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| - Unless you have a stomach the size of a golfball or you're extremely bored and have so much cash to burn that you're literally burning it during your downtime, DO NOT GO TO CHALAU.
Seriously, save yourself the overhwleming sadness and disappointment you will feel when your meal is brought to you and you wonder if you've gone blind, because the portion sizes are so small you can't see it. Okay, obviously this is an exaggeration, you can see it, but the sadness and disappointment will still be there.
My co-workers tried to warn me, but my stubborness and lack of good dim sum options in the yonge/college area persuaded me to go. Sadly I did not go alone, I had to take a good friend down with me for the most miserable dinning experience ever. We left confused and extremely unsatisfied.
My favorite dish : fried chicken taro dumplings were smaller than golfballs. The young chow fried rice came in a bowl that you is used to hold gravy at Thanksgiving dinners. The only thing that was served in a manner that I was used to was the Nestea that I ordered. Thankfully they did not manage to shrink the cans. But everything else was miniature. I did not feel like I had dinner, just really over-priced appetizers. The bill came to about $31.58 for 6 dishes, but again I stress, that they were super tiny dishes. I cannot believe they have the audacity to smile at me while serving me food made for tiny people. Oh and the hovering......so annoying. I can't go to anymore chinese restaurants, where the employees are so afraid of losing their job that they eyeball you during your whole meal so they can rush over and remove your dish as soon as you finish with it or even before in some cases, anything to look busy and useful, pleasing their employer and pissing off the customers.
This could also explain why the place was empty when we walked in. I chalked it up to the fact that it's a Thursday night or maybe word had not spread yet, or maybe it had and that's why all the empty seats.
Chalau, you need to spend less money on decor and more money on the food. I don't care if you serve me with paper plates on plastic table coverings (love these btw), just don't mini-size my dim sum. You've got the quality down pat (oh yes, I should mention everything was fresh, but fresh air would have been just as satisfying and free), just unshrink the food, lower your prices and your business will bloom.
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