Today, tried a newly renovated place for lunch (dim sum), let me tell you this, it was a real…read moredisappointment. When they provided with a table it was right next to an exterior door, with people going in and out. The was a cold draft, we even had to tell the hostess/manager, if they could provide a divider to divert the draft from hitting our table. We ordered 9 dim sum dishes, one be Roasted Pig Mixed Cold Jellyfish, which was $23.80. I had the idea that it would be a fair portion. When it came, I was shocked, it was only 6 pieces of Roasted Pig. When I spoke with the manager about the portion size, he commented "for that price it is fair". There was not apologies and walked away, nor was it written on the menu. If I had known it was only 6 pieces (size of your index and middle finger put together). I would not have ordered it. If you want to have Roasted Pig, you can get better deals else where. Also, ordered Marinated Chicken Feet for $13.98, when it came to table, it was also a disappointment, part of the chicken feet was dark in colour, not even sure if it was even edible or not. Another dim sum dish that I have order was the steamed chicken with fish maw. The chicken was okay, but there was only two small pieces of fish maw, (the size of each piece was 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch). The order 6 dim sum dishes that was order was mediocre, tasted better from other Dim Sum restaurant. When I received the bill for the meal it came out to be $119.50, they even had included the tip. They didn't even give me an option weather a tip was even worthy. I will definitely not be returning to this place. I definitely do not recommend anyone to come to this restaurant. I would consider blacklisting this restaurant. It's simply deceiving customers. 今天去一家新裝修的點心店吃午飯，真是太失望了。他們為我們安排的桌子緊鄰外門，進進出出的人絡繹不絕。冷風直吹，我們甚至得跟領位員/經理說能不能加個隔板擋風。我們點了九道點心，其中一道是烤乳豬配涼拌海蜇，價格是23.8美元。我以為分量應該挺足的。結果端上來的時候，我大吃一驚，烤乳豬隻有六塊！我跟經理說了分量的問題，他居然說「這個價錢算合理」。他既沒有道歉，也沒有在菜單上寫明，就直接走開了。如果我知道只有六塊（大概食指和中指並排那麼大），我肯定不會點這道菜。想吃烤乳豬的話，去別的地方一定能找到更划算的。我還點了13.98美元醃漬的雞爪，端上來後也很失望，雞爪有一部分顏色發黑，我甚至懷疑它能不能吃。我點的另一道點心是魚肚蒸雞，雞肉還可以，但是魚肚只有兩小塊（每塊只有半英寸見方）。我點的這六道點心味道平平，不如其他點心店的好吃。結帳時，帳單竟然高達119.50美元，還包含了小費。他們甚至都沒問我是否該給小費。我絕對不會再來這家店了。我絕對不推薦任何人來這家餐廳。我會考慮把這家餐廳封鎖。他們簡直就是在欺騙顧客。

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.

Honestly the food is probably a 3-star but they get an extra star for being open 24 hrs and one of…read morethe og restaurants that serve dim sum and assorted Chinese food when you need somewhere to eat late at night. Came here just before midnight and the service was quick and to the point. We ordered some dim sum and a bowl of noodles, all food came out hot and quickly which is exactly what was needed. Pretty much hits the late night food cravings need. Lots of people also around during that time so it felt safe and familiar.

It goes boldly by the name of Perfect Chinese Restaurant, and it approaches that lofty goal to an…read moreextent. It's been offering Dim Sum and mostly Cantonese cuisine for decades, 24 hours a day. Based on previous Yelp reviews, the quality is inconsistent. Today, it ranged from outstanding to acceptable. I was one of a group of four, and we arrived around 5:15 p.m. for an early dim sum dinner. The decor was clean, comfortable and a bit dated. Two of my dining companions had been coming to Perfect since childhood, and the slightly worn decor was, for them, traditional and comforting as a pair of old slippers. As long-time visitors, they had some recommendations to make: we ordered Shiu Mai and Har Gow (as usual), steamed BBQ Pork Bun, Steamed Glutinous Rice, Pea's Green Shrimp Dumpling, Beef Ball, Deep Fried Squid and Cheung Fun (Rice Roll) with Shrimp and Leek. Here's my rating /5: 5/5: Har Gow; Cheung Fun; Pea's Green Shrimp Dumpling 4/5: Beef Ball; Deep Fried Squid; Shiu Mai, Steamed Glutinous Rice 3.5/5: Steamed BBQ Pork Bun The Har Gow, Cheung Fun and Shrimp Dumpling all featured a translucent, starchy dough. At worst, this dough can be too chewy or too thick but tonight, at Perfect Chinese, it was indeed perfect, and beautifully translucent, allowing the colors of the fillings to shine through. The Pea's Green Shrimp Dumplings were particularly beautiful. They tasted as good as they looked, with the fresh taste of the pea greens complimenting the shrimp. The Har Gow were plump, generous and the shrimp was nicely cooked, not at all rubbery or tough. The Cheung Fun was also excellent, beautifully complemented by the slightly warm, sweet soy sauce. The Beef Ball was beautifully aromatic and well seasoned, but I would have preferred them to be a bit more tender and less bouncy in texture, and otherwise would have been 5/5 for flavour. However, this could be how the texture is meant to be. The other 4.5 dishes were excellent, but not outstanding. The Steamed Pork Bun was very good, but I wish the BBQ pork filling had been more generous. Staff were friendly and welcoming, and our food arrived in a timely fashion. However it was, at times, difficult to get the attention of waitstaff. At 5:15, parking was plentiful, but the lot is rather small, and I could see the possibility that at popular times, such as weekend brunch, it could be tight. The Perfect Chinese Restaurant takes both cash and cards, and is conveniently located near Highway 401. In short, the Perfect Chinese Restaurant is ambitious, well-established, open all the time, possibly inconsistent, fairly priced, and offers a very good dim sum, among other options. Come here for the Dim Sum, for sure. You can satisfy your Dim Sum craving night and day!! Worth noting: they offer a whole Peking Duck for a very reasonable price, they offer a rather pricey Crab Claw Hors D'oeuvre that my dining companions raved about, and they have a good selection of fresh seafood. I saw a number of tables ordering the lobster. Next time, I will check out some of their seafood offerings and some of their other dim sum selections. I've also heard some good things about their noodle dishes.

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.

Tasty food that was very well presented, and heaping portions. We ordered way too much!…read more As others have mentioned, the service isn't very top notch for what is considered a classier establishment. They are rushed and toss plates around and see like they don't actually want to take your order haha. The restaurant itself has a nice atmosphere, though the front half and back half look very different. Front is more tasteful and modern while back is older school, not sure why! Bathroom is large and clean and snazzy!

Went to try out the Queen for dinner with my family…read more Not sure the hype about it, the restaurant is small, tight, loud. And of course the price of the food items are quite high. Service was alright, but seemed rushed. Probably won't go back again, value for money not the greatest in my opinion.

A dim sum restaurant inside a literal mansion!…read more From the outside, you won't be able to tell that this is a restaurant. It's really a huge mansion that is turned into a Chinese restaurant, so the spacing of the interior is leveled like a house. There's no large open area for you to have bigger parties here as it has many levels when you're inside. The interior is on the older side with a lot of large paintings and gold coloured decor. I came for dim sum at lunch time and was seated prompted after arriving. You order from a sheet and give your order in to the staff (no push cart dim sum here). Food came out pretty quickly and was good. We got the classics like chicken feet, siu mai, pork ribs, rice rolls, turnip cake, taro balls, sticky rice and milk tarts. All were decent but nothing out of this world. I think I'd still prefer other restaurants for dim sum, as the vibe/ lighting/ decor inside this restaurant really threw me off. Still a nice to try place though!

I really enjoyed their dim sum lunch here! Service was very friendly and welcoming and we were…read moreseated right away. Their dim sum dishes are very generous and filling. I also loved their stir fried sticky rice, their congee, and soup dumplings. The interior is very updated and seating is very comfortable.

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.

The best dim sum resto in town! Now I know what a Markham-quality dim sum means~ It's better than…read moredim sums in HK which are handmade and authentic~A taste you cant find even in Hong Kong, as a lot of dim sum chefs emigrated during the 90s 鴻福海鮮大酒樓 Scarborough The best dim sum restaurant I've eaten in 2023 so far (Better than any in HK) 又一間好好食嘅茶樓， 價錢已經包埋加一稅，好食夾大件。推薦係咖哩墨魚仔、天下第一包、香蜜蜂巢糕 零伏，水滾茶靚，濃茶唔苦澀 強烈建議大家去 Taste:5/5 Value:5/5 #torontolife #seafood #seafoodrestaurant #foodie #torontodimsum #torontochinesefood #chinese #torontofoodie #foodiegram #canadalife #torontofood #dimsum #torontofoodie #torontojapanese #chinesefood #sushi #torontostyle #toronto_insta #torontofood #torontoblogger #torontofoodie #torontofoodies #torontorestaurants

After a hiatus several years long, we've finally returned for dimsum! It was excellent!…read more They have a few unique offerings like the beef rice noodle roll with truffle and shrimp dumplings with sea cucumber. The menu didn't seem as extensive as other restaurants but there's enough to choose from. Keep in mind there are more options after 11am. Regular shrimp dumplings (har gow) were massive. We were quite satisfied after our meal. We definitely over-ordered. The tofu dessert was silky smooth topped with the ginger infused syrup. What a delicious dessert. Service wasn't as abrupt as other places. I might've seen a smile or two. The decor is opulent, if not excessive. It was reminiscent of French Renaissance. But hey, if this is what they're going for then they've achieved it. There are no special prices here. Be prepared to pay up.

Food is good but the place felt a little old school and dirty…read more I've been here before years ago but haven't been back for a while. Upon entering, you get hit with some old school decor vibes. it very red and gold in here. Before getting started on the food I went to the washroom which I felt was very dirty and unkept. Even on the way there/ the little wallway. Their chairs and tables also just felt very old and dated, perhaps could benefit from a refresh. The saving factor here is their food. I think the food was quite decent, with your classics of rice rolls, chicken feet, shrimp har gows, siu mais and more. Service was okay, nothing special but also nothing to complain about. Seemed like there were mostly locals/ regulars that dine there. Overall, thought this place was okay since the food is good but the vibes were not it for me.

Came here for the early dim sum special, where all small, medium, and large dishes are priced at…read morethe small size ($5.20) until 11am. A great deal if you order wisely. We started with the classics: siu mai and har gow. Both were impressively large and generously stuffed with meat. The beef rice roll was solid, the taro spring roll was perfectly crispy, and the beef balls were oversized and satisfying. We also tried the durian spring roll, which was delicious -- real durian inside, creamy and fragrant without being overpowering. I added a chicken rice claypot to take home since the price was good. The chicken was juicy and well‑cooked, but the rice lacked the signature crispy bottom. It felt like they assembled the rice and toppings and gave it a quick steam rather than cooking it traditionally. A word of caution: Only the small/medium/large dim sum items are included in the special pricing. Anything marked MP is charged at regular price and those prices jump significantly. I learned this the hard way when I ordered the dragon shrimp crispy balls (3 pieces) and was charged $11.80.It was meh, and definitely not worth that price, and I felt a bit ripped off since I assumed it would be included in the special. Overall, the food was enjoyable and the early‑bird pricing can be a great value. Just make sure to double‑check which items qualify so you don't get surprised at the end.

Food has gotten so much better since the last time I visited for dinner. Service was also a lot…read morebetter, especially from the manager. Our server was very attentive, chatty and just overall a happy guy. We had a hiccup in our dish, found some black plastic in our food but the server and manager de-escalated the situation in a very quick and professional manner. Ambiance of the place is still very dated and needs a major update/ reno. The restaurant was also very hot this time when I was dining in here. Now onto the food, everything was so good, here's what we got: Crispy bbq pork 5/5 Soy sauce chicken 5/5 Beef cubes with mushroom 5/5 Beef rib 5/5 - this was fall off the bone tender Sweet and sour pork 5/5 Lobster 4/5 - a tad oily Steamed fish 5/5 Fried oysters 5/5 - LOVED this. Savoury sauce with crispy exterior and soft interior. Overall, great food here. Better service than last time. But still needs a restaurant makeover.