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Restaurant Lotte Furama - CLOSED
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One review for Restaurant Lotte Furama
1 review in English
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Review from Ari S.
Ottawa, ON
9/5/2008
Forget the Kam Fung, the Lotte Furama has the best dim sum in Montreal. Plus it's triple the size so it's less cramped and there's less waiting. The restaurant probably holds over 200 people - it's Chinese banquet style on two floors with large round tables which makes it good for groups. For me, part of the fun is trying to figure out what you've been given (since most of the ladies going along with the cars dispensing the dim sum don't speak more than a few words of English or French). My personal rule is if I can't identify it as something I don't eat (like snails or chicken feet), I'll eat it.
A second part of the fun of going to the Lotte Furama is trying to get food. You can be absolutely starving and there are no carts in sight. Or the carts are only wheeling around unappetizing dishes that everyone else passed on. But then when fresh dishes arrive, they come in droves. It's feast or famine that way. On more than a few occasions, I've had to frantically wave my arms and practically chase down a cart when a popular dish is being wheeled around. The erratic service is part of the fun. As for the food, their shrimp dumplings are absolutely fantastic. I also recommend the fried calamari. For desert, the coconut pudding is tops (but can be hard to find - if you see it being wheeled around before you want dessert, just order it and set it aside on the table - otherwise, you might be sorry). It's hard to keep up with the tab but no matter how much I've eaten there (with groups ranging between 4 and 12), the bill always seems to work out to between 10 and 15 dollars per person.
