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| - I came here many years ago when i first came to Toronto. Coming back now, nothing has changed, which in this case, is a good thing.
Pros:
Food is well done, specially anything stir fried
Lots of items to choose from
Cons:
Main menu all in Chinese
Tsui Wah is just plain old school. I went to place over 10 years ago and it doesn't look like it's changed at all. Small things like the signs and menus have been updated but it's very much the same place it was all those years ago. Tsui Wah looks exactly like what HK diner would look like in the late 90's. Everything from the decor and furniture. I normally don't like that sorta thing, but because their food has stayed the same, I'm good with it. As soon as you walk in, you get a sense of that "wok hei" that Chinese people are so familiar with. When you get a whiff of that, you know the stir fried stuff is going to be good.
I ordered the fried rice noodle with beef and my GF ordered the BBQ pork Gui Lin noodles. This place specializes in Gui Lin cuisine. They have an entire sub menu dedicated to it. In my opinion, fried rice noodle with beef is an excellent benchmark for stir fry dishes at a restaurant. It's a simple dish to make, but a hard one to master sorta deal. If a place does this dish well, it will pretty much do well on other stir fry dishes. The beef noodle here was excellent, one of the better ones in the city. The noodles has some bite, but were not overly saturated with oil as well. There weren't too many onions, but it was still very aromatic. My GF's noodles were great as well. They were able to not make it spicy for our little one's benefit which was nice of them. The food here is still as good as it was when I first came.
I mentioned this before in past reviews and I'll do it again. There is no excuse for having only Chinese menus when you're a business here in Canada. The menus have been updated but the main menu still lists everything in Chinese. I don't care if you're base clientele can read it, you're menus have to have English, plain and simple. My only real gripe about this place.
Tsui Wah is the definition of old school. I feel like I'm back in HK for a bit when I'm here. The decor is severely outdated but the food more than makes up for it. I just hope they get an English menu soon. All in all, a wonderful place to grab a bite to eat.
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