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| - It used to be an Italian restaurant but I believe the owner sold it and it is now offering Asian cuisine. The name of the restaurant remains the same but it is altered to: Carmine's Fusion Style Resto et Bar (according to their Facebook page). But there were Chinese writings and I remember seeing the word "grillade" on the logo when I went this afternoon.
I went there with my family for their dimsum at around 1 pm and the restaurant was packed. There weren't any tables available so we were seated at the bar area. It was a bit weird to be seated there, especially for dimsum! But it was definitely a lot less noisy, which was turned out great.
The restaurant didn't have the typical dimsum chariots (this makes the restaurant cleaner and less noisy I think), so you have to order by looking at the menu (you put a check mark next to the dishes you want). The menu was in Chinese, English and French and next to the dishes, there were their respective sizes. The sizes determine the prices (it varied between $2 and $4, except for the rice/noodle). The menu was categorized into "Steamed Dim Sum", "Deep Fried", "Rice rolls", "Desserts" and "Lunch Special/ Rice and Noodle".
For the purpose of this review, I will just called them "dimsum dishes". So, we ordered a total of 9 dimsum dishes and one lunch special (fried rice noodle with sliced beef; very large portion!) and we were pretty full at the end.
I recommend their "#4 Dumplings with shrimp and vegetable" because it tasted better than the other dimsum places. Moreover, the portions were quite big too! Their "#12 Bamboo rolls with pork in oyster sauce" was delicious as well. It wasn't too salty and the flavour was very good. Their rice rolls had a really smooth texture, I recommend their "#38 Steamed rice rolls", this one was without filling but it came with two dippings: the typical seasoned soy sauce and peanut butter. I actually preferred the peanut butter dipping! Their "#11 Spareribs with black bean sauce" tasted very good as well (but nothing special compared to other dimsum places). But I liked how it wasn't full of fat, we actually got to eat the meat more than the fat!
Overall, I find they have a large variety and fine dimsum dishes, and clean presentations. But their fried rice noodle with sliced beef and deep fried dishes were way too oily. I had to wipe the extra oily out with a napkin and it was still very oily... Their "#43 Special Malai roll" was a bit too sweet too..
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