Checked out a very authentic and delicious Chinese restaurant in Calgary! It's called Papa Shunde, and it's about a 20-minute drive from the airport. This place specializes in northeastern Chinese cuisine. The portions are generous, and the prices are reasonable. We ordered a total of five dishes, and our top favorites were spicy beef with tofu, stir-fried eggplant, potato & pepper, and sweet & sour pork. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

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Food is so delicious. Very authentic northeastern China cuisine! They have a wide variety of dishes to choose from, and they are all tasty. I highly recommend this place if you want to have a true Chinese cuisine experience. Service was good and food came out very fast. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

This restaurant is mediocre at best. Not as authentic Chinese food as you would expect. Ordered handmade noodles, but instead got fried shanghai noodles instead. Most dishes are expensive, usually greater than $20/dish, portions are between small and average. Taste caters mostly people who like spicy foods. Tea is flavorful with additional elements. Look before you drink. Service was decent as they would attend to you when you ask for something. Food came out not too long after ordering. read more

This is the review for the restaurant called 李家小馆 next door. Poor service. It's a Monday night for dinner. Made a phone call to reserve a table at 18:00 when we arrived there's no table available. We have to stay for 5 minutes and finally got a table. A group of 13 people arrived later got their table before us. Then it's the waiting game for the waiter to take our order. We have to literally wait for 15 minutes and the waitress still didn't come to take our order. So I had to leave the seat and go to order food in the front desk. While the waiter behind the desk walking around and ignore us on purpose. Sigh. Was told the food was good by a coworker but the service... it was barely there. Could have given zero star if it is an option here. Next time skip the waiting game and order food directly from here might be the best way. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - 鱼香肉丝 - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

BEST HOT & SOUR SOUP! Staff is wonderful, food is very very good, atmosphere is the only negative so we do takeout. Salt and pepper squid is pretty top notch, but all their dishes are so good and obviously prepared by someone who loves what they do! read more

The awkward location for such a restaurant like this means nothing. Their service is very good, considering you can preorder your food, and skip a lot of waiting time during the busy hours. This is a very clean restaurant and they have some very traditional cantonese food here. All of the waiters that I have met are very friendly and you can call them over anytime for something since they are always have one employee available. My favourite dish here is the brass plate steamed chicken (銅盆蒸雞) I like to mix the sauce with the rice because it adds some very tasty flavouring to the rice. My parents also really enjoy the pork and lotus root patty (藕餅) Their complementary desert which is extremely soft tofu with honey is very enjoyable. Otherwise, this is an excellent restaurant with friendly staff and great service. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - This is the dessert that I have been enjoying at this restaurant ever since the first time I have been to here. - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Ordered the dinner for two which includes: 2 spring rolls, ginger beef, chicken and mixed veggies, special fried rice, and hot and sour soup. Everything was amazing! Tasty and fresh. Tons of food, enough for tomorrow too. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - a variety of food - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

No service. Food is okay, but the prices are pretty high, and portions are pretty small. I would not recommend this place

This place is attached to a gas station and doesn't seem like much. But the food is actually quite good. The restaurant is always clean inside when I pick up my food. The food tastes great. The ginger chicken could have bigger chunks of chicken sometimes. But otherwise I have no complaints. I really like the fried rice. read more

We would love to eat here more often as we love the Shunde style of Cantonese cuisine. However, due to the size of the restaurant (small), it is sometimes difficult to get seats if you didn't plan to make a reservation ahead of time. There is no complaints when it comes to the food, which tastes fabulous. Service is also friendly. read more

Papa Shunde Chinese Restaurant - a plate of meatballs - Chinese Near Me - Calgary, Alberta

Our go-to for Chinese cooking. Best in the northwest. Probably in the city. I highly recommend it

This is a very weird place for a restaurant let alone a Chinese restaurant. Nonetheless, this is definitely a little hidden gem of the neighborhood. The food was flavourful and portions were fairly large. We had ordered the Peking duck which was a little dry but the portion was larger then elsewhere such as ginger beef in country hills. They loss a star for their small parking lot and a little slow on service. We got our food after another table who sat down after us. Otherwise don't be scared off by the gas station restaurant, its serving up some authentic Chinese food. Happy munching! read more

Menu items were not accurately described, and the food wasn't that good. Called restaurant to voice concerns. Owner was very rude and hung up on me. Very poor customer service. Restaurant use to be much better with previous owners. read more

Great place to eat! We had Hot&Sour soup and beef with Black bean sauce. Also tried their Peking Duck, seafood hot pot and beef hot plate. The last 2 amazing! I definitely recommend this place and it's the best you can find in NW area. We have lots of Chinese places around and none of them come even close to this location. We live in Citadel Area, very close to this place. And I think they are family owned and operated. So yea 5 star for this place. No place is better around anyway read more

We ate at this place September 28, 2014. When we arrived, other customers were leaving from a round table for 8. We had 7 people in our party. They refused to give us the vacant table for 8 and squished us into a seating of two tiny tables jammed together. The table for 8 remained vacant throughout our meal and was vacant as we left. Meanwhile, two other tables for 8 became vacant and they refused to let us move, saying those tables had been reserved, even though we also had made reservations for our party of 7. So during our meal, this restaurant had 3 vacant tables for 8 while we sat squished into an uncomfortable seating arrangement consisting of two tiny tables jammed together. When our party of 7 left the restaurant, they had 3 vacant tables for 8. Poor service accompanied the barely edible food. Chicken was tough. Dish of Beef, onions and ginger barely had any beef, almost all onion. Three-seafood dish only had 2-seafood items. Not going here again. read more

Time to update my review of Papa Shunde. For the past 2 years, we've frequented this restaurant and love this restaurant. The owners and wait staff recognize us when we come. We love the food here; it's a little different from the usual authentic Chinese food. They like to dabble in different ways of preparing food. Fave items: - Pan-fried meat patties with lotus root - served piping hot in a little basket. Delish! - Steamed Basa Fillet - very simple dish and steamed to perfection in a soya sauce with a little Chinese wine and sesame oil, garnishe with green onions. Now with summer coming, they have a summer menu - - Beef with pineapple and pickled ginger - very interesting combination of sweet and sour - garnished with green & red peppers and onions - Spicy Chicken - cold steamed chicken in a spicy chili sauce - Very very good! - Steamed stuffed winter melon with the most awesome gravy - ground pork, mushrooms, seasoning all ground up and then stuffed into winter melon rounds, steamed with a perfect sauce. - We call it Fish Soup - it's fish pieces in a broth with cut-up century egg. Cilantro & ginger slices are added to cut down the fishiness. - Beef Rice Noodle in Soya Sauce - we love this dish; comfort food at its best! Best Dessert if you order from true Chinese items: Tofu Dessert with sweet ginger sauce or Tau-fu Fah. So light and fluffy! Give Papa Shunde a try! If you have a big group, make sure you reserve. read more

This review is long overdue. My last meal here was for CNY 2015. I love this restaurant for their convenient location, but hate their parking situation. The restaurant is attached to a husky station, so parking is limited in the lot as there are also a number of uhaul trucks as well. If all fails, one could always park on the street I guess. I must applaud this restaurant for the patience level in relation to my experience. As we were unsure of the number of guests attending the dinner, over the course of a week before our reservation night, we had ever increasing guest numbers. They were super accommodating to our needs. Please be advised though that they have no waiting area, so if you're early for your reservation you may be left waiting in the cold. The restaurant is small and clean, appeared to be very family oriented. Upon being seated, we were greeted in both English and Cantonese. We had been advised to order food ahead of time (menus are available online and can be easily googled). All food that arrived was announced in both languages, which was a welcome change for some of our guests. The pacing of the food was perfect, we never felt rushed throughout our meal, the servers were always quick to check how we were doing as well. We felt very taken care of throughout our meal. To our surprise, everyone left here with glowing complements (which is a rarity when it comes to Chinese food and our group of guests). We will always be back as this is the only place we know that serves tofu pudding as a dessert. read more

Thanks to Yelp we stumbled upon this place tonight. We were more than a little concerned when we saw it was located between a gas station and car wash but thankfully decided to give it a try anyway. Very comprehensive menu, reasonable prices, large portions, great service and delicious!!! read more

The food is great tasting. Price is fair. I give it 4 stars cause parking lot is too small that sucks bad and seating area is kind of small as well. But the chefs cooking and flavor of food is superb. Recommended place for sure when it comes to taste. Pictures will follow on my next visit. read more

Over priced, salty dishes and long waiting. Even a pot of plain rice costs $10, which is normally $5-$6 in other restaurants. This is mainly a take-out place, dine-in customers were treated coldly. Never come back, bad choice. read more

Went looking for a Chinese restaurant on our way back into Calgary. Saw the reviews on Yelp and I would agree. Very good food. Ignore the setting. It is in a building attached to a Husky gas station. But restaurant is clean and well but simply decorated. Small number of tables so I would suggest a reservation. read more

Food is so so and greasy. Service has a lot of room to improve. Owner nickel and dime on our rice orders. Not a very smart move. We're certainly not returning. read more

Waiter/manager was extremely rude, messed up our orders, refused to fix and apologized. Never in my life being so ill treated in a restaurant. They lost a customer forever. read more