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| - In Toronto, North York area on a business trip and my colleagues and I went walking around looking for a lunch spot. None of us had been to this place, but it was on a strip with several Asian restaurants and we looked inside the window and said "OK, there's people inside, that's a good sign" and decided to eat there. The sign on the window reads "Tuyen: Modern Authentic Asian".
One coworker and I each had a lunch special that came with Spicy Vegetable Soup that was really awesome. They were not playing around with the spicy-ness, though. At one point I coughed because it was so spicy, but the soup was so good it didn't deter me from consuming it all very quickly. For the rest of my order, I had "Malaysian beef fried rice". I wondered what about the fried rice made it Malaysian but I guess it was because it had pineapple in it. Interesting combination, but the yellow fried rice with scallions and strips of beef also in made it some of the best rice I've ever had. It was served in a cool white slanted bowl that was resting in a basket. I think it was the type of bowl that would not stand upright on a table. It was a large portion of rice too, and I almost finished it.
Service was good and the meal came out fast. Prices, I later found out, were pretty reasonable for Toronto. I would definitely like to visit Tuyen again for lunch or dinner on my next trip to Toronto.
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