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Jul 29, 2007 by Kyle from Reno, NV
Overall Rating: 1
Food:[1] • Service:[3] • Atmosphere:[8]

• The views of the city are pleasant, the interior is well-decorated.
• Pretty much everything except the manager and the "positive," noted.

“We were hungry, and saw this nice-looking place above grant in Chinatown. White linens, above street-level, it seemed like a gem. It was a turd. My partner and I ordered familiar dishes to us, paper-wrapped chicken, fried quail, and entrees kung pao chicken and scallops with snow peas dish. I specifically asked if the scallop dish was a "brown," sauce, to which the waiter said, "yes." I asked for something a little sweeter, a little spicier, such as general's chicken sauce or something. He said, "we don't have that," and continued a broken, hasty reason why. I asked if there were any different sauces, even Szechwan, to which he said, "yes, spicy yes, sweet no." he wrote something down and was suddenly gone. My quail came. It was great. Tiny, but it's a quail. I then received a brown sauce scallop dish with crushed red peppers in it. I sighed. I sent it back with the waiter trying arguing with me, saying that's what I wanted. Refusing to argue, I simply asked for the menu again the kung pao chicken came out, loaded with mostly asparagus (which was fresh,) and the blandest, somewhat dog-food smelling sauce my partner had ever had. He was hungry and ate it anyway. I re-ordered something called rockfish with sweet corn sauce. Under fried fish came my way with what tasted and smelled like a cold can of cream of corn was dumped on top. I sent it back and asked for the manager with a more displeased waiter. The manager luckily was a very nice man that quickly took all problematic items off the bill, and I asked him to give waiter $5, since we were both being kind of a pain in the neck to each other. Fair trade. This restaurant seems geared towards elderly and international tour groups, since huge parties came and went like clockwork throughout our visit. A theory as to the bland, un-Chinese nature of the food: "try and satisfy all." Avoid this place if you have ever had good Chinese American or true Chinese food.”

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