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| - If you like hot and spicy, this is the restaurant for you. I personally think that this restaurant is single sided. It's like driving a car with one gear or your BBQ only able to cook on high. Some people like that, unfortunately, I am not one of them. Asian cuisine should be balance of flavours, Royal Jasmine balances only two, hot and spicy.
On one occasion, I ordered the butter chicken, it was spicy. On the second, I wanted garlic fish, it was spicy. The hot and sour soup, spicy. I was surprised that my spring rolls and salad were not spicy, because it seems like that is the only thing that they can do.
My first taste only emits spice, I can't tell whether the garlic fish, actually has any garlic in it. I can however, tell that it is fish. I want flavourful, I want balance, neither of which I get from my experiences at Royal Jasmine. It's like a junior cook had to sub for the masterchef, making the food technically proficient, as I can tell by the perfection that this fish is cooked in. The sauce hints at playfulness with my palette but alas, it is only a tease, as the junior cook's interpretation of Thai is to dump more chillies and chilli flakes into the mix because, "Hey, we're THAI!"
I've eaten here several times. Or rather, I should say, I have had take out here several times. On one of these occasions, I had time to spend it in the dining room waiting for my take out and I must say that the service was excellent. We were even given tea to drink, while we were waiting.
I don't understand why this place has been around for so long. There must be a lot of people in Mississauga that like spicy foods, as this runs parallel to my mind of Wild Wing, but then again, Wild Wing knows that not everyone wants extra spicy hot sauce on everything and gives variety. Sadly, Royal Jasmine has not learned this lesson and for that, this restaurant is now dead to me.
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