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| - Ok, so, hey, don't take this the wrong way or take me for a racist ass or anything, but if I were in Thailand or China or Singapore and wanted to find a bar that offered cheap but really good food served by petite, smiling Asian women, Brothers is exactly the kind of place I could find myself walking into.
Oh, the fantasy possibilities... but I digress.
All I wanted was a cold beer after a hard day at work. Brothers' on-tap choices is pretty limited to one (Amber lager the night I was there), but the Pepsi cooler is stacked with plenty of icecold bottles to be had between a dirtcheep $3.75 (local beers) to $4.50 (imports). How can you go wrong?
And one look at the plate of food that the guy next to me ordered, and I knew I had to have something to compliment the Canadians I was sucking back as the AC/DC blared from the sound system and the soccer game was on the TV.
Oh, hey, they make General Tso's. My favourite non-Chinese Chinese dish. Awesome.
And... it was. Medium sized bits of chicken, crisp on the outside and meaty inside, served with red and green peppers in that spicy sauce. Theirs had a strong but not unpleasant soy aftertaste that just had me enjoying more Canadians as I munched and discussed the TTC St. Clair streetcars with the dude beside me.
They serve all the basic Chinese fare that most Westerners have come to expect, and seem to do it well. No steamed dumplings sadly, but wonton soup, kung pao chicken, mussels in black bean sauce, satay beef, Cantonese chow mein, etc etc.
And did I mention the friendly, smiling, goodlooking staff? I did? Oh. Ok, then.
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