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| - This must be the first time that Yelp has steered me wrong! After traveling many miles to try Toronto's Chinese cuisine, I was disappointed by the sampling I had at Kom Jug Yuen. The atmosphere isn't the cleanest or nicest, but I am willing to over look that for good food. This would definitely qualify for a hole in the wall.
I am not sure if our California Cantonese dialect is different than Toronto's, but no one at this restaurant understood anything we were trying to order! For a party of 6 this is what we managed to order:
- Salt and pepper spareribs - not salty and not really what we are used to eating in the Bay Area. It was almost wet, instead of dry and fried.
- Pea sprouts and Chinese mushrooms - they ran out of pea sprouts and I had baby bok choy instead. It was the smallest bok choy I have ever tried.
- Crispy chicken - already cooked and likely dumped back in the fryer to get it warm. Super duper dry of course then. Ordered a whole chicken, but it was chopped up and dumped together as if there were 2 different half chickens on the plate, leaving minimal dark meat.
- Famous BBQ pork with roast duck - BBQ was decent, but nothing to rave about. Only a few duck pieces on the plate.
- Beef dish with onions - Ok, but nothing special.
- Pan fried noodles - never came, so we just canceled it.
Service was ridiculously bad, even for a Chinese restaurant. Look, I know how it is, but still, this was bad. He kept asking if we were ready, but never stopped to take our order. Maybe he was waiting for us to write down an order? He never said.
Funniest part of the adventure? A Chinese man stopped us before going in, warning us not to go here and to try another location down the block. Trusting Yelp and our hungry stomachs, we decided to ignore the stranger but try Kom Jug Yuen out. Guess the stranger was more of a prophecy than we expected.
If you actually do try this place to satisfy your curiosity, here are a few tips:
- Write your order on the blank bill they leave you on the table. This is apparently the unspoken way to order.
- Order in English.
- Don't touch anything inside. Probably take it to go.
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