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I went with my parents for the weekend lunch buffet ($8.99!).
I live in the neighbourhood and I've always been curious about Le Tibet but somehow never tried it till now. I was a bit worried about how cheap the food is, considering that you often get what you pay for. I've concluded that Le Tibet is a very honest, generous restaurant and its obvious that a lot of care goes into making the comfort-style food.
When we arrived, the woman working there was finishing up cooking the buffet dishes. When she seated us at the table in the window, we took her up on her suggestion of having the sliding window open. It felt really great to eat hot, yummy curry in front of a breezy window. Otherwise the restaurant would have felt stuffy in the summer mugginess.
When the buffet table was full, I could imagine being at a family dinner. The food definitely seems home style, although probably way blander than it might be if not prepared for the typical palette of the walk-in buffet customer. The buffet spread was a similar lay-out to what Patrick M describes:
Two soups- dahl and egg drop
Two veg curries- chickpea and potato and eggplant and pea
Two meat curries- chicken and mutton
Garlicky stir-fried baby bok choy
Stir-fried noodles, rice, and super light and delicious poppadoms that are the best I've ever had.
Plus, those fantastic cardamom-laced donuty guys in syrup for dessert.
And then the woman brought us house-made fried pita/naan-type bread (not sure what it'd be called, forgot to ask) with our meal that was piping hot and let out steam as we tore into the supple, flavourful dough. Seriously, yowza.
I loved the dahl. I noticed the lentils were sprouted, which is really wholesome and great. Everything was very comforting and mild tasting but definitely delicious. I really enjoyed the mutton, eggplant, and chickpea and potato for their fantastic flavours and textures. The bok choi was tender and garlicky to an addictive level. The noodles were a bit too oily and bland tasting for me but they were a good vector for the curry sauce :)
Oh yea- and the house made hot sauce made everything about 5x better for me. it's incredibly delicous.. very spicy on a few different levels and lemongrass-y. My mom and I asked about what was in it and how it was made and the woman brought us each little containers of it to take home with us when she brought the bill. So lovely. I left feeling full, content, and cared for.
Simply great.
I'm holding out for their momos to update and give them a 5 star review (sadly they weren't being served at the buffet and we were too full to order them!).
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