Restaurant Review: Legend House

By Sherman Chan,
Special to The Post

My search for the best Szechuan Water-Boiled Fish brought me out to Legend House in Coquitlam. 
Some dark soy would've made the Shanghai Rice Cake’s appearance and flavour more appealing. It was greasy. The rice cake slices were chewy while the cabbage, crunchy. The Beef Pancake Roll was flaky, fatty and crisp; it was as good as it appeared. 
We ordered a Szechuan Beef Noodle, but instead we got just a Beef Noodle with some hot sauce and mustard greens - a quasi-Taiwanese beef noodle dish. The big chunks of stewed beef were tender and moist while the hand-pulled noodles were chewy. The light broth had little meat flavour. There were barely any veggies in the Seafood & Snow Pea Stir-Fry dish. It was mostly basa, squid and prawns. 
We tried the Szechuan Broth Braised Fish. It had a good amount of tender and flaky slices of basa in a balanced broth atop crunchy sprouts. The spice level was conservative, even with the noticeable amount of Szechuan peppercorns. It was actually quite good. The Xiao Long Bao had a semi-thin skin that held in the considerable amount of soup. There wasn't any xiao shing wine flavour.
Lastly, we had the Pan Fried Buns. It had hand-chopped meat and green onions as a filling which was savoury with a tender meatiness ,  atypical of Dim Sum. 
Our dishes at Legend had certain creative liberties taken. However, they do have some pretty good XLBs and a solid Beef Roll. So if you order wisely, your meal might be decent at Legend House.

Sherman Chan is the #1 ranked food blogger on the Vancouver portal of Urbanspoon.com. Read more of his reviews at www.shermansfoodadventures.com.

Legend House
140-1169 Pacific Street, Coquitlam, BC

The Good:
• Pretty decent XLBs
• On point Beef Roll
• Free covered parking

The Bad:
• Hit and miss overall

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