Cai - Chicago
Sprawling dim sum hall, dressier than most, with both carts and menu ordering.
Sprawling dim sum hall, dressier than most, with both carts and menu ordering.
Tasty and fresh food. Price is good too. Been there twice so far. Parking is next to the building across the street which is not most convenient like all the other restaurants on this street, but can be validated for 2 hours. Will come back.
My husband and I wanted to try out this dim sum. The service is poor. They sat us down and gave us tea. They never ask us what drink we wanted to drink. We wrote down what we wanted to eat from the dim sum menu. Waited for someone to pick up the order sheet. We had to get one of the server attention to pick up our order sheet. Most of our dim sum dish came out cold. The food was not good at all. We never had a server to attend to us at all. All the server was attending to other tables and ignore us the whole time. Bathroom has a strong smell of mothballs.
Roomy dining area with wedding decorations. Price is reasonable but... we found eggshells in the bittermelon scramble egg. The first waitress suggested 'you picked them out so there's nothing more to deal with'.. Then we found another waiter who instantly offer us a re-do. Not-so-professional staff.
Super dim sum. We especially loved the lava egg bun and sticky rice dumpling with chicken. Service was brisk and efficient, we had waves of food arriving within 15 minutes and never felt we were waiting on service.
Orange chicken and fried chicken rice was hot and delicious. I got this box of food & a can of sprite for $10, so no complaints here. Will come back when in...