. . "Let's put it this way: once my husband asked me where I wanted to eat on my birthday and I said \"The Mandarin\" so we went there---and the Mandarin is in Toronto, and we live in Chicago. I have counted 48 hot Chinese entrees on the Mandarin's Chinese buffet, plus six kinds of soup and ten kinds of ice cream, a vast salad bar with ad lib shrimp, a grill with salmon or chicken or steak (also the Mandarin in London ONT had baby lamb chops when we were there), the Canadian buffet has roast beef with mashed potatoes and Yorkshire pudding, and the last time we were at Yonge Street they had added a waffle station. I do not want to hear ONE WORD about this not being authentic Chinese food: fall silent at once. The Mandarin is a Canadian treasure."^^ . "5"^^ . "3"^^ . "2009-04-21T00:00:00"^^ . "6"^^ . "1"^^ . .