This is my second visit. Its a smaller place. The first time we came on a busy Saturday one friend sat on an overturned bucket and another on a footstool with a box because they didn't have enough chairs for everyone. They also tried to up sell us on lobster by saying they only have $100 ones. We declined and pointed out we were sitting next to the lobster tank and could see smaller lobsters.

This time we came on a cold sunny Saturday after an early movie. We were late enough to miss the lunch rush but early enough to still be able to take advantage of the lunch specials. Yay.

This place is located on 16th and Spadina Road. Its in a plaza with some other restaurants. There's a bus stop on the corner if you want to bus it but dude, it's the suburbs. Tonnes of free parking.

Its small and very elegant. I love the decor. Its dark wood, and blues, with a pretty golden painting on the back wall. The first visit was when it had first opened and they were working out some kinks I guess. Seating consisted of tables and chairs, no booths. There's a biggish private room to the side that looks like it can fit maybe 15- 20 people.

When I got there my friend had already ordered the tea so I'm not sure what kind we got. I still can't really tell the differences between some of them. They have a three 'course' Prix fixe lunch specials. We decided to each get one and share.

It comes with soup, a spring roll, and the main that you ordered. We got corn and chicken soup. (The house soup was out. We were bummed, it's delicious), a tiny spring roll, and an order of egplant in minced pork with xo sauce and a steamed rice with Chinese sausage in a lotus leaf.

Soup was delicious I love the corn soup. It always looks like they opened a can of creamed corn in a pot of chicken soup. I love creamed corn. . The spring roll came on a skewer and was nice a fresh and crunchy. I liked the steamed rice. I tend to find the Chinese sausage a strong flavour because it's usually in big chunks but it was almost minced and I liked the flavour distribution. My favourite dish is the eggplant and chilli and this was not a disappointment. The eggplant was soft but not overcooked and stringy. The xo sauce was really flavourful and enhanced the pork nicely. Nice spice level too.

Service was efficient. I wouldn't exactly call anyone who waited our table as friendly or concerned for our enjoyment, but we got the food and they refilled out tea fast and efficiently so who needs to make friends.

I'm ignoring the first visit and am kicking myself for letting it keep me away so long. Love this place.

Now I only need to get a v.I.p. card for it because I'll be back a lot!

I had a late dinner on Boxing Day. Maybe that's why there were still so many people. Customers still came in after 9 pm. We had the King Crab Set Menu. It's said it's 8 lbs but what they left was either 6 or 9 lbs. so we had a choice to pay more if we chose 9 lbs or we had an extra dish (Diced Beef in Maggi Sauce) for a 6 lbs. we just had 4 people. We could not finish a 9 lbs. so, we picked a 6lbs. The King Crab was good. Both Steamed Legs and Fried Crab were good. They love to use vermicelli. We had a full plate left combining the two dishes.
The fried Rice with Crab Head was yummy when they added sweet corn to the brown rice. They even tried to create a whole crab with vegetables as the legs !!
As we we so full, we just finished 1/6 of the Shredded Chicken by Hand.
The food seems good. Price is moderate. Need to come back and try their A-la-carte menu. Hope it can be added to my restaurant list. !!