Margaret Kuo's Mandarin Restaurant

We went here as a last minute decision since our original restaurant choice was closed. My wife got the Happy Family dish. I got the Szechuan spicy dumpling. We also got the Seafood Tofu soup and some sushis. The service was attentive and accommodating. The food was ok. We thought it had too much msg as it made my wife feel funny so she had to drink a lot of water. My spicy dumpling was not Szechuan spicy at all. We've tried many Asian restaurants before so was hoping this would be comparable to the top ones. For the price it should be. The dishes are catered towards a different taste buds who might consider them authentic and great and maybe they were at one point. I like that it was a BYOB without the cork fee.

Unlike a few other reviews I found nothing wrong with the decor, seemed decent to me. Prices were on the higher end of scale for local Chinese fare, it's a BYOB place, so it's either water or soda if you havent brought anything with you. The host was sneezing a lot hope he stayed out of the kitchen. There was 3 of us and of course we didn't bring a bottle with us so we were stuck with soda, not even a pot of tea to be had. For appetizer I ordered the pan fried dumplings and the 2 ladies that were with me both ordered lobster spring rolls, my dumplings were good but the dipping sauce was little more than soy sauce, I'm told the lobster spring rolls were good For entree I ordered filet mignon in Chinese wine sauce, one of the ladies ordered Peking Salmon + Lobster Tempura roll, the other ordered Seafood delight. My filet mignon was overpowering salty [MSG?], and I dont mind a bit of salt but this was high blood pressure/ stroke worthy. The Salmon didn't look too great but I'm told it tasted OK, the Seafood delight appeared to be the stellar dish, it had nice size sea scallops, Big Shrimp, and a lobster tail; I'm told the sauce it was in tasted quite good. The Lobster tempura roll was decent. The waiter was good and helpful. If I go back I will never order the filet mignon again.