The owner was friendly and personable and gave plenty of recommendations. Unfortunately the food didn’t live up to his praises.
The Peking duck wasnt fresh, cooked to a pulp and not crispy, a pretty far cry from an actual Peking duck. We also had the steamed dumplings and the wonton soup. The soup itself was quite good and well seasoned. The dumplings in both dishes had the exact same filling, a dry, firm, salty clump of meat, seemingly seasoned with only soy sauce, nothing else. The dough on the steamed dumplings was incredibly hard and uncooked in certain parts because of how thick it was. The shrimp dumplings were fine.
The BBQ spare ribs were sweet and very sour (not in a Cantonese bbq sauce as advertised) and, again, unfortunately dry and overcooked. Lastly we also ordered the black bean tofu. The tofu in the dish was kind of like those store bought fried tofu puffs, but again, dry and not as advertised. The black bean sauce in that dish was fine.
The service was kinda uncomfortable, waitstaff kept clearing dishes and cutlery still in use, wordlessly waiting for instructions from us on how and where to place dishes on the table and just a little messy generally.
When asked by the owner, how the food was, we were honest about it. His response was „unfortunately this is how westerners like their food and we cater to their tastes“ (we are a Chinese/Vietnamese family of four). Insinuating that they cook bad food because „westerners“ enjoy that seemed kind of insulting.
Overall unfortunately a very disappointing dining experience
