January 2014 jot notes:
2 stars. Nothing extraordinary. Everything is just 'meh' from start to finish. Kitchen staff dropped off the complementary soup for us and left. We figured we had to it ourselves? lol. Another staff saw us and quickly came over to serve us but seriously rushed her way through, spilling soup all over the table -_- I rather just do it myself, thank you very much. Kitchen staff continued to flop down the dishes and left without saying anything. Found a piece of plastic in my food, yay. Extremely short staffed this evening consider that this is the day before CNY. No one really checked on us throughout dinner. My mom gave in and joined the VIP program for $20. Lots of discounts for dim sum and dinner. Expires in 2 years. But can't use towards holidays including the Chinese ones. WTF. It was not even the acutal CNY Day. Expensive meal.
March 2014 jot notes:
2.5 stars. Friendlier service and much more attentive!! Staff carefully served us hot complementary soup, and later offered to refill our bowls instead of doing it ourselves *thumbs up*! Dishes promptly arrived right after we finished our soup. With the VIP card, the ??????? (Peking duck 4 course meal) is only $48 #greatdeal (non-VIP is $68). First time I had it, the duck was tasteless. This time around, the duck had more flavour - I'm glad they made improvement. But I'm still shocked (both times) to find out that they don't have or serve plum sauce for the duck! RAWR, I want my sauce :( Other dishes were pretty much average stuff. Oh, the sweet and sour pork felt like it was reheated - the meat was tough and was drenched with yucky, sour sauce. Complementary red bean soup at the end was served hot but it was too water down for my liking. Sigh. Let's hope my next meal gets better.