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  • Edwin C. is right. This is the best Chiu Chow restaurant left in Toronto. I'm half Chiu Chow and my family usually defaults to Oriental Gourmet when we go out for dinner. There used to be an Oriental Gourmet on Silver Star but it closed down and there used to be a really solid Chiu Chow restaurant on Leslie/Finch a couple of years ago that folded as well. Now that I'm done my trip down memory lane, let's get right to business. Chili oil is supposed to be a specialty of Chiu Chow cuisine. It adds a good kick of spice and flavor to just about any dish (warning: Chiu Chow chili oil is made with lots of garlic). If you can handle the heat, drizzle that stuff on everything. My staple dishes are the: chicken with vegetable, fried shrimp and cuttlefish balls, fried noodles with seafood in XO sauce, pig tripe soup, and Chiu Yeung style smoked duck on sugar cane. Chicken with vegetable sounds a bit vague but it's chicken that is seasoned with Sichuan peppercorns and fried with basil leaves. It's not spicy but very fragrant. Fried shrimp and cuttlefish balls are paired with a thick sweet and savory sauce. Inside the fried shrimp balls are diced water chestnuts to give it some crunch. I prefer the cuttlefish balls because they're chewy without being tough. Fried noodles with seafood in XO sauce is a mixture of shrimp, squid, cuttlefish, scallops, chives, carrots, bean sprouts, chili peppers and onions stir fried with rice noodles (sometimes Udon) and XO sauce. The scallops are thin but they're wide! My friends who tried it last time thought they were about to spit fire so don't add the chili oil till you tried the noodles as is first! The pork tripe soup has a very strong gamey scent to it and can be off-putting to some. I love the texture of pig tripe and the generous slices of ginger and peppercorn makes it perfect for cold winters! Last but not least, the smoked duck on sugar cane is phenomenal. It smells as amazing as it tastes. The duck is smokey, sweet and juicy. Pour the duck fat/smoked sauce on the plate into a bowl of white rice and I guarantee you'll ask for more white rice. (Pro-tip: don't do this when you're on a low carb diet.) To finish it off, OG gives you a bowl of Chinese soup dessert as a freebie after dinner. If you can still stomach more food, may I recommend the taro balls?
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