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| - Steam House, Steam Kitchen, Steam Patio...might as well offer more steamed dishes if they wanna call themselves Steam whatever. Either way they opened a second branch in Scarborough that's somewhat closer to where I live, so I figure I give it a shot.
The layout of this restaurant is infinite times better than Steam Kitchen. There's a lot more room to walk around, it's wheelchair accessible, and it's overall more spacious. I do find that small seating area to the left of the reception area a little awkward as you're secluded from the rest of the restaurant.
I ordered the usual stuff I order from Steam Kitchen: Kung pao pork, squid with chicken, bitter melon with beef, and two other dishes which I didn't end up having. The pork was probably the best out of the food we ordered, as it was only lightly breaded and not too heavy on the sauce, but still tasted very good. The bitter melon with beef had a disproportionate bitter melon to beef ratio, with way too much beef and way too little bitter melon. The beef and bitter melon were both quite decent though. Finally, the squid with chicken had too much oil; you can really feel the MSG in your mouth as you consume that dish.
The starter soup was quite good as well as the dessert (sesame balls). Service was okay in general, however they skipped out on one of our orders and simply shrugged it off. Lucky we ordered too many items to start so the missed item wasn't a huge issue.
10% off VIP card from Steam Kitchen can be used here.
Free wifi! Ask for password.
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