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257 Queen St. W. The young crowd is packed around tabletops decorated with laminated Chinese newspapers. Visitors include the entire Queen street variety, from City T.V. news anchors and techies to hipsters and families. Start with smoked salmon spring rolls ($3.95), crisped into twists. Indonesian rice balls ($1.95) are sesame-rolled sticky rice dipped in spices. The bowl of generic "Asian" mushroom soup ($2.95) is thick, with tart mushrooms and lemongrass. Warm tofu salad ($5.95) comes warm on a bed of diverse, fresh greens and crunchy taro chips. Chicken potstickers ($4.95) have tender flaked chicken in a soft shell, with spinach, ginger, water chestnuts, silky shiitake mushrooms and a green lemongrass sauce. The satay chicken vegetable chow fun ($8.25) delivers juicy marinated chicken on top of a heaping plate of thai-style noodles. Avoid the Thai noodles. The phad thai special ($7.95) is far too eggy though the beef is in tender chunks. |