I ate at the restaurant's Allen St. location on a Friday night two weeks ago and sat at the side of the restaurant that is a duplex with a bar on the ground floor and people eat right upstairs. The place was very noisy with drunken people and eaters upstairs -- I don?t think people at the bar enjoy as much the clinging sounds of bowls and plates neither.
We ordered authentic Chinese dishes, among all, duck?s blood with chives, rice roll with XO sauce and saut?ed lotus root with special bean paste sauce are especially oily!
I picked the place after watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, ironically, it was quite bizarre, unappetizing and quite sickening seeing our food that literally swim in about 1/4? thick of oil.
If you are attracted by its full menu with more than 300 dishes and want to give the place a try, remember to ask them to be VERY EASY on their oil.
Pros: There are 300+ dishes on its menu
Cons: Food other than congee is way too oily
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