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| - I had read the numerous reviews of this place and it all seemed mixed. Some gave it raving reviews and others not so much. I wanted to see for myself what exactly this resto had to offer so my husband and I came here for lunch yesterday.
We ordered:
1) Grandpa's Fun Guo - Flavourful is the word I would use to describe it. Expensive for 3 pieces of dim sum (esp when down the street you can get it for 2 dollars). But I do have to give it credit, this is probably the best thing we ate while here. My husband felt that the cashews/ nuts needed to be a bit chunkier to give it more of a texture. Otherwise it was fine.
2) Poutine - Not good. It's essentially cubed potatoes and sweet potatoes topped with some cheese, silken tofu and some sauce. The potatoes were inconsistently cooked - some were clearly underdone. The flavour profile is interesting....it's not spicy, not savoury, not sweet. It's not really appetizing.
3) General Sander's chicken platter - This was a relatively large dish for 25 dollars. I think we got 6 pieces of dark meat chicken in total and an HK style egg waffle. Let's start with the chicken. The chicken was good. Good crispy exterior albeit slightly dark in colour and perhaps slightly overdone. Thankfully they give you dark meat otherwise I think it would be terribly dry. Next, the dipping sauce. One of them is a sichuan maple syrup. It is absolutely atrocious. It's not spicy...it's not sweet...it didn't enhance the flavour of the chicken. The only word I could use to describe this is terribly unpalatable. After dipping my first piece of chicken into it, I could not bear to touch it again...it was that awful. Next are the HK style egg waffles which are actually a shade of dark brown. They looked overdone. But when you actually eat it, it's actually UNDERDONE inside! What?? How is that possible...it looks near burnt but inside is actually a thick underdone batter. If anyone has ever had HK style waffles they're actually quite light and loose inside.
We actually told the hostess or waitress about the underdone yet seemingly overdone waffles. Her response was "Ok." Nothing was done to address it and we're not asking for a discount or a free meal or anything but we really just want them to be aware that this is not how HK style waffles are supposed to be. We're not even sure if the message got passed along to the kitchen.
We also asked for sparking water which I'm fairly certain they keep on tap and make themselves. For this water, we were charged 5 dollars. Ok, I get it if you have to open up a bottle of San Pellegrino or Perrier or something but you didn't. You just added carbon dioxide to your own tap water! Some restaurants give this for free (i.e. Pizzeria Libretto). So why are you charging me 5 dollars for not even opening up a bottle of anything?
When this first restaurant opened, I wanted to like it. I occasionally watched the first season of Masterchef Canada and watched Eric cook and to be honest, I was kind of rooting for him since not many Asians win and he also went to my alma mater. Not only that but when I was in Hong Kong earlier this year, I wanted to try Bo Innovation but couldn't because I couldn't eat a lot of the food they were serving as I was pregnant but had heard good things from family and friends who ate it. Unfortunately this restaurant was not good and overpriced. The one word I would use to describe the food is unpalatable. I think that speaks volumes unfortunately. We did see Eric come in during our meal and he was carrying a huge bag of rice and some other things. Seems like he's putting a lot of hard work into the restaurant but as much as I would like to like it, objectively it just wasn't good. So I really hope things change.
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