2.5 stars. This location is setup like a cafeteria or a food court choose your own toppings meal. They usually have hot stations and they scoop accordingly. With the lockdown, this is only order to go. You better have a good command of Mandarin as their English and or Cantonese is Zero. The staff manning the phones are also quite rude and will hang up if you are not quick enough placing your order. Upon entry, the place is barren, the staff are busy chit chatting with a few bags for the delivery agencies to pickup. The food is a little oily and lacks any true taste of the Fried rice, stir fried cabbage and the chili chicken. The taste is of the spice and oil and not of the main dish that should be the headliner. The plus is a huge parking lot out front for you to wait as they prepare your order. Cash only unless you have access to WeChat pay read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

This 24 hour Chinese joint would be a challenge for those who don't both speak & read Mandarin as many items are only advertised in Mandarin. Actually even if you are conversant in Mandarin, it's not smooth sailing either: the system seems quite haphazard & you need to be assertive to get your order in. The dishes are mostly Western Chinese food. Tried the 2 meat & 2 vegetable dishes with rice set twice & both times they were good. The portion was substantial even if not huge. The dishes were not that oily & had a good wok flavour & seemed to be Sichuan style (but not too spicy). They also have a lunch/dinner box with 4 meat & 4 vegetable dishes. I think I heard it cost $38.99 (the price was not on the sign), so it's not for 1 person. The first time I ordered the dishes with rice I was given egg drop soup which was tastier than it looked - pretty good actually. The second time I didn't get offered any. Lanzhou ramen was decent. The meat used was beef (since it's a Chinese Muslim dish). The soup on its own was quite tasty. But somehow together with the noodles & toppings it was not that great. Pumpkin pie was decent. It wasn't that oily. The hot soy bean drink was $2.10. It was alright. They currently have a patio, but the roof is made of translucent red cloth, which explains why my photos all have a reddish tint. read more

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Excellent spot for Chinese-style breakfast! The name might remind you of Taiwan, but the food is actually more from the Dongbei region. The restaurant is right besides Pacific Mall, and parking space is quite abundant. The interior is a bit like an open cafeteria, but you can order by filling up a piece of paper with the number of portions you'd like of each item, and they bring you the food to the table. We went there for breakfast recently and had a great time. The portions were quite generous and prices were fantastic! We got fried dough (youtiao), soy milk, sour and spicy soup (suanlatang), century egg and tofu (pidandoufu), fried chive pancakes (jiucaihezi), cold rice noodles (liangpi), custard buns, BBQ buns, as well as lamb and fennel dumplings. Quite a bit!! The food came in waves, quite quickly, although we had to remind them for the buns and dumplings. The youtiao was hot and crisp, a delight dipped in sugar or something savoury. The egg and tofu was nicely tossed in soy sauce and coriander, a refreshing dish that we all liked. The pancakes were hot and tasty, and the rice noodles perfectly paired with the thinly sliced vegetables and comfortably sweet sesame sauce. The custard bun was the old school style, which is not as good as the salty egg yold, runny custard style (in my opinion), but the lamb/fennel dumplings were quite delicious! Even as full as I was at the end of the meal, I managed to eat more than 6 - and they were not small... We left Yong He full and satisfied, ready to return soon! read more

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Great lunch special of a box of rice, 2 meats and 2 veggies of my choosing for $8.99. Also picked up some veggies side dish for $6.99. read more

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Mediocre food, but no where else is open this late. All I can say is, the food is eatable. If you don't want western fast food, this restaurant will suffice. read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - 1am, people are still coming - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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I wanted to try this restaurant for a long time and I had to order take out because of covid19. I ordered Yong He Style Chicken -$9.99, northeast bean jelly noodle - $9.99, double cooked pork slices -$13.99, spicy chicken gristle-$15.99. So everything after tax was around $55. Service - average. I did called 20 mintuahead and placed my order on the phone and waited for a bit at the restaurant. read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Take out - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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This was an overwhelmingly positive breakfast experience. I've never had anything like it and I loved how down-to-earth everything was. This place, which was essentially an open cafeteria, has both a hot food table station and menu items which you can order. Basically I had a combination of both. A lot of the things are in Chinese but you can simply ask if you are unsure about anything. I went and got my hot table items first. For $5.99, I got 3 different cold salad items. Next, I grabbed a cup of soy milk. For only $1.99, you get unlimited fresh hot soy milk. This was a deal I could not run away from. The milk is actually unsweetened, so you're able to customize your sugar content. Lastly, I grabbed two pancakes - one being a pumpkin pancake, and the other, a meat pancake. These are staple Chinese breakfast items that I've been always meaning to try. As for the menu items, we ordered pickled cabbage with potato noodles and double cooked pork slices (Guo Bao Rou - Sweet and Sour Fried Pork). The salad items were a definite must. They help to balance the oiliness of the other foods. On top of that, they were refreshing and delicious. I love the shredded potato side dish. It's sweet and sour, and has a unique crunch to it. The soy milk was warm and fresh. You can tell that they make it in house, which is always a great thing. The pancakes were a bit cold since they leave it out, but the fact that they tasted so good at that state, just reveals how delicious they'd be fresh. The pumpkin pancake was sweet and it had an almost mochi-esque texture. It was yummy. The beef pancake is a must order. I loved how juicy and savoury the meat filling was. As for the potato noodles. This is pretty much an acquired taste - at first I was shocked by the sourness of the dish. However, I came to love the dish. It was garlicky, filling, and had tons of flavour. This is a dish that goes well with rice. The fried pork was also very delicious. I'd say that it's the best guo bao rou in all of Toronto. They made the sauce right - sweet and sour, and the batter had the right texture - crunchy bite, but chewy interior. I loved it. This place is pretty much a self-serve restaurant. You simply order your items at the hot table and pay at the counter. People were generally very nice and the atmosphere makes it a very casual brunch spot. read more

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I am naturally biased and want to love this place as soon as I saw it. Growing up in China and eating traditional Chinese style breakfast in street stalls was a fond memory. This is why I was so excited to see a location of the famous Yong He breakfast restaurant opened in Toronto! I'll try to be as unbiased as possible in my review of the food and services though =) Prices are all quite inexpensive and all of their congees/porridges are free refills! Basically you pay for the bowl, and you can go back and refill and try different types of the congees each time...if you have the stomach space for it lol. I love love love their congees! Very soul-healing, if you're a soup/congee type of person. Pairing any of their congees with the cold side dishes (pickled veggies, pig's ear, seaweed, potato, etc) is basically my idea of a nice Chinese breakfast. They also have various types of pork buns, and veggie buns. Overall in enjoy them, the fillings are delicious (my favorite is pork and pickled cabbage) but I wish they had made the filling less oily. Two of my three buns had oils dripping and pooling inside my bowl =(. Their Youtiao, the famous Chinese breakfast staple, aka the Chinese fried churros, is on point! Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with somehow just the perfect amount of savory seasoning in the dough. My parents enjoyed it a lot, and I feel like it satisfied their homesickness a little bit. The service staff all speak Mandarin for sure, I cannot attest to their English skills, and I have read reviews that complain of their lack of English service. I hope they try to make this improvement in order to be more inclusive to all Canadians, and even other Chinese dialects lol Overall I had a satisfactory breakfast here! Any place that reminds people of the food of their childhood is good! I hope the chain expands, but also to try to adapt their foods to accommodate modern people's health consciousness =). read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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Last night, I was supposed to meet another friend of mine, but that did not work out, so my friend suggested that I come here instead with my beau. He was free, so I was like why not give this a shot with him. This place is rather new and it is open 24/7. Decent place for Chinese all day breakfast place, but when we saw the menu, we were more interested in their pan Asian offerings. Location: 4/5 It is right next to Pacific Mall on Kennedy Rd, so there is a lot of parking space, but the intersection can be a hassle to drive through. Decor/Ambience: 4/5 A mix between modern and traditional with wooden tables and short wooden stools for seating and Chinese murals as backdrops. You can put your bags and coats in. Clean space. Food quality: 3/5 We ordered shrimp dumplings (HK), kimchi fried rice (Korean), and peanut pancake, cold noodles with soy paste and grill lamb were definitely northern/mainland Chinese food. Their kimchi fried rice needed more kimchi and more flavour, but apparently their lamb was seasoned perfectly well! But seriously, where is the kimchi? There simply was not enough flavour in the entire dish; quite disappointing. Do not recommend anyone ordering that. It was more oil than actual spices much less actual kimchi/cabbage. Everything else was just ok. Not really our cup of tea. Service: 2.5/5 They do not tidy up after people have already paid and left until more than 5-10 minutes later, even though the place was less than half full. They mostly speak Mandarin there and so when my beau tried to speak English to them, they did not really get what he was saying. Service was ok, but otherwise slow. Value: 3/5 I do not think the price was entirely justified, because we definitely paid more than it should costed us. The fried rice had no eggs and barely any kimchi just rice. Only the lamb turned out better than we thought, but then again it was $18 for two pieces. It better have been good. I would not know since I do not eat meat. Overall: 3/5 I will be nice, but I probably would not come back here again. read more

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It's hard not to notice this place especially at night. Bright lights, big open windows, you can't help but take a peek in. After waiting a few months since they put up their sign, I decided to pass by this place on the way back home to see if they were finally open and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was. It was about midnight so I was happy to find something open that wasn't a McDonalds. The decor and layout of the space is very inviting, a good cross between old school Chinese decor and modern styling. Was greeted and told to sit anywhere, so I picked a spot closer to the front so I can see how everything works. Mind you, this is not the typical breakfast place despite the name. The restaurant seems to specialize in Northern Chinese cuisine. The menu itself is fairly concise, not an overwhelming selection like how you would expect most Chinese restaurants. The main issue however is that if you cannot read Chinese, be prepared to hit a roadblock. A lot of the menu items are direct translations and do not describe the dish at all, and the staff speak next to no english aside from asking how many seats. The signs/menu items on the wall are also written in Chinese only. Google translate may be your best friend here. I ordered the Chilli Fried Noodles, Chilli Oil Beef, Leek Pancake, and a Pork & Cabbage Bun to try. Everything came in a fair amount of time one after another. Overall, everything was delicious, especially the Chilli Noodles and Beef. If you're a fan of heat or just want to warm up from the cold, these dishes are definitely for you. The bun was also very juicy and soft, well worth the $1.50. While having tons of different flavours, my only wish is that they used less oil. The amount of oil on everything I felt was much more than is needed, everything was practically drowning in it. -1 star for that. Another issue was the service. I mentioned earlier that while the servers speak minimal to no english, they seem to lack the basic customer service skills on top. It took 10 minutes for the bill to arrive in an almost empty restaurant (1 other table of 6 other guests who appear to be friends of the staff). Even after waving at the 2 waitresses, literally 2 feet away and calling for their attention, they managed to look directly past me and walk away. When I finally decided to walk up to the front cashier and ask again for my bill, the staff just looked over at my table and walked away to ask someone else to do it. I'm not sure if this was just a case of lack of training and she didn't know how to, but I found it extremely rude. Total damage for the night was $30. Would I come back? Maybe. Since there's limited options open late in the area, if I have no other choice I may return. I might give them a few months to flesh out their service details and see how they do, because as is I don't think they'll have many returning customers. If you can look past the poor customer service/experience, the food itself is rather worth a try. read more

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I like their meat patties so I kept coming back to get more , pretty much every week, food is okay over there but their customer service is awfully bad , ladies were acting very rude, ignoring, totally disrespectful, I will not recommend this place to my friends anymore like I used to be. Rating them one star because it's the lowest , their poor service quality doesn't deserve anything more than that. Wonder if they don't like to serve people why just stay home ? It will be much nicer for both sides ! What a pity read more

Authentic Southeastern style BBQ skewers, not deep fried as other skewers. Good service. read more

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The breakfast joint now has a patio area for just BBQ skewers and other items from 5pm onwards everyday!! You can order from their BBQ menu and also their regular menu items. The bbq menu is for eat-in only. Loved their cold noodles as well as various stir fry clam flavour options. Grilled garlic oysters are a must read more

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Walking into the restaurant you'll see a hot table filled with food. Unfortunately because they are marinated or pickled items nothing is hot. Apparently these are appetizers to choose and then you order from the menu. Our cold appetizers: Pickled pig ear slivers Marinated pulled beef Pickled beef tripe Smoked pork hock Sliced marinated beef shank Menu item: Lamb and fennel dumplings steamed Maybe it was me but I know if something tastes good. I've had these items before but everything had an "off" taste. My buddy told me this is what to expect if I was in the north part of China. He happily finished everything no problem. I will not be returning and Do Not recommend this restaurant read more

May be three and a half stars. It is like a cafeteria, serving breakfast all day long. The place was clean. The service was great. It had a lot food items to choose from. The soy milk was light. The fried dough was fresh, but a little bit oily. The sticky rice cake was oily. The Yong He style chicken was very good, it had a distinct flavor from China. read more

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If you detest the smell of the lipid of pigs on your food, avoid their fried options. Good atmosphere, if you sit away from the display counter. Wait time is 10 minutes or a lot longer, popular eatery. Good service. read more

Honestly....this place is awful. As the first poster stated, they speak ABSOLUTELY NO ENGLISH WHAT SO EVER! The staff don't even make an attempt to communicate with you. If you don't speak SPECIFICALLY mandarin, the staff would rather you leave. The menu with limited English is not descriptive and the specials or promos are all posted in Chinese. The food is awful. Keep going South to Magic Noodle or even make a stop at McDonalds. At least at McDonalds, you know the disappointment you're signing up for. Even though it's located in a primarily Chinese heavy area, the restaurant only chooses to cater to mandarin speaking patrons. Forget it if you speak any other forms of Chinese, the energy you receive when you walk through their doors is that you're not welcome. I really doubt that this establishment will be lasting long. I hope it doesn't. Let's make way for better businesses to open in it's stead. read more

Best way to describe this place; it was like a Chinese cafeteria. They have an open kitchen area where food is already prepared. You just grab and fo pay. You can also order stuff that is made fresh. Really didn't know what to order or what this placed specialized in but it was packed and everyone was speaking Mandarin. Frankly, I'm still not sure what we ordered, some small bowls of congee, an eggplant dish and some sweet Chinese style pancakes. It might sound like a lot but it really wasn't much to eat and it was over $17. I'm sure there are better stuff to order here but we just didn't know what their go to dishes were. Not really my cup of tea. read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Pretty decent breakfast lunch option here ! Think about this as a Chinese grocery food court but a little fresher. The buns were good and the options for food is good. Tried the cold plate of tripe, potato and pigs ear. All were good! Had the 2 veg and meat combo that was worth the money. Sweet potato congee unlimited fills as good. Tried the hot soya milk, that was fresh. For the buns we had the minced meat pie and chive pockets. Both were good. Worth the try for fast food ! read more

The cold dishes are out of this worldly delicious! Overall this place offers very authentic Chinese food. Nothing fancy pantsy but exactly what you find in China. They are also open 24/7! There still so many dishes that I want to try next time. True that the menu is not perfectly translated. Imagine a person who doesn't read Chinese or understand the Chinese food thoroughly, there might be some lost in translation situations. read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

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So bad experience, I'm getting take out for the congee, and they use a bubble tea cup as container for hot congees without giving me a spoon instead a straw. Ridiculous! Not suggest to go to this place anothet time. read more

Yong He All Day Breakfast - Hot congee in bubbletea cup plus a straw - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Markham, Ontario

Ordered delivery. Very authentic Chinese and will def order again. Highly recommend Bao zi, deep fried dough and the soy milk.

I love this place, great buns and the twice fried pork is amazing. Miss the congee bar

This place is just ehh. I guess you are in the area after hours and are starving, you might just love them. I was excited to try the green scallion pancake, but then I was so disappointed when I took a bite of the cold pancake. I also thought the pancake was thicker than what I am used to. I also had this weird pork and tofu dish that was served in a pot with a dark sauce. It was not good at all and the tofu was cut in thin strips that resembled bandage wraps. Yikes. The only thing I enjoyed from here was this plate of stir fried vegetables with roasted garlic. read more

Best good to food places for chinese food 24hrs 7 Wu's a week. most northern chinese food is on those menu and it reminds me of China cafeteria or those food court look ok e places 1 stall sells all .friendly staff and decent prices ! read more

Heavy spiced, taste nothing except spicy from food. How they do kidney with fired which destroyed all the flavors in the meat.

The service was very slow. I ordered one wonton and two steamed bun, waited about twenty minutes, the music from TV was too noisy. The taste of wonton was too far from good. When I paid my bill, the cashier put 10% tips by herself, this is unbelievable and amazing. I've never seen this kind of check out in my life. read more

Tried a few of their baos, wonton, eggplant/potato/green pepper, sour cabbage with sliced pork, ja jeung mein, and yang chow fried rice. With so many food options nearby, I would try other places out. The best thing is that it's open 24 hours so when other places are closed, this is a decent establishment. The food was decent but staff members were quite attentive as they will bring a container to put your coats when you sit down. read more

Has anyone else got really bad food poisoning from this place? My boyfriend got sick for two weeks after eating here. Would not recommend to anyone read more

I used to go there a lot before the shut down. After the re-opening, they raise $1-2 higher price for each dish. That's actually not a big issue but the food is not cleaning. My friends all had a running stomach after a late night bbq there. Very disappointed! read more

The dish is good, however, waitresses hold poor attitude. Every time makes me angry. Bad village girls, laugh and chat with guys and ugly faces to female customers read more

Restaurant was really clean, and all the waitresses were very friendly. Food here was really authentic and delicious. Love the breakfast here! read more