This year's Mid-Autumn Festival dinner with my mom and her bestie at NKS Banquet Hall:
Deep-fried stuffed tofu with broccoli
Stir-fried sirloin beef with broccoli and candied walnuts
Garlic-fried pork ribs
Sliced beef with bitter melon in black bean sauce
It was surprisingly busy, even though we got there at 5:30PM. We didn't make a reservation because we figured no one ate dinner that early (honestly, I'm just starving by the time I'm done work at 5:00PM because I don't eat snacks after lunch) but there was a random karaoke event for a retirement home that was going on (let me tell you, my ears were about to bleed with the amount of tone-deaf screeching I heard), so they had to section of 3/4 of the restaurant and we got one of two tables they had left for walk-ins. I'm guessing every other table was reserved for Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the same reason we were there. For the first time ever, we watched the staff having to turn people away.
Either way, we ordered some of our favourites, and I guess they either didn't get their grocery order for the week yet or it was too busy all weekend, because I saw one server running out of the restaurant and coming back with packages of bitter melon, and then another server coming back ten minutes later with a bag full of egg tofu. (There is a Chinese supermarket in the same building, which must be very convenient for them.) Still, the food came out amazing (except for the diced chicken with walnuts, which was tasty enough, but was so unphotogenic, I'm not even going to post it here), so they clearly work well under pressure. Because during the whole time we were eating, we saw at least eight Peking ducks going out along with full set menus for at least ten other tables. Their chefs are fucking champs.
I hope everyone had an amazing Mid-Autumn Festival!
NKS Banquet Hall
New Kennedy Square
8360 Kennedy Rd., Unit B06
Markham, ON L3R 9W5
(905) 948-8668
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