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Veggie eggrolls? Oh crap, tasteless!!!
One of my favorite things at dim sum are the eggrolls with pork and sometimes with shrimp. But veggie? Get the hell away from me!
And they seemingly were out of har gow last Saturday morning. Oh man, it must be a conspiracy since I didn't get it last time either. So we got two rounds of siu mai. My brother commandeered one of the things of siu mai for himself but then realized he really couldn't eat all four dumplings because we ordered way too much food.
Still, they must have dropped their prices because all 12 items we ordered were stamped "A" and we got out of there for just under $35 which includes tax and tip. I remember paying closer to $50 last time I was there with a friend.
- ja leung (big fat rice noodle wrapped around a Chinese doughnut): eh
- porridge: pretty good
- loh mi gai: good flavor, too much rice
- siu mai: my tray looked sad, my brother's tray of dumplings were big and juicy looking. Hmm, quality control!
- XLBs: you only get three! But these were juicier than the ones I had last time
- shrimp cheung fun: tiny shrimp! I was very sad
- beef cheung fun: my brother only ate a couple of bites of this
- aforementioned eggrolls: skip!!
- scallop and shrimp dumplings: tasted more shrimp than anything, I believe these weren't the best, only 3 to an order
- spinach dumplings: where's the spinach? They do these way better at 888, 3 to an order
- loh bak goh: the grilled taro cake was good though it wasn't fresh off the griddle
There were some positives though. Since we got there around 10:30, we beat the rush and found plenty of parking in the lot. We were seated on the side and promptly served and given water and tea very quickly.
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Full House is one of my favorite places to go for dim sum. I feel like the food here isn't as greasy as all the other dim sum places I've been to. Whenever I go with my friends during the weekday, we always get seated pretty quickly, 20 min wait was the longest. Their dim sum ends at 3pm which is pretty cool, but be sure to get there earlier before all the good stuff runs out. (I usually try to go before 1:30.) The old ladies with the carts are very nice, but other than that I would have to say that the place has pretty bad service. They forget when you ask for things and it takes FOREVER to get their attention. Also, the prices here are really good. Our bill was less than $20 for the three of us, and we were all super stuffed.
I went to eat there today with a couple of my friends and we had to ask for their delicious nai hong bao three times, each time a different person because they kept forgetting. I bring my friends here a lot and they always enjoy it. The only downside is dealing with slowww service.
Jenny: Want to go Dim Sum?
Me: why?
Jenny: Been craving for it, but don't know how to order, don't want to look stupid
Me: just point and nods, works every time
Jenny: my treat
Me: sold, let's go
So this dim sum place is ehh not that great but it does the job and is pretty cheap. Food is pretty greasy here and the service is not that great, I had to ask for tea, hot sauce, fork and for someone to take my money cause I was paying for meal! Seriously? That hard to take my money?
But the women pushing the carts are super nice and helpful. I just enjoy eating the grilled taro pancake.
BBQ pork bun and chicken rice wrapped in the lotus leaf are my two favorite here.
went today for lunch with a party of 27! the food was good! but bad service we were all thirsty for at least 30 minutes! food was good but service was bad that's why i wouldn't give them 2 stars! but i hope everybody else gets a better experience! :)
Dim sum is good! $1.50 during the weekday and $1.99 during the weekend is a great deal! we also try the 8.99 lobster dish for lunch..
We came here for Father's Day -- about 13 of us including two kids. We decided on this place cuz my brother-in-law comes here for Dim Sum but never for dinner, and he wanted to give it a shot.
My wife and I were the last people to arrive for our party who ordered so we didn't get a chance to look at the menu or prices -- but I heard my Aunt say that our Lobster dish, [I'm not sure what it was called, but it came in a hot pot over rice noodles] was around $160 -- and they didn't even bother pre-cracking the shells!!
The rest of the food was just ok... if that. There was this soup that had crispy rice in it, that tasted almost as appetizing as their water! We had this Deep Fried Bitter Melon in Spicy Salt that I surprisingly enjoyed.
Service was decent for a Chinese restaurant. Our food was taking a while to come out but we did have to cut them some slack granted it was a "holiday" and they were very crowded.
Would I return? If I was invited... Yes. On my own, with my wife... probably not.
Open early food is always hot, Service is excellent and the price is very reasonable.
After 11AM hot dimsun of all sorts start to come out, roast duck is superb.
My husband Derek and I frequent the restaurant with my father in-law. That is most Sundays. Highly recommended.
Ugh, nothing else was open yet, not even the food court next door, so we came back here. Plus I'm kind of tired of Din Tai Fung.
The dim sum was tired, just like the interior of this restaurant. The shark's fin and chiu chow dumplings had mushy skins. The lotus leaf wrapped sticky rice was made in a bowl, and then plopped onto the leaves and wrapped up; the rice was still shaped like the bowl when you open it. So of course it lacked a lot of flavor, plus it was greasy, too much pork, no egg yolk. The snow mountain bao was good, it was filled with taro. Everything else was hum drum mediocre. I wasn't full but didn't want to eat anymore of this blah dim sum. When we were ready to leave, then they started bringing out more variety, but I'd already had enough. Even when the cheung fun cart came by, I didn't want to try it, which is highly unusual for me.
My family has been coming here for more than 10 years now....almost everyday...let me tell you, they have the best Char Siu Bao in the area...
It's a great neighborhood dim sum place, and the staff there always take good care of us. Price are very reasonable......and food wise, it's good...otherwise wouldn't be coming here constantly for more than 10 years, right?
Came here for a banquet and was very impressed. The dishes were inventive, flashy and tasted great. As every dish came the server would present it to the table with an exclamation so everyone could take photos of it.
I think one day fancy Chinese restaurants will just come with souvenir booklets that have pictures of your meal in them. Kind of like amusement parks.
you get what you pay for.
note: five of us ate for $30. total. stuffed silly.
get my drift?
The food is decent and the price is pretty good. I would only recommend this place to people if they don't mind the most disrespectful, rude and lazy waiters! They ignore you when you ask for water. Then when you do wave someone down, they don't bring it to you!
Never can go wrong with dim sum. But i think the quality is better than ocean star and some other place in the san gabriel area. The place is great for dinner as well. Fairly priced and plenty of choices.
My family go there, normally on a Saturday morning for dim sum and not really any thing else, so keep that in mind when reading.
My favorite dim sum is siu mai and this restaurant is like most others can't seem to be consistent in their quality or taste when it comes to their siu mai. Some days they are grade-A and others I want to spit it out.
As for their other food and drinks, they are pretty consistent and quite tasty. They are maybe not the best dim-sum in the area, but short of driving to China Town they are a great option.
There's some decent dim sum items but if you're looking for the best...you ought to go somewhere else since I'm sure you'll be disappointed.
There tends to be a good amount of people waiting outside during the lunch hours so get there early. Depending on where you sit, service can be slightly spotty (from my experience that is).
The place is not as expensive as the better places so I guess it is what you pay is what you get.
I use to come here every week! I come here not because it was extremely cheap or delicious but because I didn't know better and this place was very convenient. The food is not bad. The service is pretty typical. I use to come on fridays which is perfect because there is no wait. Skip this place on the weekends because the line is not worth waiting.
Food: 3
Service: 3
Environment: 4
Price: 4
How do you say -5000 stars? Just makes me cringe thinking about the service and disrespect we received dining here for my Dad's birthday. We ordered a small fish that they never even brought out to show us, then charged us $70 for it! We were just shocked since we had declined the lobster and crab due to their pricing but when we said the fish, he conveniently did not mention the market price. We felt horrible fighting with the waiters on my dad's bday, and ended up paying the obscene amount, but never ever again will I eat here and I have heard a similar lack-of-integrity story from a friend. If they treat us like this, imagine the lack of integrity in the kitchen....spare me the thought. NEVER eat here, why go through the potential problems?
Still pretty freakin' delicious.
Alright.
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Full House has become my favorite upscale Chinese restaurant. I love the food here. Some of my favorites include the steamed live shrimp, the house special lobster, the alaskan king crab, salt and pepper shrimp, the Peking duck (it's not authentic, but it's cheap ($9.99) and is served with buns), fish with papaya soup, pig stomach soup, pumpkin with four ingredients, and many other dishes.
Suffice it to say, it is not a cheap experience, but well worth it. Also a plus, a waitress remembers me there and does most of the ordering for me. She makes some recommendations in Chinese that I sorta understand and just nod and she does the rest. Good times.
Dim Sum: The dim sum is not all that special here. I always end up going to Hop Li on Baldwin instead.
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I would describe this place as "inferior" to my regular dim sum joint. The food is okay here but the truth is, I only come here because of the convenient location. We ordered the Haa Gow, Seew Maai, Fuong Jow, Haa Cheung, etc... (the basics). I've tried this place about 5 times now and at most 3 stars but today meal was only a 2 star rating.
*after looking at the photo with the burnt bun, I really don't feel bad about the 2 star rating
After a beautiful, relaxing morning of golf, checked this place out from a friends recommendation. Rolled up to the spot and tested my patience again. Why the hell are these places so jammed pack?
Got sat, and luckily another friend happened to be chinese, so you know what that means.....we get the good carts to come by. This place was pretty jammin'. Got the usual items, Har-gow, chicken steamed buns, and some other thing I couldn't figure out, but continued to keep eating it. go figure.
Another friend ordered the chicken feet which I politely declined. I don't know, I can't get down with something thats throwing up the westside with glossy toe nails to go with it!!!!
Didn't really enjoy the duck. I swear, I liked it before, but this thing was straight chalky.
Our bill for 3 of us was only 30 bucks. Not bad since we grubbed down too. Might come back if Im back in this neck of the woods.
I picked this place because it opened at 8:30am on a Sunday morning and my brother and his family needed to leave town early, but had to have dim sum. Now I'm no specialist, but I have had some excellent dim sum. This is not one of those times. The food wasn't bad, but it wasn't necessarily good. The sui mai, hargow, pork buns and custard buns were all just decent, not great. My brother's favorite dish, the shrimp roll noodle had a funny taste to it. We had to chase down a waitress to get water and even then, it tasted industrial. The service was lackluster and I don't like to be tough on people, but come on, bring me water before the meal starts. Don't give it to me halfway though the meal when my brother asks for it. At least it was cheap- we got 12 dishes for $24. Not bad, but we definitely got what we paid for.
DIM SUM!!!
it all happened so fast! the servers were swirling around my table with their carts and their exotic dishes of culinary delights unbeknown to me. each dumpling was like your first cannon ball into a cold ass pool during the peak of your teenage summer vacation.. you're either gonna sink or swim.
in my case, i swam.
4 People. Loads and loads of food. $25 a pop. not too bad i guess, but more expensive then Hop Li that I think actually has some pretty good food.
But we got other things that were not "dim sum", like the plate of peking duck, or bbq pork, and fried pork, and chow mien. yummy!
the service there was okay too, we had to keep asking for refills on tea, and kept asking for our plates to get cleared because we didnt have room for more food!
Good variety, squishy seating, overall pretty good dim sum.
It's nice that it's right next to a food court so you can get some shaved ice, or boba right next door. As well as go to the market and walk around and do some grocery shopping on the way too!
The BEST Dimsum place ever!!! Don't listen to these ppl giving low ratings! I go here ALL the time, for the past 13 years... & the food is good, price is cheap. There is always a line, so expect 15-30 minute wait.
I always go for there "steamed shrimp balls" & chopped pork pieces. Also there "Shu Mai" is the best. It's basically steamed shrimp/pork balls + some stuff I don't know about, but it's REALLY good!!! I think there dimsum closes around 3pm or so.
A family friend told me about this place. Ordered wonton soup from their take out in the Food Court next to the restaurant. Took awhile to get their attention, it was close to closing time and they were either eating or cleaning. Wasn't sure if they were still open, but a guy came from the back and took my order.
After I ordered my soup, which appears to come from the restaurant kitchen and not the takeout area, I was on my way home in 20 minutes. The soup was OK, a lot of broccoli and not much wontons. Wonton soup with 4 wontons (?), kind of expensive for the number of wontons that were in the soup. The noodles were good, but you really can't mess that up.
In my ever enduring quest of finding the next hot dim sum spot, I was always open for suggestions on where to go. This place was probably mentioned by more Yelpers in recent months as the place to be for the "cheap" dim sum.
Well, cheap price does NOT always equates to good food and worse yet ... this place wasn't that cheap at all.
It's your typical Type B dim sum place where they do believe in employment opportunities for the old ladies by having them pushing the cart. You get instant gratifications by having the food pulled from the cart instead of ordering from a menu. With the menu ordering, you have to know ahead of time in what you want, but with the cart, you can pretty much a la carte your dim sum items in any way you want at your own convenience. I think most people preferred that, but you'll lose the freshness because the items would in the cart for some time being.
The place is ample enough room, but can be crowded very quickly for an early Sunday Brunch. So make sure you come in way before 11am or as late as 1:15pm for this shindig.
These are some of the items I have ordered:
*shumai and Hai gaw (pork dumpling and crystal clear shrimp dumplings) http://www.yelp.com/bi... . These tends to be staple of a must item to order in every dim sum place. It's good as usual, but not any different. It's hard to screw these two up.
*We took another shot at various type of dumplings: http://www.yelp.com/bi... (Shanghai style shrimp), http://www.yelp.com/bi... (dumpling stuffed in tofu), http://www.yelp.com/bi... (pork and veggie bun), and http://www.yelp.com/bi... (potstickers). All these are very ordinary and not really exciting to eat. Can't really say why they don't stand out, but they were being pushed hard by various cart ladies.
*Here's another interested dumpling that is wrapped deep fried skin http://www.yelp.com/bi...
*Finally, the customary Roast Duck http://www.yelp.com/bi... . It was very good, but not as excellent as I thought.
In taste wise, these things were very ordinary. It does not meant it was bad, but with plenty of other options out there in various part of east LA and South LA, this place just does not stand out.
As in for price wise, majority of the item excluding the duck was around $2.38 for each dish. If you are looking for cheap, there are places that offered $2 or less for each dish or heavily discounted like New Capital in Rowland Heights (good), MPV in Alhambra (bad), and Ten Ten Seafood in Artesia (the same). It really adds up once you counted the dishes.
I had about 15 different dishes with the group of 8 people and some of the item, we had ordered two of a kind. The bill comes out to $15 with tip included. That is good, but we done better elsewhere.
If I have to pin a conclusion, I want to give a place a fair shake of that it was not bad of a place for dim sum, but I can get the same quality elsewhere at a closer location. This place just doesn't offered enough of other variety to stand out and not really going to wow you.
My search for the next hot dim sum will continue...
"Be 2 or 4, but not 5..."
Like Christmas or Thanksgiving, New Year's Day presents an interesting eating conundrum. Nothing is open and the fries at Carl's Jr. are always cold. Thank the stars that ALL the Chinese restaurants are open!
After watching the Rose Parade with my family (my mom's wish for the last 10 years) from our small spot on Colorado, we were looking forward to some good dim sum. After a quick Yelp search at my friend's Pasadena pad, we decide on Full House Seafood because Nicky C. says there's a maximum 10 minute wait and there were enough good reviews.
This restaurant is exactly 3.7 miles from the parade route. Too bad it took f*n 45 minutes to get to Full House. But, I learned my lesson. My parents went south of Colorado to get there and were there in 25 minutes. We went north and it took double.
The wait really is only 10 minutes ONLY IF you are a group of 2 or 4, not 5. There's a lot of small tables there so it's quick. However, if you need one of those round tables (for 5 or more) be prepared to wait the usual dim sum time...
However, the dim selection is vast... more dishes than I have seen before and some I haven't. Even my parents who love dim sum were surprised by the variety. To be honest, I don't think the dim sum tastes that great and no one dish particularly stands out in my mind. Oh well...
The steamed spinach was steamed to perfection and the cha siu bao (baked and steamed) were both good (not soggy). The sticky rice is pretty good too but it's missing the egg and egg yolk that it usually has...
Just be a pair, and not a third wheel...
dim sum here is decent with decent pricing. Just dont recommend going there on monday, bc you can taste that the dim sum was from yesterday. The dinner prices here are really high, the food isnt all that great. The service is alright.
My mum decided to try this place after hearing some recommendations. I called in earlier to place a reservation, and after 5-6 rings, a woman said we can just walk in since there weren't too many diners at the moment. Arriving at the destination 25 minutes later, I wasn't so sure, since there were people standing outside. Oh well, at least parking wasn't too bad on a Sunday noon. My mum and I entered the restaurant to place our seats and boy, was I in for a pleasant surprise! Our group of seven did NOT have to wait (not two minutes, not one minute, not even 30 seconds!) We were immediately seated on arrival! AWESOME! (Although, I do feel bad for the people already waiting...I know first-hand how it feels). Once seated, a woman pushing a dim-sum cart asked if we wanted anything from her cart and I asked for an order of chicken feet with black bean sauce, beef ball with green vegetables, and two orders each of pork shiu mai and shrimp har gow. As we were eating, the women pushing the cart and carrying the platters continuously asked us if we wanted this and that, so here's a list of what we had (please disregard the spelling, I'm only taking it from their menu!):
2 Pork Shiu Mais (MmMm...)
2 Shrimp Har Gow (Grandmum liked this...)
Chicken Feet with Black Bean Sauce (Eh...not enough spices...)
Beef Ball with Green Vegetables (vegetables? I only saw herbs and peas!)
Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf (I didn't try this...)
Cruller Rice Noodles (what a funky name...but ours was cold. ;_;)
Steamed Fish Chong Fun (Hm...not bad, I like variation)
Steamed Scallop Chong Fun (Needs more scallop, but interesting)
Crystalled Leek Gor (Grandmum didn't particularly like this...)
Baked B.B.Q. Pork Pies (I was too full to try this, but I noticed there was too little filling)
Shrimp Fun Gor (Huh...there was imitation crab in this...not bad...)
Boiled Chinese Broccoli with Oyster Sauce aka Cai Lan ($5.95 but it was fresh and crisp)
Roast Pork (holy moley! $7.50 for such a small dish! -__-0)
2 Steamed Egg Yolk Buns (Yummy!)
I'm giving 4 stars because the women kept pressuring us to try everything, but in the end, I must have given them a weird look because they never stopped by our table afterwords. Hehehe. Other than that, I was particularly impressed with the wait (say what?! Oh, right! We didn't have to wait at all!). The food was pretty good ($2.10 per dish unless otherwise stated). Our bill? $62 with tip! I would recommend this dim sum restaurant for sure!
05.04.08: Yum Yum! This place is pretty decent. Yes expect a full house and expect a wait.
Clean and good service. I like this place over 888.
Check, check it out tell me what its all about...(my singing) Can you guess the song? ha hah..
Not bad at all for Dim Sum. I took my sweetheart for his first dim sum. He liked the cha shu bao and the small dumplings. The service is standard for Chinese restaurant. To avoid the wait, try to be there before 12:30 pm on the weekends.
Let's see,
long wait to get in,
not another ...ummmm westerner in sight,
lots of rapid movement in the dining room.
These are a few of my telltale signs that it's gotta be good. Well that and my Chinese friends recommend it too.
At first I was a little concerned that soooo many people were staring at me. After a few minutes I realized they were staring at the bright orange Croc clogs. Way to blend in JayChan!
Three hungry adults and one cute as heck kindergartner wiped out a good amount of food and the total tab was just under $40.
I really messed up though, I wanted to eat an entire plate of gai-lan my self! The stalks were the thinner more tender variety and they were steamed just right! I avoided the fong jiao because I was wearing white sleeves and my Yelp t-shirt and I ALWAYS, without fail, manage to decorate my shirt with chicken foot prints! BOO...I wound up craving them all the way home :(
Everything was great I'd definitely go back even though it's 35 miles from home!
My first dim sum experience! Which also means I have absolutely nothing for comparison and may be a bit biased. I wanted to try Sea Harbor since Abby A loved it, but my dim sum-experienced friend says she doesn't like places w/o the carts and her supervisor who is Chinese took her here and likes this place. Okay. Fine with me.
She created a dim sum addict. At first the noise scared me. it's LOUD in here. But now I must say I am glad I experienced the carts. Ooooh, wonder what will be on THIS cart? Wait, whats on THAT cart? porks blood? In cubes? ew. Next. Sticky rice with Chicken? dim sum me! NOW! It's said that the Chinese restaurants have rude wait staff. Frankly, they were all pretty patient with us asking what the heck everything is and when they didn't speak any English, asking them to open every steamer so we can peek inside. Once she had to ask the another cart lady who spoke English to tell us what something was. It was like going dim sum spelunking. I was so sorry my stomach was unable to expand any further, cuz new and different things were coming by. damn.
I think the turnip cake and sticky rice with chicken were my favorites. We also had shrimp har gow, baked pork buns, chinese broccoli, Fried shrimp dumpling, fried sesame balls, Stuffed green bell pepper, fried stuffed bean curd, chang fun? the flat noodles that are rolled up? It was filled with what I thought was fried tofu skin, and the egg & pork porridge. My was that porridge good!
I saw stuffed eggplant on the take out menu, but I was dissapointed it never came around. But the stuffed green bell pepper was good instead. After we were beyond stuffed, we saw a big sticky rice thing that looked just like Zong. This was big and filled with egg, vegetables and meats according to the cart lady. I grabbed one to go.
All this and our bill was $30. For 15 bucks each, leaving stuffed, and having a huge amount left over and packed up for our lunch tomorrow is good.
Dim sum ends at a 3:00pm. Weekdays $1.80 each, weekends and holidays $2.00 each. There are a few dishes that are more like the Chinese broccoli, jelly fish, and chicken feet.
The take out list has 68 items on it, so it appears they have a pretty good variety.
Seriously - Anywhere where you can feed about 20 people for $120 is a winner in my eyes.
The food is very good. It's your typical dim sum place, loud, busy, not the friendliest of people... it's pretty much sit down, get your food and leave so we can clear off the table cloth and feed other hungry mouths.
I love the shu mai and the sticky rice. Non-dim sum items I also like here are pecking duck, house special chow mein, and their salt and pepper shrimp.
They know my family here by now and have seen us grow with each new addition.
One down fall is the large poster size photo of what seems to be a "grey chicken"...either way it is one of the most unappetizing photos and somehow I always get stuck with the seat facing it.
This is a Chinese restaurant for Chinese people (aka authentic). I've been to tons of Chinese restaurants (makes sense considering I'm Chinese) and this one was about the same as all the rest: waiters serving as busboys and vice versa, lots of commotion, slow service in general, dishes piling up like crazy!
Food: We had dim sum and then a bunch of random dishes. The dim sum was pretty standard with the har gow (shrimp balls covered in rice wrapping) and shumai (pork balls covered in yellow wrapping) steamed to the right amount of retained moisture. The char siu bao (pork buns) were also okay although I did find a piece of bone in one of them. Not out of the ordinary for Chinese restaurants. As for the main courses, the chow mein, Chinese broccoli, and kung pao were all pretty standard. The duck was kinda dry and didn't come with any sauce or cool wrappers which was disappointing. I especially liked the squab which you wrap in lettuce and drench in plum sauce. Then again, you could get this just about anywhere.
Service: We asked for water several times. After about 10 minutes we were given cups and a bucket of ice but no water. It took another 10 minutes and asking about 3 more waiters to actually get the water. We also had to grab our own takeout boxes and extra chopsticks since we were being ignored. It was kind of weird that the waiters were carrying around the dim sum on trays instead of the usual carts. I guess the place is usually so packed that they don't have room for it.
Atmopshere: It's a Chinese restaurant, land of the lazy susan, complete with obligatory fish tank and big ol' floppy white fish out front.
You get less than four stars because I don't really like Chinese food and more than two because I didn't get the usual MSG headache after going.
I LOVE FULL HOUSE SEAFOOD. Where else can you have lunch for 2 for less than $15 and leaving undeniably happy?
The wait for a table is always a toss up - you just never know if it's going to be a busy day. For the most part, they are pretty quick at attending to the crowd, so I would wait it out no matter what. I do suggest though that you try your best to not get seated in the room to the right. It's so crowded with tables that chances are you the dim sum carts will have a hard time manuevering around and you'll never get shumai and har gow unless you stand up and ask them to come over.
My personal favorites include:
Shrimp Chow Fun
Har Gow
Shumai
Chicken Fried Rice
Fried Shrimp with Mayo
Sesame Seed Balls
BBQ Pork Bun
Fried Tofu
OMG... did I just name mostly everything on the menu? OK, maybe not. I'm totally missing chicken feet. But whatever, I'm sure it's good too! My boss tells me they also have amazing Peking Duck, skin fried to perfection and yummy bread to put it in :) Haven't tried it yet, but he usually is pretty good at picking out good food spots.
Also, don't mind the how loud and rude the wait staff is... that is just how they are. I never expect good service when coming into a Chinese place. That way, if I get excellent service - it's a pleasant surprise! :)
Full House, while not the most exciting restaurant, is a decent place for dim sum. Overall, they're okay with the basics. Service wasn't particularly bad or good. If you're looking for an immaculate experience with dim sum, I'm quite confident that there are much better places. But if you're just in need of any passable dim sum, this will decently get the job done.
Brought here a few days ago and was admittedly skeptical. Now, let it be known that i'm no stranger to chinese resturaunts, but what was eerie was that it was relatively empty when we walked in. o_O odd no? But my fears were quickly laid away when dim sum rolled out. Very very good. and not especially expensive.
The food was indeed good. However, I think my experience was marred somewhat as we came just before that pre-dinner break. But still, the duck was tasty(though not as hot as I would have liked it) as was the house wonton soup. I think the total bill was something like 38 bucks for 4 people, which is really very good.
That being said, I'd still take Sam Woo over full house. And i being one for ambiance with my dining (when possible at least), would quickly choose someplace else for dinner. Of course, not being chinese might attribute to that, but really to me the presentation and athmosphere was a negative. For that reason, Full house gets a three out of five. Thats from a westerner though, so have that as you will.
Went here for dinner and had a "first" here. The food was a bit above average, but this place was really crowded and above average loud.
Something that's never happened before was eating at a restaurant in the dark. There was a power outage in this complex. Initially there was a backup so the lights were still on, but by dessert time we were eating with only with emergency lights on. Luckily we sat right underneath one so we were all right. It was pretty amusing though, but I felt bad for the table next to us who were trying to eat a steamed fish and not really being able to see.
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