My wife and I went on last Friday. The place was packed (15 minute wait), with about 90% Chinese clientele. Good news: the wait staff was excellent, the restaurant itself is very attractive, and the owner and his wife (I assume) helped us order. Bad news: the food was a bit disappointing, given the reviews above. We deliberately ordered too much, beginning with the crispy fungus and pickled pepper salad (#21) and small pork buns filled with chicken broth (#10), and moving on to the double cooked pork with crispy bread (#15), the stir fried minced chicken with ya-cai (#15), and the shredded beef with hop [sic] fresh peppers (#14). The fungus salad had a pretty good flavor, but there were no discernible pickled (or any other kind of) peppers. The buns were good, but nothing terribly new or bold. The pork was our favorite dish, with good spice, although I would have cooked the pork a bit more to make it crispier (and somewhat less fatty) if I were making it. The minced chicken was a big disappointment, because the owner had been pretty enthusiastic about us ordering it. (He said that it was a big favorite of his Chinese customers.) We thought that it lacked any real flavor. I'm pretty sure we did not get the beef dish we ordered, but instead got #15, since it was chock full of bamboo shoots. This dish wasn't too bad, but had no heat and not much flavor. All in all, a bit of a disappointment. We hope to go back and try again when it is less crowded. When we do, I hope we order some things that have a bit more heat and spice, since right now Joe's blows it away.
