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| - We wen there for dim sum on January 15 and did not know about their $2.80 dim sum special. So we paid full price :(
We ordered 5 dim sums and one stir fried Buddha delight noodle (fixed vegetsbles and fried egg noodle). The bill was $50 plus tax, a bit expensive for food that were made mostly of mushrooms, carrots and CANNED vegetables.
This is my raining:
1. Tofu Rice roll quite good. But the tofu is deep fried so if you are counting calories, it is not very light. The offer of war soya sauce is a good sign of they care.
2. Steam dumpling with squash was good
3. Deep fried or baked fake BBQ pork pastry was good. But again folks, this is high calorie :)
4. Steamed dumpling with special flower wad presented well but it is tiny.
5. Sticky rice buns - quite good
Then the kicker ! Their signature Buddha Delight noodle at $17 a plate.
6. Stir fired noodle is quite pricey at $17 because they put canned vegetables (water chestnut, bamboo shoot, mushroom) . The other Ingredients are chinese shiitake mushroom, yellow fungus, wood ear fungus and chinese chard vegetables. At $17 a place, they can use fresh water chestnut (2.49 a pound at T & T) and mushroom (only 3.49 a pound at Loblaws) . I was disappointed that the vegetsbles smelt like Tin which is effect of storing in a can for way too long.
They even cheap out in the chard. We got 4 pieces and they are $1.29 a pound .
They even cheap out in carrots which will make the dish colorful and more pleasing,
there were 3 pieces of yellow fungus and 4 pieces of wood ear fungus. I think they will go a long way to add better quality ingredients like organic Korean mushroom (1.89 a package) , organic kings mushroom or oyster mushroom.
NO canned vegetables please! Because it ruins the taste of the 3 yellow fungus and shiitake mushroom...
I went there because it was a restaurant highly recommended by my family. They are Buddhists so I had much higher expectations and with the high price tag.
They need to stop being cheap on a signature dish like Buddha delight vegetarian noodle. Based in the market orice of everything, it costs about $4 to make the entire dish at retail price ($1 for noodle, $1 for yellow fungus at $4 an ounce in dry weight, $1 for shitake dry mushroom at $10.99 a pound at dry weight, $0.60 from various cans of water chest nut, bamboo and mushroom , $0.20 for chard)
The service was good, as they kept filling up our tea pot. But they do not offer pepper sauce unless you asked, it would have been a norm with one of the steamed dump,Kings ad it is an imitstion Chui-chow dumpling.
overall, I WIIL go back and I will not buy he Buddha delight because I can get the same at Congee Queen by asking them to hold the MSG and light oil treatment. It costs $8.50! And they give me fresh vegetables.
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