U and Me in downtown Calgary was pretty much a favorite dim sum place until today.

Pretty much if you walk into a dim sum place at high noon where there’s empty tables you should consider backing out. Instead of trusting our empty gut we proceeded to sit down and order our dim sum items. On the menu, were 10 new items. We decided to try 8 jewel sticky rice and taro cake with shrimp. BAD BAD BAD choice.

IN general, the hai gow and sui mai and regular items were less than mediocre but I have to focus on the 2 items that were new.

The 8 Jewel Sticky Rice was extremely greasy and has no sticky rice when I pointed this out to the waitres she said well it has chicken WTF?? So just to be clear I speak her in Catonese and told her there was not one kernel of sticky rice. She said ok well we can have something else. We didn’t have time so she took part of the dish price off.

The second was Taro Root cake with Shrimp which was nothing more than a greasy puff tart with a tiny tiny tiny amount of taro, huge globs of mayo, fruit cocktail and shrimp. It was the worst tasting item I’ve had a dim sum.

This experience was so bad, I had to make a trip to the bathroom right after. Not only was the food bad but the prices were super high. No wonder the resturant was at half capacity. This was a resturant that would have customers lined all the way down the stairs. We all felt gross after the meal. We won’t be trying this again.

Good dim sum in a grimey feeling atmosphere. Much better than Central Grand food wise, but decor wise is far behind!