Health Herb and Harmony.

chinese desserts... So, I haven't had chinese desserts (or Tong Sui) in Toronto for awhile. A couple friends and I went to Health Herb and Harmony for some desserts after a pork bone soup dinner. There were three of us, so we ordered a bunch of stuff so that we could each try some of everything. When you get here, the place is pretty spacious and chill. It isn't like a bubble tea place as its more dedicated to Chinese traditional desserts. We ordered a cold almond soup sago thing where you could pick three fruits (choices included mango, honey dew, strawberry, sea coconut, papaya and some other stuff). That was pretty good and very refreshingly tasty. The next dessert we ordered was a hot walnut soup. This was quite thick and not too sweet, both the almond and walnut soup had lots of walnut/almond flavour and it didn't seem like the usual mix type ones at other restaurants. We also decided to grab Tong Yuen (which is a Chinese dessert type dumpling; glutinous rice balls filled with sweet black sesame). These were loaddded with sesame and came in a very pleasant smelling sweet ginger soup. The final dish we ordered took longer to prepare as it was the Steamed Milk with Papaya (ginger juice is an extra $0.50). This dish had a bunch of papaya chunks steamed with it. For a restuarant, I would say that it was pretty high quality. You could taste a bit of egg in it as well. I can make this much better at home but it was pretty good still. Next time I make it at home I'm going to add some fruits in it as well.
Quick Notes: Don't order the curry fish balls. It is expensive ($4/4) and it didn't taste that good either. Stick with the desserts at this place. If you wanna check it out, its at the Times Square Plaza (Highway 7/Leslie). The restaurant is facing Leslie. The 4 desserts + Curry Fish Balls came to around $25 (after tax/tip).

• the menu is huge! (over 500+ items), take your time with ordering
• when ordering, you check off what you want on a sheet which is in Chinese (ordering takes a while if you can't read Chinese as you need to match the corresponding number on the English menu to the Chinese selection sheet.