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| - Somebody who reads my reviews might have noticed by now that I'm not partial to extremely fancy restaurants nor do I enjoy having lots of junk food. At the end of the day, a five star rating from me is not saying that the restaurant has gold-plated toilets, nor that they defeather the chicken in front of me before they braise it in virgin truffle oil.
For me, 5 stars--perfection--is when I walk out of the restaurant completely satisfied with my meal and how much I paid.
NosThes fits the bill! Having grown up in China, I'm very picky about N.American Chinese food. It tends to be gross and have no correlation to real Chinese food. But NosThes is straight up solid Taiwanese! You could probably get a full meal out of a couple of their snack plates--I ended up ordering a couple because, my first time here, I had temptation to try everything on the menu.
The dumplings are perfectly pan fried, the sausage is a little sweet, and the braised spicy beef tasted like home! For the amount of food we ordered, I feel like I got a great deal. Quality was spot on too.
This place just opened and there are a few kinks to work out (the tea service is a little contrived/expensive), but I imagine that as soon as Montrealers taste this Taiwanese excellence, they'll never want to return to Tiki-Ming hell.
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