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| - I don't know too many joints in Mississauga -- but there is this little plaza with a good Chinese supermarket (BTrust) and a bunch of random Chinese food joints - nothing great, but good value. We wanted a change of pace, so we rolled the dice on Lion City which serves up Singaporean food -- which in itself is a fusion of SE Asian food, including Malaysian and Indonesian.
I must admit - I was pretty skeptical. The place wasn't busy and there was no clear 'specialty'. All the hawker staples were present on the menu: Hainan chicken rice, curries, laksa, mi goreng, etc. The problem is that these are commonly sold in Asian hawker stalls where each stall specializes in one item -- not from one kitchen claiming to be able to do it all. The jack of all trades, is the master of none.
I ordered the mee pok - flat yellow noodles tossed in a sauce, topped, in this case, with slices of pork, shrimp, fishballs and cuttlefish cake. We split the shrimp radish cake and the lady got a noodle soup dish that I can't recall. As we waited, we noticed another table had ordered Hainan chicken rice and I was getting that dreadful feeling that we ordered the wrong things.
But - I'm not sure if we were just lucky or things are really good here - but the food was damned good and bursting with flavour. The shrimp radish cake was perfectly charred. The mee pok was very simple but the layering of all the flavours was so good. Tried a bit of the ladies noodle soup and it was heavy on flavours -- she was glad we ordered the radish cake to help 'cut' her dish.
I think we paid around $34 for the 3 items all-in. Good portion sizes and our tastebuds went on a mini world tour. Highly recommended.
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