New Choice Restaurant

A casual family dinner featuring delightful, well cooked food but sadly marred by some aggressive, crabby service and devious business practice!

The five noteworthy and delicious dishes we ordered tonight included the following:
– Fried Pork Chop with Thousand Island Sauce
– Sauteed Veal Short-Ribs with onions and Teriyaki Sauce
– Stir fried Lotus Roots and House Cured Salted Pork with Brown Fermented
Bean Curd.
– Stir Fried Giant Propeller Clam with XO sauce
– Fried head-on Prawns with Salted Duck Egg Yolk Coating

Execution of the above captioned deeply complex and exotic tasting dishes were near flawless. The finger licking, fried prawns with salted egg yolk was one of the best renditions I have come across. Unlike a lot of overly cooked and dried versions, New-Choice perfectly timed and well seared Veal short-ribs was a pleasure to eat, the sweet and savory gooey sauce, vivid and delectable tasting.
The uncommon, stir fried Propeller Clams was crunchy and sweet, the umami packed and slightly spicy hot XO sauce, a well chosen partner. Both the Pork Chops and Lotus Roots are smothered with more tasty and gooey sauce. Excellent companion with plain rice.

Now comes the sad part of the meal! Our arrival was first greeted by a smiling lady server who made a quick 180 degree ‘grouchy’ turn around when we did not follow up with ordering the extravagant and expensive dishes she recommended. Eg., $15 each, Diver Scallops in the Shell, steamed cooked on a bed of minced garlic or using $29 per pound lobster instead of our preferred, less expensive head-on Prawns.

A mandatory add-on service charge is an extremely rare sight amongst GTA Chinese restaurants. If at all, such practice is usually found in higher-end eating establishments for a larger group. However, tonight, our bill arrived unannounced with a ‘ stealthily hidden ‘ 13% service charge already applied. We found no such gratuity policy printed on the menu nor did our server make such mention when the bill was delivered!….dishonest and deceitful!

Jang. This place is good value. Open late at night after your 9:30 pretty much there are no good restaurants. Would definitely come back, service is good.
Rec beef with sizzling plate, it’s a custom request and worth the additional $3.
A-choy with beancurb is really good too.
All in all another A grade restaurant.

Cash / Debit only (12% service charge will be automatically added for Debit).

* Lunch special $10 乾炒牛河 Beef stir fried flat rice noodles with free milk tea / coffee
* 枝竹羊腩煲 Braised lamb in hotpot

We came here and picked the Fry Pigeon 4 dishes combo. Kids ask for sweet and sour pork so we paid a small fee to switch that in-lieu of the vinegar ribs on the menu.

Sweet and sour pork turns out great, kids loved it. fish filet with veggies came out next, fish are definitely the frozen type but they cooked them reasonably well. So the dish turns out not bad at all. Then came the lobster, it was smaller than I expect for a 4 person combo, May be it’s off-season but I could have used more meat on the shells! Taste was a little oily and salty than my liking. Pigeon, star of the meal came out finally, it’s done right, not too dry, crispy and meaty. The size is not the big kind but good enough.

We feel like adding a stir fry cramps, it’s fresh but again too oily and salty for my taste. Overall, it’s not a bad meal.

I really have to question their sanitation practices. One of the items I purchased had three pieces of what appears to be elastic bands in it. Of course, I did not eat the meal. Called to report the find, they said they cannot give a refund they only can replace the meal….really? They think I would eat another meal from them after finding foreign items in my meal. That was my first visit, I will not be going back there.