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| - Yesterday night, my friends and I had drinks here after work. They wanted bubble tea, and this location was the closest and most "baby friendly" because one of my chicas needed to bring her little bundle of joy along. It was late when everyone arrived, so most of my clique ordered dinner along with bubble tea. The food menu is more geared towards the conventional Asian, meaning meat eaters, but they do have 3 meatless, eggless, "milk-less" dishes. So one of my girls (she's not vegan) and I shared 2 of the 3: the garlic tofu and sweet potato fries.
The tofu was delicately fried, not greasy, not hard and had a good texture. The soy sauce / garlic sauce mix that was drizzled on top was good, although we had to ask them for more because the tofu came with so little. All in all, the tofu was satisfactory, nothing spectacular, nothing I haven't had before. In fact, I think it's a bit overpriced, but it's kind of expected at this type of establishment: they specialize in drinks, not really food... and the food they do have is very average and not worth the money.
The sweet potato fries were more like sweet potato tempura with pepper sprinkled on top. It was ok, nothing special, although I must admit I wasn't expecting them to batter their sweet potatoes before deep frying it. I really wasn't crazy about the extra batter because that means extra calories that I will have to lose or not eat. I had to ask them to bring ketchup and hot sauce, I thought the former would be obvious... cos really, who eats fries plain? It's so dry!
My favourite was the drink I'd ordered, which is what I always order when I come here because they can't really screw it up: the hot ginger black tea with tapioca. The only way they could possibly screw this drink up is if they served it lukewarm, which is why I always request them to make it extra hot. I love hot bubble tea with tapioca, there's something intriguing about a half-melted tapioca ball.
The service here really sucks. When we were waiting for everyone to arrive, the waiters kept pestering us and hawking our table. But when we were finally ready to order, they were no where to be found. It took them long to bring us the extra sauces for the tofu and sweet potato fries, although they were pretty quick with getting us the bill. What also frustrated me was that the waiters don't understand Cantonese, yet they also seem to not understand English either. Honestly, when you're serving the Scarborough population and when most of us are English or Cantonese speakers, it really makes sense to have a working knowledge of either language.
Regardless of their less than stellar performance, my friends and I still had a great time catching up over food and drinks. I'll come back, I always do, it's just a convenient place to meet with some of my friends who hate going downtown for better drink and food establishments, namely the non-franchises! I really am not a big fan of franchised restaurants... way too cookie-cutter and ordinary.
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