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Considering the student domination along Baldwin Village due to its proximity to U of T, Matahari has the more businessy feel to the place. Matahari specializes in Southeast Asian food, so if you're looking for your standard Chinese/Japanese/East Asian flavour this isn't it.
The entrance door is a sliding door, which caught me off guard initially. It's definitely something of note when visiting here.
I ordered the Matahari vegetarian spring roll, mango chicken, and the pandan crepe. First criticism I had after ordering was that the food took a very long time to come out; our table of 8 came in at around 12pm and didn't leave until just after 2pm. Anyway, the spring roll was quite good; lightly crisped and delicious. The mango chicken was...mediocre. The mango felt like it was pineapple, though the chicken was decent. Nothing special in terms of the rice though. Finally, the pandan crepe is, in my opinion, an acquired taste. Some of my colleagues loved it, but I was never a fan of coconut too much. I'll give the benefit of the doubt for the dessert.
Again, service was too slow for lunch. I was lucky that my supervisor wasn't in the day we had lunch, so our whole department was able to stay beyond the lunch hour given.
With the options available along Baldwin, I don't think I'll return here unless requested.
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