Hong Kong/Asian Style Restaurant Desserts

This past weekend, relatives from many cities, including Hong Kong, Singapore and New York gathered in Toronto for a big reunion.  It was four nights of dinners (plus one luncheon hosted by yours truly) featuring three nights of Asian food (two nights of Chinese and one of Chinese inspired Japanese) and one catered by DelectablyChic! […]

Lee Chen Asian Diner, Part 2: The Mains

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Shanghainese-style dumplings at Lee Chen Asian Diner.  That was Part 1.  Part 2 is  about their main courses.  The menu at Lee Chen is somewhat smaller than many other Chinese/Asian restaurants, but many favourites, such as kung pao chicken and sweet and sour pork can be found.  […]

Christmas and Dim Sum = Craziness!

It’s true what they say about Chinese restaurants and Christmas Day.  They’re crazy busy!  I think the only day worse than December 25 is the first day of the Lunar New Year.  While most Chinese people in Canada actually DO celebrate Christmas, at least in some form, dim sum seems to be the preferred way […]