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| - While in Toronto, I decided to check out the Chinatown for dinner. I decided on House of Gourmet after looking at several places on Yelp.
This place had not 1, but 2 large and extensive menus! To be honest, I was a bit overwhelmed by all the choices, but I decided to go with the "regular" menu instead of the "combination" menu. The former had cheap, and I mean CHEAP, noodles!
I ordered the roasted duck and dumpling noodles. I got 5 pieces of duck, but unfortunately, there wasn't much meat on each piece. The dumplings, on the other hand, were very good. There were way too noodles in my soup, but I usually find that this is the case for most restaurants I go, too.
My parents ordered an off-the-menu chicken and dumpling soup and a beef noodle soup. The chicken pieces had a lot more meat than the duck, but for the most part, the noodle soup was good but not great. The beef was delightfully more tender.
To share, we also ordered broccoli dish with curry sauce, which I found a little odd; there was also a little too much curry sauce. I had to scrape off the extra sauce. Overall, the food was good, but not the amazing.
The service was nice, and the decor was much better than usual Chinatown places. The owners actually put in effort into making their restaurant look decent with recessed lighting and some black panel-ed walls.
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