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| - Great Khan Mongolian Grill is a cousin-of-unknown-relation to the Mongolian Grills elsewhere in Ontario (Waterloo, Cambridge, ...) The basic structure is organized around the idea of assembling your own stir fry.
You grab a bowl and start filling it with raw ingredients - meat (chicken, pork, beef, lamb, squid, conch, crab), veg (most of the North American and Chinese standards are available), cooking oil/sauce, and seasonings (chili paste, lemon water, oyster sauce, &c). This is then handed to one of several cooks working a giant circular cooking table with cooking sticks. Over the course of about 60 seconds your food is sizzled up and swept into a fresh bowl.
As you might expect, the restaurant sells pretty hard on the novelty - it's a fun place to bring people for their first time, and if you've got a group that can get into it, you end up with a lot of cross-pollination, people experimenting and trying each other's bowls, swapping tips and then going back up to try again.
There is a decent-but-not-amazing traditional buffet for the cowards in the group so don't let them keep you away from it.
My fav: beef, mushrooms, peppers, bamboo, green onions, udon noodles, spicy szechuan sauce, chili paste, minced garlic. And shaved ice with condensed milk for dessert. I'll often steal a spring roll or some soup from the buffet, too.
It's a big place - groups should be fine, but on busy nights I've seen it with a half hour wait, so call ahead to be sure. It is by no means haute cuisine, and the bar is pretty mediocre, but if you're in the area and want something flavourful, fresh, and a little different, it delivers.
And Steve A. below is right - cheesiest birthday music anywhere. Worth pretending it's your birthday.
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