Gong De Lin

5 stars for food, 2 stars for the service and 3 stars for the price of their menu. We didn’t feel welcomed as we are tourists and we are only spending AUD42. The staff are more incline to serve local who are paying more and are frequent visitors. I give it to this business as they are serving vegetarian food. But all customers should be treated fairly.

I understand the night was busy. However, you need to acknowledge the customers coming in. We made a booking and no one made the effort to communicate to us. So we stood at the entrance for about 10mins waiting to be seated until we finally grabbed the attention of the manager. Service needs improvement, I didnt get my rice with my meals and then my table was covered by a large amount of patrons overflowing the entrance. I really wanted to enjoy this place, you don't come across many vegan friendly Chinese Restaurants. The food was good, my wife and I loved the baos and crispy chicken.

I came here for Chinese New Year with friends after booking a table, knowing that the place would be packed. It took forever for someone to take our orders and extra time to finally get it. The portions were small, and out of the three dishes we ordered, only one tasted nice. We were a large group, so we ordered extra food, which after waiting for 40 min, we had to cancel as it was taking way too long. I was really looking forward to coming here but had such a bad experience. I don't think I will ever come here, even on regular days.

This place may be little hard to find on swanston street Melbourne. Also, you have to use lift as it's spread across two levels. We had a booking and we dined at level 1and we're a large group of 16 people and had 2 tables. We ordered in bulk and had around 6 different dishes across the tables. Food was tasty (except mopu tofu), not bad and serving size was ok less than our expectations (considering the price of dish). Dishes were not hot and there was much wait time. They were very busy and only 1 person was serving the whole floor who was polite and acknowledged our concerns about the food and offered re-heat of dishes. Ambience was good, they had mock vegetarin meat and large menu to select. Overall wasn't satisfied with wait times, will I visit again..? probably NO and that was unanimous from the whole group.

This place is out of this world. We were taken here by a local, and we were very impressed. Service was outstanding, food was impeccable and the restaurant was very clean. The waitress helped us picked some meals and she was absolutely correct. Every dish came out hot and delicious. And she spoiled me with a scrumptious dessert for my birthday. Thank you Gong De Lin, we will be back ♡