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| - I rarely have the opportunity to visit the NW or the NE to explore the Chinese restuarants up there, but my family and I have experienced our share of Chinese restaurants in the south end. My father is happy to eat anything, my mother judges a restaurant by how salty and oily their food is (the more bland and less oily, the better), and I was raised to not ask questions, but to eat whatever was in front of me.
This little restaurant looked like a typical Chinese restaurant you will find in Calgary. Outdated interiors, fake plants, and a few random caucasian folks. My Cantonese is quite poor, but I was able to understand a little bit of what my parents ordered. We ordered ling cod, stiry-fry pork belly, salt and pepper seafood, sweet and sour pork, some kind of vegetables with pickled eggs and as per usual, "little salt, little oil."
They started us off with a broth-type soup. I could taste the MSG in it. Not my favourite. The pork belly was good. The ling cod was a little chewy. The rest of the dishes were quite tasty. The tastiness of the salt and pepper squid always has a huge factor in my satisfaction rating. Theirs was delicious. They cut up the squid to one-bite pieces so I didn't have to shove a huge piece in my mouth and it was cooked perfectly. I was pleased.
We received decent service, some of the food was good, some was not so good, the restrooms were cleaner than I expected. The reason why I'm only giving this place a 3 stars is because nothing wowed me. If I was able to give it a 3.5, I would.
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