This is our favourite yum-cha place in Toronto. We'd be there every week if it wasn't for the…read moreCALORIEEEEEES! It is a feel-good place which has been around forever. They've retained the same staff for decades who remember their customers. The food: 4.5/5 for the har-gao, generously stuffed with beautiful, fresh shrimps. Extremely delicious. Wrapper was ever so slightly thick, -05 star. 5/5 for the char-sieu cheung fan. Pork was surprisingly lean which added to the deliciousness. 5/5 for the huge "wonton" in soup, stuffed with octopus, conpoy, pork and mussels. A DELICIOUS SURPRISE. 1,000/5 for my favourite menu item the curry cuttlefish. Tender, not over-steamed, light curry flavour. Sublime. How I love Tak Fu. It warm, it's welcoming, it's loud, it's laughter, it's the sound of happiness! Reminds me of the restaurants in Kowloon.

Tak Fu even prices things the old-school way (by dish, no specials) with categories ranging from…read more$5.99 (S) to $9.99 (SP). Tea's a humble $1.50 a person, softening the blow of slightly higher food prices. So, what's so special about Tak Fu? Start with the siu mai or steamed pork dumpling ($7.99). Most places pulverize the pork into springy meatballs. Not here. The pork is hand-chopped, juicy, and tender, breaking apart easily with each bite. Finely diced mushrooms add a hit of umami, while a plump shrimp crowns the top instead of being hidden inside - simple, balanced, and traditional. Then there's the har gow or De fu steamed shrimp dumpling ($8.99). The shrimp are properly cleaned and not over-tenderized, keeping their natural flavour and crunch. They're cooked just right, encased in a slightly thick but satisfyingly elastic wrapper. The steamed bean curd roll with satay sauce ($7.99) is dense and hearty... half a roll will do. Its filling leans pork-and-cabbage heavy, more like a spring roll in taste, so it's not as exciting flavour-wise but still comforting. For a contrast, the steamed rice noodle roll with fried dough in special style ($7.99). The hot, crunchy fritter wrapped in silky rice noodle is spot-on texturally, though the hoisin and sesame sauces could be thicker. Maybe they're thinned out for easier pouring? The steamed rice noodle roll with BBQ pork ($7.99) is stuffed to the gills with big chunks of meat and nothing else. Pair any rice roll with the congee with preserved egg and pork ($8.99) and you've got a hearty solo meal. The pork's properly seasoned, the preserved egg plentiful, and the texture rich and smooth. For something lighter, go for the dried scallop & seafood dumpling in soup ($8.99). It takes time, but arrives piping hot with a massive dumpling stuffed with shrimp, octopus, scallop, mushrooms, and BBQ pork - generous and satisfying. The deep-fried squid ($9.99) might just be the best I've had: crisp, tender, and barely battered. There's also plenty of it to go around. Say what you will, Tak Fu doesn't skimp on portions. Even their fried rice noodle with beef ($13.99) impresses. Sliced beef, bean sprouts, and onions get a good kiss of wok hay, and those caramelized onion bits add a hit of flavour. A solid, classic version. If you can wait half an hour, end with the steamed milk ($7.99) for dessert. Lightly sweet, perfumed with ginger, it's a silky, nostalgic treat you won't find in many places anymore.

Our second visit…read more High quality frozen yum-cha and other assorted Cantonese delights. This is the best quality we have found. Excellent products without a lardy after taste, spotlessly clean, top-grade freezers and pleasant service. Highly recommend.

Bought their gift voucher for moon cake and promised to be available for pickup until Oct 8. Oct 6…read moreis the mid-autumn festival which is important festival needs moon cake to celebrate. Went there on Oct 5, no more moon cake to pickup. They said to give back refund. A promise is a promise especially doing business and it is the first year they sell gift voucher. They screwed up and just treated it as not their fault just said refund. So disappointed.

This is THE Perfect 24-hour dim sum restaurant in Toronto... because it's the only one!…read more Having been around since the 1980s this restaurant is almost legendary. Unfortunately it seems stuck in the old ages and has since built itself a reputation of being dingy and serving poorer quality food. With so many other better Chinese restaurants having opened since and Chinese people being notorious for flocking to where better food is, I wonder how much longer this establishment can survive. Nevertheless, it is handy to have this 24-hour option located in the middle of Scarborough and they do have a fairly large selection of dim sum and dinner options served throughout the day. Having been here for dinner and lunch, I would say that the dinner plates are better overall, such as the lobster being decent. In general though, this restaurant is a far cry from perfect, and is more like a cheap and somewhat cheerful cultural legacy that has lots of seating, lots of history, but underwhelming food.

Honestly the food is probably a 3-star but they get an extra star for being open 24 hrs and one of…read morethe og restaurants that serve dim sum and assorted Chinese food when you need somewhere to eat late at night. Came here just before midnight and the service was quick and to the point. We ordered some dim sum and a bowl of noodles, all food came out hot and quickly which is exactly what was needed. Pretty much hits the late night food cravings need. Lots of people also around during that time so it felt safe and familiar.

I have been coming to Lily Delights Dim Sum for several years. It is a store that makes and sells…read morefrozen dim sums. It is located in a plaza where there are many stores that sell Chinese food. The place sometimes look closed, but you have to ring the doorbell to get service.

It's a posh location, part of the congee queen franchise, I ordered the prefix dim sum combo, and…read moresome additional stuff. The tea is kind of unique presentation. Washroom is clean, there are private rooms here but quite small and have an extra charge. Overall quite a nice presentation. Definitely will be returning. Quite busy on Saturday.

Same family of Congee Queen. Excellent food quality,…read moreBeautiful decor ,Spacious dining room And best of all...$5.80 for S, M, L dimsum deal ( Mon-Fri before 11am) I am already planning for the next visit! And did I mention that each person spent $30 each ( including tax and tip) and we had leftover to go?

A dim sum restaurant inside a literal mansion!…read more From the outside, you won't be able to tell that this is a restaurant. It's really a huge mansion that is turned into a Chinese restaurant, so the spacing of the interior is leveled like a house. There's no large open area for you to have bigger parties here as it has many levels when you're inside. The interior is on the older side with a lot of large paintings and gold coloured decor. I came for dim sum at lunch time and was seated prompted after arriving. You order from a sheet and give your order in to the staff (no push cart dim sum here). Food came out pretty quickly and was good. We got the classics like chicken feet, siu mai, pork ribs, rice rolls, turnip cake, taro balls, sticky rice and milk tarts. All were decent but nothing out of this world. I think I'd still prefer other restaurants for dim sum, as the vibe/ lighting/ decor inside this restaurant really threw me off. Still a nice to try place though!

I really enjoyed their dim sum lunch here! Service was very friendly and welcoming and we were…read moreseated right away. Their dim sum dishes are very generous and filling. I also loved their stir fried sticky rice, their congee, and soup dumplings. The interior is very updated and seating is very comfortable.

Just like today is going to be "review day" (shooting for 5, on the heels of the bunch I wrote last…read morenight), Saturday, Feb.22nd '20 was the unofficial "Parent nostalgia day" in Toronto, where, for lunch, we went to Very Fair - a place my wife's father used to frequent so much, they knew him by name - and for dinner we went to a place my parents favored when they were living. Very Fair is ostensibly a "seafood restaurant", as are many of the Chinese restaurants that want to appear respectable: fresh, swimming, seafood is highly favored by snobbish Chinese foodies, especially those hailing from Hong Kong. As such, this "hole-in-the-ground" restaurant (literally, since you have to go down to the basement) boasts tanks of live fish, lobsters, crabs... right in the dining area. There are a few private dining rooms, ideal for majong players, but the dining area is small for a "regular" Chinese restaurant - I'd guess the open area seats maybe 120. They have been around for a long, long time: Agnes' dad passed away in 2005, and back then Very Fair was considered an "old establishment"! And it feels old. Not sure if they've actually refurbished the place in the recent decade or longer, but if you have to guess... Well anyway. Our late lunch found a very empty place. We were going to go with dim sum and skedaddle, but their special of lobster with noodles caught our eye - who can resist a lobster dish for less than $15 USD? It came OK, definitely on the greasy side. While it didn't taste bad or anything, it may or may not have been swimming right up till the time it drew its last breath. But it was a whole lobster (or close to it - we did not try putting the chopped up pieces together, forensics-like), and I'd guess pound-and-a-quarter. We tried a few dim sum too. The har gau LOOKED very presentable, but upon sampling, we discovered it to be quite un-Trump-like (meaning, it was not thin-skinned). The tea was decent.

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Came here on a weekend around 11:00 AM and had no trouble getting a table. We only found out after…read morearriving that they offer special pricing for orders placed before 11:00 AM, so unfortunately we just missed it. Overall, the food was good and comparable to other dim sum restaurants in the area. Nothing particularly stood out, but everything was solid. The restaurant was comfortable and not overly crowded, so a convenient place to have a conversation with friends.

Dishonest business. Tried to charge us twice for the same meal. Will NOT be returning…read more Service and food were fine until it was time to pay. We went later for dim sum lunch and they wanted to clear the bill before we had finished eating, which was fine. But while I was fidgeting with the credit card terminal to pay, the man in the suit (usually floor manager level) who had brought us the bill secretly told another person from our party to pay cash and silently walked back to the cash counter to get change. I was about to tap my card to process the payment until I was told that cash was already collected. I'm not sure what prompted the man to collect cash when I was already ready to pay with card. If they do not like customers paying with card, they should put that in clear writing. Very disappointed in the service and disrespect.