The service overall was sufficient and serving staff were basically friendly and efficient. However, the room is slightly cramped for a round table of 13 booked for a PV fam bday dinner. It was as cramp as everyone rubbing shoulders and everyone had difficulty climbing in and out of the seat. Service became significantly more attentive, more smiles and suddenly a few others were very keen to come in , guess it was because we had extra tipped the initial server, who was nice and pleasant since we arrived.
Food was so-so, very basic , 100 % not outstanding. We selected one fixed menu and all the dishes were really very average. Too much cornstarch in almost any dish they could add cornstarch to thicken. Most were on the salty side too.
The chicken was small and tough , like a spring chicken but it was supposed to be for 13 people. The lobster in e-fu noodles looked pale and was again smothered in cornstarch,; the e-fu noodles were definitely too overcooked that they were lifeless and way too limp.
The mixed veggie in a big clay pot was swimming in a pool of cornstarch, again, on the salty side.
The abalone and fish maw was salty and abalone could be braised much longer. Thick in cornstarch.
Steamed fish was ok, and perhaps that was the best of the average.
The bday buns as a finale were perhaps the most appealing--Chinese steamed buns in lavender hue with gold dusting in the dented line. We bought our own LadyM cake and they were nice to have waived the ' cake fee '.
This is going to be a been-there-done-that experience. Nothing to lure us to revisit.
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