Ahhh Ginger...seems like eons ago that I popped my Banh mi cherry here and had my first taste of what could arguably be called Viet food and have subsequently fallen in love with Ginger's cheap, fast furious and seemingly endless array of Southeast Asian style delights.
Here's a list of menu items I've sampled over the years at Ginger;
#8-11 Paradigm Bahn Mi with a choice of chicken, beef or veggie - for $3.50 how could you not love this?
#S6 which is the Tofu & Veggies and lots of 'em, snow peas, broccoli and baby corn on a bed of rice $6.99
#20 Well done beef noodle soup - it has a nice zing of lemongrass and cinnamon and it's fantastic for cold and flu season $4.99-$5.99
#S1 Deep Fried Fish and Mango on rice with salad - a nice tangy Asian version of fish and chips also the fish is lightly crisp and not too greasy $6.99
#52 Grilled chicken on steamed rice - My "Holy Grail" Ginger meal of marinated chicken breast with rice and sauteed cabbage $5.75
#27 Vermicelli with Spring Roll & Grilled Chicken - ordered this by accident as I was mistakingly given this meal instead of my usual #52 but I was pleasantly surprised plus the spring roll was delicious albeit greasy!
All of the meals mentioned are in generous proportions and could easily become two smaller meals.
No fancy digs here, as it's more like a cafeteria with bad tropical scenery trompe l'oeil wallpaper like your parents had in the basement in '75. In fact I only do take-out from Ginger as it's rather ugly, I mean who wants to look out on Yonge street at the endless parade of "#winning" I find it does little to inspire my appetite atmospherically speaking.
Customers range from Ryerson students to Asian grandmas to hungry Brass Rail patrons and you may even catch a glimpse of the odd peeler itself taking a break from the rigors of working the poles (both animate and in-animate!) You can't miss them as they'll be dressed in the standard off duty uniform of Juicy sweats, Mukluks and scary nails and cheap hair extensions, yet another incentive to eat takeout unless maybe...you're Charlie Sheen?