18/12/2019
Passed by a new dim sum restaurant along Jalan Besar almost every morning. I nicknamed this place as 3.3 because the Cantonese name sounds like it — 心点心.
Looks interesting and so my wife and I decided to give it a try this evening. It was not as good as I had anticipated. Perhaps the great anticipation to coming here has caused me to expect a little bit too much of this new place. But there are good reasons for me to say it is not as good as anticipated.
Firstly, the Steamed Rice Roll (猪肠粉) with Char Siew was serve only warm. Not hot... not good...! Especially for a steamed items like this. I mean, any decent dim sum restaurant worth its salt will not serve a steamed item warm...! 😡
Secondly, the service staff are really blur like sotong and long-winded. Ask for chilli and they give us OX sauce and insisted it is chilli. Huh...?!?!? Asked for 烧水 and she goes 一点冷的吗？Repeat 我要烧水 and she goes 温的可以吗？🙄
Thirdly, they are very smart. They do not have a menu with photos of the dishes (at least some would be nice but nothing). All they give you is an A3 size order menu. Just tick how many you want and which item. Smart move... creates mystery... lowered expectation... wrong also you don’t know. 😏
However, my wife and I agreed on one thing — they are generally quite generous with their ingredients. Yes, that is true, but not enough to get me to overlook the shortcomings. 😁
So, the real test is this — will we go back again? Hmmm... we would but not really some place high up in our list of makan places. 🤪
You go try... then tell us what you think.
