A return visit to Szechwan Garden for dim sum. (See here for a previous report)
Oyster sauce kai-lan, glutinous rice w/ smoked meats, fried shrimp balls.
The kai-lan was OK (cf the last time). The glutinous rice dish was dried out and at other times would not be acceptable – but I did eat much of it because I was hungry and this was in the group of stuff first placed on the table). The shrimp balls, however, were quite good and I enjoyed them.
One of the shrimp balls being consumed.
Beef "short ribs" w/ black bean sauce; "phoenix claws" a.k.a. chicken feet in "special sauce"; egg tarts in flaky pastry; siu-mai a.k.a. pork meat dumplings.
The beef ribs were less satisfactory than the last time - these were fairly chewy and didn't taste that great.
The chicken feet were...OK. Not particularly noteworthy.
The egg tarts were quite decent - this was one of only two dishes I polished off, in fact.
The siu-mai was OK-to-nice...can't complain, except to note they were not the "lightest" in texture.
Har-gow.
Entirely edible. (But sloppily made)
Bean curd dumplings. Supposedly "fu pei quen".
Not good. I questioned them on what this was supposed to be - and one of the people responding did allow that it did not have bamboo shoots/slivers in it. That was a fatal mistake, because without the bamboo shoots the meat filling became a leaden block of hard pork, let alone if they could have made it "lighter" by either manipulating it suitably or, perhaps, not leaving it around so long, because it was also semi-dried out. I abandoned this.
View of the place from my table. Quite full this day, but that may also have had something to do with it being Mother's Day.
So – hits and misses, like the last time. Inconsistent, in my view, and not especially great dim-sum anyway, but Indy does not have great Chinese-Chinese food anyway. IMO.
Location of the place on Google maps.
ETA: I'll add that at the end of the meal I commented quietly to one of the apparent supervisory staff about the dissatisfactory nature of some of the dishes. He simply murmured "sorry about that" but made no motion or attempt to rectify the situation and just walked away. Oh, I paid for the whole thing in full and gave them a tip anyway (US$56, for a less-than-thrilling meal) - but customer satisfaction might not be fully realized with their approach to things.
ETA2: It is interesting to compare the appearance of the chicken feet, the bean curd dumplings/rolls and the beef short ribs from this meal against the ones I was served on the previous visit (see link above). Yes, their appearance tallied with how they tasted, how they were when eaten – all three were better the previous time.
