| rev:text
| - Dragon Legend quickly earned a reputation as the "premium" Chinese buffet restaurant in Markham. With Peking duck (my favourite), huge variety of stir fry, soups, dim sum, sashimi, sushi rolls and more, I was really excited to try this place and see how different it would be from the Canadian-Chinese food served at Mandarin. Sadly, unlike Mandarin, Dragon Legend's quality has declined pretty quickly.
My first visit here was in June 2014 with a large group. I was immediately impressed with how nice the interior is. The Peking duck was self-serve and the overall quality of food was pretty good. The sashimi was not too bad, but it doesn't compare to a restaurant that specializes in sushi, not that anyone would expect it to. The service was unmemorable but efficient, without any of the enthusiam found at Mandarin. I thought it was cool that they had bubble tea available to order (at additional cost). One thing that I thought was disappointing is the lack of hot crab legs. They're all on ice. +1 for Mandarin on weekends.
After every meal, the restaurant gives every guest a code to enter online to win a prize. From our table of approx. 14, two of us won a free lunch buffet. So a few months later, I returned to eat lunch on a weekday. There was no Peking duck and the other dishes were quite limited compared to dinner. Disappointing, but understandable considering how much cheaper lunch is than dinner. The service was, once again, unmemorable, but I won another free lunch so that was pretty sweet. To be honest, I was hoping to win the gold iPhone, but beggars can't be choosers.
I returned for another large dinner in October 2014. They moved the Peking duck to its own station with two women serving the duck, probably as portion control because Peking duck gets expensive. My family is fanatical about Peking duck so we just ended up getting three plates every time we went to the Peking duck station because they'd put so little duck on each wrap. I also don't like duck meat, just the skin, so it was pretty annoying to not be able to choose my own pieces.
The service was also lacking. Our waiter wasn't particularly friendly and it took a while to get our old plates removed. The bubble tea was also pretty bad. It was powdery and lacking flavour like a typical drink from Destiny. Maybe it was also bad the first time I tried Dragon Legend, but I don't really remember. But for the future, I now know to skip the bubble tea.
Dragon Legend's dinner buffet is a few dollars more than Mandarin, and in the past I would have said that it might be worth it. However, with Mandarin now serving Peking duck, the only thing that really seems to set Dragon Legend apart is the noodle soup station. Don't hesitate to check it out if you have a large group to feed, but don't expect too much.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)