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| - Great place to eat. Every time I come back to Toronto, I go to Rol San with my dad and sister.
To start off with, this place is always busy. And I mean always. What my family and I usually do is go around 10:30pm before the actual brunch crowd gets in and there is a huge wait line. We usually get seated within five minutes if we get there before 10:45. We made the mistake of getting there around 11 and it was packed.
The place is fairly clean and they've recently did renovations. The bathrooms are quite small and inbetween the front and back of the restaurant. The decorations and paintings are quite nice and there are a lot specials on the board, but you should really focus on the dim sum here.
It was my first time here since August, and man, have the prices skyrocketed. Some of the prices went up by almost 30% and I even noticed that the portion sizes shrank. It was kind of a bummer (Even tea is now 80 cents a person rather than 60 cents!) to see how much the prices had gone up and the portions going down, especially since the food quality did not improve and neither did the service. The food gets there staggeringly, so sometimes it's like having a course meal and you have to be careful.
Be careful to check your bill and make sure that they are giving you what you asked for (we usually take a photo of the bill we fill out with the food) and to make sure they are not billing you for more than you wanted.
I will however say that the food quality did not go down and it has always been pretty good to begin with. It is delicious!
Some of my favourites:
- Siu mai
- deep fried taro
- rice rolls with beef
- pork sticky rice in leaf
- ha gao (but it is really small portions I warn you)
- Chicken feet (It's good I promise, keep an open mind)
- black bean spare ribs
- Deep fried shrimp chive cakes (Really good, they have mayo with it)
Not sure if I would go again as there are other better places there, but it's always a good staple.
Tip: There is a back as well, so when you get in and the front is filled up, try going to the back to see how full/empty it is. You have to go to a server and give them the number of people you have and you'll get a number, so make sure to pay attention.
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