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| - This is THE place in Chinatown for cheap, delicious eats. Service is quick and no-nonsense, the portions are generous, and the food is delicious. Their menu has a lot of variety and the food is consistently good. They do Chinese fast food (wonton noodles, fried rice, etc.), Hong Kong style breakfasts, and dinners. Some things I recommend getting:
- The Yeung Chow fried rice. You can get this at tea time for $4 with a milk tea, but the portion is a little smaller than the menu option. Still, it's consistently delicious. The yeung chow fried rice here is the standard against which I hold all other places to.
- The wonton noodle soup. Big, juicy, delicious wontons. Can't go wrong.
- The (I'm not sure how to translate exactly) clear-soup (ching-tong) beef brisket noodle soup. This is the only place I've been to around the GTA that makes beef brisket noodle soup this way. Other places have a thicker, chunkier brisket -- which isn't bad -- but I like the House of Gourmet version more. The brisket in this disk is thinly sliced, not Pho thin, but thinner than other places, and the soup is less salty. I get this dish most of the time I go to HoG. Best of all, it's only $4 or so.
- The fried rice noodles with beef (dry style?): . You can get this at a lot of places, but rarely is it ever as good as it is here. This is also on the tea time menu as a slightly smaller serving with milk tea, but again, it's still really really good.
I order these 4 things about 80% of the time I go here, but HoG has a lot more to offer. Try different things because it's hard to go wrong at House of Gourmet.
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