Macey's

I remember growing up and hating eating at Chinese restaurants.  My mom cooked Chinese food at home every day, why do we need to eat at Chinese restaurants when we eat out?  I'm not sure if it's because I realize the complexity in cooking Chinese food, even the simplest of dishes, or if it's because I no longer eat Chinese food every night for dinner.  Occasionally I get cravings for fried noodles, fried rice etc.

My coworker introduced me to Macey's.  The restaurant itself is nothing special, in fact, it looks as if it needs a makeover.  But I was told, that usually it's regulars that come to eat here.  Thats a sign of a good restaurant.  We ordered beef and wonton soup rice noodle, baked Portuguese chicken on rice and boiled choy sum.

Beef and wonton soup rice noodle was pretty good.  The beef was very tender, and not fatty.  The wontons were a good size, and made only with shrimp, no pork as filler.  It was very 'crunchy'.

Beef& Wonton Rice Noodle

Boiled choy sum, you can't really screw that up.  In case anyone is wondering why it looks so 'dull', I asked for no oil.

Boiled Choy Sum

Baked Portuguese chicken on rice.  This was my favourite. I find that most restaurants that do this dish put too much coconut milk into it, and it ends up tasting like coconut curry sauce.  Also, the rice was fried rice underneath with plenty of 'wok hay'.  I thought we would have food left over for lunch the next day.....but it was so good that I kept picking at it, and we finished it all.

Baked Portuguese Chicken Rice

Macey's
780 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W,
Mississauga, ON
L5C 3X3
905-306-0080

Dr. Laffa

I was watching an episode of You Gotta Eat Here! and, seen the pictures on my friend's FB page showing pictures of falafels in laffa bread.  I needed to try it out.  Worked out quite well that a friend visiting from Hong Kong, who previously lived in Toronto, missed hummus and baba ganoush.  My excuse to try Dr. Laffa.  They have two locations,  one near Dufferin and Steeles, in an industrial area.  The other is along Bathurst, south of the 401.  We went to the Bathurst location first, but it was so busy with no place to sit and chat, we drove to the Dufferin and Steeles location.

Laffa bread is more similar to naan bread than pita bread, and a little bit crispier.  It's very light and fluffy, and HUGE.  We didn't realize how big the portions were until it was too late.  For 3 people, we ordered 2 schwarmas and an appetizer plate.  The appetizer plate had hummus, baba ganoush, eggplant salad, and a whole bunch of other stuff.  For the laffa sandwiches  you need to order at the sandwich counter because you need to tell them what fillings to put in.  There were so many more fillings than I have ever been offered when ordering schwarma in a pita.  They had the traditional hummus, tahini, pickles etc.  But they also had corn, and roasted carrots.  So delicious.  The size of the laffa sandwich was so massive!, bigger than a large burrito from Burrito Boys!  We should have ordered 1 laffa sandwich and 1 appetizer plate and that would have been perfect.

Will definitely go back if the mood for schwarma hits!

Schwarma in Laffa

Appetizer Plate

Laffa Bread

Dr. Laffa
401 Magnetic Dr. Unit 39
Toronto, ON
M3J 3H9

Hours:  Sunday - Thursday 11am - 10pm
             Friday 11am - 3pm
             Saturday CLOSED

http://www.drlaffa.com

Kenzo Ramen

I remember the original Kenzo Ramen located at Yonge and Steeles.  I'm not sure if it was that I didn't have other options to compare it to, or if it really did taste that good.  But I definitely remember it being a very good soup noodle place to go to.  Nowadays, theres so many ramen restaurants to choose from, but I wanted to try Kenzo again to compare to the new ones that have popped up.  I paid a visit to the newly opened Kenzo near my work place.  I was severely disappointed.  The soup base was full of MSG.  The noodles looked like the frozen ones I could buy at the supermarket.  The chasiu was dry.  I have pictures of what we ordered, but I can't remember what the names of the noodles were.  In any case, not that it matters, because I won't be going back to Kenzo.

Kenzo Ramen
720 Burnhamthorpe Rd.
Mississauga, ON
L5C 3X3
905-766-4136

http://www.kenzoramen.ca/index.php