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| - I first made my visit to Mother's Dumplings in 2011. The food back then was unbelievably delicious. It left me such a deep and positive impression that I vowed to return when I'm back in Toronto.
Today, after more than 2 years since my last visit, everything's change... For the worst! The xiaolongbao (juicy pork dumplings) has the thickest greasiest skin and the most tasteless pork filling. The wanton soup was bland, despite an overdose of tiny dried shrimps. Wantons tasted average.
The onion pancake was greasy on the surface, but was utterly tasteless. There was more flour than onion in it. In fact if memory serves me right, the onion pancake today looks super thick. My Mum, who's Chinese, tells me this is the worst onion pancake she's ever taste in her entire 50+ years of lifetime. We gave up eating after taking a slice each.
The shrimp, pork and melon dumplings has got to be the worst order of the day. Overall, the taste was super greasy and the orange skin just looks artificial and unpalatable. My Mum and I gave up eating the dumplings with the skin and just ate the fillings. But I can't recall how the filling tastes... Guess it was just too tasteless!!!
Just as our stewed beef noodles arrived, my Mum had conceded defeat and told me she lost all appetite to eat further. Strangely the noodles look like udon to me. I was expecting La Mien. Taste-wise... The sliced beef seems to needs more stewing and less salt and MSG added. I tried canceling the dessert but was told we cannot cancel any items on our order once we place our order!! We had just the sweet steamed buns left in our order but with the bad experience for the other items, we couldn't eat any further. After complaining how awful the food was among ourselves in Mandarin the waiter returned to our table and told us we could cancel our dessert.
I really wanted to tell the waiter how awful the food tasted today and how it used to taste so much better. But I suppose he's heard for himself and saw how much food was left untouched on the table to conclude how crappy they were. I feel awfully bad recommending my Mum to try this place. I also felt disappointed and foolish to have missed eating their Xiaolongbaos when the ones back home in Singapore tasted so much better.
I don't think I'll ever return to this place again in my lifetime and I sure hope I won't be writing another bad review for a restaurant I used to like.
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