九九烩面 Square Noodle — Restaurant in Toronto

I was excited to come here for my son's birthday as his favourite thing to eat is "soupy noodles"

We ordered the braised beef noodle soup, the house signature lamb and the crispy pork.

The broth for the lamb soup was delicious, clean, peppery and fragrant. Good amount of lamb that didn't taste gamey.

The Braised beef was OK, usually it's our go-to, but we surprisingly preferred the lamb soup.

The crispy pork was the complete opposite of crispy. I believed it was probably deep fried and then steamed or braised afterwards. The flavor of the spice combination was interesting and flavourful and turned out to be my son's favourite dish, just the texture was completely different than what we expected.

Atmosphere was nice, it's bright, clean and inviting, even the washroom was very clean.

The service however is where we felt the establishment was lacking. We were a party of 4, coming in around 4:30pm, so not during busy time. we ordered and even after the our first dish arrived, we only had cutlery servings for a party of 2, no water or tea was offered or brought to the table and we had no bowls. I called for our server who either didn't hear us or just didn't respond until another staff asked us what we wanted and our original server mumbled something and then just walked away, waiting for the other server to get us water, bowls and cutlery.

TLDR: lamb noodles tasty, service, not so...

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