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| - Once again, we enter the realm of "I wish I could half star this". Because I'm not 100% sure if the Mandarin, one of the fine captains of the sit down and gorge buffet chain, deserve four stars. But I follow the same rule with stars that I do with tipping: if you think you've given too much, you probably have given enough.
I go to this particular Mandarin exactly once a year, for a dinner party thrown by a friend. Yes, yes, we go to Chinese buffet for a dinner party. That's how she rolls.
Anyway, my trips here have been an ongoing education. Each year, I learn how much I can eat at a time. How many plates I can consume, how fast I can scarf them down.
And now, I can finish dinner and not be pleading for the sweet release of death.
The food is tasty enough. You can get a variety of Chinese-Canadian dishes.
There's a wonderful ambiance to be had there on a Saturday night. Large groups celebrating something or another, small parties, bridal showers carb loading before the festivities, it's all quite something to see.
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