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| - When this place first opened, it was great. Bubbling with people and staff that was competent. This location is top notch, large parking lot, grocery store beside it, across from a medical building, across from a large bank...it's a dream location for a restaurateur.
So how come so many have tried and failed?
The food is okay. It bears the same chef/owner as the Very Fair Chinese Restaurant (original name) so the food bears the same resemblance. But this Seafood restaurant specializes in just that, seafood. When walking in you are greeted with 4 gigantic tanks of king crab, various fishes and sea life.
I know the ins and outs of this business. I've come for dim sum, dinner, banquets, you name it. I have to say that they're winning factor is their banquets. Every time, it will always be phenomenal. Their A-game is brought EVERY time I've had a banquet style dinner here and I'm not talking about the 4 person set dinners, I'm talking about the multiple $300-$800/table banquet. Exceptional which is how it earned the extra star or else it would have been a measely 3 star review. The shark fin soup is so good, it's got tons and tons of shark fin that you can see and it's not too watery and not too thick of a consistency, it has found the happy medium.
Dim sum is another story. It's up and down. At certain times in the day it'll be better than others. Coming for "early" lunch will always guarantee a multitude of food and people. The perfect time to come is around 11am but be ready to wait a bit because this is their busiest time. A new addition to their dim sum menu are the beef ribs sprinkled with sesame seeds, love them! They even have the chef's special sweet and sour pork in little portions for you to enjoy.
Dinner is meh. It's not good, it's not great, it's just there. Again like I said in the review of sister restaurant Very Fair Chinese Restaurant http://www.yelp.ca/biz/very-fair-chinese-restaurant-scarborough I am a bit bias to what "good" Chinese food is. I'm certain that other people will think that they food is good-great but for me it's just good.
Few things this place needs to work on:
- training the new staff better. Some of these people are completely clueless, it's really not that hard to be a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. Fill up the tea pot, make yourself available and clear plates, that's literally it.
- adding more food variety during dim sum hours, especially between 12pm-1pm, most restaurants have this problem
I'm not going to stop coming here as this is our family's hang out spot. But if they don't take some good suggestions now, they'll end up like the 4 previous owners (all of which I have eaten at) and close up shop.
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