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| - In spite of the bad service (especially if you are not Chinese, sometimes you will wait so much longer, and be often completely ignored) we used to go back anyway because the food is authentic, late at night there's few choices on Centre St., and the menu is huge. The food has been really yummy.
However, this time, I tried talking to the waitress about not adding the MSG (it's such BAD habit with Chinese restaurant, only places that are more evolved and realize their customers have allergies will remove the MSG)... Although her english was fine & she knew what I was talking about, she basically just said, "No I can't request no MSG for you." (in other words we have to put it in everything even if we could make it for you without it). Thankfully I'm not severely allergic like some of my friends, but I avoid it wherever I go, just as I always try to watch what I'm ingesting (Buddha's Veggie on MacLeod Trail does not use MSG and 'quel surprise' their food is still delicious)..
The last straw though was the "ling cod" that we thought we were ordering (or even if it's white fish "at market price" -- we ordered the "thai style" fish. The menu is so crowded we didn't notice that the price was slightly above the item, not across from it... Confusing. The sauce was delicious but the fish tasted more 'muddy' and stronger than tilapia usually does. Whereas most menu items were between $13 to $18, they overcharged us the "market price" of $21.95. For tilapia, seriously???!
From now on, we'll just drive a little farther and go back to our favourite downtown Chinese restaurant, Golden Inn restaurant, always open even later, where the staff are always much friendlier and the food is consistently good, not as pricey, and no "mysterious market prices" for the cheapest fish I could buy any day of the week down the road at the grocery store.
Bye bye Sun's BBQ... where the sun DON'T shine.
And no smiles are to be found.
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