy in a delicate sauce, a dish with a variety of mushrooms, black pepper "chicken," a noodle dish, and a tofu/Japanese eggplant dish.
Our favorites were the dim sum (because vegetarians rarely get to enjoy this sort of thing - if they can add some veggie soup dumplings I'd be in heaven), the black pepper chicken (so much flavor and amazing texture on the chicken), and the tofu/eggplant dish. The tofu in the latter had a lovely fried/chewy texture on the outside but was creamy and fresh in the middle - probably some of the best tofu we've ever eaten.
The service was professional and really unobtrusive. They would refill water and take away dishes immediately without seeming like they were hovering at all. In short, we had an amazing time enjoying this meal. If I ate the meal every day, I'd probably make some tweaks to the dim sum fillings, to add variety and reduce the sense of too many mushrooms in the dish, but heck, that's a small criticism.
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