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🤮 1/5 - “Quoth the Maven ‘Nevermore’”
By 👻 @PhiloctetesNewYork, 01/17/2020 3:00 am
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It was 6:15 on a Saturday evening when we entered Shun Lee Cafe before our Lincoln Center performance. It had been many years since we last had dinner at Shun Lee or its next-door cafe specializing in dim sum. The food and service had deteriorated so much in both restaurants that we couldn’t bring ourselves to return there until now, when we thought we owed them another chance.
After we entered the restaurant, we were overwhelmed with a tsunami of deafening cacophonous screeching from hordes of children filling large tables lined up on one half of the restaurant. On the other half were small tables with 2 to 4 gown-ups, each table squeezed together.
The children were having a rollicking fun time. The grown-ups were apparently not, unless they were merely pretending to be scowling and sulking.
While my wife and I struggled to make ourselves heard to each other across our small table while reviewing the dim sum and regular menus, we noticed that the restaurant prided itself on specializing in such all-time classics as chop suey, chow mein and other such easily digestible Americanized Chinese banalities found in cans in supermarkets when we were kids. Judging from the slop appearing on the plates around us, we decided to opt for the dim sum and vegetables.
We ordered several varieties of dim sum and a portion of their stir-fried string beans, all later delivered with the standard “ Enjoy!”
All of the dim sum came out cold, thick, pasty and tasteless. The stir-fried string beans were also cold and looked and tasted desiccated. We sent everything back. A few minutes later, they were re-delivered to us, now only slightly tepid but equally repulsive.
On the plus side, the tap water and sticky white rice were fine, and the service was polite, prompt and rendered with an almost knowing glance that they empathized with
One does not have to be a food maven to be upset with this restaurant. While I would be reluctant to characterize our meal as awful, I cannot, after considerable thought, come up with a better description.
Nevermore.
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