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| - We're tourists from Chicago looking for a memorable chinese seafood meal. Was told this place is good. Did my due diligence on Yelp. Forewarned, I visited the ATM machine in the morning for cash and worked up a big appetite.
Arrived for lunch. Not immediately impressed by the mall location, but I was pleased to see empty lobster packing cases stacked up outside the front door. The decor is typical Hong Kong banquet, very red, but clean and heck, we're there to eat. The weekday lunch crowd was, as expected sparse. They had a maybe 6-10 dishes for $7 to $12, but lobster starts at $56 per person. We weren't there for broccoli beef and fried rice. It's FISH ON!
I was ready to order that lobster lunch, but saw a multi-course dinner for three at $159 on the set menu. I remember these dishes,... Fried 5 pounds of lobster, Calimari and snap peas. Honey oysters. Beef ribs, SS Pork. Eel in black bean sauce. Clams in rice porridge. We didn't get the Tomalley fried rice, Someone had asked for rice early in the meal. You never do that at a chinese banquet meal, so I told the waiter not to bring rice. He took me literally, I was full to to the gills later anyway. Wouldn't have touched that rice.
At Chinese banquet style places like this, the owners put service secondary to the food. It's Asian-take-your-time. Not an issue when you're eating 3000 calories, as you don't want them bring the food out fast, There was only one waitress, but we were one party eating at 2PM. We got drinks, extra utensils, and the check when needed. Although I already know it, the waitress told us about the 10% service charge. So taxes and tip pushed the bill to $199 CDN for the three of us. That's $150 USA, what I have spent for three at Ruth Chris for lunch. Man, this was just as good.
Would I do this often? Hey, I'm from the USA. Just being up North and not having to hear about Trump is worth celebrating every day. We'll come back when we're up here again.
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