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First off, I always appreciate a good bathroom (no, really) and Fancy delivers. Ethnocentricity aside, dim sum restaurants are not known for the cleanliness or even usability of their bathrooms, but this place features non-stanky facilities and even motion-sensor hand towel dispensers! Oooohhh... always a good idea to judge a restaurant based on its bathroom. Exceptions apply, however.
I would expect as much as most of the staff (and I'm pretty sure management) are transplants from the mysteriously closed Honey and Garlic in the sad husk that was the former Swiss Chalet at Kennedy and Denison plaza. As anyone who used to frequent Honey and Garlic will know, they knew their stuff.
More normally, I like to judge my dim sum places based on a few factors: efficiency, quality and price.
The gold mark of a true Chinese establishment is the efficiency of the staff. Always. If you see waiters loafing about, not doing much, you know you're in for a bad trip. Why? Because you can quickly assume that the management doesn't know what the hell they're doing if they aren't working their staff hard and when that happens, you know the regulations are lax. So, Fancy does well in this respect. They work hard, fast and to the point. Only once did we have to ask them to refill our tea pots. Gold star!
Onto the food... it's decent, to say the least. The sweet tofu dessert came in the most adorable wooden bucket. The har gow were decently sized and not at all half-frozen, unsteamed or dried out! The fried eggplant/tofu with shrimp paste were delicate and light and HOT. Important! They had the right hot sauce(s) and other sauces for steamed beef balls, spring rolls etc. Also important.
Price-wise, not the best. It's more expensive than you'll find at other places in the Markham area, but not as gougingly expensive as the white-linen, fine china places. They charge a lot for "tea money" (per person tea charges) so that'll bump your bill up a bit.
I'm told that the owner's son (?) works for the Ontario Food Safety and Inspection board so you won't find any scary or terrifying randomness crawling around in your food. From what I saw and experienced, the place is clean as a whistle.
Definitely worthy of becoming a regular dim sum spot if not for the horrifying parking lot that, for some reason, is a Bermuda Triangle of all automotive sense and logic. Be careful! You will almost be backed into.
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