Jane D.
Yelp
Lovely staff! The server and hostess were both very nice, helpful and accommodating on our visit. The food was just fair, however, probably not the best example of the genre to be found.
Progeny 1 had the meat lover's skewer combo ($29), which came with five skewers each of: pork belly, lamb, beef, and beef short rib.
Progeny 2 and I shared a choose-your-own 20 skewer set ($29) that included: yuba, fried tofu, shrimp, squid, lamb, beef, spicy beef, chicken wings, chicken skin, and probably a few other things.
The spicy beef skewers were probably the best of the bunch in our view, not overly gristly, fairly well seasoned, not bland. Progeny 2 also enjoyed her wings and I the squid. Many of the other skewers didn't fare quite so well, sadly. Meat cuts came heavily laced with cartilage, fat, and in the case of the short ribs, a good amount of bone as well. Despite my general appreciation for oddments, there were a number of skewers that were 80% inedible.
(Neither here nor there, and neither a pro or a con, but to my surprise, the pork belly pieces tasted cured, similar to lap cheong.)
Yuba and fried tofu skewers were tough and chewy, extremely bland. (We had chosen our skewers to come mild, so perhaps that's why these skewers did not seem to come salted or seasoned.) The head-on shrimp would've been delicious, but I was a little turned off by the fact that it appeared not to've been cleaned at all. There was a big ol' intestinal vein there full of gray shrimp poop.
I know I'm sounding whiny by now, but the scallion pancake that came with Progeny 1's combo meal was extremely underfried, and completely unblotted and greasy.
There were two condiments on the table: one a cumin-heavy blend, the other plain red chili powder. They're potent. Go easy. :)
Amazing service. If the food were on par, what a place this would be!