"Just left Open Rice and will tell you this place was a huge disappointment. A huge let down when I had hyped the place to my girlfriend for the past two weeks based on their menu I’ve seen online.The restaurant itself is clean and modernly designed. The menus are colorful and felt authentic to HK style with the way things were crossed or white out updated.Now onto the service/food…The roasted duck was fairly priced and tasted like the duck you would buy at the Asian market. Nothing out of the ordinary or making a difference of standard Cantonese duck.The bang bang shrimp tasted like walnut shrimp from Panda Express and honestly it tasted if not worse than a Chinese fast food restaurant maybe along with some added garnish some walnuts.Eggplant was OK not anything outstanding.I was hoping for some quality Cantonese style food but left very disappointed. My girlfriend and I will not be returning and continue our journey for good Chinese food in Charlotte area.Service was subpar and almost nonexistent.Our waiter didn’t even take our order. Given it was Sunday but wow atleast they got the authentic non existent Chinese restaurant customer service right but why should that balance out with bougie American pricing for really lackluster food.Our tab was $70 with only one boba drink. We had 1/2 duck, one vegetable, and a total of two entrees.For $70 at some of the other places we’ve been to. We could have a 3 course meal with drinks for us both.Rating: 2/5(For better understanding I moved here from San Francisco/Oakland about 1 year ago. I have been to Hong Kong, Mainland China, Korea, Thailand and Japan)"
