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  • Went there yesterday and I was disappointed to say the least. I've eaten at other AL locations before, and the food has been okay. I was stuck in the Don Mills/Eglinton area for the afternoon and craving Dan Dan noodles, the traditional spicy Sichuan noodle dish with the sauce on the bottom topped with the fried pork and veggies (and sometimes the preserved veggies that take me back to my parents' cooking!). I have had Dan Dan in numerous restaurants, so when I quickly ordered it and some dumplings, I thought it was a no-brainer. Nope. What came was a soupy mess--limp, too-thick noodles drowning in a weird sauce devoid of any of the usual flavours, with a sprinkling of diced peanuts. That's it. No pork, no veggies. Nothing else. I have often seen diced green onion and/or coriander in many restaurants' versions. Not here. When I called the server over to ask what this was, they called the manager over, who emphatically denied my version of what Dan Dan noodles are, saying that his wife was from Chengdu and they never do it that way. He even challenged me to name a restaurant that does it this way. I explained that they all do--I was so stunned by his reaction that I couldn't name one. Nevermind that this is the first restaurant in at least 10 throughout the GTA that does it this way. I regret that I didn't have enough time to drive up to Hot Spicy Spicy at Finch and Leslie, the closest place where they do it right, nevermind up to Markham or north Scarborough. I wish that these Pan-Asian, over-large menu restaurants like AL would please go away and stop pandering to the Lowest Common Denominator. I truly should have just gone next door and had a decent bowl of pho at Pho 88.
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