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| - The location is terrible. If you don't know where you're going, you won't find it. The only reason I knew this place existed was because my friend brought me here. She herself only knew of the place because a man outside of the restaurant was advertising it.
We ordered the 33$ 2 person combo and I must admit it was well worth it. This is another one of Chinatown's hidden gems that make me come back to this random overpopulated alley.
The food was consistently hot, the amount generous and varied. The general Tao was amazing, the soup was delicious, the beef was tasty, etc.
The rice was perfectly made and the spring roll was perfectly cooked.
The decor makes it look like a 3.5-4 star restaurant (table clothes, marble, uniforms, decent view, nice glasses, etc.) while the prices are that of a 2-3 star restaurant.
The staff seemed sluggish in English and I could sadly, at some point, not really understand what one of the waitresses was asking me. That's Chinatown though. Also having lived most of my life in Montreal, I'm used to some minimal language barrier so it wasn't much of an issue. Service was fast, polite and courteous.
I fully recommend this restaurant. 5/5 for me.
One thing that was notably cringe worthy though... At the end of our meal, the waitress gave my lady friend a bag of cream for facial masks. My friend is quite insecure about her acne/acne scars (although I have reassured her multiple times that it's nothing). While I found her face and her eyes popping out amusing (because I'm kind of a dick), I felt pretty bad for her :/. I noticed Asian culture has less filtering than Western Culture so I do think they were unaware of this faux pas.
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