Been driving by ever since they started remodeling the old Abacus.  Got the menu in the mail and figured they've had enough time to have their act together so my wife ordered takeout for me to pick up on the way home from work.\n\nThey've opened up the Abacus layout into one large room and added a large sushi bar across from the old drinks bar.  It's well lit but plain, with little decoration.  Only a couple of diners there when I arrived around 6:30 but it still took several minutes of standing at the unattended front desk before anyone helped me, and then a few more to sort out I was there to pick up food.  (Is this a new concept?)\n\nPortions were generous: hot & sour soup, lettuce wraps, chicken salad, orange chicken with white rice were much more than enough for two but we wanted to try several things.  Everything looked fine but ... there's a reason why most points on Iron Chef are given for flavor; it should be the most important element in every dish.  I will say PG was remarkably consistent: every dish was pretty much flavor-free.  Not just not the flavor you might expect from other times you've had the same dish elsewhere, but pretty much no flavor at all.  No seasoning, no spices, no hot, no sour, no citrus, no zing, no interest.  (Oh, except for the little containers of light-brown \u00fcber-wasabi dressing that came with the wraps and salad.  A few seriously intense drops cleaned my sinuses, but otherwise, you guessed it: no flavor.)  Plenty of leftovers remain we can try to rescue with seasoning another night.\n\n I know it's still a new place and maybe there's kinks to work out.  We'll go back some time to give them a second try, but only on the principle that one data point doesn't establish a trend.  If results are the same I'd much rather wait an hour at Sakana just down the street.  Good luck Pacific Garden, you'll need it.