Lily V.
Yelp
Came for a last minute Sunday dinner around 6pm, the place is packed! Many tables reserved for bigger groups and if you're a party of more than 5 (6 if you're ok with a small table) it may be a long wait.
They were pretty busy, you can tell given how quick they were at setting tables up, cleaning up, serving dishes, and taking orders. Since this is one of our childhood places we already knew not to take out time to order and make sure we know what we want before the staff come by.
We ordered our usual dishes:
-fried whole sole fish: this time it was super crispy and light, I always think there isn't enough sauce since it's so good.
-beef chow fun: this time they made it really well! Surprisingly flavorful and the beef isn't as chewy as it is before. The noodles were also very well stir fried with sauce distributed well.
-fried tofu and mushrooms(?): I'm not sure the name on the menu but my parents saw another table order this and asked for it instead of our usual eggplant dish and it was delicious. Deep fried soft tofu and mushrooms,l were super flavorful, I enjoyed it a lot and glad we got it to try.
-crispy orange beef: we usually get this dish as well, the crispy and sweet fried beef slices is super indulgent, not spicy at all and has a nice crunch.
-spicy salt pork chops: it is always the last dish to arrive, we sort of ate everything and contemplated whether we should cancel if they didn't start cooking it. But by the time we decided the dish came. I really like their pork chops, in the past it didn't taste as fresh and had an oily aftertaste, but we enjoyed it this time. Crispy, salty, not spicy unless you get some sliced peppers in.
After every dinner is free red bean soup, super sweet watery soup with some red beans stewed. A favorite childhood desert but also super sweet and I didn't eat more than a sip and gave mine to my parents.
Overall, a great dinner for a last minute Sunday decision! Will come back again but if we have a group bigger than 5, we'll make reservations to not contest the wait time.