This will probably be my last time eating at this place. I honestly don't get the hype and the massive line ups. There are far better and cheaper options for Chinese food. This place is just lucky that they are located at a mall with many apartment buildings = residences nearby. We came at around 6:30 on a Wednesday night so we beat the crowd but once it hit 7 bam! line ups..
Anyways, after we were seated, it was pretty hard to get waiters to attend to us to take our order as they were super busy running around and ignored us many times. When we were finally able to get someone, I was double checking with my dad to confirm the clam congee if that was what we wanted to order and the waiter thought we weren't ready and just ran off. I thought that was pretty rude as she didn't even stay for more than 2 seconds because we just weren't worth their time I guess. Luckily I flagged down another staff as he delivered food to the table beside us. The guy at the table beside us (single guy) tried to tell him that the food that came was wrong, and the waiter was rude enough to give him a disgusted look and ignored him to come attend to us without sorting it out with him first. It seemed like he was relieved we needed to order so he didn't have to deal with the wrong order. We ordered a ying yang fried rice, clam congee and fried Chinese doughnut wrapped in rice roll. The waiter didn't even bother confirming our order and I had to confirm with him if he got our order right after seeing what had happened to the table beside us. After taking our order, the waiter attended back to the table beside us and the guy was nice enough to say "it's fine" and just accept it without making a fuss or sending the order back. Funny thing to me was, the waitress that took his order came around and recognized that the order was wrong and asked him what happened because the order that came wrong costs more she told him. She apologized which was nice of her, but I would've expected her to offer to adjust the price back the original order (cheaper price) and or give him some sort of discount to make up for their mistake but no so that was that.
So our food came, clam congee came pretty fast but came in a tiny bowl (that was not how it was shown in the picture) which costed $8.99. The congee was extremely thick like a paste. I don't know what happened but I did see another yelp review commenting about the same thing. I thought their specialty was "congee". I've definitely never tasted thick congee like this before. You can find far better congee for way cheaper. Not worth the hype at all, how misleading! Next came the Chinese doughnut in rice roll, it was just meh, very typical. The ying yang fried rice took the longest and we were practically done the congee and the rice roll before the fried rice arrived. When it finally came, I get why some yelpers said the portions were big, it's because the sauce was spilling everywhere, all over the dish onto the sides and everything. It made a huge saucey mess and not presentable at all. The fried rice was super hard, you could feel the middle of the rice was not cooked through and some even got stuck in the cracks of my teeth. The red sauce had some smelly towel/mop smell which caused my tastebuds to taste that as well. It was quite smelly and sour. Overall, very disappointing dish for $12. I dare any of you to order that if you do must pay a visit and see for yourselves what tasting a dirty towel/ mop tastes and smells like. You will understand what I mean for sure, I guarantee you. Their menu I would not call it cheap either! Save your money and go elsewhere where your dollar can take you farther for much better treatment. The only thing I could really give them credit for is that the bathrooms were decent (not too dirty) for a rather busy Chinese restaurant. read more