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2009-02-08
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went there 3 times, each time experience was night vs day depending who i went with. 1st time was with frequent customer, we had 2 tables. great service. food was pretty good but not blow your mind.2nd time went with a bunch of friends on a weekday. since we looked relatively young, we did not get the basic service expected of any restaurant of repute. getting a waiter to take our order was a pain, even though the place was not busy. kept trying to recommend expensive but not filling dishe
2nd time went with a bunch of friends on a weekday. since we looked relatively young, we did not get the basic service expected of any restaurant of repute. getting a waiter to take our order was a pain, even though the place was not busy. kept trying to recommend expensive but not filling dishes like abalone etc when obviously it was just a regular dinner with bunch of friends (i don't know who eats abalone on a regular basis, not even the super rich). finally they kept on trying to get us to order dessert and pay for the meal when we hadn't even gotten our last dish yet. so we chased them for it when they chased us to order dessert. and after 2 times, at 10pm, they tell us, sorry that chicken is sold out! and the dessert finally was compted but it was disappointed - had the ginger tea with 湯丸 and the ginger tea tasted like water! the 湯丸 was small and the mochi was "doughy". after this, i swore i would not go back.
3rd time went there as i didn't pick the restaurant. we ordered the "so good" abalone meal, $800pp. it was very crowded as it was near CNY but still the service was very good. no corkage was charged. the dishes on this menu was truly amazing, i was impressed, even with the bad previous experience. the char siu was perfect, sweet, juicy, tender, with no smelly pork taste sometimes char sius has. the pork lung soup was good, as good as Tim's kitchen (1 michelin star) i'd say. the dried fried "fun see" was tasty, not oily, and not clumpy as "so good" had described. the 3rd time having the ox tail in red wine sauce got a bit boring. the abalone was soft and tasty but not "sugar heart", and i've had tastier more strong flavoured abalone. the fish was ok but not very special. chicken was pretty good. overall, I recommend you order the dishes seperately in this set meal without the abalone, then it would be great value for money.
overall very inconsistent experience with the service and food, which is the reason why it's a tier below the best chinese restaurants in town.
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