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| - The food is ok, but the value is fantastic for cheap Cantonese style take out. They can be found in the food court at Market Village (which is the smaller mall next to Pacific Mall). I got indoctrinated into my parents' weekly ritual of shopping in Toronto this weekend and was blessed with years of carefully honed food shopping knowledge. It's not much to look at, but they're fast, efficient and most importantly, cheap!
Basically, my parents buy a "dinner for five" which comes in environmentally unfriendly styrofoam boxes where you choose 5 dishes and with it comes with a big box of white rice, and a choice of soup and soya milk. There's a selection of over 70 different possible dishes and they do highlight a number for you to look at in a carefully preserved in a glass cabinet at the front (see pics) - which is particularly useful given their english descriptions are often written so as to be as unappetizing as possible. It came to $26.99 plus tax. It takes them 5-10 minutes to have everything ready which is pretty remarkable in itself (I have to imagine it gets re-heated what with 70 or so different dishes - but most of these dishes get frozen or reheated during the week by my parents anyway). I've had the food from here many a time at my parents', just never really realized where it was from - and it's definitely more than adequate. For maximum efficiency, you can place your order, pay and come back after you get your grocery shopping done.
We arrived around 3.00 pm on Saturday, and while the food court was fairly busy, there was no line up here. One tip though - check your order even though it's a pretty big bag, before you leave as they have apparently given my parents the wrong order in the past (not that they really minded too much at the time).
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