It was a triple threat date today being Valentine’s Day, Chinese New Year and Caro’s Birthday! To celebrate Caro’s official birthday we headed to Princess Gardens. Normally I would say that Princess Gardens is a 100% guaranteed a great experience for yum cha but today, on arguably one of their busiest days of the year, they really struggled. Although they weren’t officially taking bookings, seating on a first come first serve basis, Caro had called ahead a couple of weeks earlier to reserve a slot. I don’t know how the not taking bookings but taking bookings tricked work but we were more than happy to walk past the groups crowding the entrance and lounges of Princess Gardens to a table.

Service was rather abrupt and short. I don’t know why Princess Gardens didn’t have more staff on as clearly they were going to need them! Food took a while to come out and then we almost felt like we couldn’t order additional rounds (thought that didn’t stop us.) I was not impressed when we ordered crispy duck and though they prepared our first round of pancakes for us they took away the rest of the duck! Not good. I didn’t think the food, when it arrived, was up to the usual standards though it was still delicious and as we were all famished soon disappeared from our table.

Aside from the slightly les than ideal service and food we still had a lovely time. Overate as usual but hey – isn’t that the point of going out? Heh heh.