Thursday, May 6, 2010
The GOOF AKA Garden gate "good food" - 2379 Queen St. E
The hour is late. The place is empty. It's decorated like some sort of Havana diner. but they serve "Chinese" food. By Chinese food I mean Asian-themed white people food. Standard fare. Ginger beef, sliced pork, egg roll, chow mein, won ton soup.
It takes forever to get service, the food is cold; the food is NOT delicious.
Now don't get me wrong, I love crappy Asian-themed white people food. Ask anyone I love MSG. Pour it on, tastier than salt. Gimme gimme. In the University food court near my dorm back in Alberta, there was a "Chinese" food place that had so much MSG in some dishes that YOU. GOT. HIGH. 7000 students would stumble away from there every day a little bit changed; then we would learn about Neitzche and conservative economics and god and all the other fake things that Albertans believe in.
The food at The Goof (so named as an abbreviation of the "GOOD FOOD" label on the neon sign) is still frozen when it arrives on your plate. In my girlfriend's words "I would rather throw up than have that inside of me. When BURNT ONIONS are the only thing saving your dish, you have a problem".
It's terrible. Don't listen to your friends. it's bad. No, i don't care that they've been a landmark on the beaches since 1952. Maybe the food used to be good. but now it tastes like freezerburn and other stuff that makes me want to end this article.
Don't bother with the Goof.
It gets my lowest honour The Manwich CN TOWER. I built it myself. True story. Tallest freestanding structure built out of Manwich in the world.
...though Manwich may actually taste BETTER than food from the goof.
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