Ping Pong was pretty much exactly what I expected. It delivered, pretty decently, on being a great, trendy place for a girls' night out.
The service was slow, though gracious, the drink list was long and strong, and the food was solid (though, as anticipated, very Americanized).
To start, we shared a bottle of prosecco (celebrating P and my engagement!), and I ordered the Ping Pong cocktail (yum! but dangerous). We split a bunch of dishes among the six of us, which worked out perfectly--since each dish had 3 pieces we just cut everything in half. Standouts, though nothing blew us away, were the squid (actually, cuttlefish, but the most tender cuttlefish I've ever had it), the char siu buns, which were really stewy and satisfying, pork shumei, and the many sauces that accompanied each dish (one tasted like hoisin and five spice). Sticky rice was eh. The only BIG FAIL was the "Chinese broccoli," which was clearly not Chinese, but standard run-of-the-mill broccoli florets, and undercooked at that.
Also fun--big round tables were great for a group, and there's a shelf under the bench seating for purses and coats.
Good for a group! Probably mediocre for anything else. (x-posted to yelp.com)
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