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| - I'm sorry other reviewers, but this is the worst fusion/western "asian" food I've ever had in my life.
I see a lot of positive reviews in the past, so something must have changed staff wise.
I may be a bit of an asian food snob, as I've had a lot of it, and I think Montrealers haven't been exposed to really good stuff so their standards are skewed.
Now, it's not inedible, but it's NOT good for the price of what you're getting. This tastes like the kind of stuff you make at home with a president's choice jarred sauce to use up the veggies you have in the fridge/save some money.
We had the Pan fried BBQ duck dumplings, General Tao's chicken, Grilled chicken in sesame-peanut sauce noodle thing, and the fried peppercorn shrimp.
The dumplings were so bland and seemingly not fried on top of limp sprouts/cucumber, and a nice sloppy sploop of peanut sauce around the bottom. And they were VERY VERY tiny. I would've taken a photo but the restaurant is VERY dark.
Like not romantic dark (get some candles!!) like, so dark you can't see your food well.
General Tao's was slightly dry fried white meat chunks in a tangy sauce - not amazing. Tastes like the kind of thing you can make at home.
The Chicken/Peanut Sauce noodle was the worst for me. Their menu emphasizes sharing/family style chinese, but you literally get one chicken breast sliced in half horizontally, so essentially two thin pieces, ontop of a giant pile of egg noodles, literally drowning in peanut sauce.
Along with a giant messy pile of julienned peppers, cucumber and green apple thrown on top.
How do you share that? Everybody takes one bite out of a whole chicken breast?
The combination of eggy noodle and peanut sauce soup makes it a VERY heavy dish as well.
The shrimp was average and a very small portion with a little icecream scoop of white rice on the side, and some broccoli rabe.
Just not good for how expensive it was.
We went on a Thursday night and it seems that there is only one server there, and took quite a while to get our bill.
Sorry, I wont be back because I can make better at home for cheaper!
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