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| - After dodging and weaving through busy rush hour traffic we arrived at Max's and were relieved to see that there appeared to be available tables. Hallelujah!
So we strolled into the place, and inside the entrance way is nicely decorated with a picture of a palatial home with palm trees .. of which I presume was shot in the Philippines? Perhaps it's Max's house. hahah :)
Two friendly hostesses greeted us and showed us to our table, which was located in a separate room further in the restaurant. Looking around, It seemed like this would be a party room as it had an overhead projector mounted on the ceiling and there were sliding glass doors on each side which could be closed off for private (karaoke?) parties.
Once seated our waiter greeted us with the biggest smile found on this side of the continent, and addressed me as "boss", okay sure. So he presented the menus --- which showed pictures and descriptions of the dishes along with the history of the establishment inside the front cover. There was a good variety of the popular filipino foods such as pancit, lumpia, speciality drinks such as halo halo, and of course the fried chicken. Although there was quite a variety of foods, we wanted to sample two things and two things only: the fried chicken and lumpia shanghai!! Ahhhhh yeah!!
The moment of truth...........
One bite and we were in fried chicken heaven! The skin was crisp, the meat was tender and juicy. It tasted great with the banana ketchup sauce of which my fiancee had never tried before.
Now for the lumpia shanghai...the lumpia was contained in a cute crisp basket. We devoured them one by one including the basket itself! ( don't worry the basket was edible heh)
To sum it up, Max's Chicken offers a unique product while bringing the local flavors of the Phillipines to Toronto, which has not yet reached the mainstream popularity when dining out.
Heard they will be doing a Grand Opening soon, and the hours will be more regular 10am - 10pm.
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