Jin Cheng Bakery

We planned to go to House of Gourmet for lunch, but a detour to the bank brought us to the Dundas outlet of Jin Cheng Bakery, a suburban Taiwanese bakery chain. I've been many times to Jin Cheng bakeries in North York and Markham (at Metro Square, or "Little Taipei", Steeles just west of Warden), so seeing this initially didn't faze me. However, we caught sight of a sign advertising lunch specials, which you can't get at the suburban outlets. So we checked it out.
They have a bunch of lunch specials ranging from pork chop to rice-wine chicken to Taiwanese-style meatballs. It's served cafeteria-style, with your choice of three sides, plus soup and rice. You get all this for $5.75 all in.

Amit got this pork roll along with some spicy tofu, turnip, and green bean sides, as well as a shredded pork bun with flaky top. Looked good.
I had Taiwanese-spiced chicken with curry, spicy tofu, and some kind of savoury melon as sides. The chicken, which they call "popcorn chicken" has pepper and spices, but it's not hot. It came fresh from the kitchen though, and it was very good. The curry is almost like a Japanese-style curry - not too spicy but pretty flavourful. The tofu was mildly spicy with a lot of garlic flavour. The tofu flavour really came through, which was nice. The melon was good too. On the rice they put some sauce from a pork and egg stew, which was actaully kind of nice because you could taste the egg flavour. Overall, pretty tasty and a good change of pace from the other places. I'd definitely go again.