text: Blossom is a gorgeous restaurant, with a Chinese modern decor featuring black lacquered tables, very comfortable booths with long and plush rose-hued cushions that provide great back support, and green and orange accents on the seats of small carved Chinese throne chairs and hanging table lamps that look like bottomless bird cages. Flowers and candles at the entrance, and additional flowers on dining table tops as well as some dishes, along with soothing music, just added to the relaxing ambiance. My party of four remained dining in this leisurely comfort for a solid 2-3/4 hours. This long sojourn at the restaurant also helped us amortize the high prices for food items over a longer period of time, which, based on other Yelp reviews, we knew we would face going in. And, yes, the superior quality of the cuisine and service was worth the cost. \n\nWe opened with an order of 5 nicely-sized pan-fried Pot Stickers Our server called them medium, but they looked large to me. The outer dough was perfectly cooked as a Pot Sticker can be. But the pork on the inside was unusually dense, and almost devoid of any vegetables, which was just a bit off-putting to me. But I made do dressing up the Pot Stickers with a large array of sauces, oil, and other accessories that I had requested. Everything I asked for I received: besides regular soy sauce a thin soy-based sauce, a thick Hoisin-based sauce, XO sauce, a rich and plum-colored Sweet & Sour sauce, Chinese Chili Oil, and matchsticks of fresh ginger. Fashioning varying combinations was fun before inserting large bites in my mouth. But what was even more enjoyable was savoring the very fine, well-assembled Lettuce Wraps that were topped by wonderfully tasty, small boiled shrimps, several of which cascaded down the front of my dress shirt before I noticed. I hardly cared, for the shrimps were bathed in a light and delicate glistening dressing, which washed right off with water. I only regretted that a few tasty crustaceans had eluded me. \n\nNext was a small bowl of Hot & Sour Soup. Spicy and delicious! As was my tablemates' Wor Won Ton Soup that I sampled, which  featured a delicate clear broth, large scallop, one giant shrimp, an interesting to behold clear and flexible bundle of glass noodles, and two beautiful filled won tons. \n\nFor entrees we enjoyed tender, medium-rare pan-fried Beef Tenderloin with Chinese Black Mushrooms in a light brown sauce, which was modified to our taste from the menu offering of pan-fried Beef Tenderloin with Portobello Mushrooms in a Black Pepper Sauce; Hong Kong Style Chow Mein with large scallops and prawns; large Garlic Prawn Fried Rice, and gigantic Walnut Prawns glazed by mayonnaise, accompanied by slightly sticky Steamed Rice. Everything was delicious, if a little bland. But I had the sauces to give the repast before me a greater kick whenever I so desired. The only problem was that as the night wore on, understandably the warmth of the Tenderloin began to ebb. So, I deliberately sought to gobble up this dish as fast as I could. Pots of addictive, very tasty hot Jasmine Tea that were repeatedly re-poured into ceramic cups and regularly replenished by our servers washed everything down. Portions were large and more than adequate; we took a few leftovers home. \n\nNot to close such a fine meal too abruptly, we finished the evening gorging on very rich Chocolate Ginger, composed of chocolate-ginger pudding, chocolate mousse, a dark chocolate glaze, a few ground nuts, and a topping of white chocolate orange ice cream supporting a fragile and finely constructed circle of chocolate ribbon, IN ADDITION TO a trio of Mango, Red Bean, and Green Tea Japanese Mochi resting on sleek green leaves accompanied by two half-strawberries and a red carnation. The waitstaff were friendly and as accommodating as I have encountered in any restaurant.  The only error in service delivery that occurred all night was our principal server forgetting to provide separate checks as requested at the time of our initial order, a slight oversight that was promptly remedied.  \n\nWhat is there not to like at Blossom? I highly recommend this fine dining establishment to all gourmands!