The instance I stepped int
o the welcoming, ultra-high ceiling, contemporary and brightly lit dining space of this new Markham culinary landscape addition. I immediately have a good premonition regarding the outcome of our impending dining experience. According to expectation, this new concept indeed yielded a most gratifying and enlightening dining interlude.
Offering either a fixed menu or a-la-carte option, we decided on the more flexible ALC alternative. Starting off by choosing a Thai coconut base broth for the hot-pot, we followed up by picking our favorite protein ingredients of fatty beef, scallops, mussels, snakehead fish filet, and shrimp paste. To that, we augmented them with additional house signature Thai Yellow Curry Crab and Prawns dishes, Pineapple Fried rice and Crispy Thai Basil Chicken balls. For crafting our own individual dipping sauce mix, a self-serve sauce counter, featuring at least a dozen sauces and condiments….including some super-spicy Thai chili concoctions, were proudly displayed.
To round off our meal, an impressive AYCE dessert buffet bar, containing a pot-pourri of differently flavored and exotic jellies and puddings were offered……Grass jelly, Mulberry jelly, Passionfruit jelly, Sawdust pudding, Coffee Panna-cotta, Coconut sago dessert soup with watermelon…… to name a few. An array of soft-ice cream machines were also located nearby!
Overall, the meal was a wonderfully fun, whimsical and enjoyable experience. Taste and texture profile was alluring, exotic and in some cases out of the ordinary. Quantity of food, in part due to the generous dessert offering, was quite overwhelming, resulting in us feeling full to the gilt!
Worthy of a separate mentioning was the service……. very helpful, friendly and atten
