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| - We were on our way to Shadow Lake camp near Musselman's Lake, Ontario when we discovered this unique Chinese and Italian restaurant. That sounds like a weird combination till you find out that a longtime Italian restaurant in the area got purchased by Chinese owners. It's generally a couple of dollars more expensive than you'd pay for the equivalent item at your average Toronto eatery. However, the food quality of everything we had was uniformly excellent, really piping hot, fresh and tasty and I had the best Black Pepper Beef, which is my fave Chinese dish, that I've ever had in my life! It's a good thing I had conventional utensils instead of chopsticks to eat it with, because it was SO GOOD that I had to scoop up with a big spoon, every last drop of all the chopped garlicky peppery goodness of the black pepper sauce, after enjoying thoroughly the beef, sautéed onions and green pepper pieces.
Hubby was very content to order a nicely battered haddock fish and chips. My oldest daughter decided to try the spaghetti. She just had one problem, not enough parmesan as she prefers. So I have a suggestion for Hanson's management: either have your wait staff come by to grate the parmesan personally to each customer as they do at places like East Side Mario's, which is the classier way, or provide a shaker of grated parmesan along with a shaker of crushed red peppers for each table ordering pasta or pizza as they do at Pizza Hut. Cause cheese is VERY IMPORTANT, you guys!
All in all, provided we weren't broke at the time, we'd happily be back to enjoy the offerings at Hanson's Restaurant if we were in the area. Combining Chinese and Italian cuisine is a great idea!
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