Chef Kang's Cantonese
I've wanted to try Chef Kang's even before the furore over its Michelin star. It's just that its teeny tiny 4-table shop space was extremely prohibitive of any last-minute dinner plans. And as one who only decides where I wanna eat at 15 minutes before actually arriving at the restaurant, there was no way jose I could make reservations advanced enough to get dinner at Chef Kang's . Until our awesome, hyper-organized planner-friends secured a reservation (over a month in advance no less!) and invited us to fill out their modest table of six. Dinner was a slow, languid affair, and service at the exclusively private rooms restaurant was attentive and unintrusive. I wouldn't say the food's ultra refined or particularly well-priced (a friend thought it was exceedingly overpriced), and I'm not sure I'd wait a whole month for a repeat dinner here, but it was homey and comforting and the meal equivalent of a warm familial embrace. I'd venture, its mon