Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I stopped into the Tea Garden, one of our Rainier Valley haunts that serves round-the-clock dim sum. While the rest of us were eating, my nine-year-old wandered off to look at a large framed Seattle Times review that had been hung on the wall there since our last visit. She returned mystified. “Why would they put something on the wall that says that the food isn’t as good as it looks?” she asked. I thought she might have been confused by the writing, but when my husband and I looked ourselves, we saw she was right. It’s Tea Garden’s Chinese staff which must not have understood the review and displayed for all to see a rather withering indictment — one, incidentally, I think is dead wrong.
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