Mr Congee is probably your best bet for Chinese food within the Hillcrest Mall area of Richmond Hill. It's everything you would typically expect: extensive menu, table cloth round tables for large parties, square tables for small parties, tea and water inclusive. You have your seafood live display off to the side, and the overall ambiance is pretty clean and rustic. There's nothing PARTICULARLY special about this place though.
Here's what we ordered
- deep fried radish patties - pretty good. Standard portion size. Oddly symmetric cubes!
- Deep fried talipia with teriyaki sauce - this one was okay. You can't really go wrong with deep fried foods and sauce :~)
- Snow pea shoots and king oyster mushroom stir fry - pretty good. Like the flavour, and not too greasy!
- Chicken and mushroom Hot Stone casserole rice - not that good. could not tell the rice was coooked in a hot stone. The sauce was flavourless. The chicken was not lean (mostly bone, skin, and fat). Would highly not recommend, especially for the wait time and price
Come to Mr Congee for some good (but not GREAT!!!!) authentic Chinese food