Fat Choi — Restaurant in Toronto

Underwhelming and disappointing

Had the Peking pancake, sloppy jack and okonomiyaki. The flavours of Peking pancake just weren’t there, and it was a sad attempt to replicate the real thing. The sloppy jack’s flavours were lacking, though the bun helped to provide some substance. Meh. Okonomiyaki was disappointing dish. Lacked substance and depth.

Thank goodness for the Open Face Beet Maki. While mediocre at best, it was far better than any other dishes. The nori was nice as well as the overall flavours.

Sadly, that’s all the good news... We followed this with Stuffed Roti, Nasi Goreng, and daily Noodles. These dishes were carb heavy to make you feel full, but it was a poor and odd mix of flavours that just didn’t work well together.

One would hope for a tasty stuffed roti, but it was nowhere to be found. Have had so many rotis elsewhere that were very flavourful - truly disappointed.

Don’t get me started on the nasi goreng, let’s just say it was nasty goreng. Blah. Meh. You get the point.

The daily noodles lacked the “wok hay” that should star in this Malaysian dish. A below average dish to finish the main course.

Onto the desserts - pineapple pie and sticky ginger pudding. The pineapple pie was an odd creation, and it just didn’t work well. The sticky ginger pudding was sickeningly sweet... we left about half of each dessert, as it was too difficult to finish.

I came with an open mind, and was sorely disappointed. Maybe a clean slate revamp of the menu would help... I don’t know.

It’s an interesting concept, and if the food were tasty, it would do better. Price was high for what we ordered.

Very disappointing. I hope they can make their dishes tastier and do well with this concept, but they need to put in some hard work...

I was very excited to try this vegan Asian (Malaysian in this case) restaurant for my love of Asian food. I was lucky to secure a same day reservation and the checkin was smooth. The host was wonderful and the service was good overall. The atmosphere was pretty decent. Now talking about the food, I am a foodie and love exploring various cuisines and I rarely go to a restaurant to socialize but always for food. We ordered the feed me option and were excited to begin the tasteful journey. The first dish was rice cakes with radishes and onion and just 1 piece each for 2 people. Both the portion and the taste was very disappointing. The Kari puff was the 2nd dish, taste was ok, filing was dominated by seitan with no sight of chickpeas. Sharing 1 between 2 was ok. 3rd course was the seitan bao bun. The bbq seitan was sweet which was overwhelming and I had to use some Sambal to enhance the taste. 4th course was the wontons again dominated by seitan and that’s all. 5th course was flat rice noodles, bit over cooked, the noodles were broken and lots of pieces of seitan and very little mushroom. No dessert included for that price which was unfair. Overall the food was dominated by seitan and it was not a very pleasant experience. I asked to pack my main course and it was forced into the smallest container possible, wasn’t worth the price. The sambal was the star of the night otherwise. Overall not satisfied with the price to quality ratio. The drink was mediocre. I wish I could change my mind to give it...

I made a reservation a week in advance to take my daughter for a special birthday dinner. We got seated on very uncomfortable stools a few feet from the bar. As there was a table in the dining area free, I requested we be moved there but were told that someone reserved that table. When I reserved I was not given the option or made aware that you can choose seating so I realized this was a lie. The hostess/waitress did not offer to move us when something opened up she was very unapologetic and unprofessional. She neither guided us to the coat stand and one would not be able to hang ones coat on the stool, lol. For a restaurant that offers multiple small dishes to share they should have larger tables to accommodate this with a table large enough to actually fit the dishes. I noticed she was not our server and she probably saved the choice seating for her own guests We just left. Luckily we were a ten minute walk from Fresh where we were treated really well and seated in a beautiful space and ate at a fraction of the price. I heard really great things about Fat Choi and we were very excited to eat there but they failed on a very basic level. I worked in the food industry for years as a server so I am usually very understanding and not picky but this was stupid. It's not enough to serve good food especially when you are charging a lot, you have to be hospitable as well its a whole...