I used to love this place cos it stayed opened till midnight and sometimes beyond.
A bustling hive of activity that never ran out of anything you fancied.
That is until,their standards dropped so much in the past few years and they became more well known for selling lanterns come the mooncake festival,that the glittering glass paper curiosities threatened to swamp and engulf all the diners beneath.
Actually,that is a warning sign of troubled times.
Another is that popular dishes that used to grace every table are conspiciously absent.
I can't imagine that any Penangite will astutely vouch for this place anymore.
Funnier still is how,when things go downhill for certain establishments,portals like visitpenang.gov.my will come to their 'rescue' by going round promoting and riling support from unwitting visitors.
Nowadays it closes earlier,doesn't stock up on so much foods and runs out of everything by 10pm.
Not because it is sold out,but because lots of their used to be loyal Penang patrons. have lost confidence in the quality of foods churned out here forcing them to shrink back their daily supplies and operating hours.
We were well aware that their chu char dishes were not cheap,shrugged aside the fact that prices are not displayed on the dimsum chit.
Wasn't really a bother as long as what arrived on the table made the cut.
Thus although the final bill had the potential to be a heart attack whopper by island standards,we were prepared for it.
Today,I dare say,the pork they use in everything is highly suspect.
Doesn't taste like pork,heck,I don't even know what it is that they dare label pork meat.
Worse still you get purple dim sums,green dim sums and other creative crap dimsums that make your stomach churn.Dimsums with mayo and cheese.Ugh.
Which is not THAT smooth melt in your mouth,contrary to what some reviewers say.
Not to mention loh maikai that is reddish hued,a wee bit hard crusted and a tad too dry.
And paus that contain insignificant i-feel-cheated fillings.
Their sang meen was good once upon a time,so good it overtook in popularity a fella down the corner hawking a pathetic portioned haruan sang meen,until god knows where they obtained their recent supply of (rubbish?)pork meat.
It's now so shitty,rendering the entire meal sweet and useless,that it doesn't grace every table like it used to before.
Only fools like me would call for this.
Their duck dishes are a braised bucket of crap.Huge chunks of unappetising excuse for braised duck.
Fish dishes are insipid.Oyster omelette is way too overflavoured.
Thus you get more and more 'smart' Penangites who just for old times sakes will order just a pot of chinese tea,limiting their food intake to a small snack on the side.
Much as I used to like this place ....I'm sorry to say that it's extremely hard to stomach their menu offerings anymore.
A bustling hive of activity that never ran out of anything you fancied.
That is until,their standards dropped so much in the past few years and they became more well known for selling lanterns come the mooncake festival,that the glittering glass paper curiosities threatened to swamp and engulf all the diners beneath.
Actually,that is a warning sign of troubled times.
Another is that popular dishes that used to grace every table are conspiciously absent.
I can't imagine that any Penangite will astutely vouch for this place anymore.
Funnier still is how,when things go downhill for certain establishments,portals like visitpenang.gov.my will come to their 'rescue' by going round promoting and riling support from unwitting visitors.
Nowadays it closes earlier,doesn't stock up on so much foods and runs out of everything by 10pm.
Not because it is sold out,but because lots of their used to be loyal Penang patrons. have lost confidence in the quality of foods churned out here forcing them to shrink back their daily supplies and operating hours.
We were well aware that their chu char dishes were not cheap,shrugged aside the fact that prices are not displayed on the dimsum chit.
Wasn't really a bother as long as what arrived on the table made the cut.
Thus although the final bill had the potential to be a heart attack whopper by island standards,we were prepared for it.
Today,I dare say,the pork they use in everything is highly suspect.
Doesn't taste like pork,heck,I don't even know what it is that they dare label pork meat.
Worse still you get purple dim sums,green dim sums and other creative crap dimsums that make your stomach churn.Dimsums with mayo and cheese.Ugh.
Which is not THAT smooth melt in your mouth,contrary to what some reviewers say.
Not to mention loh maikai that is reddish hued,a wee bit hard crusted and a tad too dry.
And paus that contain insignificant i-feel-cheated fillings.
Their sang meen was good once upon a time,so good it overtook in popularity a fella down the corner hawking a pathetic portioned haruan sang meen,until god knows where they obtained their recent supply of (rubbish?)pork meat.
It's now so shitty,rendering the entire meal sweet and useless,that it doesn't grace every table like it used to before.
Only fools like me would call for this.
Their duck dishes are a braised bucket of crap.Huge chunks of unappetising excuse for braised duck.
Fish dishes are insipid.Oyster omelette is way too overflavoured.
Thus you get more and more 'smart' Penangites who just for old times sakes will order just a pot of chinese tea,limiting their food intake to a small snack on the side.
Much as I used to like this place ....I'm sorry to say that it's extremely hard to stomach their menu offerings anymore.
