Bone to pick with Shanghai Bun Matawan

Went early tonight for dinner with my family. We ordered a few old standbys like soup dumplings and noodles with hot bean sauce and we also wanted to try a few of the new blackboard specials. We settled on the manchurian lamb, shrimp dumplings, and crispy salty chicken. The standbys were as good as ever and the manchurian lamb was tasty, if a bit light on the lamb and way too heavy on the onion.

The other two however had issues. First of all we did not get shrimp dumplings but pork shu mai - not even pork and shrimp shu mai, just pork. And maybe I am reading too much into the name, but shouldn't crispy salty chicken be crispy and salty? What we got was neither. So bland that we joked that the chef had gotten the "you can't use salt sabotage" from the episode of Cutthroat Kitchen we had recently watched. Even dipped in the sauce from the lamb the chicken was still dry and flavorless. Do not get this.