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Their food comes out so fast. It's a really great HK cafe style experience. Their food is pretty standard fair but it's solid for the fast food quality. Price is pretty reasonable too, especially if you get breakfast or a set.
Love this breakfast all the time!! Chicken udon Chicken thigh, fried egg toast They have discount at the moment for the 2nd order/ dish.
A HK cafe that has been a staple restaurant in this area for a while now. Was suggested to come here from my family so decided to pay them a visit again. Even during a snow storm, there was a line and wait to get a table during peak lunch hours on a weekend - a good sign! Service is quick and food comes out fast. Some hit or miss dishes though: Club sandwich 3/5 - Usually love club sandwiches but was thrown off with this one since it came with beef instead. Bread was nice and buttered, and the egg was fluffy. Would be better if this was made with another protein instead. Bittermelon spareribs rice 3.5/5 - A pretty standard dish that isn't too bad here. Lemon tea 4/5 - A HK cafe staple. They do it pretty okay here so no complaints. Haianese chicken rice 4/5 - What this restaurant is best known for. The chicken was silky and soft. Rice was seasoned and delicious. Would get this again! Fried octopus 4/5 - A great dish to share with the table. Nicely battered and crispy with a slight chew to the octapus. Overall, a good dining experience but I'm not dying to come back asap.
Located just by Woodbine and Steeles. This place is smaller than the other location but lots of seats. They were pretty full without a line up and my friend and I were able to get a seat right away. They have a promotion everyday buy two 30% off for lunch and dinner had a promotion too but I forgot to check it out. It comes with a drink as well. I got hot HK style milk tea and my friend got the cold milk tea. The pad thai is definitely very good and one of the best ones I've tasted. There is a mild spice and very tolerable for me as someone who can't handle spicy chips. The chicken rice dish was really good too, the honey garlic was very light in my opinion. The flavour wasn't overpowering. Rice was a lot less but came with a lot of chicken. I want to come here again for sure!
It's decent Hong Kong style food. The price is good and the portions are fairly generous. I tried the satay vermicelli beef noodles which also comes with a drink and a piece of bread for about $11. Do note that the noodles are a bit spicy. This place does get quite busy and service can be below average.
My first time to this restaurant (chain?). A no frills dining experience but looks quite clean. I ordered take away Hainanese Chicken/Rice and cold HK style milk coffee. The chicken was not great, it was not velvety smooth as it should be - there was a little too much 'chew', like a frozen chicken that's been over cooked or simply an older hen(?), but the rice was flavourful. The side sauces were nothing to write home about, but good enough for a no nonsense two star rating.
Awesome Meal-for-2 Deal. Check this out! Any two items under the special limited-time menu for $25.88 (+ tax & tips). Pick TWO drinks from red bean ice, grass jelly ice drink, coffee, or tea. Any day after 4 PM. Cash only. The red bean ice drink was a little bland. Not sweet enough with not much vanilla or milk flavor. Not much taste with the red bean too. Good freshness with some chewy texture though. Some other drinks might taste better. On the other hand, the food was good and we ordered 2x 2-deals. Among the four items we ordered, the Singapore Fried Vermicelli stood out pretty clearly. The curry spiciness was there yet not overpowering the rest of the dish. Nice veggies and shrimp. I like the vermicelli texture. Not oily at all. Try it out if you visit there. It doesn't say the deal till what date. Limited time offer. Visit there while it lasts. Woodbine location only at this point. McCowan is still under renovation. People said it would probably reopen in a week. Reasonably tasty, inexpensive, and recommended!
Decided to be a little adventurous, chain type restaurants tend to be a hit or a miss. Nicely decorated casual modern cha chaan teng place. Normal cha chang teng menu but they also had a special 2 for dinner menu at a great inflation busting price with plenty of dish choices to pick from and a free drink is included Went with the Fish fillet with pickled mustard cabbage in fish broth & yunan vermicelli. Yeah, the dish name is long but it exactly described the dish. Surprisely the fish chunks were very large and paired well with the crunchy preserved vegs/broth. Soup had a slight mild mala spice flavor causing a slight tingly numbness in my mouth full of soup noodles.. 2nd dish was the Steak with onion paste in rice bowl, steak was braised and tender with a mild onion flavor on a bed of white rice in a bowl. Staff very friendly and efficient. Very happy with their 2 for dinner special, good value for your money, however, I noticed many diners ordering the regular entrees which looks large and delicious. This restaurant is a good representation and carries on the reputation of Chinese restaurants, their prices are reasonable, large food portions leads to getting a doggie bag so leftovers can be stretched to another meal, don't expect large tips and staff are friendly. Although majority of staff and customers speak Chinese, don't let that intimidate you, menus most of the time are in English with photos and there's usual a few staff that can speak broken English.
This location has always been one of my least favorite locations but with the bayview one closed down and more recently the yonge one also closed down, this woodbine location is the next one close by. They recently offered the two can dine set for $25.88 cash only. There's a list of things to pick from and also include a red bean icecream drink or other drinks of the same price. We opted for a steak with onion sauce rice and a Japanese style pork cutlet rice. I forgot to take a picture of the menu but the food came out to be a bit different from the picture. The steak with onion sauce rice tasted a bit too sweet to me. It's kinda like teriyaki sauce. However the steak (slices on pictures but cubed in reality) was tender. As for the pork cutlet rice, the rice to pork chop ratio wasn't ideal, too much rice, too little sauce, also on the sweeter side but the pork chop is juicy and tender. And there seem to be two sunny side up eggs on the picture but it's not in reality. We ordered cold milk tea as our drinks and it tasted more milky than we remembered. Overall decent deal. Food could be better. Service was fair. Chairs could be cleaner.
If you're looking for Hong Kong style comfort food, this is the place. We went on a weekend and waited about 20 minutes for a table. Because it was so busy, the staff looked very rushed and a bit flustered. I know service is usually very quick but that day we went, we noticed everyone getting their food before us. We had to ask our server a few times to check on our order. It was quite loud and crowded, but that's typical HK cafe. I ordered combo set Y10 baked pork chop on rice (Japanese style) with hot milk tea and it tasted great and the milk tea was nice and strong!
=== 1. VERDICT/VALUE It's a Hong Kong style cafe-type of restaurant that doesn't have the lowest prices in town, but it's fast yet good food in a sit-down environment. Good choice if you work or hotel nearby! === 2. FOOD Satay Beef Noodle Soup ($9.50) One of their more popular dishes, it's good: for the amount of beef with medium-sized rice noodles topped with some frozen vegetables in war, broth. Cold Lemon Honey Water ($5.90) Not much to write home about other than the price is a little steep for what is a good flavourful drink! === 3. SERVICE Fast and efficient - the wait staff order on mobile devices and food comes and you go fairly quickly. It's good for what it is, and while it worked for me in English, it appeared to work well in Cantonese and Mandarin also. === 4. ENVIRONMENT It's in the street-facing end of a light industrial / commercial strip mall. Once you get in the front door, folks with baby strollers and wheelchairs could fit well - be it in a small or large group. Parking is plentiful in the strip mall's lot.
Okay, this might be my new go-to! Since my place at 407/Bayview closed, I've been lost. Where to eat HK style breakfast? Luckily, there is another Phoenix location close by. And it's pretty similar to my usual haunt! I hope they don't modernize and change their menu!
Unlike my experience with the Pheonix Restaurant downtown Toronto a few years ago, this branch in Markham was a let down. Service was fast, but there was a language barrier. The server thought I was ordering double of everything, but I had to explain to her.... no!! As for the food... the iced lemon tea was good, and the veggie dish was good too. But the hainanese chicken rice dish was not. The broth was crazy peppery. I love pepper, but even that was too much in the broth. The chicken itself was good, but the rice was not. If you see in the pic, the outer part was yellow, but the middle part was white. Clearly they used white (albeit stale) rice and then drenched the chicken oil on top. Hainanese chicken rice should be fragrant, but this was not. The search for a decent hainanese chicken rice continues.....
Yelpers posted that Hanian Chicken was the house specialty here. Yelpers sure didn't disappoint! Hainan Chicken - Chicken was flavorful, tender and juicy - Soup was rather bland - Garlic Rice was tasty too! Tip: Chicken can be requested boneless upon request! ...the chicken was a little on the salty side...maybe bring a bottle of water to drink afterwards? :) read more
8 years ago
Looking for quick and easy HK style food? Well this place has just the stuff for you! With just about a 20-ish page menu and a zillion menu items, this place serves something from every Asian country under the sun plus some...you name it, they probably have it. It amazes me that they have that many ingredients in the back kitchen to make all the menu items. I've been to this place several years ago and just recently went back out of a whim. The food is decent, nothing special, and since they have a zillion menu items its hard to choose something to eat (took me almost 15 minutes to choose). The main thing i was excited about is the thick toast desserts. They also have a bunch of mid-day specials for combo meals and dessert specials. Portion and pricing for a main and dessert won't break the wallet, plus most of the meals comes with a side drink or you just add $1 to get it. The place is a 3-star all round. Food quality, taste, restaurant cleanliness, and service is nothing special. I'd go back for the mid-day specials just because its so cheap, but i wouldn't go out of my way for it. Also, if you go there late in the day, they may be sold out of certain popular items like their pineapple bun sandwiches. read more
5 years ago
RESTAURANT BLAMES DELIVERY APP FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF CUSTOMERS DURING PANDEMIC AND RUINING FAMILY HOLIDAY MEAL !! The pandemic has been hard on everyone, and my family and I had wanted to do our part in supporting the community by going out as little as possible, and ordering from one of our long time favourite restaurant. It was my first time using a food delivery app, and I had heard that they often have really good deals. So when I saw "Chicken Oil Rice" as a FEATURED ITEM, with a photo of chicken with a side of rice, for $6.30, I had just assumed it was a promotional item. When the meals came, I was disappointed to see that we had recieved a bowl of rice, so we called the restaurant to say that they had forgotten to pack the chicken. They quickly denied responsibility and said it was the delivery app that had misled and caused the confusion. Through out the conversation, there was no offer to help solve the problem for our holiday meal, which now is JUST rice. After saying it was the delivery app that was responsible and there's nothing they can do on their part about it, a few hours later, the photo was removed, and the item was also no longer listed as a FEATURE ITEM. As we opened the rest of the food, the Baked Pork Rice which had cheese in the photo was missing cheese. By this time, it just felt like one disappointment after another. I have many friends who often say, "what do u expect from a Chinese restaurant". But as a proud Chinese ... I want to expect integrity and quality, because I believe as minorities in this society, we need to take care of one another, NOT take advantage of one another. Which is what I felt today! I hope this post will let Phoneix know that they CAN be better. And Chinese restaurants can be known for something else other than "don't expect much from them". Afterall, an acknowledgement of their responsibility, in the form of a simple apology or refund, or even offering a way for us to purchase the chicken to go with the rice would have been nice! Happy Holidays read more
9 years ago
2.5 stars. I've only been there once and it was a Thursday evening 6pm, not busy at all. They provide a HUGE variety of foods ranging from breakfast to dinner and desserts, and different cuisines including Hong Kongese, Thai and Chinese. I wasn't sure what to order and to be on the safe side, I chose a Beef Fried rice with shrimp paste (I've never had shrimp paste in fried rice). My friend ordered Stir Fried Noodles in black bean sauce. Foods came pretty quick, and the portion was huge - value for money in terms of quantity and fill you up yes, but taste was meh. My fried rice was quite plain with bits of beef, lettuce and green onion. I tasted my friend's dish and it had a burning taste. Service was like typical casual chinese restaurants. I would not order the same dish again but I am willing to give it a 2nd chance and try something else on their menu. Their desserts sound and look quite interesting too. Food: 2.5/5 Service: 2.5/5 Cleanliness: 2.5/5 read more
4 years ago
I grew up going to Phoenix with my family for lunch on weekends at the McCowan location. It still holds a special place in my heart though it went through a lot of changes in menu. Compared to the McCowan location, I would say the service at this location is not as good, and it's hard to get the staff's attention. The prices have gone up and I'm not sure it's worth the quality of the food anymore. The main reason I come here is for the Korean spicy udon in soup. It is my favourite dish here and not too spicy. It has bean sprouts and ground beef in the soup as well. The curry here is not bad and is another solid dish I would order again. Overall, this place is not that bad, but there are other hk style cafes that are better and more worth your money. read more
Phoenix Restaurant is a typical Hong Kong style restaurant that is frequented by a lot of people in the Markham area. So, I decided to check the restaurant with a few friends. There is a vast selection of food to choose from ranging from breakfast to lunch to tea break to dinner. The decor is the restaurant is a bit hipster with some vibrant colours in the background. It was very pleasant to see more of a modern take on a restaurant that serves very simple dishes. The food is very typical of what you would expect form a Hong Kong style restaurant. They take classic and home style dishes and give them a new life in which the presentation is flawless. I have not seen amazing and clean presentation of Hong Kong style dishes in a very long time. The dishes were freshly prepared and arrived in an efficient time. The drinks were a bit on the downside though since the cold Hong Kong style milk tea my friend and I had ordered was probably the worst I have drank in my life. Overall, the food is amazing and I have heard a lot of appraisal for their Hainan Chicken on Rice, which I hope I can feast on in the future. The service was decent, the waiters were very attentive whenever we wanted more tea and when we were ready to pay for the bill since my Cantonese still needs some work. Overall, if you want more of an upclass experience in Hong Kong style cuisine, then Phoenix Restaurant is the place to go. read more
I would probably give this place a 3.5, but I don't believe Yelp offers this option. The reason for my rating? I ordered the fish broth with fried tofu. While the fish broth was very yummy, there was a distinct pork taste in addition to the fish flavour and this took me by surprise. That being said, it was a relatively light and yummy broth. The fish tofu balls that they had (I believe they make their own?) were utterly delicious! I was so full I couldn't finish the whole thing. Meanwhile, my Mom and sister ordered the Hainanese chicken rice. They didn't find the chicken all that smooth, but really enjoyed the rice and found it very fragrant and flavorful. My Dad got the beef brisket curry and liked his a lot too. We ended the meal with two cold HK milk teas. No ice, and it was quite strong. However, one was notice a sweeter than the other, and I would've preferred mine to not be as sweet. read more
I haven't been to this place in awhile and was in the area so I decided to drop by and try. It has changed a lot. The restaurant style and menu is still the same but the quality of the dish that I tried declined significantly. Food: Ordered one of the set lunch A02 (fish tofu noodle soup). Compared to before, the dish has no flavour or taste. Broth was tasteless and very watery. Very little ingredients for the fish noodle bowl and lacked flavour. I couldn't finish it because it was so bad. Definitely not worth going again. Service: Like any HK style restaurant, oder quickly, eat quickly and leave atmosphere. read more
9 years ago
Quick place to grab a bite if you are looking for hk cafe style food. Prices gone up a lot within the past yr & noted they are now opening a location in dt! I think it will be a great hit in dt location. Standard food. Really busy during lunch hr as many office buildings around. Also go to the location on mccowan often. read more
8 years ago
We came here for dinner with a group of four people. There was barely any weeding required. The atmosphere was quite noisy, and the place was relatively clean. We ordered the barbecue pork neck rice. Also got the hainese chicken rice. Make sure you order one of them, you won't regret it. read more
8 years ago
Another great spot for a quick/casual meal. Generous portion sizes for the price. The restaurant serves HK style dishes and their take on other cultural dishes. The different range of dishes available covers basically has you covered for any time you're hungry. The food really hits it home for me when I think "comfort food". Service can take some getting use to as it is the typical Chinese style restaurant. However, I personally think it adds to the experience of HK style cafes (at least this was the experience I had growing up). From a value/convenience perspective, I really think this restaurant checks all the boxes. You can pretty much get a filling meal for two for under $30 (not bad for restaurant prices today). read more
7 years ago
10 years ago
I had a short lunch break in between meetings so I decided to pop in to check this place out. At first glance of the menu, I was overwhelmed by pages and pages of food items. My second thought was, it's a bit pricey. Given the area, you can easily find lunch menus at $6.99 but everything on this menu was over $9.99 with majority dishes above $12.99. After a good 5mins, I've finally decided to go with the Malaysian curry chicken. When it arrived, I thought to myself, that is one sad looking dish. All it had was a few chunks of chicken breast and 3 pieces of semi-cooked potatoes with rice. No greens, no veggies, nada. Just straight up carbs and protein. I know better to never judge a book by its cover but after the first bite, I'm judging alright and it was not good. Maybe I ordered the wrong dish or something but I was definitely not impressed. Other than that, the service was good and it's a very clean place to grab a quick bite. read more
8 years ago
Usually never expect good service for causal Hong Kong style restaurant. But yesterday experienced the worst! The way they approach customers, throwing menu on the table, dirty washroom, fly everywhere, sharing table, and much more! My next table got some change back from cashier by mistake which he didn't even pay or finished lunch yet! How massy is the service!? How much is a piece of napkin worth? Waitress will give u the cheapest poor quality napkin if u ask for extra napkin. Sorry! Don't feel like to waste time to write about this restaurant! read more
14 years ago
I would give it 5 stars but I'm really pissed they don't accept credit cards...I had the fried needle noodles with beef, shrimp and eggs. It was pretty good, I wouldn't say anything special. WARNING the spicy paste they have on the table is SPICY AS HELL. The best were the pork cutlets with cheese and stuff on top on fried rice. They were so soft and gooey and cheessyyy. Yum. Curry chicken was boooring, so boring. It comes with steamed rice and isn't that impressive. In case anyone is wondering, yes I tried all 3. I am a so-called "do you wanna finish this" receptacle, so i usually get to try many things at one place!! Yay me. The actual restaurant was buzzing at 1pm on a weekday, we had to make a reservation so got seated right away. All in all I really liked it, there's so much to choose from I almost had a stroke.... next time I'll try more and bring cash!!!! read more
Standard HK style cafe with a large variety of rice and noodle dishes and colourful desserts. However, nothing really stood out to me... Environment: Located around Steeles/Woodbine, Phoenix Restaurant is right around my neck of the woods, and the large intersection makes it easy for commuters to get to the restaurant as well. There are a good amount of free parking space at the plaza. There are some medical buildings that also share the parking space, but since they don't open for the weekend, I didn't have any problem with the parking situation. The restaurant itself is good sized, can accommodate larger groups by piecing the tables together. The space is nicely renovated with modern fixtures and was quite clean during my visit. There were some TVs that basically runs a customized channel similar to CP24 where you can check the weather, and it displays a range of their signature dishes. Food: I remember coming here couple months back and wasn't very impressed with the food, but we decided to try again since the place is pretty close. I like how the menu is presented because they have lots of good quality pictures to show how the food will look like. There is also an official Instagram page for the restaurant that you can follow. If you flip to the back of the menu there are lunch specials, afternoon tea specials, and dinner specials, also accompanied by nice pictures. We went for the lunch and afternoon specials during our visit and ordered Black Sesame Thick Toast ($4.75), Smoked Duck Breast w/ Caramel Cointreau Sauce ($11), Japanese Curry Seafood Fried Rice ($10.50). The dishes also came with a free hot drink, but if you want to exchange for a cold drink it's $1.25, which is more expensive than comparable HK cafes. I opted for the cold original milk tea and it tasted very nice, I really enjoyed the rich tea flavour. We were quite disappointed with the Toast because it was literally a piece of think sliced break with some sesame jam slathered on top. The texture was too hard as well, definitely not worth it. The smoked duck breast that I got was pretty good, though I didn't quite like the tangy sweet-and-sour sauce. Surprisingly our favourite dish of the meal was the fried rice. It didn't look like much (so average looking that I didn't bother with taking a picture) but the flavour was really good and the portion was gigantic. The plate that they used to contain the fried rice was pretty much as wide as my body, so that's a good deal. Service: Average Chinese restaurant service...don't expect anyone to come check up on how you're doing, but they will fulfill your request if you wave them down. read more
8 years ago
This phoenix location is always busy since it's close to many business buildings. Food here is good - taste, price, speed, and portion wise. Service is terrible. The employees argue with each other across the restaurant and they clearly dislike their jobs. Some don't understand customers either. We asked for a takeout box and chopsticks, the server brought a takeout box with dine in chopsticks.... read more
I don't know whether to say I'm ashamed that as a Chinese person who has grown up in Toronto, I'd never been to Phoenix before this time, or thankful that I'd never been to Phoenix before this time. I came a few weeks ago and I was super excited, because it seems like every Chinese young person has been to Phoenix before, and I wanted to be one of the cool kids. Besides, if everyone is going, doesn't that mean it should be worth going to? Apparently not, if my trip was a typical experience. We let the waitress know we were a party of three, and she showed us to a table. As soon as we reached that table, she discovered a party of five had just come in behind us, so she told us to change tables to a table in the back next to the serving station. I don't like feeling displaced. We ordered a Japanese style pork cutlet with egg on rice, a clam and mushroom on white sauce pasta with puff pastry, and a Hoi Nam chicken rice. The pork cutlet with egg on rice was tasty, but the portion was a tad lacking. There were very little clams in the white sauce, and the whole dish was quite bland. I know Chinese style white sauce is usually lacking in cream flavor, but this was more than that. The whole dish needed more salt. The puff pastry is pretty, but it really doesn't add anything to the dish. The Hoi Nam chicken rice was supposed to be boneless. I found two bones. Other than that, it was alright. Not the best Hoi Nam chicken I've ever had. Certainly not the worst. The portion could have been bigger though. Oh. The soup that came with it actually just tasted like water with green onions. Perhaps there was a tiny touch of chicken broth powder in there, but just barely. Weirdest experience of the night. Most Chinese restaurants of this variety have a condiment rack on each table. When we got to our table, we had one. It had chili oil. I know it did, because I like chili oil, and I usually check to see if it's there. When our food came, I turned to my chili oil and it was missing. Upon looking at the table next to mine, I noticed that they did not have a condiment rack. However, they had chili oil. Dun dun dun. I'm guessing they took it while we were praying for our meal. I ended up asking the waitress for chili oil. She asked the table that had taken ours if they were using it (they were finished for the time being), and gave it to us. Then she told us that we could share it. I don't mind sharing, but it's a tad tacky for a restaurant to tell us (not ask us nicely) to share. I've had much better HK cafe type food in Toronto. I've had bigger portions of better food for cheaper prices. I'm not at all tempted to come again. read more
11 years ago
Food quality is below average and it's very overpriced. I would of given 3 stars but just the way they try to dodge the tax system really irked me. I was given a receipt where the HST number was deliberately torn off. As I thought this was a one time incident however my friends also came across the same situations and was only given a proper receipt when they ask the cashier. These are not the type of restaurants we should support: the ones that cheat the Canadian Tax system. Conclusion: Never going back. read more
I usually come to this HK style cafe when I want a quick bite of something savoury and that's not quite completely Chinese or western. I've had a number of hits here in the past, which is why I keep coming back, eternally trying to hunt for more...but ive also had a number of misses. Today was half and half. I ordered the porkchop with tomato sauce casserole and the Malaysian curry beef brisket. Straight up, the curry is always good. No matter how many times I've ordered it, it always satisfies me and leaves me wanting more. The casserole was the semi-fail today. Pretty average in taste: the porkchop was kind of soggy from being doused in the less than spectacular one dimensional tomato sauce and the fried rice underneath was bland and dry. But... the service and food delivery never fails to be speedy, so I tend to forgive their food transgressions. read more
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17 years ago
great hk style food. best hoinan chicken rice--rice is flavorful, chicken is tasty and tender; love the sour spicy sauce too, although the minced ginger seemed a bit on the salty side. perfect hk style milk tea + coffee blend. and my table neighbor's malaysian curry looked wonderful as well. from breakfast to tea sets to dinner to a la carte, there are sooooo many items on the menu, one can basically eat there 3 meals a day for a whole month without having to repeat a dish, seriously. they all sounded good on the menu, but not everything comes out the way you had expected it to. like, my bf (a newbie to hk style food) ordered a prawn salad w/tobiko & seaweed, thinking that should be quite japanese, but i forgot to tell him that's hk style salad that's made w/lots of cooked potatoes and mayo. the first couple bites were ok, until you realize the prawns were sliced in halves sideways and couldn't help but wonder why they're being so cheap. his pork chops in sweet corn sauce was ok, but not out of the world. he was surprised about the big portion, though, seeing two full slices of pork on the plate (and now he complains about not having enough rice). it was a good meal, after all. but lines can accumulate during peak hours. we waited about 15 minutes, arriving at about 1pm on a weekday. but the line comes and goes. there was no wait shortly after we sat down, and then there was a few people waiting again as we were leaving. so try your luck as you go. read more
Hit-or-miss Their Hainanese Chicken was really good. Rice had that nice chicken flavour to it. This dish also came out super fast (in less than 5min after we placed the order). Chicken & veg on steamed rice: do not order this dish. Although it had good amount of chicken, too much rice (as if they tried to make this dish look somewhat appealing) and too little veg (several pieces of carrots, mushroom, and four stems of Chinese broccoli). The sauce was just slimy and lacked flavour. Overall, cheap food but because they have so many items on the menu, it is likely that you could end up ordering a wrong dish. read more
i wouldnt go back here unless i had to. there's not much else in the area. there's a tim hortons at woodbine and steeles, go there instead. i ordered the noodles with chicken and the black pepper chicken rice on two different days. - noodles were worse than average, very bland - chicken wasn't evenly cooked - vegetables included were cold and clearly from a freezer read more
11 years ago
I will probably not find myself here again. It is all around an ok restaurant, but for being in Markham, I can say that there are much, much better restaurants around for probably a better price. It was very busy up to about two pm, and you would usually have to share tables (even with a family of four), which I really dislike. The food was okay... Dishes were small. We ordered four dishes: The famous chicken oil rice dish which was ok, the soup was obviously msg with water and the chicken was decently fresh. However, having a weak stomach, my stomach automatically reacted to something bad about that dish. Not sure what it was, might be the sauce? The Pad-Thai dish, that was over the top oily, you can see the left over oil in puddles on the plate, it was mediocre, but again this is a Chinese restaurant, I don't see how they can replicate Thai food well. It was ok as well. The seafood fired with clear noodles. One word to describe this dish, tasteless. And lastly, the Malaysian fried rice, it was probably the saltiest dish I have ever had in my life. The chef obviously put a handful of too much sauce... We basically took that whole dish home and re-cooked it. Needless to say, I will not be back, and if I find myself back, I will try their other dishes. read more
Came here to try the chicken rice this time. Not bad and very generous with the meat. My usual order here is the curry ox tongue. It is very well done here. I also like the prawn salad. It gets crowded during lunch so be prepared to share a table! read more
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5 years ago
Visited this location for the first time since pre-covid times. Food was average as expected. However the hainanese chicken that I ordered for takeout had plastic wrap included mixed in the chicken. They likely made them in batches and kept it in plastic wrap and didn't properly remove it when serving. read more
5 years ago
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