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| - My boyfriend and I decided to order chinese one night over the Christmas break and Hunan is the closest to our new home, just around the corner, so we decided to try it out. Hunan Chinese is located at the corner of Thickson and Dryden in the No Frills Plaza.
We decided to try a bunch of things so we ordered eggrolls, chicken balls, honey garlic spareribs, cantonese chow mein, a beef dish and chicken fried rice. We got a free order of pan fried dumplings too, which was a nice addition.
I love GOOD Chinese food and this all just fell SO flat for me. The eggrolls were good, nice and crispy on the outside, and the chicken balls were good too - not too big, so you got a good amount of chicken versus fried outside. That's where the good stopped. The spareribs were gross... I'm used to small, fairly meaty spareribs. These were large, very fatty and bland. Not much to speak of in the way of flavor, a big disappointment since these are usually a favourite of mine. The beef dish was good enough, the rice was boring and the cantonese chow mein hadn't been cooked enough or properly. A good chunk of the noodles were uncooked and it lacked flavor. As for the free dumplings, I see why they're free. The dipping sauce was great but whatever they put inside the dumplings was so gross. Not a fan.
I doubt we'll be back here - very mediocre chinese and not exactly a great price either.
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