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| - I think this restaurant's best approached as a Western-style restaurant with Asian flavours, or a Celebrity Chef restaurant - because if you go there expecting Chinese food, the prices will seem very high compared to a real chinese restaurant.
My mom and I got a deal on a 4-course meal from Travelzoo, because we've been wanting to try this place since watching Masterchef Season 1 - we especially liked the fact that it was affiliated with the Oliver and Bonacini network of restaurants.
The meals were served Western-style, as individual portions - so I had venison and chili-cheese spring rolls, vegetarian fried rice, chicken and waffles, and chocolate lava cake with cherry sauce and homemade ice cream.
The spring rolls were very unique, and the fried rice was much more flavourful than the rice that's served at a typical restaurant. The chicken tasted a bit like the crispy chicken with the 5-spice powder you can get at chinese restaurants with the shrimp chips, but this one had a thick crunch crust like the kind they serve at Popeyes - so that too was unique. And the homemade ice cream was amazing.
I think this restaurant deserves higher than 3 stars - the food is different from what you can find anywhere else, and the restaurant's a lot more upscale than the usual Chinese restaurant. It's also maybe a little more inviting to people who aren't so comfortable ordering from a menu that's got Chinese writing all over it, with food that's served family-style. It is rather pricey - but it was nice to be able to try something that was a little bit different from the usual.
By the way, we went early around 6:30pm, so the dishes came very quickly - it seemed to get much busier between 7:30pm and 8pm.
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