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Reviewed by Toronto Life
  • 692 Mount Pleasant Rd. (at Eglinton Ave. E.) View on map »
  • 416-489-8922
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Editorial Review

Though it’s not quite as polished as Lai Wah Heen (its sister restaurant downtown), this elegant, modern Chinese room is nonetheless a worthwhile destination. The kitchen has an informed and steady hand with nouvelle-Cantonese cuisine, using such luxury ingredients as truffles, lobster (as in lobster bisque piqued with morels) and foie gras (in flaky dim sum pastry). Some preparations are admirably simple—the elevated, pitch-perfect take on homestyle clam soup with taro vermicelli bundles, for example—while ...

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