In celebrating a good friend’s 60th birthday, we ordered the $388 set banquet menu which includes 10 courses, much of them being nice seafood dishes. And with one vegetarian at the table, we supplemented the dinner with a couple of extra courses of vegetable dishes.
We decided to give Xiang Yuan a try for dinner since we enjoyed their dim sum, and their dinner items, though tasty and solid, were unfortunately not mind-blowing.
The service was excellent, and corkage was waived for our party of 20 that had one of their private rooms reserved. These two factors helped made the dinner more enjoyable.
If anything can easily be improved, it would be their lobster entree. For these banquet menus, they should have on hand 2 to 3 lb lobsters to serve. Instead, we seemed to have gotten two and a half 1-pound lobsters arranged on the plate. And with the lobsters chopped into tiny pieces, it made it a bit challenging to find the pieces that contain lobster meat.
Another thing that can be improved up would be to balance the menu a bit better. Outside of the soup and appetizer course, there was no other meat (beef or pork) nor poultry dish on the menu.