Asian Legend, Toronto - Northern Chinese Food

Tonight after an exhausting day at Wonderland we decided to go for dinner at Asian Legend. We decided to go to the one close to home at Brimley and Sheppard in Scarborough. It was busy and we ended up waiting almost 45min. Weekends are crazy there. It's better to go early.

By the time we got a table we were starving. Here is a run down of our dinner.

Appetizers:

Jellyfish salad (Served cold, has a slight sesame oil flavour)
Steamed Soup Filled Pork Dumplings (they are famous for these soup filled dumplings. Caution when eating them because if you bite it incorrectly the hot soup can squirt out)
Glutinous Rice Roll with Meat Floss (one of my favourites)

Onion Pancake
Main Dishes:
Shredded Pork with Pickled Vegetables Noodle Soup
Chunky Beef with Noodles Soup
Chicken and Salty Fish Fried Rice
Dessert:
Crispy Fried Banana with Honey (this is usually one of my favourites but tonight was disappointing. It is a banana fritter dipped in a candy syrup and when it is dipped in ice water becomes like a hard candy shell...much like a candy apple. So it should be a crispy candy shell outside and a warm banana fritter inside but tonight the water wasn't cold enough so the candy coating didn't harden. I was very disappointed.

20 comments:

  1. The meal looks pretty good overall but I'm sorry that your favorite dessert was disappointing.

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  2. Oooo...jellyfish salad. I've never seen that before. Awesome meal you have there. =)

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  3. Oh I love fried Bananas. SS that it did not harden properly for u.

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  4. i would love to learn how to make the onion pancake :-)

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  5. lol..the bannana fritter looks very tiny!

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  6. I really dont know much about chineese food, but I have been seeing those kind of pancakes all over the net lately and I really want to try it :D

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  7. Those pancakes look really good!

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  8. Yum! Too bad about the banana fritter.

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  9. The pancake idea looks so tasty and should be easy to do? We always like your posts. Best from Santa Barbara, s

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  10. Aw, I'm homesick now. Good thing I'm off to Taipei soon. Otherwise I'd be staring at your post for hours just drooling.

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  11. I just drove by Asian Legend but have never been there. This looks SO delicious, especially the onion patties!

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  12. The beef soup and soup-filled dumplings look fantastic. It's too bad about the banana fritter.

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  13. I like the look and sound of that pancake. What a meal. But the jelly fish salad? Hmmmmm...not sure I would even venture to try it, mostly because of the anticipated texture turn off.

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  14. Everything looks amazing. I could go for a jelly fish salad right now. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. These restaurant food posts are making me so hungry! I haven't had really great Chinese food in what seems like ages - I think we need to plan a trip to Toronto!

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  16. Excellent post. What a fantastic meal.

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  17. wow.....yummy as usual!...THANK YOU!!!

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  18. Some of my favorites! Love jellyfish, scallion pancake, and soup dumplings and the salted fish fried rice is my dad's favorite. Never had the glutinous rice roll with the meat floss but will be sure to look out for it!

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  19. Great pictures---- though the thought of eating jellyfish gives me the creeps! What does it taste like?

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  20. One of my regular dinner places as well. I love the dish with beef and scallion wrapped in flat bread.

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