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    Royal Jade

    4.2 (88 reviews)
    ModerateHakka, Thai
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Green curry with chicken
    Yu X.

    I was looking for some Thai restaurant near home and found this place on yelp. This canteen style restaurant in general provided average quality of food. It was a 3.5 star experience. I tried their green curry with chicken and pineapple fried rice. The curry sauce was a bit watery, and not enough sauce. It was more spicy than green curries at many other Thai restaurants. The chicken tasted tender. The fired rice offered super large portion of rice but not enough veggies and pineapples. The taste was mediocre. I would probably revisit this place when I don't want to cook and want to eat something easy.

    Rodney C.

    I have to say I am quite pleasantly surprised by this place (in a good way)! This restaurant is located around the York University (steeles and keele) area, and this is not exactly an area teeming with lots of easily accessible good eats. I would imagine you only go to this area to eat because you work in the area, or you make a special trip to a restaurant in this area which is what we did tonight. There are not really any residential areas nearby or other places you can go to (supermarket for example), but we were in the area (Ikea) and found this place through Yelp. We arrived around 6:30 on a Friday evening and was very pleasantly greeted. This location is nice and clean and actually REALLY easy to find. When driving along Steeles, just look for the hugeee neon flashing sign in a plaza. Yup thats Royal Jade. Did I mention that the people that served us was super nice? Yup just saying it again. My wife and I ordered 3 dishes and a drink. The Nasi Gorang was tasty and full of good stuff (lots of fried egg, shrimp and meat). They definitely did not skimp out on the "good stuff" in this dish, though it was not exceptional. I dont mind getting it again, but I would rather try something else on the menu next time. What stood out more was everything else. The crispy beef was actually super tasty and the consistency was excellent. We have been to other restaurants and ordered "crispy" beef before and only ended up getting "soggy" beef. For this dish, it felt like this restaurant fried and prepared the beef first, then tossed it into the sauce and gave it a quick stir around. This allowed the beef to remain nice and crispy, but at the same time nicely coated. Other restaurants I assume either do the same thing but cook it in the sauce too long - therefore making it soggy. Or just toss it all in together and cook it up and call it "crispy" beef but its not. This place is actually really "crispy" beef and they get it right. The chicken pakoras were excellent here. We have been to a few Hakka style restaurants (Lin garden being the one we end up going back to the most) because they have good pakoras with lots of heat. Royal jade makes their pakoras with lots of meat and very little breading. Basically when you bite into the pakora its crispy, yet remains very juicy with the chicken inside. Lin Garden tends to have a LOT of breading to make their pakoras "look" big but they arent really. And usually lin garden you can get about maybe 6 "large" pakoras for much more then Royal Jade. Royal jade pakoras are a better deal quantity wise, and taste wise. My wife especially enjoyed the green cilantro/parsley sauce on the side with the pakoras. The pakoras were nice, juicy and carried a bit of heat. The contrast in flavors by dipping it in the cilantro/parsley sauce is really unique tasting and addictive we had to ask for a second helping of sauce. I also got "lassi" (sweet flavored) on the side. This reminded me of sweetened kefir if you have had it before. This definitely helped me keep my food down as some of it really packed a kick of heat! Having some dairy to reduce the heat helped! All in all, I would definitely come back again to try a few more dishes. This place is a bit out of the way and is a bit of a hike to get to, but honestly so is Lin Garden for us. Im looking forward to my next visit and would definitely recommend this place as a worthy try.

    Chilli chicken, crispy ginger beef
    Jeff V.

    When I need my local hakka fix I go here. Chilli chicken a must. Crispy ginger beef great for the kids. Always great quality food!

    Chicken Pakora
    ellen c.

    Found this gem by accident, we were craving for lobster and was disappointed to learn that Wah Sang was closed down. We stumbled upon Royal Jade- and are we glad we did. Chicken pakoras were huge and juicy, very flavour ful. It comes with coriander chutney that provides a refreshing balance to the spice. Chili Chicken dry was the best among others we've tried. We were also very pleased with the mango lassi. One thing worth mentioning is that this place is very clean compared other Hakka places. We will definitely be back, this is my new favourite Hakka place.

    Mike M.

    The place came recommended from a fellow yelper and I finally made it here. Started with the fish pakora and then the Royal Jade soup. The fish pakora was fantastic but the soup I wasn't too crazy about. Having come a ways to get here, I had to sample a bunch of dishes. Had some Chow Main, some fish fish, a rice dish and a beef and broccoli dish. All were decent, but to be fair, I missed some of the distinct flavors I have enjoyed at other places before and expected to have here. My highlight was the fish pakora and the beef and broccoli dish. Would I recommend this place? Absolutely.

    Week old beef with sesame sprinkled on top to make it look more appetizing

    Drove by a lot so I thought I would give it a try. Ordered chilli chicken lunch special and crispy ginger sesame beef. I saw online that some reviewers were able to get gravy on the side for their chilli chicken so I asked about this. The lady said it's a $5 charge... for a side of gravy... no thanks. I was just down the street so I went in about 5 minutes after I called and the food was ready. Not a good sign. The chicken was fine but didn't taste very good. The soup that they gave was so salty that I thought it was the $5 gravy that I declined. The beef was disgusting - very old and tough beef that they probably had sitting for a week and reheated at the time of order. The picture doesn't do it justice.

    Winnie L.

    Amazing Hakka food with generous portions! I loved the chicken lollipop which was hot and crispy. The Manchurian fried rice was delicious as well - not too spicy yet full of flavour. The service is friendly and attentive. The restaurant was not very busy on a Sunday night. While the restaurant is decently renovated, the restaurant has questionable signs to prevent theft, which makes the restaurant feel less safe.

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    Neet D.

    My new Fav Hakka restaurant. This place is located in a plaza and has a very nice decor. Owners are super nice and welcoming. We ordered home style dumplings and fish pakora to start. Dumplings were mind blowing and Fish pakora was just fine. I wish they would have used more fish and less better and this is the only reason I gave them 4 stars. In main course we ordered Munchurian chicken, Munchurian chowmein and chilli fish. Everything was just perfect. It's a great place if you like Indian hakka, definitely try them out. I will keep coming back to this place.

    Mango salad. Wouldnt recommend. Not authentic Thai recipe
    Miss Lady ..

    The pad thai was very inauthentic. I think it was just the noodles fried up with some generic pad thai sauce. I wouldn't recommend it. We ordered mango salad and the mango is over-ripe to the point where it was very soft. Once again, very inauthentic Thai and not very tasty. I have the sweet and sour pineapple chicken which will good and I would recommend that. We also had the Manchurian beef and it was just okay. This place is halal and they have it noted on the menu and they told us where they purchased the meat from.

    Phillip S.

    Royal Jade is a new addition to the list of Hakka restaurants in the city as its been opened since November 2017. I've been to many Hakka restaurants in my time,but I must say Royal Jade is among the winner! Sorry Federick, Good Luck, Tangerine, Lin Garden but this place does it better. Though its not close to home being located on Steeles Ave between Dufferin and Keele, it's worth the drive. The restaurant is clean, their portions are sufficient, prices are reasonable and the staff are attentive and personable. So far this is the closest most authentic Hakka restaurant I've experienced to this day. Unlike the other places that use a lot of corn starch in their food, Royal Jade focuses on pure, flavorful authenticity. In terms of food we had their: Chicken Pakora Chicken Hakka chow mein Sweet Hakka chow mein Royal Jade House Soup Chili Chicken Crispy Beef Fish with red wine sauce. All of which was an easy 5/5!! I'll definitely be coming back.

    Fish pakora
    Rav D.

    An awesome little Hakka spot just waiting to reach stardom. Great atmosphere, clean and well kept restaurant, delicious food, and to top it all off....the world's most courteous, polite, and friendly owner (or I think he was the owner). We ordered chicken Manchurian, and Manchurian Hakka noodles....both were delicious and worth ordering again. We also ordered fish pakora appetizer, it was different from what we were expecting, but good in its own right. We do prefer decent sized pieces of seasoned fish cited in batter and fried, but this was a more fish Manchurian balls type of preparation.

    Deep fried cauliflower
    Gracia S.

    What a hidden gem! A group of friends and I decided to give this place a try after church recently and was happy as we did for the nice service of the family owned restaurant matched up with the lovely food. From everything we ordered (check out pictures!) must gets are: Deep fried Cauliflower- they were exceptionally packed with flavor and oh so crispy and was the major surprise of our whole group as we didn't think that it could be so yummy! Crispy Ginger Beef as well as the Chicken Pakora were also favorites. Along with the Garlic Sauce Eggplant if we had to choose a 4th runner up. The Manchurian Fried Rice and Hakka Noodles were a bit of a let down for us as we expected more flavor. All in all what we learned was that we shouldn't have ordered rice or noodles as each dish you order comes with steamed rice. So it's actually better to order dishes and eat them with plain rice next time!

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    Great restaurant. Family owned, great taste, portions, selection of dishes. Would definitely recommend.

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    Nice food, I like the vegetable fried rice. Spicy shrimp ( Dry) and crispy ginger beef.

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    Good reasonable portions, wait times weren't bad, friendly staff, good prices. Food didn't look amazing when it came but tasted pretty good.

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    Very average Thai restaurant. Solid lunch menu with lots of options that are all cheap. Quick service as well.

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    Lunch special is a great choice for weekday. You can't expect too much on the dishes at this price level, but at least they are not bad.

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    The food is delicious and the price is just right. The servers are super nice as well! One of the best hakka restaurants I have ever tried.

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    The food was good and a good value. I've only been for lunch and service was pretty quick.

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