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R&D was one of the worst meals I've ever had.
When you first walk into the restaurant, they lure you in with a false sense of hope that the night will be decent. The decor is certainly well designed, and the semi-open kitchen is modern looking. The menu is also interesting, and broke down all of their "famous dishes" with red and blue labels that tells you which Chef came up with it. Brimming with false promise.
What we ordered:
Pork buns - Was actually really good. This was $8 for two small CSB. It wasn't worth the price I guess, but can't complain because it really was delicious. I strongly recommend this dish as this only thing to try. (take out order only)
Grandpa fun guo - Had a really strong smell of truffle oil in these. It was a bit overpowering but it's truffle oil so I guess it was acceptable. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible.
Masterchef winning Seafood and Lobster chow mein - Okay this is where s**t really hit the fan. This dish is stunningly bad. The taste was just bland, contained very minimal seafood and was just a dish of chittara noodles in light soya sauce topped with a small piece of frozen lobster claw. The dish served to us wasn't even warm. I had 2 bites of it, and just couldn't eat it any longer. Stunned at how bad this was.
Chicken and Waffles - So the only redeeming "fusion" factor of this dish is with HK waffles. They took out the HK waffles and gave us regular Belgium waffles with fried chicken.
??????? How hard is it to make HK waffles instead of Belgium waffles? Why would you take away the only appeal to this dish? The chicken isn't even good. Like everyone else mentioned, they loaded the chicken and sauce with a lot of strong spices. I've never EVER turned away fried chicken before. Congratulation R&D, you somehow managed to eff up fried chicken with waffles.
Do not come here.
Look... here's the deal. Masterchef Canada takes a bunch of amateur "chefs" and puts them in a competition on TV. If you look at the competitors, none of these guys had any actual restaurant kitchen experience. Even this Eric Chong person was an engineer before he won the show. You can imagine the talent level in the competition. This is like taking your group of friends to have a food competition, picking a winner, and calling him Master Chef of your group of friends. Then you go and open an effing restaurant with the title "Winner of Master Chef of my group of friends" to fool people thinking your restaurant is any good.
I do not condone such shady practices. Avoid this place.
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