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We knew coming here that there was alot of hype surrounding the place, especially after the media has been selling this place nonstop. Since it wasn't busy yesterday we tried our luck today.
Arrived at 6:30 and was told it was an hour wait, they take your number and text you when your table is ready. They say you can go anywhere but when your reservation comes up, your entire party needs to be there within 10 minutes or the reservation is gone. We decided to go to Shoppers at Peter and King St and just got the text when we went in, we quickly got out and we were three minutes late getting to the restaurant. Needless to say our reservation was given to someone else and we grudgingly made another one. They said it was an hour wait but we were called about 45 mins later.
Well, once you get called, the guy buzzes you in (you can't just walk in, this place is too cool and exclusive to let any common people just walk right in). You get to another set of heavy doors and then have to wait for your table to clear out.
Let's just say, all ramen noodle places must have a cramped, pack you in like sardines mentality because this place is just that. It's communal benches and good luck if you have a backpack or shopping with you because there's no place to put it.
Service is fast, they want you in and out in thirty minutes. Problem is that not all the food arrives at the same time. I wanted to try a few things so we got
Smoked Chicken Wings
Pork Buns $10 for 2
Chicken Buns $10 for 2
Momofuku Ramen Noodles $14
Chicken and Egg (we both thought it was with ramen but it turns out it was served with rice). $15
Smoked Chicken Wings $12
I'd have to say the best thing was the smoked chicken wings, there's a bit of spice to it.
I don't get what all the hype over the pork buns is. Basically if you have ever gone to Banh Mi Boys, it's two small pieces of pork belly, hoisin sauce and I think scallions (green onions for us regular folk). They are pretty small that's for sure.
We didn't eat the chicken ones, at that point we were full but the meat was cut into small pieces. Not much for presentation
The Ramen noodles were ok, I guess it's better than Kinton but nothing that special to write home about.
Chicken and Egg rice, it's served with scallions and what can I say...it tastes like the chicken terriyaki lunch special at Ho Su or even the chicken and rice small take out at T&T supermarket. Uninspiring.
The service was ok, not a fan of our server but the runners were nice. If you have special requests, don't come here! I asked if we could get the hoisin sauce on the side for the chicken buns, she asked if it was a food allergy and when I told her it wasn't but that I'm not a fan of sauce, it seemed like they don't make special requests here. She asked me if the cooks couldn't accomodate if I still wanted sauce, I told them to just put a little. Well, long after the chicken buns arrived, the server told me they put just a little bit of hoisin sauce on the chicken buns (little late for that now).
Overall I find the food runners to be nicer than the servers. What made my eyes bulge out was the $4 we were charged for the 236ml of coke we ordered. Some lady close to us managed to get a full sized can of diet coke with ICE, yet we were just given our coke in the customary fancy bottle. It would have been nice to have gotten a glass of ice to make it seem like we were getting a reasonable amount of coke! Geez, next time I"ll just get water!
Make sure you bring your fat wallet here!
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