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This place is good at scamming people. I was one of their victims. My wedding is going to be on August 1, 2009. I went to this place in November, 2008 asking about studio pictures. In the middle of our conversation, the owner, Diem Xuan, asked if my fiance and I have a restaurant in mind. We told her that we are still looking for one. All of a sudden, she switched to the topic about restaurants. She told us that there is a restaurant called Grand Palace Seafood Restaurant in Lakewood that is just opened a couple months ago. She also said that it is very beautiful and when we come to check it out the owner of the restaurant will give us a good price if we mention her name because she has a partnership with that restaurant. Then, she asked us to leave our names and phone number. \r
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The next day, the owner of that restaurant called me saying that Diem Xuan let him know we are still looking for a restaurant. He told us to come to his restaurant to check it out. And we did. The restaurant was actually very nice inside because it is brand new. I saw its advertisement on Saigon TV. We came back for the second time with our parents to try the food. Our parents thought the food was ok so we decided to go with the restaurant. On that day, we deposited one thousand dollars. There was a contract and everything. \r
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We were very happy after that because we thought we got one major thing on the wedding list down. Nope! We thought wrong. At the end of March (4 months after we deposited the money), we decided to call the restaurant to make sure if everything is still on schedule. We found out that their phone was not in service anymore. At this time, I was freaking out. We drove to the restaurant and saw that they closed down already. We called the leasing office and they said that those scamming people left in a hurry. The leasing office was not even notified when they left. We did find out his home address. It is in San Francisco. However, he sold the house in February. Now, nobody knows where he is. \r
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Then we called Diem Xuan to ask for his number and told her what happened. At first she would not give us his phone number. She said she does not have it. She also said that she never said she has some kind of partnership with that owner. Can you believe it? We were scammed big time. It's only 4 months until our wedding and we found out that the restaurant we booked had taken our deposit and disappeared. The only thing I really cared about was that we could somehow find a restaurant for our wedding in August. It is not an easy thing to find a good restaurant that is not booked in August. \r
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I agree with Ann. ""If you guys like to have a miserable wedding, you should visit here..."" \r
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Anyways, the good thing is that my fiance and I were able to find another restaurant for our August 1 wedding. We could not sleep that night. We went online to search for restaurants. In the morning, we went to San Gabriel, El Monte, Chinatown, Long Beach, pretty much anywhere that has Chinese Vietnamese cuisine. We finally booked with Prince Seafood in Cerritos. Thank Goodness that restaurant was still available on August 1. \r
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I kept telling myself, if we did not stop by Diem Xuan, we would not have lost one thousand dollars.
Cons: everything
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