Why the angry title? Well, my first visit to YSH was good. At that time, we had the ala carte menu. The service was better, the food was better - until I tried their "All You Can Eat" menu. I was with a Caucasian friend one Sunday for their dim sum which I recommend my friend to try. The day before, we had very good dim sum somewhere else in Ipoh. So I told my friend about this place where they serve dim sum in a different style. I really like the pan fried Siew Mai idea and it was really good the first time I tried it. The "all you can eat" menu includes the mentioned Siew Mai. Don't be fool with the package, everything is different between all you can eat and ala carte here. Not the same with some restaurants I've been to where there are still presentation for their ala carte buffet. Over here, there's no presentation, the taste is different, the service is different when you dine here with the All You Can Eat package, The was a foul taste with the Siew Mai I mentioned, It felt like it was not defrost properly (yeah I bet it was made much earlier and they freeze it). Another to comment was the custard bun, the first time I had it there, the sauce from the bun ooze out when I bite it, this time - it almost felt like only 1/4 of the original sauce is in it and it just tasted bland. The only eatable food on that day was only the glutinous rice. Me myself never even reorder anything from the menu. Also, be remind simple dim sum dish like the fried carrot cake is not available during this time, which is from the ala carte menu. We took this package because we thought it would be a steal for the food I recommend to my friend. But sadly it wasn't, it is probably one of the worst dim sum experience I had. My advice, if you wish to yum Cha here, go for their ala carte menu which is 11am onwards. You'll get better food, better service. Food lovers like me won't mind to pay more for quality food, but if I were to compare between this place and the other we had the day before, we paid more here than the other and the other was really good almost par to Hong Kong dim sum quality. Also, this restaurant is a part of a 4* rated hotel, things like this shouldn't be happening.
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