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| - This is the case of the admittedly greasy and non authentic but comforting and great when you don't want to cook dinner Chinese food Wars on King St. W.
My partner and were loyal to Bamboo Buddha for a very long time, until recently when the food took over an hour, and tasted awful. I had heard about King Chef on Yelp and a fellow Yelper actually reached out to me and suggested that I give them a try.
Last night, my boyfriend arrived home from a flight kind of late and I had lunch at 3 pm so I wasn't even going to make dinner. I suggested we order from King Chef.
The menu on line looks ok, and they even have a few pictures (albiet bad ones) that illustrate cuisine laden with dried chilies and other szechuan spicy stuffs. We ordered the chicken balls (had to compare them to the monstrous ones at BB), 2 Egg Rolls (since BB was out of them last time), Spicy Green Beans, Cantonese Chow Mein, and Crispy Ginger Beef.
After I called and placed the order I realized that I didn't have cash. The man on the phone said they don't have a mobile terminal and I'd have to give out my number to him on the phone. This seemed a bit archaic, but I agreed. Then he cheerfully told me that the food would be an hour! What? AN hour? I guess we were spoiled for a long time and BB because we'd call and the food would be here 15 minutes later! I get that places are busier on certain nights, so we were patient.
Now for the food: Visually, not striking. The amount was half what we normally get from BB. There were no spicy peppers to be seen on anything at all. The egg rolls were shiny and dripping grease. The overall fresh vegetable factor that has me loving Bamboo Buddha is definitely not there at King Chef.
Canotnese Chow Mein had decent sauce, but the noodles were super dry and impossible to break apart and portion. The addition of Squid and baby scallops were nice, but overall the dish was not that impressive.
Green beans were a tad spicy and just ok if a bit overcooked.
Chicken Balls were not as big as BB, but the coating was crispy and the chicken a bit dry. I'm not giving points for this because I know they don't make the chicken balls in house.
Crispy Ginger Beef was at least not too sweet, and the flavour was meh, No ginger to speak of. Mediocre and bordering on unappetizing to look at.
We won't be giving these guys another chance. At least we've had great experiences on a regular basis with Bamboo Buddha. They faltered a few weeks ago, and I feel it's okay to look elsewhere after a bad experience. But King Chef did nothing to win us over. I was really disappointed because of all the positive reviews.
Maybe they just had a bad night. But as I mentioned in my latest review of BB, if that last experience we had with them had been my first, we never would have ordered again.
Bamboo Buddha it is! I'm looking forward to taking my business back there and giving them a better review.
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