Great HK cafe famous for 桂林粉 and 老友粉. Lots of good combos and pork hock dishes. Good service and seating area. read more

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This is a small casual place for a quick meal. Staff are very friendly and service is very fast, won't feel uncomfortable even when you are alone. The guilin rice noodle is big and tasty, like it here, will come back try more dishes. read more

Tsui Wah - Guilin rice noodle soup - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

Love this place, yes it looks and feels like a super old school Chinese restaurant but food is actually REALLY GOOD! Highly recommend their signature Gui Lin Style noodles! You can choose the meat that comes with it (i like the minced pork one - their OG). And it comes with tomatoes, Preserved Vegetables, Parsley and green onions. 5/5 Crispy pork intestine is DELISH! Super crispy on the outside, soft and chewy in the inside! Its just a bit pricey, but i think its pretty worth it. Not a lot if places offer crispy pork intestine~ 5/5 Lastly the House Style Braised beef and tender flat noodles. Rating varies, if you like stinky noodles aka 螺蛳粉, this may be your next favourite noodle but if you never had it, DO NOT TRY~ you can get the regular braised beef flat noodle instead! - so 5/5 if you can handle stinky noodles 1/5 if you cannot! read more

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I don't often come to this place because I find it to be too expensive for a single serving of noodles and milk tea, which usually costs around $20. Instead, I prefer to go to Yunang Rice Noodle where the lunch is cheaper. Before COVID, I used to only come here to order a milk tea, but if I had to choose between the two, I would say the house style vermicelli are better than the Gui Lin style. read more

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Went here for dinner on a week day for some quick grub and because the wife really wanted some rice noodles. We ordered the stir fried rice noodles (#12) and the pork noodle in soup and the special of the day chili fragrant chicken. While it was a satisfying meal i felt that Tsui Wah was more of a cha can ting that serves rice noodles as opposed to a Gui Lin restaurant. My stir fries noodles were a little too greasy, and flavor was very simple of soy sauce and salt but what really surprised me was the little pieces of pickled cabbage which actually cut the grease a bit (highly appreciated). The wife's rice noodles were nothing special but the plus was that it was actually flavored as opposed to some of the other rice noodle places which we have visited. The disappointing fact was that other than vinegar and black bean sauce, there wasn't much additional flavor. Lastly the chicken was simple dark meat deep fried and then stir fried in some chili sauce which while juicy was lacking the spice factor. Overall for the price and the portion a very value meal, but not a place i come regularly just because of the flavor and the oiliness read more

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You can find Gui Lin Style of almost anything at Tsui Wah! Curiously if you google Gui Lin cuisine, it is known for the use of spices, especially chili. Gui Lin Style noodle that serves here are not spicy at all!! Beef Vermicelli in Soup Gui Lan Style ($6.95) has this brownish meat broth based and garnished with fresh tomato cubes, cilantro, green onion and preserved vegetables. The chili oil as condiments on the table did make my noodles tasted a lot better! The order was quite sizable and comforting on a cold winter night! Try not to sit in the front of the restaurant, as you can feel this drift whenever customers come in and out of the restaurant. Cash only! read more

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Tried their most popular Gui Lin style rice noodles, the chicken one. I'm not a fan of rice noodle soup, so all rice noodles taste similar to me. But I like them putting that pickle-tasted vegetables into the soup, which leveled up the flavor. The portion was huge. read more

Tsui Wah - Chicken rice noodle soup, Gui Lin style - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

I ordered the minced pork rice noodle in soup (house style). It's good. The soup itself is a bit sour and it has marinated bamboo shoot. It is what I expected. I like it. My husband order fried Rice noodles with minced pork (GUI Lin style). Hmmm, a bit oily. We were expected the GUI Lin style rice noodles like the one I had, not the thin ones. We also ordered fried chicken. It was not good. I would definitely come back for the rice noodles soup. I am giving it a 4 stars alll because of the rice noodle soup and the very good price. read more

Tsui Wah - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

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I usually come here when I'm thinking of having simple no frills Chinese food or for a quick snack during tea time. They have all the classic dishes and a good milk tea so it's an easy choice. Also, they are in a quiet strip mall so it tends to be less busy than the nearby PacMall food choices. I usually get the set meals with either satay noodles or a sandwich, but they have plenty of comfort food to choose from. The flavours are not mind blowing but it's a straight forward meal that fills the tummy. Extra star for nostalgia value alone. It's harder and harder to come by these type of Cantonese Tea Resaurants these days. Love everything from the slightly outdated decor to the classic dishes. read more

Love their lamb noodle soup. Comfort food for me on a cold day. Broths are very flavourful. Deep fried items need work. Workers are nice and theres tv to watch while you eat. read more

Tsui Wah - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

I've been eating here regularly for about, at least the last 20 years (not even exaggerating!) Since I was a kid, I would have lunch here after Chinese class. This is my must go to place when I'm craving a HK style french toast. Even though sausage & eggs is not a really special dish, I always get it here also (because it's on their 'all day breakfast' menu. The recent years, I've started to like the "gui lin" noodles, I usually get the beef brisket noodle in soup or fried instant noodle (it's surprisingly really good!). The beef brisket isn't always cooked to perfect tenderness, but the taste is always consistent. The staff are all nice & they recognize you if u're a regular! read more

I would say 2.5 stars rounding down to a 2.. meaning I would prefer to not revisit This place is known for their gwai lum soup noodle broth. Although I am not familiar with this taste, I would say it's unique and worth giving a try! It does taste pretty good! The noodles and beef brisket it came with I am very familiar with and would say the noodles were ok, nothing special, portioned pretty big.. so, the eighth size for me and too much for a girl. The beef brisket needed more work, it was chewy, super chewy! Giving it a 2 star rating because the beef brisket noodle was $10.45 plus tips, The best wonton places like Wonton Chai or Jim chi Kee sell their famous best in the gta wonton noodles for $4.99 and $5.99. Having said that, this place is way over priced, even if they are the best in the gta. read more

Tsui Wah - Gwai Lum Beef Brisket Noodle, $10.42 plus tip.. - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

I came here many years ago when i first came to Toronto. Coming back now, nothing has changed, which in this case, is a good thing. Pros: Food is well done, specially anything stir fried Lots of items to choose from Cons: Main menu all in Chinese Tsui Wah is just plain old school. I went to place over 10 years ago and it doesn't look like it's changed at all. Small things like the signs and menus have been updated but it's very much the same place it was all those years ago. Tsui Wah looks exactly like what HK diner would look like in the late 90's. Everything from the decor and furniture. I normally don't like that sorta thing, but because their food has stayed the same, I'm good with it. As soon as you walk in, you get a sense of that "wok hei" that Chinese people are so familiar with. When you get a whiff of that, you know the stir fried stuff is going to be good. I ordered the fried rice noodle with beef and my GF ordered the BBQ pork Gui Lin noodles. This place specializes in Gui Lin cuisine. They have an entire sub menu dedicated to it. In my opinion, fried rice noodle with beef is an excellent benchmark for stir fry dishes at a restaurant. It's a simple dish to make, but a hard one to master sorta deal. If a place does this dish well, it will pretty much do well on other stir fry dishes. The beef noodle here was excellent, one of the better ones in the city. The noodles has some bite, but were not overly saturated with oil as well. There weren't too many onions, but it was still very aromatic. My GF's noodles were great as well. They were able to not make it spicy for our little one's benefit which was nice of them. The food here is still as good as it was when I first came. I mentioned this before in past reviews and I'll do it again. There is no excuse for having only Chinese menus when you're a business here in Canada. The menus have been updated but the main menu still lists everything in Chinese. I don't care if you're base clientele can read it, you're menus have to have English, plain and simple. My only real gripe about this place. Tsui Wah is the definition of old school. I feel like I'm back in HK for a bit when I'm here. The decor is severely outdated but the food more than makes up for it. I just hope they get an English menu soon. All in all, a wonderful place to grab a bite to eat. read more

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This place is great! I always get the number 5 which is the beef brisket, and it's delicious. Maybe it's because I live so close by, i'm just used to coming here.. but i'm always craving it. I love how they put the pickled veges in there. It's the best part about it. The parking is okay. Quite a bit of parking, I never have issues with it. It's a fairly small restaurant, but they're never fully packed. The good thing is that the food comes extremely quick and the portions are huge, but it is sliiightly pricey. read more

Tsui Wah - #5 Beef Brisket - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

Came with my mom on Friday night and this time we ordered the right stuff and it was amazingly cheap and delicious! We had the Guilin Fried Rice that was a bit spicy, with pickled vegetables, minced pork, tomatoes and eggs. SO GOOD! The old friend vermicelli was clear yam noodles in a dark broth with sour bamboos and minced pork. The soup was delicious. We also ordered chinese watercress stir-fried with garlic. Notice that west cantonese food tends to lean on a bit of acidity in their dishes--pickled vegetable, tomatoes, sour bamboos. What makes the restaurant so great is their stir-fry style. You can tell they use enough fire power to fry the food making the aroma extra strong. This shows the most in their fried rice. Total was $25 AFTER tax. We were stuffed and had food to take home. Service was friendly. Definitely going to be my new go-to place when i'm uptown! In fact, i'm thinking about taking a friend there tonight! read more

Don't ask me why a Hong Kong style Cafe serves Gui Lin style noodle soup...... I've been asking myself same thing for over 2 years. The restaurant (or cafe, by its Chinese name), has two menus, one is for "regular" Hong Kong style cafe choice. The other one is for Gui Lin style noodle soup and hot pot. My regular faves is the old friend vermicelli, with a hot milk tea and I am aware that this two thing shouldn't go together The old friend vermicelli has a sour spicy soup base, with lots of minced pork ( you can change the topping to beef rib or lamb) and special kind of pickle (made from bamboo Lol). Except the side effect that you and car might smell like this thing right in front of you after you eat it , this noodle soup is perfect and almost a blessing for a cold night. Milk tea is also perfect, just you have to be really "rude" when you put the sugar in before you taste the sweet taste. I tried their hot pot once, the lamb one. Kinda disappointed, not bad, but I didn't expect better given the noodle soup they served. My other fave will be the noodle with no soup, you mix all the topping together. If you don't mix, the owner will come by and ask "SORRY, BUT DO YOU NEED SOME INSTRUCTIONS" So cute I love him. The serves is okay, but too efficient sometimes. Me and my friend, every time we were trying to take a break in finishing the soup (a lot of them), a waiter will come by and ask "ARE YOU DONE?" So later we just don't talk during the process drinking the soup and we talk after ~~ read more

Not a fan of this place. Ordered their lamb brisket soup noodle and the salty-sour flavour of the soup wasn't that appealing. When I saw the abundant amount of tomatoes in the soup I thought it would have a very delicate sweet flavour - no such luck unfortunately. Also they were skimpy on the lamb. The salt and pepper fried pork hocks were delicious though, but not good value-for-money as the portion was way too small. read more

The food is just soso. What threw me off was the staff took his mask off while cutting veggies. I personally think during pandemic they should be more cautious about hygiene. Price wise I think other Hong Kong cafes are cheaper. But I think I'll come but and give it another shot and try their famous noodles but I ordered satay beef noodles last time. Hope they will take the hygiene more seriously next time. read more

I used to go here every single week. Tsui Wah noodles were good until they change Owner in last Xmas. Quality dropped. And my favorite HK Tea no more good. I still go once awhile now. but still no improvement. read more

tiny little shop i didn't eat much here. was mostly just spending time with my grams. but what we did order was the lamb hot pot, some salty spicy pork, and veggies. we ordered a tofu dish too actually, but the tofu was sour, maybe gone bad? they took it away and canceled our order without any issues. the lamb was good, respectable chunks of meat. one thing that i could add is that i didn't need to eat rice along with the meal. usually when i do, its because flavours are overwhelming and need rice to make it a bit more bland. flavours were at the right intensity for me. read more

You know those places that everyone goes there for that 1 dish? This place is one of them! They specialize and perfect beef brisket noodles here, weather you like soup noodles or just dry mix this place has the best "gui lum" style noodles in town hands down! read more

Tsui Wah - Dry mix gui lin style noodles - Chinese Near Me - Scarborough, Ontario

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Very nice HK style diner. Not too big, a bit outdated decor, but the noodle (vermicelli) was amazing!!! Definitely will come back and this might replaced congee queen as my fav HK diner. read more

I like this place. Everything I've had from there so far taste good. HK style dishes done well. Good "wok hay" (breath of the wok). Guilin noodles are good, but I like the "old buddies" noodle (the spicy and sour soup base) more. Their noodles are good, my fave is the thick flat glass noodles. Portions are huge. They have a semi-open kitchen so the place does tend to smell a lot like bamboo and herbs (which they use in their noodles). Decor is simple. Service efficient. But I come here solely for the food. Have not tried their drinks yet, although I see a lot of people order their HK milk tea. read more