Finally got around to trying this place. Mostly empty around 8pm on a Thursday. Despite there being window tables they seated us at the back.
Whole Peking duck ($49) was great, but the service was odd. They didn’t present it so I could get a good photo. They parked the cart on the far side of the table and made all the little bundles. I tried to stop them from putting the sauce in them since as I expected it was unnecessary and overpowered the more subtle flavors of the duck by itself, but they still put it in half of them. We’d have been much happier if they’d just taken the skin off the duck and let us do it ourselves.
The dim sum platter ($15) was great. Best har gow I’ve ever had, lots of meat, subtly seasoned with a hint of ginger. Best siu mai as well. What are those other ones? They were stuffed with scallop and shrimp, lots of both, simple but good. Do they have a full dim sum menu at lunch? The web site is not very informative.
Lobster and shrimp potstickers ($9), really good, again stuffed with lots of meat.
Eggplant, green beans, and several kinds of mushrooms ($14), excellent ingredients, nice wok hay, very good.
Noodles made with the rest of the duck ($12), tasty but hacking up the meat instead of taking it off the bone doesn’t really match the style of the room. Kind of gloppy, I was expecting a dryer style with wok hay.
Drank a nice Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon blend ($42).
Overall, kind of puzzling. They spent a fortune on building the place out, great view, fancy decor, nicely-dressed staff, the food is first-rate, but the service is sort of like you’d expect in a strip mall in Fremont.