Uh, how does this place have 4.5 stars?
Yes, it's a hole in the wall mom-and-pop place (literally, husband and wife cooking and waiting) and yes, the food is cheap. But my friend and I were scratching our heads after the meal. How do you mess up hot and sour soup and Zhajiangmian? These are two fail safe dishes you should be able to order anywhere but somehow they managed to mess them up, and let me tell you how: the hot and sour soup was actually oily. It tasted strongly of sesame oil and olives. The zhajiangmian was the same, lacking in the typical soybean paste sauce and instead consisting of olive flavored pickles and ground meat. There was barely enough meat to flavor all the noodles. We deduced that the brine they used for their homemade pickles was much like olive brine which made those dishes taste off.
We also ordered beef with with spring onion pancake wrap. This one tasted ok because of the heavy dose of hoisin sauce, but it was a little short on the beef and the pancake was a bit too doughy.
The only redeeming quality of this place was the home made dumplings. They were made with handmade wrapping and ended up decent but the filling tasted a bit heavy.. perhaps it had a little too much soy sauce and something about the meat to veggie ratio was off. I've had way better in LA or SF.