I heard a lot of good words about this place but I ended up having a terribly experience here so forgive me if this review sounds like more of a rant.
Perhaps I just caught them on a bad day, but even still, it was quite possibly the worst Chinese dining experience I ever had. I went on a Sunday at around 5PM. The place is really dark inside and i wish they had more lights on (Since there are lots of lights that were turned off). It felt like a bar inside.
The hostess was very nice, but after about 10 minutes waiting for someone to take my order, or heck, even bring me water or tea, I was starting to get frustrated already. There were only about 4 other tables occupied, and I was wondering what the holdup was. Eventually the hostess came back over to me and asked if I was still waiting to get my order taken. I said yes, no one has come yet. She said she would take my order and give it to my waitress.
I was thinking, why can't my waitress just take it??? Regardless, I gave my order to the hostess, and she walked to the back of the room where my waitress was sitting the whole time reading a newspaper. (Maybe she was on a break?) She gave the order to her, and this somehow turned into the hostess screaming across the room to me.. "What did you order again?!"
I was appalled but regardless I yelled back my order across the room. Apparently, she couldn't hear and yelled again and asked if I said chicken or pork. I was getting really bugged. This is not the way ordering should work. *facepalm. I said chicken loudly across the room again, and finally I see the hostess go into the kitchen with my order, not my waitress!
The hostess brought out my soup, and i asked her if she was going to be my waitress and she said no, "I'm just the hostess and your waitress is back there." To make matters more confusing, a different waitress brought me my tea I have been waiting on. I was regretting my decision to come here, but the soup was actually OK, and despite the horrible service thus far, if the rest of my food was good, I would be happy. That's all i wanted after all, just some good Chinese food.
I had ordered the Peking chicken, but I saw my waitress bring back something that definitely didn't look like Peking chicken (since its one of my favorite dishes other places) and when she set it down on my table, it looked and smelled horrible. I asked if it was Peking chicken, and she said yes. Anyway, the smell was really nasty. Somewhat like a strong ketchup smell, and unfortunately, it tasted even nastier. The chicken was extremely fatty and I couldn't even guess if it was chicken. I really don't think it was. The sauce it was swimming in was horrible too and like its smell, pretty much tasted like a strong concoction of ketchup and sugar.... It was the most horrible thing I tasted I couldn't finish more then half of it, and they don't give you much at all.
If I had liked the dish, I would say it was very under-portioned compared to what you are used to getting at Chinese restaurants. At the end of my meal, I had such a horrible taste in my mouth, I just wanted to leave as soon as possible, chew gum, brush my teeth, or purge myself. It was that bad.
But I needed my bill. Likewise, no one checked on me my whole meal, and now no one was bringing my bill. My waitress was still sitting in the back of the room reading the newspaper, so i alerted the hostess to get my bill, and she went to the back of the room, got the bill off the waitress and the hostess brought it back to me! What the heck! My waitress didn't do anything.
I left and slipped the hostess a few dollars, and I'll never go back again. Worst Chinese food I ever had, bad service, and under portioned. I don't say this often since people have varying opinions on what is good, but I really would say avoid this restaurant.