The annual Jewish tradition is Chinese food on Christmas. Any half way decent Chinese place should be rammed to the gills with Bubi's and the collected Mishbuka(sic?), desperate to get their nosh on.
The fact that C'est Bon was a quarter full on Christmas Day should have been our first warning sign. The inclusion of only forks and no chopsticks should have been another. I have nothing against American Chinese food and its important contributions to North American food (see General Taio, Chop Suez, Chicken balls... the list goes on), but it has to be done well, which means an that some things on the menu that aren't completely bland and "westernized"
I had the large chicken Lo Mein. The meat was meh, the sauce was meh and the portion was huge. Sigh.
This may have passed muster with an older generation but I hope that most younger food inclined people in Toronto have at least been to a few spots in Chinatown or to the great Chinese Cuisine heartlands in Markham and points north, You can also get half decent noodles at all the generic pan-Asian places uptown. (Hello Spring Roles!)
There is so much more to Chinese food than big portions of badly sauced noodles and boring veggies. Ces't Bon Bills itself as authentic but its just not done well.