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| - I have an acquaintance who loves chinese lacquered bbq pork. He makes a point to post everything that he tries on instagram. I never cared for these things until I was completely deprived of it for the last 5 years while looking at his photos and all of a sudden, it's the one item i NEEDED to eat in Toronto. Rather than playing detective on his instagram, I just came on Yelp to find the best rated bbq pork in the neighbourhood and came upon this place.
When I arrived, what I found odd was that this plaza is a line of bbq restaurants all selling the exact same thing. A search on Yelp reveals that none of the other restaurants have been reviewed. In fact, while Ho Ho was void of people, its neighbour had a line of old asian folks, which makes me wonder whether we are making the right choice.
Nonetheless, as a borderline millennial, i needed to trust my phone app instead of old chinese people eating chinese food and went with Ho Ho instead. I got two of the combination bento boxes that had rice with bbq pork, roast pig, and roast duck (plus a salty duck egg i couldnt say no to and none of us ate them). The service was not too friendly until the lady saw my husband come in after me with my 4 month old baby who smartly smiled at her for my convenience. The lady decided then we were worthy of love and continuously told us how cute my baby is and how we needed to eat the food hot and not leave it in the car for too long since it was a hot day and the bbq will go bad quickly.
I got home, opened the box, and man, the portion was CRAZY BIG. I ate everything except for the duck egg. My husband too for his box. We were in a food coma for a very long time. The bbq didn't wow me, but it was solid good. I may venture next door next time though, just for comparison sake, especially since my baby wont be 4 months anymore and may not get me the love that I'd like to have from strangers.
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