by shear luck, or by hook or crook, this spring deer dinosaur has not kicked the bucket yet!
makes me wonder who are those people who keep coming back? do they belong to the same prehistoric generation as the kitchen and front-end staff? have their tastebuds regressed back to the 1900's? or are they simply stubborn foodies who don't like to venture out to modern peking/shanghai etc restaurants? or are they clueless tourists just flocking to the advertised scene? sorry, no offense intended, just curious!
i was a guest to a celebration dinner, so i should not complain about free food, right?
to be objective, i found the mixed appetizer 雜錦拼盤 quite delicious and the thinly sliced meat very appealing. the shark fin soup 雞鍋雞飽翅 was up to standard, in both the chicken stock and quantity of the fins. the crab meat egg white dish 賽螃蟹 was ok.
the other dishes were as good as an open market eatery, and nothing more. i am lost as to why this dinosaur can 榮獲2009年OpenRice最優秀開飯京川滬菜館!
the peking duck was lame in meat texture, with anti-crispy (as in anti-matter) skin, and the wrapper was coarse. the steamed dumplings had a skin that makes an elephant jealous. the pork filling for the sesame pockets 叉子燒餅 was full of unidentified fillers or scrap meat. the drunken chicken was an old tough drunken sorry bird. the veggie dish was below par by all standards.
how about service? gee, what service?
come to think of it, it is not the cooks who caused my problem of not finding the food palatable. it could be that my standard has not been lowered to that low level to enjoy them.