Tag: Jason Fong

Oct 20 2012

綠羽軒(私房小炒/My Own Kitchen)

Jason’s birthday was a few days before, so a late celebration dinner with him and friends on the weekend at 綠羽軒(私房小炒/My Own Kitchen) at First Markham Place.  The restaurant has been around for a long long time and I finally got a chance to try it.  The first thing we definitely want was a lamb pot, which was the main reason why we were there :p  Just by looking at the menu really made my mouth watery, so we ordered a few dishes which we thought it would be great to try out, of course the end result was a little disappointment sadly…  Everything we ordered was very home made, I am not saying they are not good, but everything wasn’t very special, felt like you could actually have the same dishes everywhere else, plus the chicken we ordered had too many chipped bones in it…  Anyways, it was a good dinner but too bad there was no WOW factor there :p

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Rating: 6.7/10 (6 votes cast)

Sep 15 2012

Ferrovia ristorante

Ferrovia ristorante, once was voted the best Italian restaurant in Thornhill, so if you want to try this restaurant, you better call ahead if time because last time we wanted to try it without making a reservation, of course there was a long long wait so we left.  My first impression was quite good, didn’t expect the restaurant size is very small compare to others but very unique.  Food was quite good, not too expensive with this kind of quality, presentation was amazing as you can see from the pictures below, no wondered it was vote one of the best.  One little small glitch that I didn’t like was the uncomfortable chair/bench I was sitting, maybe it was just me :-p  Anyways, great restaurant and I would definitely recommend this to friends 😀

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Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast)

Aug 28 2012

Don Don Izakaya

 Don Don Izakaya, another Japanese style tapas bar located in Toronto downtown.  I am soo glad that we made it to the restaurant because the weather was horrible when we started to head there, a pouring rain that looked like the sky was falling…  Anyways, the restaurant was very unique, more like a Japanese style added with a lot of modern touch as the pictures below.  Once you enter, they would hit the drums, typical welcome cheer of “Irasshaimase!” to welcome you, lots of young people there, both the customers and waiters/waitresses makes it very comfortable :p  Food is good, not too much surprise like the other one I tried before, but  I love the way they cook their food, the tenderness on everything was just right, one thing we don’t like was most food were too salty, other than that, everything would had been perfect.  Price wise is really ok, take a look at how many plates we ordered in the pictures and 2 pitchers of beer for less than $50 a person, not bad at all :-p  If you have never been to a Japanese style tapas bar, this place is a good start really 😀

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Rating: 8.0/10 (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 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)