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| - Located in streetsville on the main strip can't miss it. Great parking out back with a lot of space. Outside and inside very appealing and clean. Friendly customer service. Now to the nitty gritty, ordered a larger chicken on the rocks, yellow rice, medium hot with standard sauces (tahini, garlic, and hotsauce). Also ordered the comparable equivalent from Osmows (large chicken on rocks, medium hot). On-Z-rocks loaded, and I mean loaded up on the sauce where it completely covered the entire dish. They have yellow basmati rice and lenti rice of which you can choose between (we chose the yellow basmati rice for comparison purposes) and they give you a larger portion then Osmows by around 20-30% by weight and are at a better price point. I felt that the amount of chicken they used is just slightly less than Osmows but they used more rice and a heck of a lot more sauce. I also find that the basmati rice doesn't give it as good a bite and mouth feel in comparison to parboiled. Overall, I found the dish to be overly saucy and had a milky and slight greyish undertone to its aftertaste. The viscosity of the sauce was slightly thinner than that of typical sauces and the taste was much more neutral that added to its dominant presence in the dish. The chicken shawarma shavings less flavorful and overall tougher and not as thinly sliced. Overall I give the dish a 5-5.5 out of 10. The amount of sauce should be tweaked, better chicken to rice ratio needed, and a revisit on the type of rice used in my opinion. While eating it, the milky saucy taste drowned any other flavors and the bits of chicken tasted tough and was an overall unpleasant experience. I feel it has a lot to live up to and needs a lot of work to be a better dish. No comparison to osmows chicken on the rocks.
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