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| - Came here on Christmas Eve last year and Christmas Day this year with my family, I don't have a lot of memory of the former, so I'll review this meal. Starting off we arrived and waited in the super fun line of other people who had made reservations, luckily there were lovely pink mints to keep me from starving.
We were seated and waited for the rest of our family, the waitress was pretty nice but when everyone arrived, my grandfather tried to order several different beers and was comically denied. The waitress kept avoiding his question for different beers and basically forced him to order the beer she recommended. It was kind of funny, but also not. I'm surprised my grandfather didn't yell at her.
Anyway, food time! So I started off with the Singapore noodles as they are my favourite noodles of Chinese cuisine (though mandarin isn't exactly real Chinese food). They were ok, I've definitely had worse, but they had too much cumin in their curry powder and not enough salt. However it was dry and not liquidy, which is a plus. The meatballs were pretty good, I think they had wheat in them, because I died a little bit after, though that might've been the onion rings, which were solid with red sauce, something I haven't seen in ages.
The BBQ rib was pretty great, I should've gotten a second one. But I was too overwhelmed and needed to sample everything. The curry wasn't curry enough, should've taken some cumin from the noodles. It was very lacking in flavour and creaminess. But again, it's Mandarin and I probably shouldn't expect things from it that it won't deliver.
The prime rib was amazing. I could've just eaten that, but I was getting full by the time I hit it. The mashed potatoes lacked salt and butter.
Finally the desserts, the NY Cheesecake was the winner in terms of cheesecakes. It was firm and delicious. The cheesecake squares felt like they didn't set? Does cheesecake set? It was runny.
The banana ice cream was very real in flavour, not artificial tasting, I just didn't love it too much. But the peppermint ice cream. That was amazing. I need more of it. A constant IV of peppermint ice cream. It was just perfect. It kind of made me think of green tea ice cream, but less matcha.
All in all it was a good time. 4/5
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