Mala Tang In Arl

I liked this restaurant, especially the rice noodles I had. My daughters enjoyed the dry, hot pot, which is stir-fried. My wife had a tofu and green bean dish, which was much too salty for her. As for the service, they were very nice when they were paying attention; however, they said and then just forgot about us for 10 minutes, so I had to get up and find somebody to order a drink and some appetizers while I waited for my family to arrive. Then again, after my family arrived, they checked in once or twice while we were thinking about ordering and then just disappeared for 10 minutes. So I had to get up and find a server. This is not the end of the world, but doing it once isn’t a big deal. But having to get up a second time was just kind of like a WTF moment. There weren’t many people in there, like maybe ten total. So it was odd that they weren’t just paying attention to everybody. There was a gentleman who sat there on his phone. The female server was very nice but not very proactive. There is a sign that says they’re short-staffed, but that didn’t seem to be the problem to me. What else bugs me is my wife got up with two of my kids to get our car.  My other daughter and I were sitting at the table as I finished my glass of wine, and my other daughter was picking at the food. And the busser came up and started clearing all the dishes in front of me, which was unnecessary. It was 9 p.m., in the restaurant didn’t have many patrons anymore. They should ask the busser to wait until we’ve left the table. I politely asked the busser to come back after we left.

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My sister and I decided to try this restaurant out. It was out first and will be our last time. Service was terrible, the lady who came and gave us water didn’t say a word and was not friendly at all. Took over 15 min for our waiter to actually come to our table to take our order, but he was friendly and nice. I realized they were short staffed so gave them the benefit of the doubt. Food was terrible and not worth what we paid for.

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A true treasure this is a family favorite, so good we decided to make it our Xmas Eve feast. Something to please the vegans and non-vegans. Perfect hot pot choices. Amazing dry pot Szechuan dish with any combination. Love the sauce/spice bar. Excellent traditional and authentic Chinese menu to go along with. Highly recommend.

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Avoid this place if vegetarian, food bland with minimal effort. Looks like frozen veggies were used, not fresh. Stingy on variety of veggies. Overpriced, meat dishes looked somewhat better but not worth it.

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The food was delish! I did the hot pot for one with extra tofu. The price was right, everything was clean including the sauce bar, and the portions were big. I would definitely go again!

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