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| - Taste buds change as you get older and the food that you loved and craved in younger years is just not the same. I will try not to be to harsh on this review, instead compare with other Hakka cuisines I experienced.
Takeout Experience.
Hakka food as we know is usually greasy, spicy and most of the good tasting menu selections are fried.
Sweet fried noodles are really tasty and less greasy than others. The noodles have a nice chewy texture which is really pleasing to the palette.
I would definitely choose chinese style deep fried spicy salted squid over this one. It's less oily, the batter is lighter so it soaks up less greasy.
The dry chilli chicken is what it is, greasy & spicy. It tastes great and has a nice punch of spice which hit the taste buds without overwhelming heat.
Spicy fried green beans came out way too soggy and loaded with grease. shanghai style would be the better choice.
All in all compared to Tangerine, Frederick's still better and would be my choice for Hakka cravings.
The reason I gave this location 3/5 is because when we got home and opened up our take out, the hot noodles were so hot is melted a hole through the bottom of the Styrofoam container. That's a huge fail, should lined the container with tin foil like all the other restaurants do.
Customer service was ok. They opened up the ticket for takeout before even offering us a menu, standing there annoyed that we had to look through the menu for the items that we wanted. When the food arrived, They never offered, napkins, takeout utensils or extra sauces. I guess customer service is really dependant on where you are located. I never have a problem in Richmond Hill, Leaside, West end Markham.
In my opinion Frederick's do provide good food for reasonable prices. I hope they don't get to bigheaded and lose their focus on what got them to this point; loyal support.
Herman
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