Saturday, 15 April 2006

• Skyland De Shanghai Restaurant

  New restaurants pop up in Toronto all the time.  A family friend recommended a new restaurant called Skyland De Shanghai so I went with family to give it a try.

  Skyland De Shanghai is located at Steeles Ave. East and Silver Star Blvd.  It's become such a crowded area full of food like Destiny and the famous Starwalk Buffet.  Skyland is just behind the Scotiabank and beside Staples. It's not a really nice front entrance.  If it didn't have the name of the restaurant I would have thought it was an entrance to some small indoor mall or a supermarket.

  The inside is something you don't normally expect from a Chinese restaurant in Toronto

  It is a lot more fancy looking on the inside than you could have imagined from the outside. The chairs are sturdy but doesn't feel like you would want to sit for a long duration of time. The washroom features very stylish basins and unique facets.  If you look very closely, you will notice that they did cheap out with manual everything - no motion sensing auto facets, auto soup, and not even auto-flushing stalls.  The soup isn't even the foaming kind.  It's nice but you definitely know where they cut corners.  But for a Chinese place, as long as it's clean it's impressive. Let's move onto the food since we don't go to a restaurant to enjoy their restrooms.
  The first dish that arrived was beef and closely followed by seafood.  The dishes are fairly small but very tasty.  I this makes it a good place to go with a few people so you can enjoy a lot of different things while not over filling yourself. The next dish was a noodle type dish.  My sis wanted this dish since it had a really good chewy texture.  I have a feeling the noodle was very fresh as you can see the spiral pattern of the noodle instead of a pure flat glob as you get from other places.
  The last dish that arrived as fried duck.  It's pretty cute that they put it in a duck shaped basket.  Just an extra visual clue at what's in the dish.  The duck was very crispy but it was fairly dry.  I would probably not get this dish in the future. Overall it was good food and the bill wasn't high at all for the number of dishes you get.  I would recommend coming visit Skyland at least once.  This is not a place you'd eat often at since the variety of the dishes gets a bit boring.

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