As far as I know, this is the only Chinese food spot in the small zone of Palermo Chico, the area to the north of Av. Las Heras. I could be wrong, and I hope I am, because if not, I'm so sorry for those of you who live there. It's a pretty enough place, a cut above many spots. Service is reasonably attentive and friendly. It's a bit over-priced - glancing through the menu we see dishes we regularly order at other spots, coming in prices running anywhere from 10-20% higher than we pay around neighboring Recoleta, except at Garden, so maybe it's just the "fancied up" nature of the place. Stickers plaster the window offering that they accept credit cards, but the long weathered signs that say "credit cards suspended and we don't take dollars" (in Spanish) have clearly been there for years.
Boiled dumplings are the only choice, either plain or with curry sauce. They're fine. They're perfectly edible. They're nothing special, and they're 80 pesos for a measly six of them. The main course portions are big, which offsets the high pricing, I suppose making them more shareable. The kung pao chicken has no spice to it, in fact little if any seasoning, it seems more just a pile of chopped up dark meat chicken (complete with cartilage and bits of bone) with a few pieces of zucchini and carrots tossed in some sort of wan soy based sauce. The spicy pork saute arrives glowing in neon red-orange, clearly some sort of sweet and sour sauce - we assume there's been a mistake in the order, but the waiter insists that the spicy pork always comes that way and that it specifies "agripicante", or sour-spicy, on the menu (it doesn't, it says cerdo al tirilla saltado con picante, or, basically, spicy stir fried pork in strips). It's inedibly sweet - there's no sour and no picante whatsoever, it's just doused in duck sauce. After a couple of bites we push it to the side, the waiter speaks to the manager, who I suppose rightly, at least in her view, though it's not particularly hospitable, declines to replace it with a different dish or take it off the check. We split the kung pao and a bowl of rice. These three dishes, two waters, and a 20 peso/person cubierto bring the total to 560 pesos before tip. Yawn. read more