Category: Restaurants [之牛牛心得]

Aug 23 2012

Shiso Tree cafe (J-Town)

Shiso Tree cafe is a fusion Italian-Japanese restaurant located in J-Town Toronto.  I was told that it’s a perfect place to go for lunch, for the price of $8, you get a salad, a soup and a main pasta dish, though the pasta dish is not as big, I think it’s quite a good lunch size for me consider it with the soup and salad.  I was pretty happy with my order, which was a spicy sausage pasta, it had a fruity flavor along with a spicy taste.  I really hope I can try all of the things on their menu, maybe I should just go there for lunch everyday from now on since it is not that far away from my office :p  If you work in the area, you should definitely give this a try 😀

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Rating: 7.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Aug 10 2012

Malaysia & Asian Cuisine (膳園)

My friends wanted to treat me and Ruby an early birthday dinner and decided to try out Malaysia & Asian Cuisine (膳園), the most Authentic Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian Cuisine of all the restaurants in Scarborough (Toronto and GTA).  We rarely try Malaysian food so we were very excited about the experience.  Once we got there, I was actually quite surprised about the size of the place and it was totally  packed, but sadly, too many cars and not enough parking spaces…  Anyhow, once we got inside, a mouth watering strong scent of herbs surrounded us and that made me like the restaurant even more already :-p  The varieties on the menu was amazing, it was supposed to be very hard to decide what to get but instead, it was pretty easy pick our choices because we just ordered everything we wanted, hehe.  At the end, we were very satisfied with everything, no wondered they were around for 17 years as I was told 🙂  Anyways, this is a place where I would recommend people to try out and you will not be disappointed, trust me 😀

BTW, big thanks to Karen, Simon, little Marcus and Jason for the amazing dinner, you guys are the best ;-D

 

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Rating: 9.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jul 26 2012

O Mei

Although I had not been going to cooking lessons for a while, I am still very connected with my Aunties (cooking class classmates).  Joyce and Debbie are 2 of my top favorite aunties, so of course I would have to organized a dinner gathering to celebrate their birthday this week.  O Mei, located on 420 Hw# 7 Richmond Hill, just right at the MacDonald’s plaza.  A restaurant that has been around for a long long while, I have heard a lot of good words about their dinner varieties especially their lobsters dishes but never experienced it, so I thought I should definitely give this a try.

There was no doubt that the first thing we ordered was a 9+ lbs lobster/5 (龍蝦五吃), Chicken with 2 tastes (鳳雙飛), Taiwanese oyster (台式生蠔) and some misc. dishes.  It was totally a weight gaining experience because everything tasted and looked so good so I just kept on stuffing myself :p  Plus, because Debbie and Christine know the manager, we got soo many varieties of dessert for free…  At the very end, we cleaned out everything on the table, stuffed ourselves with a few pounds heavier belly and left the restaurant with a big smile on our faces 😀  2 big thumbs up!!!  Definitely a Chinese restaurant to consider if you are looking for a good Chinese diner even on weekdays if you know what I mean 🙂

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Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jul 22 2012

DAHN (Korean Cuisine)

To celebrate Cheryl’s up coming birthday next week, we decided to treat her a fine Korean dinning at DAHN (Korean Cuisine), located on Yonge St. just south of 407.  This Korean restaurant is a little different from the other ones because they provide you with tons of private dinning rooms, if you make a reservation with more than 5/6 people, they would let you dine in a room with your own privacy.  Food is also very good but in my opinion, I like Bulgogi Brothers a little better but still, it is way way better than a lot of the Koreans restaurants out there already 😀  Unfortunately, there is one thing that we were not 100% satisfied, everything we ordered took a long time, even beverages…  Other than that, everything is good so if you are looking for dinning place with a little privacy, this is actually a very good place to have a dinner party 😀

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Rating: 6.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Jun 17 2012

Bulgogi Brothers

Bulgogi Brothers is newly opened Korea based franchise restaurant up in Richmond Hill. Located at 140 York Blvd where all the restaurants are gathered.  Bulgogi Brothers has around 30 locations in Korea and recently began expanding abroad, opening its first international location in the Philippines last year.

It was my first time having beef after I started exercising for weeks and it tasted soo good…  compare to the other Korean BBQ resturants in Toronto, I would have to say this one is probably by far the best.  Just like when you get bread and olive oil to start at other restaurants, Bulgogi Brothers started off the meal with a basket filled with traditional Korean snacks. The basket was filled with steamed corn on the cob, fingering potatoes and edamame.  Not to mention the beef combination we ordered, served by a nice Korean waitress, soo yum yum good…

Super thumbs up for Bulgogi Brothers with amazing service and food, guess other Korean restaurants will have to work a lot harder from now on, and I guess Chako (in the same plaza) is already out of my restaurants list :p

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Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)