SHINYI Handmade Dumplings | dumpling house of 416 — Restaurant in Toronto

Used to be my REGULAR place for Sunday mapo tofu !! We go same timings after 10 pm

Today the 20$ mapo tofu was below low average! Sauce was thin, no garlic, no sauces Just Bland!

The server made effort to tell the chef Garlic was added on our request, lol there wasn’t even garlic !

Literally tasteless !!

I just had it in September, & in October seems like chef has changed !!

The server asked to re make but after serving 2nd time, i didn’t know what more the chef could do to change the flavor (when there was no flavor at all)

Sadly i won’t be visiting

The manager was not around ! Which was surprising as it was only 22:30 We weren’t even asked to pay less for the horrible tofu we ate !

A restaurant which cannot be courteous is out of my list !!

Good luck 🤞

PS- my previous review has been deleted ??!!! Seems like they have re-named their restaurant on google! As i had given them 5 stars before

Reply to the ? owner- Thank you for your reply

Your server herself told us there was a “Different” chef now ! I did not assume this actually

Secondly the watery & tasteless mapo tofu ‘s picture was clicked by your server & she still didn’t acknowledge to call the manager to address the concern or cancel our order! We were your regular weekly customers! If you don’t even treat your regular customers nicely, what should we expect more ??! That mapo tofu wasn’t even 5$, sichuan peppers were also not added !

Even after knowing all this, we had to forcibly take away mapo tofu as the only server present said “we had to pay”

If you own a restaurant in GTA, you should be extra careful where your regular customer dislikes your regular item

Anyway, please let us know when the Original chef is back & we can give last chance hopefully. 🙏🏻

Also, yes my review was there earlier & it has...

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