After watching this on YouTube, Hubs and I wanted to give this place a try.
We were immediately seated after checking in. The restaurant is medium in size, with all of the tables being dark brown booths that can seat up to 4 guests, 2 on each side. Lucky cats adorn mounted shelves that are up on both of the restaurant's walls, small spotlights illuminating them and everything else. The rest of the restaurant is dedicated to potted plants, as they can be seen sitting atop booth corners, edges, and any other surface that can be found in the place.
We ordered the following:
Sweet & sour pork with fresh pineapple- Daughter said that she had to try it after watching Canadian vloggers tried it. She loved this and said it was crispy and saucy. She also said that she understood why the vloggers liked it. Hubs liked the fact that the meat was cut larger so that he wasn't eating crunchy flour. He enjoyed it, as well.
Braised Egg Tofu and Yellow fin grouper belly- Grouper is usually Hubs' favorite, but upon eating it, he believes it's a grouper head and not the belly. It was mostly bones. Tofu was delicious and flavorful. He felt it was a ripoff and false advertising because of the grouper head. Let the buyer beware.
Eel claypot rice- Hubs liked it and said it could've been a little crispier, but he enjoyed it. I liked it but I think I'm getting bored of eel claypot rice.
We had ordered our claypot rice ahead of time and told them to start cooking it while we were leisurely looking at the menu. But, she came back 5-10 minutes after we ordered the rest to ask us if we wanted them to start cooking the claypot rice. That was weird because I specifically told them to cook it while we were looking at the rest of the menu. She told us that she had to look to see if they had the eel before they could start cooking it, which was weird because she didn't tell us this until 20 minutes after we sat down.
Stir fried luffa, fish maw and clams with tofu- this was the shocking surprise of the night. We didn't expect to have a milky fishbone broth but this was outstanding. Hubs loved this dish and said that he hasn't had fish maw in 25 years. This reminded him of his dad. He also believed that these are littleneck clams because they're bigger than what we are usually served. Daughter loved the fish maw but said that it's an acquired taste. We were very happy to get to try the milky fish broth. We thought that we had to order their hot pots to get this broth. Imagine our surprise when we got it with this entree.
We told the server that daughter has a peanut allergy and it was noted on our order.
After we got our bill, Hubs attempted to tip 20% but our server stopped us and told us to tip 12% and it was enough because they don't get the tips and that the corporate gets it. That was a first for us, considering we were reading about servers chasing after the customers for more tips.
Service was quick and friendly. Even though service was a little weird, our server was friendly and came to explain stuff. Will return when in the area to try other items on the menu! read more