text: Let me start off by saying that I use to frequent this place when it first opened a couple of years ago I love Xiao Long Baos and beef noodle soup and this place has all of that and more Service was always decent and food tasted great However the most recent visit has left me not wanting to come back EVERnnMy family and I came for lunch one afternoon and it was semibusy We stood at the front and while the waiters saw us they were a bit busy to greet us no big deal After a few minutes one of the waiters asked us in Mandarin How many people My family is Cantonese Chinese my parents can speak Mandarin but I know very little Mandarin I told him the number of people in our party with my fingers and he said something in Mandarin that I did not understand and unfortunately my mom was not paying attention so she did not hear him but he pointed his arm out to an empty table in the corner gesturing for us to be seated Assuming he wanted us to take a seat we all sat down at the table in the corner Then the waiter came to set up the plates and utensils But when he saw us sitting down he stopped and gave us a dirty look and said in perfect English Uh can you at least let me set the table first How disrespectful and unprofessional is that First of all it is rude for you to assume that every Asianlooking person speaks Mandarin and second of all you were the one who gestured for us to sit And lastly there are much more polite ways of asking a customer to get up while you set up a table Regardless of if you were having a bad day or not that is not how you treat a customer In most of the Chinese restaurants I have been to it is normal for waiters to start setting your table after you have been seated I do not know why he had such a problem with us sitting down nnAt that point I should have walked out but I was thinking the food would be the saving grace We ordered beef noodle soup Xiao Long Baos Shanghaistyle rice cake a tofu dish and a cold meat appetizer dish only the Xiao Long Baos and tofu dish met my expectations The beef noodle soup lacked flavor or spice the Shanghaistyle rice cake was more onions than rice cake and the meat appetizer was too oily really disappointing from the previous meals I have had here The only positive thing from my lunch was our waitress she was actually polite and attentive nnI do not expect firstclass service when I go out to eat but I definitely do not expect an unprofessional attitude either