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Cons: everything else
I took my mom to Montréal for the first time since I fell in love with it the last time I visited, and one of the stops during our visit was Chinatown.
I told her to choose where we will dine for lunch, and she chose this place.
We ordered from the à la carte menu; She got the pork bento box, I got the tofu dolsot bibimbap. The presentation of her food looked acceptable. Mine, however, absolutely did not. The stone pot was so hot, it turned my rice into hardtack-like rice krispies, there was barely 1 1/2 Tbsp of carrots, bean sprouts, and squash, and to top it all off, the gochujang didn't even taste like gochujang! I was utterly disappointed, and left hungry. My mom's pork was very thinly sliced and was half fat, so she ended up throwing half of it out.
To be fair, I do want to say that my mom was born and raised in Korea, and I was born and raised in the U.S. surrounded by Korean FOBs, so we may have much higher standards regarding Korean food. However, I don't see that as an excuse for non-Korean Asians to pose as Koreans, and potentially ruin their reputation.
I would've given you one star, but our hostess and server were both very kind to us, and everything was quite clean.
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