new century restaurant used to be a go to spot while growing up in this area, and since they have…read morerenovated, the decor is clean and luxurious. they removed the cart ladies and have a pen and paper to order food now, which seems pretty standard. we ordered 40 items so we expected a bit of a wait for everything, but came in a timely manner! Food was delicious and the families favourites is the rice rolls, from beef, pork, then shrimp. we enjoyed all the classics and would definitely continue to go for morning dimsum, but they do get busy

New Century will feed a large group. Their lobster, Dungeness crab, and sea bass combo for eight…read more($798) would satisfy ten or twelve. The individual New Century slow boiled soup is hardest to share but secure some empty bowls and you can divide the hefty portion. In the winter, there's a silkiness to the piping hot consommé that sooths a dry throat and has an umami essence infused with abalone, ginseng, and pork. There's plenty to choose from in the house signature combo platter including roasted duck, soy sauce chicken, BBQ pork, pork slices, and seaweed salad. Saving my stomach for the later dishes, I had a taste of the duck (a good start with crispy skin) and BBQ pork (satisfactory and well flavoured). With the generous portion of chicken in the combo platter, the slow cooked chicken with abalone broth seemed like overkill. I've never been a huge fan of this dish that's served cold since I prefer chicken hot. Still, I understand it's the jelly layer between the skin and meat that people enjoy. And to be fair, the chicken was tender, and New Century certainly didn't skimp on the ginger and scallion oil. For those who tend to fill-up before the "main dishes", the stars of the combo arrive mid-meal. The stir-fried Vancouver crabs with silver fish in HK style spicy sauce needs to be eaten at arrival as the crunchy coating is best straight from the fryer. And despite not looking spicy, the dish has a light heat that permeates in the background. Additionally, the crab was fresh and meaty, cooked well so it remained delicately flakey. The amount of sweet and sticky sauce used in the stir-fried lobsters with scallion in Maggie sauce was well balanced, lightly covering the crustaceans. Both lobsters were substantial; even after eating many pieces, we still had plenty of leftovers. This is a long review head to Gastro World for the rest.

This is our favourite yum-cha place in Toronto. We'd be there every week if it wasn't for the…read moreCALORIEEEEEES! It is a feel-good place which has been around forever. They've retained the same staff for decades who remember their customers. The food: 4.5/5 for the har-gao, generously stuffed with beautiful, fresh shrimps. Extremely delicious. Wrapper was ever so slightly thick, -05 star. 5/5 for the char-sieu cheung fan. Pork was surprisingly lean which added to the deliciousness. 5/5 for the huge "wonton" in soup, stuffed with octopus, conpoy, pork and mussels. A DELICIOUS SURPRISE. 1,000/5 for my favourite menu item the curry cuttlefish. Tender, not over-steamed, light curry flavour. Sublime. How I love Tak Fu. It warm, it's welcoming, it's loud, it's laughter, it's the sound of happiness! Reminds me of the restaurants in Kowloon.

Tak Fu even prices things the old-school way (by dish, no specials) with categories ranging from…read more$5.99 (S) to $9.99 (SP). Tea's a humble $1.50 a person, softening the blow of slightly higher food prices. So, what's so special about Tak Fu? Start with the siu mai or steamed pork dumpling ($7.99). Most places pulverize the pork into springy meatballs. Not here. The pork is hand-chopped, juicy, and tender, breaking apart easily with each bite. Finely diced mushrooms add a hit of umami, while a plump shrimp crowns the top instead of being hidden inside - simple, balanced, and traditional. Then there's the har gow or De fu steamed shrimp dumpling ($8.99). The shrimp are properly cleaned and not over-tenderized, keeping their natural flavour and crunch. They're cooked just right, encased in a slightly thick but satisfyingly elastic wrapper. The steamed bean curd roll with satay sauce ($7.99) is dense and hearty... half a roll will do. Its filling leans pork-and-cabbage heavy, more like a spring roll in taste, so it's not as exciting flavour-wise but still comforting. For a contrast, the steamed rice noodle roll with fried dough in special style ($7.99). The hot, crunchy fritter wrapped in silky rice noodle is spot-on texturally, though the hoisin and sesame sauces could be thicker. Maybe they're thinned out for easier pouring? The steamed rice noodle roll with BBQ pork ($7.99) is stuffed to the gills with big chunks of meat and nothing else. Pair any rice roll with the congee with preserved egg and pork ($8.99) and you've got a hearty solo meal. The pork's properly seasoned, the preserved egg plentiful, and the texture rich and smooth. For something lighter, go for the dried scallop & seafood dumpling in soup ($8.99). It takes time, but arrives piping hot with a massive dumpling stuffed with shrimp, octopus, scallop, mushrooms, and BBQ pork - generous and satisfying. The deep-fried squid ($9.99) might just be the best I've had: crisp, tender, and barely battered. There's also plenty of it to go around. Say what you will, Tak Fu doesn't skimp on portions. Even their fried rice noodle with beef ($13.99) impresses. Sliced beef, bean sprouts, and onions get a good kiss of wok hay, and those caramelized onion bits add a hit of flavour. A solid, classic version. If you can wait half an hour, end with the steamed milk ($7.99) for dessert. Lightly sweet, perfumed with ginger, it's a silky, nostalgic treat you won't find in many places anymore.

Our second visit…read more High quality frozen yum-cha and other assorted Cantonese delights. This is the best quality we have found. Excellent products without a lardy after taste, spotlessly clean, top-grade freezers and pleasant service. Highly recommend.

Bought their gift voucher for moon cake and promised to be available for pickup until Oct 8. Oct 6…read moreis the mid-autumn festival which is important festival needs moon cake to celebrate. Went there on Oct 5, no more moon cake to pickup. They said to give back refund. A promise is a promise especially doing business and it is the first year they sell gift voucher. They screwed up and just treated it as not their fault just said refund. So disappointed.

To satisfy food hunger while not spending too much, this is the place. Our group of 4 was perfectly…read morefed for a bill price hovering around $100. I also appreciate how they have unique food items on rotation that they wheel around the restaurant in carts. They would ask if you would be interested in the food they have available. We had bean curd tofu, and siomai among many others. I wish they have more sweet sauce available on the side for the bean curd. The siomai was good and stuffed. Price value of the food was excellent. Their service was not. For a non-Chinese speaking customer, you would get the bare essentials service. You can place an order, ask for utensils, get your food served, and ask for the bill. For anything else like asking for food recommendations or a description of what the food is or clarification of the menu item, you are out of luck. Our server had difficulty communicating properly in English. When we asked if we can have more of the black sweet sauce for the beancurd, our waiter just gave us some soy sauce.

Service 4/5 Food 4/5…read moreAmbience 3.75/5 This is a casual family style restaurant offering a dinner and dim sum menu. We attended a dinner on a Sunday evening. The restaurant was very accommodating with the size of our group. We were to be 17 but changed to 13 people at the last minute. Our reservation was for 5:00pm. They offered a large table to seat 10 and the table beside to seat up to 7. We decided to squeeze all 13 onto the table for ten. It was a tight squeeze but we would be able to see everyone. Our friends did the ordering for the meal. We had a ton of dishes coming out with several dishes coming at the same time and no space left on the lazy susan for all the food. We had to leave a few of the dishes on another vacant table behind our table until there was space for those dishes of food. We wanted to order the oysters but that was already sold out. We had a total of 17 dishes ordered and no leftovers (wow!) My favourite dishes of the evening: - [ ] Peking duck. The wraps were super soft and thin. The duck skin was crispy which I really enjoy. - [ ] Salt pepper fried calamari - [ ] Dry lobster - [ ] Lobster on E-Fu noodles - [ ] Stir fried spicy calamari with vegetables, in a crisp noodle basket, crunchy snap peas - [ ] Snow pea tips topped with bean curd sheets I gave the restaurant a 4* overall because of our dinner experience and service. Note: There is a bottle fee of $15 for every two bottles of wine. We actually wanted to attend for the crab dinner special but it is only offered Monday to Friday. The restaurant was very relaxed about letting our group stay to almost 9pm. Parking is available right outside of the entrance and around the side of the restaurant.

I have been coming to Lily Delights Dim Sum for several years. It is a store that makes and sells…read morefrozen dim sums. It is located in a plaza where there are many stores that sell Chinese food. The place sometimes look closed, but you have to ring the doorbell to get service.

Discovered this place during Covid when we were all nervous about eating in. Love picking up my…read morefrozen dim sum here. Owner is super nice and food is amazing. Just follow the cooking/heating instructions and you're good to go!

Great food and quick service! We came on an early Sunday afternoon and were seated right away even…read morethough we didn't have reservations. We ordered 10 items and the total was $112 CAD. The scallop and chili rice rolls are a must try! The scallops are chunked thick and the chili crunch adds a great flavor to the rice rolls. The shrimp and chive dumplings were pan fried and stuffed with shrimp, and the bbq ribs were thick. They do not skimp on the protein here!

They offer two seating times, 5:30 and 7:30pm. Came here for a family dinner when they weren't…read more super packed but the service was a bit slow, took a while to flag a server to help us out in an order. The food portions are pretty decent and the taste was standard Cantonese style Chinese food. The dishes also came out reasonable pace, not too fast and not too slow. They did mix up one of our orders but helped correct it after asking another server. Flavours were good but a bit too salty for my personal preference. The decor is pretty nice and the utensils and seating was done nicely. There's a lot of seafood tanks in the area and a lot of birthday celebrations around us.

Arrived early for Sunday Dimsum before they opened. By time we left there was a line waiting to be…read moreseated. When arriving we were confused, since the place looked like a fancy museum from outside. Inside, it was very clean modern and expensive looking. Many dining rooms which could be set up for private parties but not that many table overall. One of the prettiest dimsum places we've been to. Bathroom so clean, you can eat off it (at lease when we got there early). Tea service was good, they kept it full often. Ordered dimsum only. All were good-great. Most interesting was the dumplings with the bottom crust that looked like crepes. All the dishes were on the high side for the area. Our bill came to 100 CAD for just dimsum for 2. We saw others order fried rice and noodles dishes. They were massive, and we understood why they were pricy. Not a place we'd come regularly, but good for a splurge/ special occasion meal. The karaoke music and vid were too loud, and the waiter lowered it at our request.

Noticed they reopened when we drove by the other day (they have been closed for major renovations…read morefor nearly a year and a half - suspect also financial and perhaps ownership change) Decor has changed radically. Has a more modern China feel with a tv playing either Karaoke or Cantonese news. Several rooms were named after Chinese or British Universities for some reason. Service was ok. Not as upscale as it was before. Not bad per se. just not quite inline with how it looks. Food was hit or miss: Har how: Solid and big. A good premium version for what is the most important dim sum dish. Siu Mai : medium sized and average. They used to be way bigger. Chicken feet: good portion and whole prices. Nowadays, most Chinese dim sum restaurants will cut these in half and serve you when I announced it only be 2 to 3 pieces in total. This dish had six full chicken feet if not more. Good value. Shanghai soup dumplings: mediocre. I will not get these again. Pan fried turnip cake: nice and thick and delicious. You could definitely tell that there's actual turnip in there. I've noticed that many dim sum restaurants have dramatically reduced the amount of turnip inside of these because the turnip is getting more expensive. This place did not. Chiu Chou dumplings: these were solid. I would get these again. Beef balls with bean curd skin: these tasted decent and I think the quality is there. However they are quite small. Pang fried chives dumplings: two oily and a taste wasn't there. I won't order these again. Feels like this Restaurant change ownership as well as all the chefs. Looking at the dinner menu there's a lot of hot pot and surprisingly karaoke options as well. It looks like they have changed to cater towards chinese rich kids. I used to think this was the best in some restaurant in Toronto. Unless this changes dramatically, I don't think I'll be coming back here anymore. At least not for dim sum.

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Just like today is going to be "review day" (shooting for 5, on the heels of the bunch I wrote last…read morenight), Saturday, Feb.22nd '20 was the unofficial "Parent nostalgia day" in Toronto, where, for lunch, we went to Very Fair - a place my wife's father used to frequent so much, they knew him by name - and for dinner we went to a place my parents favored when they were living. Very Fair is ostensibly a "seafood restaurant", as are many of the Chinese restaurants that want to appear respectable: fresh, swimming, seafood is highly favored by snobbish Chinese foodies, especially those hailing from Hong Kong. As such, this "hole-in-the-ground" restaurant (literally, since you have to go down to the basement) boasts tanks of live fish, lobsters, crabs... right in the dining area. There are a few private dining rooms, ideal for majong players, but the dining area is small for a "regular" Chinese restaurant - I'd guess the open area seats maybe 120. They have been around for a long, long time: Agnes' dad passed away in 2005, and back then Very Fair was considered an "old establishment"! And it feels old. Not sure if they've actually refurbished the place in the recent decade or longer, but if you have to guess... Well anyway. Our late lunch found a very empty place. We were going to go with dim sum and skedaddle, but their special of lobster with noodles caught our eye - who can resist a lobster dish for less than $15 USD? It came OK, definitely on the greasy side. While it didn't taste bad or anything, it may or may not have been swimming right up till the time it drew its last breath. But it was a whole lobster (or close to it - we did not try putting the chopped up pieces together, forensics-like), and I'd guess pound-and-a-quarter. We tried a few dim sum too. The har gau LOOKED very presentable, but upon sampling, we discovered it to be quite un-Trump-like (meaning, it was not thin-skinned). The tea was decent.

I enjoyed dinner at Crown Prince…read more Beef Tenderloin with mustard sauce: beef was pretty good, tender, well executed, tasty sauce. There were zucchini pieces which were okay but more like an afterthought side dish, not really seasoned or integrated into the dish and nobody really cared for the zucchini. I'd be happy to have the beef again. Three-colored tofu with mushrooms and Gai lan: tofu was silky, the pieces of tofu had three layers of green, yellow and Grey colours. Pomelo peel was nice Chicken was okay Greens (Morning glory or kangkong) were fine, solid Dessert was red bean soup, mango pudding, and a cookie, they were fine Restaurant was comfortable and spacious.

Came here on a weekend around 11:00 AM and had no trouble getting a table. We only found out after…read morearriving that they offer special pricing for orders placed before 11:00 AM, so unfortunately we just missed it. Overall, the food was good and comparable to other dim sum restaurants in the area. Nothing particularly stood out, but everything was solid. The restaurant was comfortable and not overly crowded, so a convenient place to have a conversation with friends.

Grandeur Palace, located at Brimley and Huntingwood in Scarborough, is a very good Chinese…read morerestaurant, serving dim sum, dinner, and hosting banquets. They also serve some really good Chinese BBQ through a window that opens in to the mall's food court. I stopped in for lunch and had a combo meal with Roast Pork, Soya Chicken, Veggies, and Rice. It included a bottle of water for around $10, if I recall. It was good food at a good price!

I brought my in-laws here after their doctor appointment. A friend brought me here a couple months…read moreago. We enjoyed it. I figured it was worth introducing it to the family. Service staff were initially kind and responsive when we had to plug them down on numerous occasions to ask for a little things like hot sauce, or a fork. The food was reasonable. Fresh, however some things just don't have any taste. The space is bright and clean. Nice ambience. I would've scored higher however, for some reason, they do not add the 10% mandatory tip to the bill, however, they came back to our table to tell us it was mandatory and that we owe them more money. My father-in-law picked up the bill. This was a little embarrassing as we had to explain to him. My sister-in-law, who is with us grew up here, so her Chinese is not very good. After this incident, one of the waiters said something to her about how she should understand what they were saying. This is when the servers really sound unprofessional. They seem to be OK doing it this way. Charging people mandatory tip, but not putting a mandatory tip on the bill so there's no paper trail. My family is talking about it as we speak. They don't expect to go back.