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| - The temperature is 18+ degrees Celsius, and are you looking for some excellent and tasty Chinese portions for a decent price while sitting at an outdoor patio? Well, this place is not a bad option. I finally got a chance to eat at this place after driving by it so many times during my trips to Toronto. This place is supposedly the "flagship store" of the multiple locations of this chain and one of the most popular places to get some "juk" or congee in the Greater Toronto Area. There's usually a lot of people that come here on Saturday afternoon for lunch.
One cool thing about this place was that there's an outdoor patio to sit outside when the temperature is greater than 18 degrees Celsius. We got a chance to eat at this section of this place, so we can avoid waiting longer for a table inside.
The Wong Hau Dai Juk, which is the House Super Bowl Congee (A2) is a good dish, has excellent portions enough for 3+people, and it is filled with a variety of seafood. Although it was great, I thought the texture was a little too watery. At $10.45, it is not a bad deal.
If there were two things I am going to miss about this place, it's probably the flavours of the XO Geung Gon Chao Ngau Ho, and the Wong Tai Ji Man Yu Chao Fan. These dishes are the Fried Rice Noodle with Sliced Beef and XO Sauce (E11) and the Empress Fried Rice (CQ22, with eel, fish and crab meat). I really liked the spices of the noodle dish, the sesame seeds, and the texture of the thin noodles. Beef was fairly tender. The fried rice had an excellent flavour from the eel. Yes, it is more expensive than the other fried rice dishes, but worth the extra money. Portions are excellent.
As for the other dishes, the Yeung Chau Chao Fan, also known as the Yeung Chow Fried Rice (H15), was decently good and the portions were also excellent, but it lacked flavour compared to the Empress Fried Rice. The Crispy Cantonese Chow Mein (E14) is not a bad choice if you want a simple noodle dish with a lot of seafood and vegetables. The noodles had a decent crispiness and the portions are also excellent.
The quality of service is not great, so if you are looking for a quick lunch under 45 minutes long, this may not be a great choice. It's more like a place in which you are not in a hurry. All dishes should be enough to feed at least 2+ people or enough to take home leftovers. The patio is nice, but the scenery is a little boring.
Overall, I thought I had some of the best fried rice and noodle dishes in Thornhill so far. I would definitely come back for the noodle and fried rice dishes and I think it's worth spending the extra few dollars on the Empress Fried Rice dish, especially if you are with a few people. I also would not mind coming back if I really want to eat some fried rice and noodle dishes on a nice patio.
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