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2009-12-27
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Came here for a family dinner, ordered 5 dishes: Peking duck (wraps)stir-fried diced duck meat wrapped in lettuceSteamed shrimp paste with crab meat and winter melon in crab roe sauceBeansheet-wrapped mixed veggies"Lo Mein" - with sliced abalone and sauce.The atmosphere: The decor was very pretty. Modern chinese if you will, with wooden floors and chairs all very sleek!The Food: The food was disappointing, With the exception of the peking duck which had a crisp skin, very hot wraps and very succ
Peking duck (wraps)
stir-fried diced duck meat wrapped in lettuce
Steamed shrimp paste with crab meat and winter melon in crab roe sauce
Beansheet-wrapped mixed veggies
"Lo Mein" - with sliced abalone and sauce.
The atmosphere:
The decor was very pretty. Modern chinese if you will, with wooden floors and chairs all very sleek!
The Food: The food was disappointing, With the exception of the peking duck which had a crisp skin, very hot wraps and very succulent/moist meat, the other dishes were very mediocre for the prices they charged.
There were a few choices for us to choose for what to do with the duck meat, and I chose it to be diced and stir fried, served with lettuce 'wraps'. It was way too salty and i didn't appreciate the texture of the deep-fried rice vermicelli.
The steamed shrimp came next. It was very chewy - not in a good way, since it was almost hard. For 200+ I thought 5 small pieces of shrimp paste with a few slices of winter melon was unworthy....
The beancurd-skin wrapped mixed veggies looked very pretty in deed. It was served with 5 small pieces of broccoli...maybe they counted we were 5 persons so they served everything as 5 small pieces? Again, the taste was only alright, and I feel like I could have done so much more with nearly $200 for this dish.
The abalone lo-mein arrived last, and again, I was disappointed. Whilst the taste was acceptable, there was so little abalone in the dish that it made it impossible to be worth almost $200.
The Service: The service was fine. Not bad but not great either. They wrapped two rolls of peking duck for us which i didn't really appreciate because it was cold by the time they served it to us....i much rather roll them myself? what if i didn't like cucumbers?
The final verdict: Not a restaurant I'd come to for dinner again.
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