This Chinese New Year we celebrated with a dinner at Suhang Restaurant in Richmond.
The five of us decided to order one dish each except myself, because there were two dishes I really wanted to try here. I ordered Peking Duck and Pan Fried Rice Cakes with Vegetables, and the rest of the table ordered the Xiao Long Bao, Shanghai Fried Noodles, Tofu with Ham and Chinese Pork Hock.
The Xiao Long Bao came first and they were really good. They were really juicy and the meat tasted fresh.
The Peking Duck’s crispy skin was really crispy, fatty and yummy. This dish only came with 8 wrap sheets, which wasn’t enough for all the crispy skins on the dish or all of us to have 2 wraps. So we asked for more wrap sheets, they gave us another 8 without telling us it cost another $4.
The Tofu with Ham dish didn’t look like what it sounds at all. It was tofu cut in noodle like shape in a soup with vegetables, shrimp and thing slices of ham. This dish was flavorful, the tofu was tough enough without breaking. It was one of my favorite dish of the night.
I always see Pan Fried Rice Cake with Vegetables on other people’s tables when I visit a Shanghainese restaurant. This time I finally get to try it and it wasn’t a disappointment. The rice cakes were chewy and it was fried with minced vegetables and pork. I liked it a lot in both the flavor and texture.
When the waiter came with our pork hock we were all mesmerized by how jiggly it was. The bone in pork hock on bok choy was jiggling like a huge jello. The pork was really fatty, it was almost impossible to find a lean piece of meat with out getting some of the fat. The fatty pork just melts in your mouth. It was a guilty pleasure.
The restaurant was super busy that night and it didn’t take long for us to notice that the service had slowed down quite a bit.
Our second dish for the Peking Duck was lettuce wrap but it never came. We asked one of the waitresses about the lettuce wrap and she gave us a confusing shrug and just walked away. We had to ask about 2 more waiters for our dish, one of them apologized for the wait and said it was coming. Once our dish finally came but it wasn’t a lettuce wrap, it was stir fried duck with vegetable, and it was pretty obvious that there was no duck, the meat was substituted with pork.
Our theory was, our lettuce wrap got sent to the table next to us, and instead of apologizing they sent the dish to the wrong table, they tried to cover it up by giving us a complete different dish without telling us. Not cool. You can’t not admit your mistake and still charge us full price for the dish.
The food was good here, but it’s just really too bad that they have such shitty staff, including the managers. There was the grumpy one, the confused one, and most of them ignored us when we spoke English to them. Even though they did apologize again when we were settling our bill, the apology didn’t seem genuine. It’s really too bad because otherwise I’d return to this place for sure.
Suhang Restaurant
#100-8291 Ackroyd Rd
Richmond, BC V6X
(604) 278-7787
