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2011-05-11
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I am similar to other reviewers in that I had walked by this dim sum location several times and it was always busy. I walked home from work today with plans to try a few dishes before it got busy with the dinner crowd. I ordered 2 dishes. First, shrimp and vegetable dumplings and then 雪山叉燒包 as my 'dessert.'The first dish came out pretty quick... apparently too quick!!! I took a bite in the first piece -- the skin was way too thick and gooey, it tasted like thick glutinous flour, I thought, okay,
I ordered 2 dishes. First, shrimp and vegetable dumplings and then 雪山叉燒包 as my 'dessert.'
The first dish came out pretty quick... apparently too quick!!! I took a bite in the first piece -- the skin was way too thick and gooey, it tasted like thick glutinous flour, I thought, okay, I will just take out the filling and eat that. So much fat inside and I don't even think it was fully cooked because the fat pieces were still slimy and the center of the dumpling was cold!!! Now that I think about it, I should have spit it out... gross. I only found one small piece of shrimp in the 3 dumplings that came to the table.
Second dish of the sweet pork buns took a longer time, maybe 10 minutes, but when they came to the table they were very hot and fresh. They were smaller than I expected, but pretty cute. Again, not a lot of pork inside, but I haven't had pork buns with a lot of pork in them yet. I don't think its tooo sweet, pretty perfect. I think the hotness makes it taste better than maybe it would otherwise. Anyway, I was more than happy to eat all 3, and would order it again for take out.
I tried to order Lo Bo Gao (fried turnip) but apparently they have changed the menu around since some of the reviews on Open Rice.
I can't speak for anything besides what I ordered at the restaurant, but given the low quality and corner-cutting of the cook who prepared the dumplings, I do not recommend taking the time to try this place. It is a waste of calories if you order the shrimp and vegetables dumplings!!!
I was very sad to have to write this review, it looked really good because I was excited to try. It looks pretty clean unlike a lot of the small dim sum places, and the prices are pretty good but I'd rather pay more and have better quality food... People need to stop going to bad and mediocre places to eat, so restaurants know they have to make good food so the quality gets better in this city!!!
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