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| - Finally, a Chinese restaurant with the literal translation of the Chinese name!
My club is near here, and after a club meeting I found myself staring with bewilderment at the ridiculously named restaurant with great curiosity. This space used to occupy an Indian restaurant, and from what I gathered, the décor of Big Mouth retained much of the glory of it's predecessor. The neighbourhood is Toronto's prestigious deer park, but I just don't see the owners investing on the kind of money to design this restaurant to it's current ambiance. Either way, it's a good thing because it's a rather comfortable environment with a stunning view of Yonge Street. I should have picked this up as a indicator of the prices.
The waitress and the kitchen staff here are Mandarin, but spoke to each other in English, I think it might be the official language on the dining floor. This made it seem kind of tacky...I mean, really? The place is called 'big mouth luck!' I expect some energetic shouting.
The biggest table here sits six, I wouldn't come here with more than that.
The menu was just a piece of paper on the table, but I had to wait for my table to be cleaned before reading it, as the only good seat by the window I've chosen was left unattended to. The waitress apologised and I forgave her, she was polite and pretty cute, I guess. But as many overly polite waitresses are, she had the bad habit of saying the word 'sorry' a bit too much. Because I ordered a total of six dishes, I had to tell her "it's okay" almost twice as many times.
Seriously! I am NOT offended by you bringing me the food which I've ordered..!! Promise.
I didn't bring any reading material and my phone was out of batteries, so naturally I took out my pocket calculator and started doing math. I did 16 minutes of math until my first dish arrived. In a Chinese restaurant, this is considered a long wait, but then I guess I can rest assured that even at 9pm, I can trust big mouth to freshly prepare my dumpling from scratch.
By the way, this place is hella expensive for a dumpling restaurant! Most dishes cost $8+, and that's a considerable amount as the dumplings are rather small in size, and not mind-blowingly delicious. Look, I'm from the North, meaning that I take dumplings as serious business. Size, portion, and yumminess are integral to us Northerners. At those prices, I should at least be eating like the Emperor's favourite courtesan.
As I have said before, if you're charging me champagne room prices for Chinese food, I expect to be loved a long time afterwards. I wasn't feeling the love here..
Sorry, these were A-Okay food in a nice environment, but it just wasn't good enough to satisfy my own big mouth.
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