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| - This is my favourite Chinese food place in the world, I swear. I mean, it is really damn good. The seitan meat even tastes like actual meat. I've loved everything on the menu that I've had so far. There's cheap options and more expensive things. There are a few more Westernized options for people new to Chinese food, but they aren't embarrassingly Westernized -- usually just traditional ingredients thrown with a tamer sauce into a bread bowl/sandwich. The authentic stuff is the best though -- I love the chestnut and q-tofu stew, which is on the winter special menu, though for some reason that menu wasn't taken away all throughout summer. Not that I cared, of course -- after all, it is my favourite entrée here.
Wait staff is very nice. My usual waiter is a young kid with strange kool-aid dyed hair that seems to have been a reddish-brownish colour originally. He is unusually tolerant of the weird conversation my friends and I make, but shoots us kind of knowing glances every now and then like he's totally in on it.
They have a vegetarian food shop in the corner and the guy working the cash is awesome. He gives you very nicely-sized samples of the latest thing there and smiles a lot -- though not like he's trying to sell you something. He'll tell you all about whatever you're looking at, and indeed they have a lot of very interesting foods for sale at the little shop -- in addition to all of their most popular entrées in frozen form, WITH nutritional facts printed on the box. Good selection of teas.
There is also a bakery here. They top up your water very often, and with a slice of lime.
If you are going to eat here, try anything with "q-tofu". It's some brand of spongy firm tofu they supply here that I really haven't had anywhere else -- it soaks up sauces excellently and is very filling. They are generous with tofu and meat in their dishes, I should add.
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