Four Sea - Irvine

My wife and I had good expectation on Youtiao and Doujiang. The former is a disaster, hard to chew; the latter is OK. Then we ordered Juanzi and Mantou. The flour was way over fermented. The waitress were dejected. Very disappointed!

Great Hong Kong style breakfast! Would recommend the taro cakes and soybean milk.Food: 5/5

Bad dining experience, average food menu, lack of taste.Bad service, long wait for such a simple pastry order.Some pastry is good though

I was at Irvine store on Saturday early morning before 7. I only ordered soy drink and radish pancake with egg. The lady told me the wait time is 25 min. I said it was alright since I was already there. I asked her can I have the hot soy milk first since it is a long wait. She said no. I had to buy another cold soy milk to drink while waiting. The radish pancake came in four pieces and two of them covered with egg and two didn’t. And it did not taste right. I took home and ate next day. And, it did not taste right. I finally tossed it. First time in my life to toss away radish pancake. The lady could be a little more thoughtful. I don’t need to go back. They don’t need me since they have so much business.

Overall, the food was flavorless and lacking in quality. We ordered a couple of items — Marinated tofu soy pudding 豆腐脑 : 4/5. This was probably the best item we ordered, though we did ask for no pickled mustard and our request was ignored. You tiao: 3/5, pretty mediocre, wasn’t very fluffy. Congee: 2/5. Pretty lacking in flavor and was extremely watered down; there were very few pieces of rice in the congee. Also, 皮蛋瘦肉粥 implies there should both be preserved egg and meat in the congee; I only encountered a couple of small pieces of preserved egg white, and no meat. XLB/soup dumplings: 0/5. Probably the worst XLB I have ever had in my life. Trader Joe’s pork soup dumplings are better than this. Dumpling skin tasted doughy and raw, and was very thick yet ripped at the same time. Egg crepe with youtiao: 1.5/5, the ingredients were there, but super tasteless.Overall, definitely wish we went for dim sum instead at a different restaurant.