Frances L.
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I have shared my experience on Yelp. Just sharing it here as well. A group of us was heading for Sichuan Cuisine across the street and saw this newly opened restaurant that is related to Sichuan Cuising. We decided to give it a try: the worst decision I have made in Chicago Chinatown. In my 10 plus years of eating in Chinatown (as a Chinese), this is the worst food experience I have had.
I am not the kind to care a lot about service. The servers can be rude, but if the food is good, I forgive it all. But this place has bad food and is almost a total rip-off, along with shockingly bad service.
I was prepared for the portion to be small, but we were all shocked when we see the tiniest soup dumpling (xiao long bao) we have ever seen: each is the size of a water bottle cap. I wish I took some picture. They are also brown in color!! I asked two different waitresses why they are brown. One told me that I would have to ask the chef. The other said there might be some ingredients in the flour she is not sure about. Forget about any soup in them. One word: gross!
Overall, all dishes come in the size of Cantonese dim sum or smaller, but the prices are way more expensive than Cantonese dim sum: around $6 per dish rather than around $3 for a dim sum dish.
The service is horrible even by Chinatown standard. One woman brought a wrong dish and then she came back in a minute and said: can I just add this to your check? Absolutely, no! I had to go to the back myself to look for some bowls after failing to get them from the servers.
I hate to write a review like this because I sincerely liked the related restaurant Sichuan Cuisine across the street and always recommended that as the number one authentic Sichuan place in Chinatown.
