Being a big steam rice roll fan living in New York, I looked up a spot to introduce my European…read morefriend to them when meeting up in Montreal and discovered Yin Ji Chang Fen. What I didn't know at the time is: (1) they also have NYC locations, including their U.S. flagship 1/2 block from Tonii's, one of my favorite Chinatown cheap eats and (2) Yin Ji Chang Fen's chains origin is in Guangzhou in 1958... and that location still exists! So, it was a must try! Glad we stopped by and would recommend it for a try, especially if you are looking for a convenient bite while on Ste. Catherine Oeste. (Note - Did not get the chance to check out other steamed rice roll places in Montreal, but will definitely do on my next trip.) About the restaurant experience... while they have printed menus, you use the QR code on the table to order, although there was a helpful waiter to assist. We ordered a fresh Shrimp with Chives and a Roasted Duck with Chives Steamed Rice Roll. Peanut sauce needed to be ordered as an extra. They provide complementary hot tea. (You can also order a can of Chinese iced tea.) Yin Ji Chang Fen's rolls were delicious, especially the roast duck! The sauces added make the rolls even more vibrant. Note - Didn't get the chance to check out other Montreal steamed rice roll places, but will definitely do on my next trip. Also at one point back home, will also check out their N.Y. Chinatown location to compare. To add, Congee appears to be another Yan Ji specialty, however it's not something I typically order.

Don't miss this if you are staying near Longueuil. Our first time and won't be the last. The…read morepictures do not justify this authentic and freshness of the foods served. We love a good dimsum and esp cheongfuns but this is AMAZING! Come here for the great selection! Even the desserts were on point and also the drinks!! Who needs Chinatown when you can enjoy Hong Kong food this side of the river!

Old School Cantonese food in the heart of Montreal's Chinatown…read more It's been a while since I've had complimentary pork bone and vegetable soup and seen white plastic sheeted table tops for easy cleanup. LOL. Portions are family style so bring a group with you to share. Salt and Pepper Pork Chop - easily the best dish, great crunch and great flavor. Snow peas sautéed with Garlic was clean, fresh and crunchy. Garlic flavor wasn't overly done. Beef Stew over Baby Bok Choy was tender and beefy. The Baby Bok Choy was hidden underneath in my picture, but it was there. There was also beef tendons as well which I always enjoy. Salt and Pepper Squid was a huge portion and similar to Pork, very crunchy. This was a huge portion. Got seated right away in a packed restaurant on a Friday evening. Service was quick and friendly (except for one dude who took exception to me want to pack my own leftovers). LOL.

Keung Kee could be anywhere from 3-5 stars depending on what you like and what you expect, lets…read morejust get that out of the way. I was expecting a more flavored experience and maybe that is not what they do or I could have ordered differently. The menu is huge so it is hard to know where to start. We went here because of the good Yelp reviews. Were we arrived in Chinatown there were many other places that looked great, so we loitered at the door for a minute while deciding what to do. As we loitered a family came out and noticed us and asked if were were going to Keung Kee. We said we were thinking about it and they said just go, it is the best restaurant in Chinatown. Sold. We went in, up the stairs, waited a bit, and got a table. This is the kid of place you need to bring a lot of people because that is whet it is built for, the menu is extensive, and the portions are huge. We puzzled over the menu then ordered our food. We wanted a bottle of cold sake and the waiter brought it in an ice bucket. Nice. We started with the pork dumplings. The dumplings were very goof but came in a hot thick sweet peanut sauce. With a lighter sauce these would have been outstanding. The scallop was huge and had a bunch of stuff on it. There was some good scallop flavor but it was masked with all the stuff that tasted like old oil. The noodle dish was good but also had some old oil flavor coming from somewhere. All the meats and vegetables were nice and fresh but the good sauce I think was the source of the oil. We saw a table next to us had the pork chops and was asked, what are those? So we got that too. The chops were thin bone in with a batter fried then soaked in a vinegar sauce. These would have been good as our only item with a bowl of rice. Our co-eaters there had many good looking things. I would give this a try again but would bring a few more people so we could try more stuff. Total for all that including the sake was $100 Canadian. Not bad!

The food is still great with one exception. My dumplings appetizer had string in it. I'm working…read moreup the courage to order from them again. They get the order right and deliver quickly but the string really put me off for a long time

Resto Cantonais offrant un bon choix de plat chinois. Ils…read moreont un menu pour le lunch tres sympa avec beacoup de choix. J'ai prit le poulet avec légumes et nouilles. Aussi offert en version boeuf ou porc ou avec riz a la place des nouilles. Un classic savoureux avec un bon mélange de légumes sur un niz d'oiseau croustillant. Service correcte mais sans plus. Jolie resto il peut facilement accueillir un groupe de 8 personnes. Ils ont un total de 40 chaises. Il offrent la livraison aussi. Ils ont

If you are at the Palais de Congres,…read more Keep Cuisine Cantonaise on your radar. It is only two blocks from the convention center. The food offerings in the Palais itself are super-weak. Unlike most other cities, there are not a ton of fast food places near the convention center to service the congress attendees. But strangely, while most convention center restaurants are super-packed during a congress, Cuisine Cantonaise is 80 percent empty. There are always tables available. And this is despite the fact that the food on Cuisine Cantonaise is really good. I don't know why this is happening, but I ain't arguing. I ate here five times and was happy each and every time. * * * The cooking is Old School Cantonese. A distinctive feature is that the house is not big on sauces. They like their food plain or with a simple Chinese white sauce. (That nearly invisible stuff that makes the food shiny.) The white sauce is fine. They also do a sweet and sour like sauce that is absolutely excellent. The food you get will be unadorned or with one of those two sauces. Some items get a light sprinkling of black beans. * * * When you serve your food "up close and naked" like that, the basic ingredients have to be pretty darn good. Their basic ingredients are pretty darn good. Everything I ate was good - but the star dish of the week was something they called "Cantonese Chow Mein". I am sure it has another name in real Cantonese. This was a dry crispy noodle nest with white sauced Chinese vegetables and chicken on top. I could eat that all day and all night. But I never ate a bad dish there in five meals with two to six dishes ordered at every meal. The menu is vast - although not as big as it seems - since many of the plates are quite similar. For the record, the team of men and women who work here are ancient ... I believe the restaurant goes back a long way. In Canada, Chinese food shows up in two forms. There is Chinatown food that captures a first generation of Chinese-Canadian cuisine. It is in the old centers of Chinese residence of the early twentieth century. Cuisine Cantonaise is of this Old School. Canada is enjoying a delightful insurgence of young Chinese techies, professionals, and children of wealthy families back in China. They are young, hip and spend heavily on urban amenities. Their first rate restaurants are out of the traditional Chinatowns, in the new chic neighborhoods where they have apartments. I personally prefer the younger generation's choices in food and restaurants. But I can be induced to go traditional. When a traditional restaurant is near my convention - and it has a lot of seats and is good - count me in. If you are at the Palais, you should count yourself in too.

They were polite and courteous. Had 2 noodle dishes....both…read morewere prepared as requested Food was ok/good

Excellent Excellent Excellent delicious great service and great delivery friendly as can be very…read morenice decor. And Ming is the Man !!!

May 12 - This restaurant is only open for "take out" food. Inside has a dark and clammy…read moreatmosphere. I suggested they comment on their website that food is only to "take out"! they laughed the way the Chinese do when they are embarrassed. Other reviews are seriously out-dated! Give this place a miss!

We have ordered in on a Monday Night, and it was quite disappointing…read more The good: Chicken Fried Rice was good. Vegetables were good. Chow mein was tasty also. The bad: General Tao chicken was dry and had no sauce with it. Peanut butter dumplings were not hot and barely had any sauce with them. The experience was disappointing. Other family members, who had this before, said it is usually better. This was my first time. Everything was dry and felt like leftovers from the night before. Will go back to General Tao on Taschereau.

the worst attention in all my life I went on a good…read moreSaturday, we arrived for lunch and we were attended by a girl reluctantly, when she gave us the letter it was almost thrown away, and when I told her that I did not understand what she wanted to tell me but I told him in a good way., she responded with a horrible attitude, honestly I do not know why I did not leave that place, the food is not bad but it is not good, but the attitude of the one who attends is horrible, I do not recommend ever going to have bad experiences, I lasted weeks thinking because I did not leave that place when I saw that horrible attitude.

I ordered dinner today. Very disappointed...hardly no beef…read morein the beef and brocoli dish, the General Tao had no chicken all crispy dough... The spring rolls are thinner... $45.00 later and feel like we didn't eat. When this place opened few years ago was much better...

So I'm here on business and visiting a construction site and after a while I'm starving. I see a…read morebunch of Italian places, burger joints and then my colleague says "hey, there is a Tai place over there, let's try it". So we did. Wow. I got the General Tao chicken with rice and a spring roll. Boom! This must have been the best General Tao chicken I have ever had and I have eaten that 100 times in 5 countries and countless states. The spring roll was also really good and the price was the best part! If I end up over here again I'm definitely coming back. What a nice little find! Enjoy!

Since I was around the area, I popped in to see how the food was…read more First off, I was given great customer service. Some of the dishes were good such as the shrimp in lobster sauce and the sashimi was fresh. The other dishes I tried was mostly fried. I wished there were photos of the sushi or descriptions of what is inside on the menu. I would recommend the takeout menu if you want to do some take away.

New Chinese restaurant recommended by the J-Man but visited on a Hans Solo expedition by myself…read more The place is tucked away in the center of what I predict to be a very busy area in the coming years once the new arena is built adjacent to the Montmorency Metro station. Watch out as this area is going to be like a downtown Laval! Entering the restaurant on a weekday lunch hour it was not very busy and. I had a nice quiet booth to myself. I perused the menu and decided to go with my Chinese comfort food classic Cantonese chow mein. Growing up in a mix ethnic household. CCM was a staple of heading out for dinner when we ate Chinese food. Starting off my meal came with a soup so I had selected their hot n sour soup. Flavour was lacking a little of the hot so I requested sriracha to bring up the flavour. Next was the CCM. The serving was done in typical fashion. Fried noodles with a thick somewhat gluey translucent yet tasty sauce. The dish had a generous serving of vegetables and lots of shrimp. Overall it was a good sized lunch portion and I was satisfied. Pricing on their menu is quite inexpensive and they had a good selection. Yelper friend Jason mentioned he wants to come back for their $14.99 AYCE lunch buffet. My comments to him is "I'm trying to eat less food than more food these days". I'm trying to avoid buffets as I have little self control. Usually I leave eating far too much food! Maybe one day we shall come for this. Time will tell and a review update shall be had if this happens. Until then. I shall look to order takeout sometime as these people know real deal Chinese cooking. I asked the guy working there if they were mainland or HK. He mentioned mainland which is my test to see if they are from the old country or somewhere else. Well done and good inexpensive Chinese!

Finally found my pictures and remembered that I needed to write about this…read more A friend took me here and it was an enjoyable experience. The egg tart pastry was amazing because it had the additional tasty crust that covered the egg tart where the egg tart usually shows up on top in many other Asian bakeries. This might be one of the best egg tart pastries I've had! Presumedly, comes from a bakery in the area- I don't know the bakeries around and didn't have time to scope around like that unfortunately. The shrimp rolls here were okay, the dim sum dumplings were delicious with flavor, juice, and typical dim sum texture. The hot tofu was done well and with the syrup. Staff is friendly here. Location is convenient and ambiance is nice for a traditional Asian dining classy restaurant.

After some research (Yelp and otherwise), it seemed that Ruby Rouge was the place to go for dim sum…read moredelivered by carts, and it turned out to be a good call. As has been mentioned elsewhere, it's up a flight of stairs, it opens around 10:30, and the carts start coming around about 10:45. There's also a sort of order and take out counter to the left of the entrance. Menu items can also be ordered inside while dim sum is coming around. The carts come out slowly and increase in number about every 15 minutes or so, and items seem to come out in a predictable order. You're given a small ramekin with a spicy sauce and mustard in it, which for me is sufficient. I don't feel the need for soy sauce for dim sum, nor is it on the table and has to be requested. One thing I liked is that the cost of items appear on the card for each row, so that you can maintain a rough idea of how much your meal has cost so far. The other thing I liked is the atmosphere. It was very friendly and relaxed, and I noticed many of the staff waving to individuals as they entered, probably regulars. While they didn't have necessarily the variety of offerings I've had at other dim sum restaurants, the overall experience was quite enjoyable and worth considering on future visits to Montreal.