Love the Hui Lau Shan in HK so I was incredibly excited to try their first Canadian outpost.
If I didn't know any better, I would have thought it was a cheap knockoff. I didn't mind that it was located inside of a hot pot restaurant, but the staff seemed undertrained and the quality was unnecessarily terrible.
Mango Pancake: 95% whipped cream, tiny sliver of sour mango.
Mango Fresh Fruit Juice (L): Small mango blended with several large scoops of ice. There was too much ice for the drink to blend, so they kept adding half a cup of water at a time until it worked. As expected, tasted like water.
A1 Mango and Coconut with Mango Jelly (L): not nearly as good as Hong Kong. The drink tasted much more of coconut and syrup than mango. If I had to guess, it's partially owing to the mangoes they're able to source, coupled with inexperience and lack of quality control.
This place does a disservice to the brand, and the inflated prices aren't justified by the quality of the food.