Morals Village

Chinese Hot Pot!

My coworker recommended Morals Village over Little Sheep - he said the food was fresher and the sauce bar was better.  After my previous experience with Little Sheep, I was all for trying Morals Village to forget my bad memories of Chinese hot pot.

You get a two hour limit at the tables and once you choose your soup base (of which there are MANY), you'll have enough time to run over to the sauce bar and play around with all their choices:

Hoisin sauce and scallions and regular soy sauce.

Then you can choose your veggies/meats, which they bring to your table in these dishes.




Hot pot time!


After hot pot, you get to have a refreshing ice cream dessert:


Overall: Food was really tasty at Morals Village; they had a wide variety of soup bases, and a lot of options for veggies and meat. It was much better than Little Sheep.

Sushi Gen

They have AYCE sushi, but we weren't that hungry, so we opted for a la carte. 

Miso soup and salad

Salmon Teriyaki Bento box

Reasonably priced dinner bento box with tempura, rolls, a huge piece of salmon, spring rolls, gyoza and rice. 

Maki combo B: California Rolls, BBQ eel rolls and spicy salmon rolls

It was okay - filling at least. 

Overall: Quick service and reasonable prices for sushi. 

31 Kitchen

Update: Restaurant has closed.

Jan 1, 2016

House Special Super Golden Sago mixed with Mango Ice Cream

Pretty epic dessert

Mango pudding and Taro Coconut Milk with Sago

Two of my favourite Chinese desserts! The pudding was pretty good with chunks of sweet mango and the taro coconut milk with sago was okay - a little on the watery side, but there was a lot of taro and sago. 

Taro toast

Apparently I don't really learn (see below)- but I was hungry and I haven't had taro toast in 5 years!

31 Kitchen Special Golden Toast (Strawberry version)

This was pretty crazy and intense for dessert with ice cream, strawberry whipped cream, chocolate & strawberry sauce and all that toast.  Although, we did learn that inside was this: 

Instead of actual pieces of toast, it was hollowed out and there were toasted pieces of bread inside...

November 11, 2011

I went to 31 Kitchen with a friend of mine and her friend from high school for Chinese Desserts. I have been really craving a Taiwanese dessert called Taro toast (Taro Butter on Brick Toast) for a while, so I was really hoping that 31 Kitchen (formerly The Sugar) would have some and luckily they did! However, the process of actually getting my toast took forever...we were there at 10pm and got our orders and our drinks, but I think I waited like 45 minutes to an hour for my Taro toast and it looked like the picture above (not particularly appetizing). So I was pretty disappointed, then when I actually had it - I wasn't a big fan of it either. 

I like REALLY sweet things and the last Taro toast I tried was in Waterloo at a teashop near the University of Waterloo campus called Sweet Dreams. The Taro toast at Sweet Dreams was bright purple (probably because they used the Taro bubble tea powder to make the butter) and the butter was totally drenched on the toast and it was absolutely yummy. So in comparison to that, I was quite disappointed with the Taro Toast. However, my friend said that the dumplings and waffles were really good there - so maybe I just ordered the wrong thing...Oh well, maybe next time.

Website: http://www.31kitchen.com/

Peoples Eatery

My friend was back in town and wanted to try out Peoples Eatery in the heart of Chinatown.

We got their tasting menu and started off with a platter

Smoked fish platter
The fish is smoked in-house and presented with sides of capers, radishes, cucumbers.
I thought the entire platter was really nicely done and the fish was delicious!

Croquettes with Indian butter sauce


Tofu with sauce
The tofu was crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy inside.


Whitefish salad with wasabi and toast and skewers of apple and ham/prosciutto
I really liked the crispy bagel toast and whitefish with wasabi.

Moroccan Eggplant
Interesting...but not the best eggplant I've eaten (I really like the Chinese version at Maple Yip or Shinobu's Japanese version)


Salad




Peking Duck

The cooked duck dish (that goes with the Peking Duck)


Dessert

Overall: An interesting eclectic fusion experience.

Website: http://www.peopleseatery.com/

Fat Bastard Burrito

My friend and I weren't hungry enough for individual burritos, so we decided to split a huge burrito: 

Baked Chicken Burrito

This was definitely huge! The two halves actually ended up being like two individual burritos. 

It was okay taste-wise; value-wise, it's a good option since they pack so much of the ingredients into the burrito. 

Tostos Quickfire Pizza Pasta

Tostos is a relatively new pizza and pasta place on Bay a little north of College.  We came here for celebratory lunch. 

Aragosta - Linguine, Lobster, Garlic olive oil, cherry tomatoes, capers and chili flakes

The concept of this sounded really good; unfortunately, it ended up being way too much olive oil, salt & pepper and it overwhelmed the dish.  They did put in a lot of lobster though, but it wasn't really a balanced dish.

Website: http://tostoquickfire.ca/