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| - Canadian Thai, Chinese-owned, is located in a small strip mall next to a community arena. My mom had wanted to try this place for years, since we pass by it on our way to and back from badminton up at the Sheraton on Highway 7. We finally stopped here on a Friday night to a half-empty parking lot.
We arrived just before 8 pm and the place was full of people. It looks as if this restaurant was recently renovated, as the decor here is nice. It was comfortably warm* and the floor was super clean. Most of the clients look like regulars and the staff here were very friendly and accomodating. We ordered four items, all vegetarian, since the curries and soups all had fish sauce:
1) Rice paper rolls - a few sprouts, lots of rice noodles, but no Thai basil. Fail.
2) Spicy Thai Basil with Eggplant - excessively heavy on the sauce, which had me trying to scape if off the vegetables. The eggplant was perfectly ripe, long beans were cooked well and the celery was fresh. Bare pass.
3) Pad Thai - I think they had a 8-year-old in the kitchen make ketchup noodles for me. Very sour, stingy on the peanut and lime. Epic fail.
4) Mango juice ($2.95) - out of the can, you can't screw this up.
In total, our bill came to $26, which wasn't bad. The service was outstanding and the servers made a great deal of effort to attend to each table, even stopping to chat with the family and ask about their kids. They knew that we weren't regulars, so come time for us to leave, the waitress asked us about our food. Awkwardly, I could only say that the eggplant was too salty. It's really hard to tell someone that your food sucks, especially when we're Chinese and everyone is speaking in Cantonese.
I wouldn't come back here, but wouldn't mind if I was stuck in the area for something to eat. As I said before, I wasn't able to try the curries. Considering how nice the staff was, I wish that their food was better. As my mom puts it in Cantonese, this is just "the kind of place that tricks white people."
*There were several seniors here. I'm not sure if they purposely made it warm for them.
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