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| - Wow, has Woo gone downhill. I bought 2 Teambuys and I'm glad I just finished using them both. I went to Woo first in 2009 for lunch and it was pretty awesome for $13. Atmosphere was great, food was done really well. There isn't variety like Mandarin but the quality was much better. I've been there a handful more times before the Teambuy. I used the first one about 5 months ago for dinner and the food had gone down in quality but was still decent. There was good steamed fish, dim sum choices and sushi/sashimi. The dessert table would offer cheesecake, chocolate cake, carrot cake, fruit cake and little tarts with a variety of fruit - watermelon, honey dew, cantalope, pineapple, etc.
Last night, there was a sad choice of food. Maybe it's a Sunday dinner menu but I'd think they'd want to offer something to encourage diners to come back. Seafood pasta had frozen vegetables mixed with mushy pasta. Steamed egg was done well but salty, and even though I really like steamed egg, it's a cheap offering for a place like Woo especially if there's nothing else but dried shrimp in it. Steamed fish was okay, a fillet of some fish with meh sauce, nothing to write home about. Fried rice looked like a HK cafe $5.99 item featuring more frozen veggies. Chow mein could have been from Manchu Wok. Celery and shrimp was okay, so was the broccoli and something else. The fried foods looked like they'd been sitting there for awhile. The eggplant was a bit greasy but otherwise okay, not overcooked. The crispy chicken leg was a bit dry but something I would try again. Other dishes I don't really remember because they didn't appeal to me at all (sweet/sour pork, 2 versions of ribs... and others).
The biggest disappointment, however, is that there was no sashimi! No salmon at all! Not even as a roll. No tuna, no california rolls... there were some sushi choices but nothing exciting. They were even still covered in plastic wrap like they were brought out from last night or intended to be put away for tomorrow. Either way, not enticing at all. So why the higher dinner price?? Even if the other food wasn't much to feast over, the sushi corner would have helped make up for it!!
The desserts were also quite disappointing. They used to have a good load of choices for ice cream - mango, green tea, red bean, coffee/mocha, strawberry, the typical chocolate and vanilla. Now? Chocolate x2, vanilla x2, maybe Neapolitan x2? The pastries were the small angel's wings, some kind of cake (offered as individual rectangles) and a variety of Asian jellies. Not Jell-O, jellies. For fruit, orange sections, grapes and honey dew, not replenished much.
So after all of this, I've given up on Woo completely. Maybe it didn't help that I was pretty tired after fighting Santa Claus parade crowds but really, as a downtown upscale-ish restaurant, it failed to present anything appealing other than its decor. Absolutely not worth your money! I ate a better meal at the new Eaton's Centre food court and now I wish I went back for another Big Smokin' Burger.
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