Cantonesia Restaurant

My guy and I were in chinatown deciding on what to eat and decided to come here for the egg rolls. Eh....

Egg Rolls - They were okay this time, but there was no homemade mustard sauce like last time. Just those package one that looked like they were starting to go bad.

Shredded Chicken - I've learned my lesson, will not order this besides from Hong Min. This should have been called Onion Chicken. It was so salty and the onions were barely cooked. YUCK!

Combination Egg Foo Young - My guy got this and didn't think it was all that great. I tried a little of he gravy and wasn't impressed.

Brought the leftovers home just to see if they agree. My brother tried the egg foo young and said it wasn't good. We threw the rest out.

Don't think I'll return!

This place has been here forever and don't ask me why I haven't came her sooner for their hotpot. I am asking myself that same question and I am afraid to admit that I live by here and I eat in Chinatown frequently. Anyway, no more regrets because I will start coming here for hotpot in the future.

This place was recommended by my cousin and upon arriving, the place was pretty empty on a Saturday night, which usually isn't a good sign in Chinatown. The outside looks old, but surprisingly the inside is completely different from what you would expect. It is pretty nice for an older place. We came here with 6 people and were seated in a big comfy table that had extra room, which is always nice.

The hotpot broth we got were the Szechwan Spicy Soup and the Herbal Soup because it was recommended by my cousin and the server also recommended us it. We ordered pretty much almost 3/4 the menu the 1st round lol. The broth itself is really good and more importantly, the sauce and beef was the best. Things to try here are the sliced beef brisket, fish balls, fish tofu, fish fillet, tofu puffs, shrimp balls, dumplings, udon, and all the veggies! I wouldn't recommend the shrimp because they have shells and that takes too much time IMO. In general, everything was so good.

Now the only thing I didn't like about this place is that although it is AYCE hotpot for $17, you are somewhat limited. You get 3 appetizers per table and it will come with the amount of people you have per appetizer. We ordered the Hsia Long Bao (steamed pork dumplings with soup aka Xiao Long Baos), Scallion Pancake, and Crispy Spring Roll. The dumplings and the pancakes were really good, but the spring roll was just blah. Also, some items, if you want second servings, there is an additional charge for them per table. So if you wanted second round of fish tofu, it is a $3 extra per table on top of the $17 AYCE fee. There are like 5 items out of the whole menu that has this additional charge though, so it really isn't too bad.

**Review only for Karaoke Downstairs**

Stopped in on Christmas for karaoke after dinner- the other karaoke establishments in Chinatown had all been booked. The karaoke rooms are downstairs in the basement and it seems they have two separate rooms- one small and one medium. Obviously not the best environment or sound system but decent song selection- including English, Chinese, and Korean songs. Electronic system to choose songs was easy to use, but otherwise the place resembled someone's basement...and not a nice one at that. Some tables and chairs along with what seemd like a home entertianment center with wire mics and speakers.Open till 2 am and for the "medium" room, it was $35/hr. note tax, drinks, and 18% gratuity are all extra!