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| - Located just by Time Square, Chili secrets gets lots of traffic for both lunch and dinner service. It serves up a fusion of Cantonese, Szechuan and Shanghai cuisines.
The restaurant is a decent size, but like most Chinese dim sum places, they don't offer too much space between tables. The decor is relatively clean and simple, but they definitely tried to add in some character with the nicer chair covers, chandeliers, and faux coconut trees.
The great thing about this place is that they have lots of vegetarian options. Because we had a vegetarian with us that day, we had less meat dishes than usual.
We ordered Tofu thread noodles, Tofu Rice Noodle Roll, Spinach Dumplings, Pumpkin Glutinous Dumplings, Spicy Cow tendons, Beef Fried Noodle, Pork Shui Mai, and Red Bean Pankcake (Wo Beng).
Pumpkin Glutinous Dumplings.
--The dumplings were made with that has pumpkin mixed into it, giving a bright orange colour and a sweet hint of pumpkin.
--It is filled with a red bean paste that did not overpower the rest of the dumpling.
--they were piping hot with a nice crispy exterior, it easily became my favourite dish of the meal!
Tofu Thread Noodles:
Because tofu itself is often watery in nature, in order to make noodles out of it, it would have to be relatively dried. The texture ended up being a dry and spongey texture. I can't tell if I liked it or not, but it was definitely a different noodle experience.
Spinach Dumplings:
--the spinach dumplings were a nice twist on a commonly omivorous dish
--filled with tofu curds, vegetables, glass noodles and other non-meat ingredients
--I found it a bit salty, but that might be to compensate the fact that vegetables generally aren't as flavourful as meat
If you ever want to come here for dim sum, you should come before 11am, they have a cheaper per dish dim sum rate. But be warned, you might be waiting for a table for quite a bit!
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