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| - This is a slightly outdated review (came here on May 13 for afternoon tea). I've heard from many other people that this place served delicious food and since I was in the area with a friend, we decided to give it a shot. Sadly, it did not meet our already low expectations...
We did not have to wait in line as most people seemed like they were just eating and leaving rather than chatting. I had a feeling this place spoke Cantonese (which they did) but because I am not that fluent, I spoke English. I understand that this is an Asian based area however, it is close to LA fitness and other non-Asian stores. Therefore, I feel like the waitresses should at least TRY to speak English and start a conversation and/or respond to our questions about the dishes.
We ended up ordering a chicken dish, a latka (I believe that was the name), and their French toast cubes. The chicken was flavourful and I liked how their rice was fused with bok choy. For my friend, she ordered latka but stated that this was not how latka was made. It was in soup with noodles rather than rice and there was no indication of that in the menu. In addition, there was close to no flavouring so my friend added a lot of hot sauce to compensate . The French toast came later on with a side of butter and syrup. This dish was hard to mess up. Some cubes were more soggy than others but it is difficult to give every cube the same texture. I wasn't a fan of this but my friend was.
The only positive thing that I remembered as of now was how one of the waitresses brought over a sample of soup when I was asking what soup it was. Luckily, we didn't get charged for this as we didn't like it (or she probably just forgot or didn't care).
For the 3 dishes, we ordered 1 HK style milk tea and 2 lemon tea.
This is your typical HK style cafe in Markham. There is more variety compared to other restaurants but some dishes do need improvements or clarifications. Also, some servers need a change in attitude, which seemed apparent towards anyone who wasn't a regular or fluent in Cantonese.
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