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| - Standard HK style cafe with a large variety of rice and noodle dishes and colourful desserts. However, nothing really stood out to me...
Environment:
Located around Steeles/Woodbine, Phoenix Restaurant is right around my neck of the woods, and the large intersection makes it easy for commuters to get to the restaurant as well. There are a good amount of free parking space at the plaza. There are some medical buildings that also share the parking space, but since they don't open for the weekend, I didn't have any problem with the parking situation.
The restaurant itself is good sized, can accommodate larger groups by piecing the tables together. The space is nicely renovated with modern fixtures and was quite clean during my visit. There were some TVs that basically runs a customized channel similar to CP24 where you can check the weather, and it displays a range of their signature dishes.
Food:
I remember coming here couple months back and wasn't very impressed with the food, but we decided to try again since the place is pretty close. I like how the menu is presented because they have lots of good quality pictures to show how the food will look like. There is also an official Instagram page for the restaurant that you can follow. If you flip to the back of the menu there are lunch specials, afternoon tea specials, and dinner specials, also accompanied by nice pictures.
We went for the lunch and afternoon specials during our visit and ordered Black Sesame Thick Toast ($4.75), Smoked Duck Breast w/ Caramel Cointreau Sauce ($11), Japanese Curry Seafood Fried Rice ($10.50). The dishes also came with a free hot drink, but if you want to exchange for a cold drink it's $1.25, which is more expensive than comparable HK cafes. I opted for the cold original milk tea and it tasted very nice, I really enjoyed the rich tea flavour.
We were quite disappointed with the Toast because it was literally a piece of think sliced break with some sesame jam slathered on top. The texture was too hard as well, definitely not worth it. The smoked duck breast that I got was pretty good, though I didn't quite like the tangy sweet-and-sour sauce. Surprisingly our favourite dish of the meal was the fried rice. It didn't look like much (so average looking that I didn't bother with taking a picture) but the flavour was really good and the portion was gigantic. The plate that they used to contain the fried rice was pretty much as wide as my body, so that's a good deal.
Service:
Average Chinese restaurant service...don't expect anyone to come check up on how you're doing, but they will fulfill your request if you wave them down.
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