All the excellent things we'd heard about this place made the actual experience just that much more disappointing and surprising. We went to the new Guomao location and got four dishes: lemongrass chicken, kongpao mushroom, mushroom and potherb appetizer, and the lemon duck. The appetizer was AMAZING, and we figured the rest would be too...and then it was possibly the worst food we've had in China. The mushrooms, which are supposed to be their specialty, were totally undercooked and the sauce wasn't even as good as any random hole-in-the-wall's kongpao chicken sauce. The duck dish was basically an assault on the palate and nearly inedible. The chicken was just so-so. They were rude when we didn't have a reservation, and the whole time the wait staff were loud and rude and disorganized. Luckily the bill was only like 150 kuai (waaaay too expensive for the quality of food and experience, but not ruinous) or I'd have given it only one star. Definitely not going to give this place a second chance.