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| - Came here for a mother's day dinner with the family and the comfortable atmosphere was about the only thing we liked about Kwan at York Mills. Oh wait, their tea was ok, too.
The restaurant is small and we were seated right away (had a reservation although the restaurant didn't get full during our dining). We ordered variety of dim sum items ranging from the usual siu mai (meh), har gow (meh), beef and watercress meatball (good), xiao long bao (ok), chicken feet (undercooked)...etc to some a la carte items like sweet and sour pork (ok), hot and sour soup (meh), pot rice with chinese sausage (no!), deep fried sweet potatoes (undercooked)...etc.
The execution on some items like tempura squash/sweet potatoes, pot rice and chicken feet was so far below average, it was disappointing. The tempura battered squash/sweet potatoes were still hard, rice in the pot rice was too hard and chewy (how do you do this?) and chicken feet were stringy (seriously off-putting).
Although Kwan offers the best dim sum atmosphere (I hate the busy and noisy mega dim sum joints), their food leaves A TON to be desired. Not impressed.
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