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| - Mother thought we should check this place out, to give a place a chance without looking up reviews.
The place can seat a good number of people. The decor is very old and faded; paint peels and flakes off the walls and chairs, the floor is stained, and the place seems a few years away from being abandoned. They may not have the money or motivation to change this, and that's cool. There are places with great food but a less than great appearance.
The menu is pretty standard for what it is. Prices are pretty affordable.
We ordered mushroom egg foo young, spring rolls, spicy eggplant in black bean sauce sauce with tofu, mixed vegetables, vegetable lo mein, vegetable fried rice, and mushroom egg drop soup. All the food was very underwhelming and flavourless. Sauces were very thin, the spicy dish had no flavour, much less heat, and the lo mein was some type of ramen noodle with, again, zero flavour. The vegetables were cooked alright. The eggplant was done not in a *bad* way, though as I said, no flavour. The mixed vegetable dish had bak choi, celery, onions, green beans, and broccoli. The bak choi was cooked nicely but the other things...eh...not so much. The egg drop soup was very watery. Their peas and carrots were the standard from-frozen type and the mushrooms were the button mushrooms. They did not add anything to the soup. I didn't try the other dish but my siblings and mother said it wasn't very good.
The rice also had a strange quality to it and was very offputting.
I think this place is owned by husband and wife. The husband seems very nice. They have a bar too. They cater and do delivery too, and have a lunch buffet that kinda languishes in the center room. It has veerrryy few vegetarian options, from what I saw walking past it.
I wouldn't come back here, neither would I reccomend it.
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