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| - We always drive by this place when we're around Highway 7. Finally decided to give it a try. Think Congee Wong, not as good food but better atmosphere and appearance.
Pros:
Restaurant has great decor and atmosphere, very professional looking
Portions on their rice and noodle dishes are huge
Cons:
Prices are a little higher
Food is average at best
When you drive in, you notice that the side facing the street is not the entrance. You need to drive all the way round back to find the main entrance. As soon as you get in though, you notice this place is huge. There are plenty of seats. The decor is very nice as well. This place's main selling point in my opinion is how it looks and feels. It's very modern looking like a expensive restaurant should be. The seat s are some of the more comfortable seats I've sat in recent memory. Everything about this place tries to shout fine dining.
As soon as I sit down I l glance over at the table next to us. I see they've ordered a fired noodle. What I notice more is the plate it's on. It's huge and they filled it all the way. I have never seen an order of noodles that big. We order a noodle ourselves, a plate of veggies, clams (on recommendation by the server) and a soup. My Wonderful Kitchen offers a soup for $3.99 that's served in a clay pot over a burner. Most places might offer soup for free, but the soup here and how it's done is worth the 4 dollars.
The food altogether was a little underwhelming. It's OK, but it doesn't match the atmosphere level of this place. I found a lot of the dishes to be over salted. The clams that were recommended were nothing special at all. It was my least favourite actually. Don't get me wrong, none of them were particularly bad, but nothing I would recommend myself. The soup was my fav, it was a little weird paying for soup, but well worth it.
My Wonderful Kitchen is one of the best looking Chinese restaurants I've ever been too. If the food could match that level is would definitely be 5 star review. You will still enjoy yourself, but I think the atmosphere sets your expectations way too high for the food to impress you.
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