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| - Came here for a family dinner and ordered a typical Chinese restaurant 10 course meal.
Restaurant is a lot more big and spacious than what it looks to be from the outside. Although it apparently been in business for 15 years or so, the decor doesn't look too dated like many Chinese restaurants e.g. worn out chair covers and carpet, or tacky red walls. Actually, with their light green and oak colors and circle mirrors and door windows, makes me feel like I'm dining on some cruise ship :)
Food
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Although the dishes we ordered were typical at Chinese restaurants, the quality for most was excellent. Points for delivering traditional and familiar dishes well. Portions was fair and dishes were fresh and tasty. I especially love how they made extra efforts with plating and preparing the garnishes. They sliced a LOT of cucumbers up and arranged them neatly around every single plate:) If it's not cucumbers, it was something else like carrot roses. They could have just thrown on a parsley or green onion bits. The effort does show they cared about what they're presenting to you.
The only dish I didn't like was our fish. There's always a fish dish as part of the 10 course meal and the cooking style and type of fish depends on your meal price. Our fish dish was a fresh whole fish that was fillet into pieces and served like a bird nest style dish. They took the remainder of the skeleton and fried it into a bowl shape to hold the fillet pieces. This was the first time I've ever came across this serving idea and really admired the creativity of it. Unfortunately, though the skeleton was meant to be eaten and bones was brittle enough to eat (like soft shell crab or sardine), the skeleton was just overly greasy.
Manager came by to up sell their fresh oysters and we ordered 8 in garlic and green onion style (other choice was black bean, never raw in Chinese restaurants). They were really fresh and steamed well in gigantic shells.
Service
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Here is where they really stand out. I'm not sure if anything have to do with the host/my aunt being just a regular dim sum customer but the staff and service was very attentive. They give new plates for every course, was gentle in their serving manner, be sure to give you extra dry and wet napkins for lobster eating. The staff weren't too loud or tossing used dishes into bins loudly. Just overall friendly and never rushed and hasty like many other Chinese restaurants. Our server name was Jennifer and although I think she's somewhat new to the job or serving, she did a great job. Maybe its also because she's new that she was taking extra care in doing a good job.
Coming from the Scarborough/Markham where there's an abundant of Chinese restaurant, I didn't expect to be actually impressed by one here in Mississauga. My sister is on the lookout for a Chinese restaurant that's actually not dirty, dated and tacky for a wedding reception and she's would actually consider dragging the family to this side of town just because they're actually clean/decent looking, serves good food, have good service, and fairly priced. Not an easy combination to find among Chinese restaurants.
Do look forward to coming again for dinner when visiting Mississauga.
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