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| - As Singaporeans who are living in Toronto for a while, we decided to finally check out Lion City after getting bored of the food around downtown.
We ordered:
Hainanese Chicken Rice - authentic. As good as you'll probably find in a typical Singapore food centre. This cannot be compared against the best chicken rice stalls in Singapore, and it wouldn't be fair either. But for us who have missed eating Singaporean cuisines for a few months, I would consider this good. Definitely not food that we would just "settle for". The accompanying soup was tasty, and we were given all the condiments: black sauce, chili and ginger sauce. The condiments were alright, although the type of chili sauce isn't the usual chicken rice accompaniment that you'll get in Singapore. But it's better than nothing.
Sambal Kang Kung (water spinach in chilli paste) - Nice, but not spicy as sambal should be... but considering this is Canada, it's understandable why it isn't spicy. Still I wouldn't mind ordering this again.
Carrot Cake - It's okay. I wouldn't say that it's fantastic, but it doesn't bad either.
Homemade Soy Milk - Love it.
Service: There wasn't anybody to welcome us when we got in, so we found ourselves a table. We didn't see many wait staff around so we waited for a while. The elderly gentleman came over later and passed us the order chit. After we decided on our orders, we waited again for someone to come to us, but nobody seemed to notice us. Finally, I went to the counter and passed it to them instead. It was only about 5 - 10 minutes later that a lady came by to ask if we had already placed our order. Subsequently the service was a lot better with the food coming in good time.
The lady owner of the restaurant came around and asked if everything was good. She was friendly and made us feel at home. We also noticed that a number of patrons who dined there were regulars as the staff knew them by name.
So far, Lion City has passed our Singapore/Asian authenticity food test, and we will be back to try some more of their other dishes.
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