Flavorful House - Review - Richmond Hill - Toronto - The Infatuation

"This Cantonese restaurant up in Richmond Hill specializes in labor-intensive dishes you’ll need to preorder, like deep-fried chicken wings stuffed with sticky rice. Or the seasonal eight treasure winter melon soup. Double-boiled for six hours with conch, scallop, and jinhua ham inside the gourd itself until the flesh is sweet and translucent, it could be a meal in itself. But then you'd miss out on juicy roast squab with snappy skin, or the encyclopedic list of cooked-to-order seafood, including white eel steamed with intensely umami ingredients like fermented black bean and dried orange peel. The room is loud and full of energy, with plastic tablecloths and spinning lazy susans, but also elaborate tableside service. It’s a family-friendly madhouse during peak hours, so book ahead, and even then expect to wait while the hostess juggles a mile-long list of names." - Renée Suen