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I had seen this restaurant in the neighbourhood and had been meaning to look it up on yelp/try it but never did. On Saturday, we happened to pass by, hungry and cold, and decided to just risk it and try it. After we sat down, my partner looked up the reviews and they looked pretty bad (3/5 on yelp -- as it is now), so we prepared ourselves for something crappy.
We were pleasantly surprised! I ordered the sichuan dan dan noodle and it was really good. I ate the whole thing and nearly drank all the soup. It was a little spicy and had a mix of pickled veggies (don't know which kind if is, but it's a pretty classic chinese one) and peanuts in the broth. A bit salty, but i liked it anyway! My partner got the pork belly stir fry (the rice dish, which is available until 5pm and just has a smaller portion of the stir fry and comes with rice. The size is pretty generous). This dish was pretty good -- a bit too salty and tasted strongly of soy sauce, but the pork belly pieces were good!
I liked the ambience of the restaurant. It's really well-decorated and they had nice relaxing music in the background.
The only thing that I really didn't like was that, when they brought over water in mugs, one of the mugs had peeled a bit at the bottom (inside, not on the outside of the mug), and you can see a bit of rust.. Yikes. no rust water for me please.
All in all, they have pretty unique dishes for the area. I would go back and try again.
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