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| - Hong Shing is celebrating their 20th year anniversary, and as a result, they are offering a special dish each day at over 50% off. I was here on Saturday Feb 25th and they had Shanghai Noodles for only $5 ($10 originally).
Having been to Dundas West many many times, I have never thought of trying out Hong Shing before until now when my friends told me about the daily specials. Why? Because I just assumed it's another generic westernized Chinese restaurant....and I was right.
Environment:
Even though they have a good selection of food like a regular restaurant, Hong Shing is clearly also a bar. Right by the dining tables is a large bar counter and they have a big menu on the wall featuring their special drinks.
The renovation of the place is alright, but you can definitely tell that it had pretty much stayed the same way for 20 years. It's by no means grand or fancy, but it is quite specious with lots of seating space, and it definitely gives out the bar vibe as intended.
Food:
Between the 6 of us we all ordered the daily special Shanghai Fried Noodle and also the Crispy Pork Ribs (daily special for the day after) at full price.
The wait for the food was around 20 minutes, which I didn't quite understand, because we were here at 4pm and there weren't that many customers at the restaurant yet. And I mean...how hard is it to make some stir fried noodles.
When we finally got our noodles I was quite disappointed, because it pretty much looked identical to mall food court noodles, and the price of the day definitely matches it. There were couple pieces of BBQ pork and shrimps here and there, but the majority of the dish consisted of just noodles. The texture of the noodles tasted funny, as in kinda soft and squishy, and we kinda suspected that they didn't use BBQ pork that was made fresh during the day.
It took about 15 more minutes to get the Crispy Pork Ribs that we were contemplating on cancelling the order. Now that I look back at it, we really should have. First of all, the dish looked nothing like the feature photo on the menu, and the portion was definitely too small for its $13 price point. But most importantly, it tasted nasty. As in, stale meat type of nasty. I'm not kidding, between the 3 of us who shared the dish we all agreed that the meat tasted funny (smoky, preserved meat taste) and the meat was so dry that it was really difficult to chew. Well, guess there's no point to come back the next day, even if this dish goes on sale.
Service:
I was ok with the average Chinese restaurant quality of service, up until when we asked about why our noodles were taking so long, and they brushed us off very impatiently saying that "it's coming". I was thinking of cutting my tips, but then they charged us 10% gratuity because of our group of 6 :(
I definitely would not come back for a second try, no matter how low they make the prices for the promotional period. I refuse to put up with stale food and slow service.
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