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| - Where do you draw the line between liking a place and disliking a place?
Every few Sundays I wake up, not knowing where I really am and after a few minutes of panicking I find myself in my own bed, hungover with my stomach growling like a beast and that's when I know I need some dim sum goodness.
I wait for my best friends to wake up and in a snail like fashion we slowly make our way to our favorite dim sum spot. This place I have a love/hate relationship with solely due to the fact that their service is sub par however where it lacks in service it gains in taste.
I've been to quite a few dim sum places in Calgary and I have to say that Forbidden City has to be my favorite.
We sit around, figuring out what to eat and although I don't know the Cantonese equivalents of each dish we order I can half make out the items we usually order as follows: shrimp steamed dumplings, siu mai dumplings, chinese doughnut wrapped in rice sheets, fried shrimp dumplings, steamed rice wrapped in banana leaves, bbq pork wrapped rice sheets, shrimp wrapped rice sheets, bbq pork buns and of course for the finale egg tarts.
The service is slow, you have to nag at the servers to get anything you want and the biggest disadvantage about this restaurant is the fact that you need a Cantonese speaking friend to come with you to increase the service you need. True story.
However much I dislike the service here I always return for the food. When you're hungover there's nothing like dim sum.
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