Even, I would say, piled on a little bit, as you see at the trendy bistros. The stew is arranged neatly around a double-size mound of white rice topped with caramelized onion. There is a lot of sauce and three neatly arranged chunks of beef among five perfect broccoli florets and an equal number of stewed carrots. It's like the greatest blue-plate special in Heaven's gleaming diner. This wasn't just feeding the cold, it was wining and dining the cold, then showing it around Quincy Market.
Many dinners bring mild, hot green tea.
I suspect those karaoke machines in the upstairs room get a workout on the weekend nights. Service on our early-evening visits was generally good. When there weren't a lot of customers or servers, our waiter was a sushi chef, and he bowed and repeated orders carefully. The front room is a open duplex space, with ceiling fans and elaborate lights. Stairs lead up to the second floor, which now has a large aquarium as a dividing wall, so one sees fish swimming above the heads of the downstairs staff.