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| - I really struggled to find an upscale Chinese restaurant in Toronto.
Most of my review searches returned places that appeared dirty, or geared more for take away. The #4 Yelp reviewed restaurant even had a picture on a blog of a person apparently sleeping in the doorway (http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/leegarden)
I found Lai Wah Heen, and the pictures made it look like one of the nicer offerings for Chinese in TO, but still it looked like it was stuck in a 30-year-old hotel.
The restaurant was easy to find on the second floor of the Metropolitan Hotel after navigating the hotel's tight parking garage.
I waited a little bit for a host to come and seat me, but I found the restaurant and dining room to be elegantly appointed and clean. All of the server staff wore uniform jackets.
Really wanted to try the dim sum, and I was hoping their dinner menu would offer some of the dumplings as appetizers, sadly they did not, that's for a future visit.
Ordered the sesame chicken, by far the best Chinese chicken dish I've received I'm Canada. It was so sweet and tasty and cooked to perfection. Unfortunately I had to let it cool as it burned my tongue at first. Big boo.
Service was otherwise excellent, plenty of drink refills, the waiter offered to validate my parking, and they were quick with the bill. Can't wait to return.
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