What the eff, lynn? first we were given a non-mandarin speaking waitress, i guess they were thinking that us 4 chinese looking people couldn't speak chinese. for chinese people who are used to ordering dim sum in mandarin, it's a little tricky doing it in english. when we would say it in mandarin, the waitress didn't understand. come on, at least know the menu in the native language!
the worst part of this whole experience was that we had to pay for water! water that came out of a pitcher! not that we can't afford it, but when she asked what we wanted to drink we just said "normal" water, 3 cold and 1 hot. never did she mention to us that it was mineral water nor did she ever bring us the usual bottles of water, all we saw was that it came out of a pitcher. cost us rmb, when we asked, she said the first round we had to pay and the second round was free. what the heck? how does that work?
seriously lynn, it's just water and you charged us 6rmb each without ever telling us. that's just a scam and rude as heck. not to mention that the waitress was also in a bad mood and had no idea on how to put dishes out onto the table. usually the table could hold more food if you put your long skinny dishes vertically and not horizontal. duh.

The decor is a typical wow for first time visitors to Shanghai or rather Asia in general, your contemporary Chinese design, etc.

But the dim sum buffet was disappointing as most of the dishes were over steamed so tasted rubbery! Although our visitors found the excitement of trying 'real' Chinese food in China to be quite an experience!

Certainly won't go back there again!!!

Sadly to say this is another let down. I came with my girlfriends to try the weekend dim sum buffet, and walked out still hungry.

Decor - nice decor, good enough to impress foreign visitors, but definitely won't make it to my list of great restaurants.

Service - if you are looking to be treated like a step child, feel free to come and experience yourself.

Food - since the food was delivered to our table with feathers still left on the chicken skin, I definitely feel that there's great room for improvement. We ordered about 15 dishes on the menu, only one dish ( shanghai noodle) was good. The rest of them were either tasteless, too salty, or pretty gross looking....

Only thing three of us feel like was good were the three glasses of fresh juice.

Hopefully the regular a la carte dishes are better then what we had. Otherwise, it would be a restaurant for tourist only... It won't earn my repeat business.

The decor/ambiance is great, but the food that we ordered was middling and/or weird. The sampler plate of 5 cold dishes had some interesting choices, though nothing was fantastic. For some mysterious reason it came with 2 cold and slightly stale pieces of garlic bread, which neither went with any of the other cold dishes nor was enjoyable to eat on its own. We also ordered the tofu skin rolls stuffed with chopped veggies (jiucai, I think). The pieces were super-tiny (the menu picture was a little misleading) and the flavor was pretty meh. The Australian scallop special was ok-- I actually enjoyed the beans and mushrooms in the dish more than the scallops, which tasted a bit fishy. It was definitely overpriced for the quality (though looking through the menu, the poultry, beef, and tofu dishes were all pretty inexpensive).

The decor and service were great, the wine-by-the-glass selection was decent, and I've read some glowing reviews of the food-- maybe we just ordered off dishes. I would definitely go back and try some other parts of the menu, but I'll make sure to avoid the seafood and bizarre garlic bread.