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TheArchitect
13 reviews on 1 places
First time eating Hakka Chinese food. Literally tastes like regular old Chinese food, just has a lot more of stronger flavours (salt).
The restaurant is kind of dark (bright enough to see, but feels kind of dark). The restaurant isn't that big.
We ordered the Cantonese Mixed Chow Mein, Vegetable Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls, and Fried Chicken. We also order 1 of each pop cans (Ginger Ale, Iced Tea, Crush).
The way this restaurant seemed to serve the food is by giving you the appetizers first (if you ordered it), waiting till you basically finish the appetizer, and then they give you the main meals.
The Fried Chicken dish came and it also had a slice of lemon in the dish. My friend find a single strand of hair on the lemon. That dish got taken back to the kitchen. And we either got a new Fried Chicken dish, or we got the same one back, but without that lemon. My friend also asked for better lemon slices, cause the lemon that we got as a replacement, looked used.
The Fried Chicken was strong in the salt flavour. A bit too salty. The Chow Mein came with so much vegetables and other meats stacked on top of the noodles. The Chow Mein tasted exactly how it always tastes like (from my extensive memories of eating so much Chow Mein), just a bit more saltier. The Fried Rice was decent as well, just pretty salty. The Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls were decent.
They do give you a pitcher of cold water when you get seated down. They also have us straws for our pops. They give a decent proportion of food, like stacking high, kind of like a small hill of food on the oval plates.
It's just okay Chinese food. Nothing to write home about, not super good. Food was pretty much just salt and grease. The prices here are pretty decent, compared to other Chinese cuisine restaurants. Like cheaper than expected. 99% of their dishes were pretty much under $20. We paid a total of $65 before tips for the 4 dishes and 3 pops.
Chinese food-- I mean Hakka Chinese food that doesn't break the bank.
The restaurant is kind of dark (bright enough to see, but feels kind of dark). The restaurant isn't that big.
We ordered the Cantonese Mixed Chow Mein, Vegetable Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls, and Fried Chicken. We also order 1 of each pop cans (Ginger Ale, Iced Tea, Crush).
The way this restaurant seemed to serve the food is by giving you the appetizers first (if you ordered it), waiting till you basically finish the appetizer, and then they give you the main meals.
The Fried Chicken dish came and it also had a slice of lemon in the dish. My friend find a single strand of hair on the lemon. That dish got taken back to the kitchen. And we either got a new Fried Chicken dish, or we got the same one back, but without that lemon. My friend also asked for better lemon slices, cause the lemon that we got as a replacement, looked used.
The Fried Chicken was strong in the salt flavour. A bit too salty. The Chow Mein came with so much vegetables and other meats stacked on top of the noodles. The Chow Mein tasted exactly how it always tastes like (from my extensive memories of eating so much Chow Mein), just a bit more saltier. The Fried Rice was decent as well, just pretty salty. The Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls were decent.
They do give you a pitcher of cold water when you get seated down. They also have us straws for our pops. They give a decent proportion of food, like stacking high, kind of like a small hill of food on the oval plates.
It's just okay Chinese food. Nothing to write home about, not super good. Food was pretty much just salt and grease. The prices here are pretty decent, compared to other Chinese cuisine restaurants. Like cheaper than expected. 99% of their dishes were pretty much under $20. We paid a total of $65 before tips for the 4 dishes and 3 pops.
Chinese food-- I mean Hakka Chinese food that doesn't break the bank.
Last year the mall put on a permanent dinosaur theme all around the inside and outside of the mall. Dinosaur facts, dinosaur sculptures, dinosaur benches etc. And they also added live birds (Parakeets? Budgies? Pet Birds!) In these huge cages in different parts of the mall.
Seems like Baker Duck (Chinese bakery) moved itself to a larger location within the food court and is closed (closed on Tuesdays or closed forever?). New shops have popped up, and old shops have faded away.
Some stores/restaurants within the mall are: Dollarama, Shoppers Drug Mart, LCBO, Halidao, Magic Noodle, One's, Freedom Mobile, Regal Photo, Toronto Public Library, and various bubble tea shops, etc.
The mall is slowly being taken over by Chinese shops/restaurants. I assume the the permanent dinosaur theme is there to revive the mall.
Seems like Baker Duck (Chinese bakery) moved itself to a larger location within the food court and is closed (closed on Tuesdays or closed forever?). New shops have popped up, and old shops have faded away.
Some stores/restaurants within the mall are: Dollarama, Shoppers Drug Mart, LCBO, Halidao, Magic Noodle, One's, Freedom Mobile, Regal Photo, Toronto Public Library, and various bubble tea shops, etc.
The mall is slowly being taken over by Chinese shops/restaurants. I assume the the permanent dinosaur theme is there to revive the mall.
Our family doctor is here. We can't change to another family doctor since there are no family doctors available in our area. So we're stuck at this bad service clinic. And the Malvern Medical Centre moved to more than half an hour away from it's original location. Before, it was about a 10 min drive to the clinic. The clinic is located on the 5th floor of the building. The washrooms are right across the elevators. You can check in for your appointment with the receptionist or you can check in with the self service touch screen screen.
The problem with this clinic is that booking a phone call appointment is a hit or miss. You book online if you want a phone call appointment. What I mean by a hit or miss is that sometimes the doctor will not call you for the whole entire day and skip your appointment time. And then they will say that "I did call you and left a message", which is a lie- there was no message on the answering machine. So, you have to phone into the clinic and book an in-person appointment. When you phone into the clinic, you spend more than an hour waiting to book an appointment. The waiting room isn't that big like the previous location.
The service from the doctors at this clinic isn't that good. Some doctors would not help you get the services that you need, or medicines that you need to be on. Other times, they don't listen to your concerns and worries when there's a problem with your health. So their "help" is a hit or miss. Sometimes it's decent, other times it real bad. There's a lot of delay in seeing you at your scheduled appointment time. When booking appointments, sometimes you get a early appointment in the week, other times you get it 2-3 weeks later. Sometimes you can get an appointment on the day you called and other times you could get an appointment within the next few days either morning or afternoon.
I heard that their front desk receptionist is understaffed and lots of people come and go... So, maybe that's why when booking an in-person appointment, it takes so long. The clinic is really busy and full. I believe that no doctor in the clinic is willing to take new clients.
If you already have a doctor here, a family doctor... I suggest not leaving. Since currently, there isn't enough family doctors within the city, you risk losing your only family doctor. Though if your family doctor doesn't have the time and day to see you, you're going to have to go into a walk in clinic. Good luck.
The problem with this clinic is that booking a phone call appointment is a hit or miss. You book online if you want a phone call appointment. What I mean by a hit or miss is that sometimes the doctor will not call you for the whole entire day and skip your appointment time. And then they will say that "I did call you and left a message", which is a lie- there was no message on the answering machine. So, you have to phone into the clinic and book an in-person appointment. When you phone into the clinic, you spend more than an hour waiting to book an appointment. The waiting room isn't that big like the previous location.
The service from the doctors at this clinic isn't that good. Some doctors would not help you get the services that you need, or medicines that you need to be on. Other times, they don't listen to your concerns and worries when there's a problem with your health. So their "help" is a hit or miss. Sometimes it's decent, other times it real bad. There's a lot of delay in seeing you at your scheduled appointment time. When booking appointments, sometimes you get a early appointment in the week, other times you get it 2-3 weeks later. Sometimes you can get an appointment on the day you called and other times you could get an appointment within the next few days either morning or afternoon.
I heard that their front desk receptionist is understaffed and lots of people come and go... So, maybe that's why when booking an in-person appointment, it takes so long. The clinic is really busy and full. I believe that no doctor in the clinic is willing to take new clients.
If you already have a doctor here, a family doctor... I suggest not leaving. Since currently, there isn't enough family doctors within the city, you risk losing your only family doctor. Though if your family doctor doesn't have the time and day to see you, you're going to have to go into a walk in clinic. Good luck.
A dead like state of a mall. More than half of the stores are closed and closed for good. There are 2 floors of pure silence, and barely any people inside of the mall. Inside of the mall looks like how Pacific mall was designed, but Splendid China mall didn't gain the popularity that Pacific mall had. The lighting in some places of the mall is kind of dim. There is a map of the mall at the entrance of the mall.
The food court is small with like... What seems to be 3 kind of working/open restaurants?
The only restaurant that is doing well is the Thai restaurant.
The food court is small with like... What seems to be 3 kind of working/open restaurants?
The only restaurant that is doing well is the Thai restaurant.
An Asian mall with all sorts of different stores on the inside. Very busy, lots of people walking around. The food court is especially busy.
There are Chinese herb stores, Asian snack shops, clothing stores, glasses store, bubble tea shops, camera equipment store, kitchen appliances stores, massage chair store, nail salons, hair salons, a medical clinic, dentist, optometrist, pharmacy, tattoo shops, anime/otaku stores, phone case stores, crane game arcades etc.
There's a lot of nail salons, hair salons, phone case stores, and bubble tea shops... Side by side, back to back. We wonder how they even get business like that.
There's a food court on the second floor, on one side. Every restaurant is packed tightly together, to maximize the number of restaurants in a single area. Some of the kitchen spaces is like less than 10 ft long. There's not much of a seating area. There are washrooms on the second floor at the end of the food court on both sides (men washroom on the left, woman washroom on the right). There's an Uncle Tetsu on the outside of the mall.
There's also a basement with I think some Japanese dollar store and some other shops.
To be honest, everything here is overpriced. It is a popular location to shop at. The food here feels pretty overpriced. The food court is small and messy (looking into some of the small restaurants, it looks unclean). Though sometimes you can find some rather good to cheap prices... Depending on what you buy or what you're looking for.
Come here for seeing new shops pop up or come here for the nostalgia.
There are Chinese herb stores, Asian snack shops, clothing stores, glasses store, bubble tea shops, camera equipment store, kitchen appliances stores, massage chair store, nail salons, hair salons, a medical clinic, dentist, optometrist, pharmacy, tattoo shops, anime/otaku stores, phone case stores, crane game arcades etc.
There's a lot of nail salons, hair salons, phone case stores, and bubble tea shops... Side by side, back to back. We wonder how they even get business like that.
There's a food court on the second floor, on one side. Every restaurant is packed tightly together, to maximize the number of restaurants in a single area. Some of the kitchen spaces is like less than 10 ft long. There's not much of a seating area. There are washrooms on the second floor at the end of the food court on both sides (men washroom on the left, woman washroom on the right). There's an Uncle Tetsu on the outside of the mall.
There's also a basement with I think some Japanese dollar store and some other shops.
To be honest, everything here is overpriced. It is a popular location to shop at. The food here feels pretty overpriced. The food court is small and messy (looking into some of the small restaurants, it looks unclean). Though sometimes you can find some rather good to cheap prices... Depending on what you buy or what you're looking for.
Come here for seeing new shops pop up or come here for the nostalgia.