Ho W.
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The eatery is located in the Paris Bastille area. It is a long thin, narrow place and quite chic, with loud music and a good atmosphere.
Service was fine and the food, although I appreciated the Chinese flavours did have some major, inherent flaws.
The eggplant was quite tasty and the sweet and sour was pretty good but those probably were the only ones which I would rate highly. The steamed rice was slightly undercooked to the point of being hard and slightly chalky. The bao themselves had good flavour and nice firm texture on the outside. The meat was well seasoned but the pastry inside was soggy. (You know, when steaming bao and the water touches the fluffy bao, causing the pastry to get soggy and come apart - that kind of thing but inside the bao we received).
The chow fun was quite undesirably undercooked leaving it kind of like an al dente italian pasta, but with a rawness. It was tasty though, with a bit of wok hei, but the incorrect texture was hard to ignore.
In saying all that, it is a cool place for a night time dinner with some quite tasty flavours that readily identifiable as chinese. But I think there is some room for improvement.
