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| - This place is just bad. Okay, not just bad, REALLY bad. I consider myself somewhat of a Connoisseur of chinese cuisine, and this place is maybe the worst i have come across in a long time in the gta.
Here is why;
Its new looking, and well appointed with fancy chandeliers, but dont let that fool you. Look up CLOSE and you will see that the place is actually filthy. We got there just when the place opened, at 11:30 on a sunday morning, and the chairs we were seated in were clearly dirty, and we had to wipe them down with wet wipes. There was also some wierd looking plum on the floor under the chair. I casually inspected a few other tables and they clearly had the same problem. Im guessing its because saturday night is a busy night and they didnt have time to clean up. Not a good start.
We had a group of 5, so ordered a few dishes. I will comment on a few. The Peking duck was good. Not great, but adequate. You would expect however that for $40 you would get a bit more than just the first usual course of the cut up outer part, but also some part of the rest of the duck made into another dish or at least the meat pieces by themselves on a separate plate; but no, there was no second duck dish forthcoming which was very disappointing. Many chinese restaurants cut up the rest of the duck and turn it into a supplementary dish or dice it up and let you eat it with lettuce pieces... Not this place though. Its clearly a money grab. They use the rest in other dishes for extra $ flow. I should also mention that they dont cut up the duck in front of you, which is the usual way i have seen it done. Are you actually getting a whole duck, which is what you pay for? Maybe, but i suspect probably not.... Just an observation.
Next egregious error imho was the fried rice. You would think fried rice is a dish that you cant screw up, but they manage. We got the shrimp/pork fried rice. It was just aweful. Minimal if any shrimp or pork, and the rice was dry and hard, and lumpy; it looked like it was thrown together VERY quickly, with no attention to how it actually turned out. It was bland and tasteless. A disaster dish. Embarrassing for a chinese restaurant to put out.
Final dish i will mention is a lamb dish. Lamb is a difficult meat to cook properly, so its not a surprise the amateurs in this kitchen would totally screw it up. Seasoning is important to any dish, but dumping haf a pound of chilli peppers on top of a random meat is not seasoning. Its just wrong. It removes any other flavor that may (or may not) have been there. Just amateur.
On top of all of that, the service is slow, and certainly not with a smile. Better bring cash or debit card too, as thats the only payment they will accept, just to make sure they gauge you for every last cent they can.
If you are looking for quality chinese food in the area there sre much, much, much better choices in the area that are equally nice, better priced, and more importantly have much better food.
Im am writing this review about 15 minites after leaving this place after my one and certainly final visit to this place, in the midst of some serious gastrointestinal upheaval, not a surprise by any means.... IF you choose to eat here, good luck.
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