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| - If I reviewed this earlier, it would have been a 4* but the quality of their dimsum has dropped.
I don't incorporate service in my reviews for Chinese restaurants because it's just not something to consider. It's like expecting a sushi chef to wait at the corner of your table. It just is not the custom.
So before, the prices were super cheap ($2.38 for a small) but now they've upped it by 20ยข, which seems trivial at first glance but 2.58 is considered mid range. Also most of their dishes are XL now, so they're $5+ per dish.
They took out some staple dimsum, like the preserved meat and sausage stone pot rice. This is as staple as siumai! I loved it. :(
Flavours were a bit salty but what really brought it down was the small things.
In their bbq pork puff pastries, they used to put real bbq pork in there. Now, it's 80% sauce and 20% tiny bits of bbq pork if it even still is bbq pork at this point.
Their Siu mai has too strong of pork flavour. Traditionally, the fat in pork can balance this out but the pork they used is either seasoned differently or its just too lean. There were even tendons in the meat. This is just sloppy work.
Ha Gow wrap is way too thick. You couldn't even chopstick it out of the bamboo dish thing without it sticking to all the other ones too! So we get the shrimp rice roll now because we still want shrimp but ha Gow is def off the list.
So why is it a 3? Probably because price is still lower than most places, it's close, and some dishes are passable.
Also their tea is a hit and miss. Sometimes it's super amazing and flavourful, and other times you can't get the tea flavour out even an hour into the meal.
Scarborough definitely has better choices.
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