Dining Out: Sliced Beef with Bitter Melon, Sweet and Sour Pork, Fried Egg Tofu with Mushrooms, and Crispy Skin Chicken with Prawn Crackers at NKS Banquet Hall

With our flight back being delayed (to put this in perspective, we got to LaGuardia at 11:30AM and didn't get land in Toronto until 5:30PM) and that lox bagel from the morning long gone, it goes without saying that WE WERE FUCKING STARVING when we got back. It did not help that our driver took the 401, which even on a Sunday evening has bumper-to-bumper traffic, so that by the time we got back to my apartment, it was already 7:00PM, and we were HANGRY AF. We just dumped our luggage at my place, didn't even bother changing, and drove straight to my mom's go-to restaurant, NKS Banquet Hall, where her bestie met us for dinner. (I think after a few days in NYC, my mom was really missing Chinese food. And also the restaurant itself, which she frequents 5 days a week.) 

Sliced beef with bitter melon in black bean sauce
Sweet and sour pork
Fried egg tofu with mushrooms and broccoli
Crispy skin chicken with prawn crackers

We were so hungry that we didn't even wait for her BFF to arrive before we ordered. We got some favourite classics — the fried egg tofu with mushrooms and veg is a mainstay at all our dinners here, but we also got beef with bitter melon in black bean sauce (a dish I hated as a kid but LOVE, LOVE, LOVE as an adult), sweet and sour pork (a guilty pleasure — it has an insane amount of sugar), and crispy skin chicken with prawn crackers (a dish we haven't had in a long time because it's all fried and therefore also a guilty pleasure, but my mom was craving it and who am I to say no?). 

I don't know if it was because we starving, but every dish tasted particularly delicious, especially that crispy chicken, which was so perfectly cooked (and my god, I forgot just how delectable freshly fried prawn crackers are). There was a 70th birthday party going on while we were there so we had to listen to some truly hideous Chinese karaoke while eating, but other than that, this was another amazing meal at NKS Banquet Hall. Can't wait to back for Mid-Autumn Festival dinner!

NKS Banquet Hall

New Kennedy Square

8360 Kennedy Rd., Unit B06

Markham, ON L3R 9W5

(905) 948-8668