Worst Chinese Restaurant

[darkprince]

Pros:
Asian Owner
Asian Worker

Cons:
Bad Service
Crappy Food
Over Charged
Dirty
Fake Chinese Food
Scam

Conclusion: This restaurant is located near Spadina and Harbord. Pretty sure people from University of Toronto will know about this place. Because I can honestly say this restaurant and its menu is made for conning Non-Asians.

Example their Chow-Mien is nothing but a full plate of Bean-sprouts with little bit of soy sauce for color and you pay 6$ for it. FYI Bean-sprouts cost only 20cents a pound in the supermarket. And they charging 6$ for 2 ounces of bean-sprouts and few drops of soy sauce.


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[rogerrabbit168]

yeap, i remember that restaurant, i ate at it a couple of times when i was at UT, but it wasn't that bad then (few years ago), i wouldn't be surprise if it went downhill

[uvadtmfub]

It looks bad enough from the outside already :lol:

[strangeepiphany]

Habour? You mean Harbord?

Place looks pretty run down. I don't think I'd ever consider eating there anyway.

[UrbanPoet]

what do you expect when you go to a place that looks like that?
It just seems like one of those places where you go in, get your food, and GTFO.

Kinda like those small crappy pizza places... $3 gets you a slice of pizza & pop... Dont expect gourmet.

[SirAlain]

What about Mandarin? Asian-owned, right? But ... what a joke!

[drowsy]

yes, this particular place on Harbord is very very bad.

[maniackjr]

I usually will not try to eat at any china town restaurants, because:

1. I do not live near there
2. May check kitchen area for cleanliness
3. May check washroom area for cleanliness

If the Kitchen + Washroom looks crap, I don't think the owners care about their food. I've heard stories of food poisoning form eating in China town, so I'd be aware of eating there.

[h2o-]

I wouldn't able to find a decent Chinese Restaurant around 1KMs from the place OP complained.

[rogeryen]

[QUOTE=darkprince;6785620]Example their Chow-Mien is nothing but a full plate of Bean-sprouts with little bit of soy sauce for color and you pay 6$ for it. FYI Bean-sprouts cost only 20cents a pound in the supermarket. And they charging 6$ for 2 ounces of bean-sprouts and few drops of soy sauce.

That's how ManChu Wok does their "Chow-Mien", bean sprouts and just as overpriced. I wouldn't even call these places "Chinese".

[Mulder and Scully]

Example their Chow-Mien is nothing but a full plate of Bean-sprouts with little bit of soy sauce for color and you pay 6$ for it. FYI Bean-sprouts cost only 20cents a pound in the supermarket. And they charging 6$ for 2 ounces of bean-sprouts and few drops of soy sauce.

Some of you guys use too much hyperbole. The place sounds like a rip-off in regards to price but it doesn't sound terrible enough to be the worst deserving it's own thread.

What's with some of you making RFD your own personal blog and venting forum?

[dasaylay]

OP are you even asian? Anyone with a decent sense for chinese food would've avoided that place altogether in the first place...

[almostfreeman]

FYI Bean-sprouts cost only 20cents a pound in the supermarket. And they charging 6$ for 2 ounces of bean-sprouts and few drops of soy sauce.

You mean I've been getting scammed!? I've been paying .99 for 500g of bean sprouts. :mad:

[duckdown]

StarWalk is pretty disgusting

[molala]

even mandarin use bean sprout as chow mein

[mitboi]

What about Mandarin? Asian-owned, right? But ... what a joke!

for a chinese buffet, mandarin is pretty good.

[Katt_sHe]

for a chinese buffet, mandarin is pretty good.

for A BUFFET, mandarin is pretty good, the food there has nothing to do with chinese...but my family loves there, it is the place for almost everyone's commuion and confirmation..:o

[4flava]

For me the worse "chinese" restaurant has to be Noodle Delight.

My co-worker ordered the Pad Thai the other day and they actually use egg noodles to make it..lol... and the fried rice was sitting in a puddle of oil.
nasty nasty food.

[ji2o0k]

Anyone eat at those Chinese trucks outside Robarts?

The trucks have been there forever, I would hate to see the insides of that kitchen!

I used to eat there when studying late sometimes (I would get the beef thick noodles). It was all good until one time I ate it and got the severe case of runs.

Never again man.........never again....

[wetsnot]

Anyone eat at those Chinese trucks outside Robarts?

The trucks have been there forever, I would hate to see the insides of that kitchen!

I used to eat there when studying late sometimes (I would get the beef thick noodles). It was all good until one time I ate it and got the severe case of runs.

Never again man.........never again....

I always wondered how these trucks managed to cook without running water.

Then one day I'm walking by one of these trucks near robarts I see one of the cooks step out with a gigantic bucket towards the sewer grate on the curb. He pours out the water...it's redish, brownish colour with chunks in it. Unless he was just finishing degreasing the truck's engine, that's filthy.

[raxen]

LoL... I'm sitting at Rotmans right now and just finished a Egg + Beef rice from the red van outside robarts...

No runs yet... :D

[Spor 13]

I'd say the worst chinese restaurant in my books is "The Perfect Chinese Restaurant" at Sheppard/Brimley...always end up with some sort of stomach ache after.

[dasaylay]

For me the worse "chinese" restaurant has to be Noodle Delight.

My co-worker ordered the Pad Thai the other day and they actually use egg noodles to make it..lol... and the fried rice was sitting in a puddle of oil.
nasty nasty food.

Well give them some credit since Pad Thai is a Thai dish, not a chinese one. :cheesygri

[4flava]

Well give them some credit since Pad Thai is a Thai dish, not a chinese one. :cheesygri

That's what I told my co-worker too ;)

[SirAlain]

Anyone eat at those Chinese trucks outside Robarts?

The trucks have been there forever, I would hate to see the insides of that kitchen!

I used to eat there when studying late sometimes (I would get the beef thick noodles). It was all good until one time I ate it and got the severe case of runs.

Never again man.........never again....

I mustered up the courage to try that once. At the same time I ordered, a Chinese girl also ordered. She chatted in Cantonese (or Mandarin? ) with the lady seller. It was ok, the usual greasy, salty Chinese food.

Authentic, yes. Sanitary? hmmm.

[dasaylay]

I mustered up the courage to try that once. At the same time I ordered, a Chinese girl also ordered. She chatted in Cantonese (or Mandarin? ) with the lady seller. It was ok, the usual greasy, salty Chinese food.

Authentic, yes. Sanitary? hmmm.

You can tell if the food was authentic when you can't differentiate between Cantonese and Mandarin??

[trixR4kids]

would a ayce sushi restaurant but owned by chinese count?

[keanefan]

Well give them some credit since Pad Thai is a Thai dish, not a chinese one. :cheesygri

Pad Thai might not be authentic Thai food.

I saw on a website- a Thai guy wrote that Chinese immigrants to Thailand sold noodle dishes and adapted the recipe to suit Thai tastes (the tamarind and probably the peanuts, lime).

:arrow:

[dasaylay]

hey keanefan, nice to see you on again. Haven't seen you posting for quite some time now :cheesygri

I did not know that origin of pad thai. Though I would still argue that it is a thai dish as you wouldn't call spaghetti a Chinese dish because noodles originated from China. Same with congee having links to ancient Mogolian dishes. Everything does have its influences on another :)

[keanefan]

Thanks, dasaylay!

:cheesygri