Woo Buffet Restaurant and Lounge.

WRITTEN and EATEN by Felica Yu

We ditched Eggspectations for brunch to come try out this new place at Dundas and Yonge, right next to the AMC theatre that had just opened a month ago. It’s a buffet restaurant that turns into a lounge with “really great drinks”, as recommended by one of the super friendly waiters there.

The lunch is $12.95, while dinner is $22.95. For lunch, I think it was a really decent deal. The interior décor was spacious, chic and very clean with lots of seating. The buffet bar consists of 5 counters that had a variety of food items:

Sashimi and Makis: Salmon and snapper sashimi were pretty fresh, so I enjoyed quite a few pieces of that. Maki’s weren’t that extraordinary looking, with the typical California, unagi, vegetarian rolls. The had a smoked salmon vegetable roll (see picture) that was quite interesting if you flavour it up with wasabi and soy sauce. I really enjoyed the Calamari salad, which consisted of spicy, well-flavoured slices of squid with mixed vegetables.Salad bar: There were quite a few selections, from the plain mixed greens and romaine lettuce leaves with 3 or 4 dressings for your to mix up, to more exciting selections such as the mango salad – a zesty blend of sourness, sweetness and spiciness that is fit to take on most mango salads you get in thai restaurants. They also deviled eggs, mixed fruit salads that were also very good.Dim Sum and the Big Meats: Shrimp dumplings, sticky rice pork, siu mai were all present. They were better than the freezers ones you microwave at home…but the Kalbi (Korean bbq beef ribs) were just as good as the ones you get from Korean restaurants, and the bbq pork ribs were well flavoured, and fall-off-the-bone tender.

Chinese Stir-Fry: There were a lot of Mandarin-like dishes, the typical vegetable stir fries, lots of tempura (I think they might’ve tempura-ed Maki too..not sure), mussel in black bean sauce, chicken curry Chinese style, shanghai noodles, fried rice, the usual deliciousness that you find in Asian buffets.

The Sweet stuff: Fruits were very fresh, the pineapples and strawberries were sweet and juicy. They had a good selection of around 8 types of ice cream and frozen yogurt, but only 1 cake and some macroons for dessert. As with most Asian buffets, the dessert’s pretty weak so don’t get too excited about that.

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Felicia Yu (aka Fei, Wenfei, Fi) is the newest Guest Star/ Guest Writer for Good Food Toronto. She is another student who loves food-eating it, taking pictures of it, living it! She's from UT, lives downtown and eats out in the area all the time.