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| - Summary: a wide variety of different flavours of chicken and fried chicken range from decent to good, but seating is cramped... high fees means low value, but is fun for sharing among big groups
Top Must-Get: fried chicken with green onions
Top Regret: Spicy Chicken (unless you like cinnamon!)
We popped by here for a small birthday celebration? with a group of 8 around 6 pm on a Sunday. About one third of the seats were full, but it steadily got busier - by 7:30, it was packed.
Our food started coming about 15 minutes after our order, starting with the spicy squid... And true to it's name, this has some kick: my friends complained they could barely feel their tongue after.
The spicy chicken? Not nearly as much. The chicken was spicy, yes, but it was also very, very sweet! I could see why some people might like it, but to me, the cinnamon flavour was a bit too much. *Too much cinnamon flavour
Snowing chicken is alright. Not sure if real cheese is used or not, but it's got a subtle-ish taste (relative to the flavour packing spicy chicken). *Not enough cheese flavour
Next the garlic soy chicken. Now, I LOVE garlic, especially in choi (Asian veggies), but holy over-seasoning, they use a TON of garlic. I think it really takes away from the chicken taste. *Too much garlic flavour
The next was the chicken with green onions, although I personally don't think it had enough of a "fresh" onion smell - the fried chickenness flavour was strong here. But, bonus points for no bones! *Not enough onion flavour
The egg soup tasted like typical steam egg - but is good for alleviating the spicy kick. Pretty plain, but does what it's supposed to.
Now, the original fried chicken. That had a revelation: they give you salt (sea salt and pepper) ON THE SIDE! After the inconsistency of the seasoning, this was a blessing. Funny thing is, the original is probably the best here. It's like a crunchy, not-that-oily version of KFC.
All in all, fun to try all the flavours, but at $20+ for a full chicken, it's not great value at all.
RANDOM NOTES:
The TV plays movie trailers with French titles on repeat. So if you like watching clips of "la conjuration"... This is your spot.
The washrooms are really small. One stall and an awkwardly placed urinal in the men's, and apparently just one stall.
Service is fun! They added a sparkly birthday candle to our cake out of the blue. I think it was the owner. That brings it up from a 2.5 to a 3! (Although they forgot to refill water a lot).
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