Chinese restaurants in Canada
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La Maison Kam Fung
This is generally considered the best place in town for dim sum, and is especially popular for Saturday and Sunday brunch. Waiters circle the tables with carts of dim sum ($4 to $6 each) – you pick and choose from tender dumplings, spare ribs, mushrooms, spicy shrimp and much more. The entrance is hidden in the rear of a shopping passage up an escalator.
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Hon’s Wun-Tun House
Part of the city’s favorite Chinese-restaurant minichain, Hon’s flagship Chinatown branch is suffused with inviting cooking smells and clamorously noisy diners. The giant, 300-plus menu ranges from satisfying dim sum brunches to steaming wonton soups, bobbing with juicy dumplings. For something different, try the congee rice porridge, a fancy-free soul-food dish that takes three hours to prepare and comes in seafood, chicken and beef varieties.
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New Town Bakery & Restaurant
Arguably the area’s best Chinese bakery, this lively, old-school diner specializes in steam buns, Chinese pastries and dim sum, served from giant steamers on the counter. The warm, moist barbecue pork buns are the bakery’s signature snack and they make an ideal takeout – there’s not much of an ambience here, so there’s no real reason to stick around. The buns also come in several vegetarian varieties.
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Dumpling House Restaurant
Watch dumplings being rolled in the window, then walk right in, sit right down and order a steaming mass of them. Impale steamed or pan-fried pork, chicken, beef, seafood or vegetarian dumplings on your chopsticks, dunk them in soy sauce and dispense with them forthwith.
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Yangtze
Ottawa’s mother ship of authentic Chinese cuisine is a jade palace in the heart of Chinatown. You’ll love the ‘bird nest’ – a crunchy vermicelli basket that can hold a variety of dishes. The daily dim sum tempts the palate with an assortment of steamed appetizers.
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Shanghai River Restaurant
Grab a seat overlooking the kitchen window at this cavernous contemporary northern Chinese eatery and you’ll be mesmerized by the intricate handiwork that goes into folding some of the best Vancouver-area dim-sum dumplings. Order plates to share here – one dish per person is the usual ratio – and be careful not to squirt everyone with the delicate but ultra-juicy pork or shrimp dumplings. The braised duck and ham soup is a great winter warmer, too. This place fills up at peak times, when it becomes animated with Chinese chatter. Note: the servers are often not fluent in English, so keep your orders simple.
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Hakkasan Contemporary Chinese Restaurant
Like it says on the sign, this is a contemporary take on Chinese eateries, which means an upscale wine-bar-like interior that belies its location among a string of light industrial businesses. The menu combines traditional Hakka soul food and modern Cantonese dishes, with highlights including braised pork hock and scallops in a garlic-based sauce. The specialty, though, is the clay-pot-roasted salty chicken that arrives at your table wrapped in parchment paper.
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Jardin de Jade
The chaotic, free-for-all Jardin de Jade buffet should be a must on your list if only to see it in action. Vegetarian, sushi, dumplings, fish, ribs, desserts and even pizza. To see it in its full elbow-bumping glory, try weekdays when locals, business people and students battle it out over the stir-fry. One of the town’s best deals. Prices vary depending on day and time.
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Beijing
Every Montrealer has a favorite Chinatown restaurant, a familiar place where a warm welcome awaits when turning up in the neighborhood. The unassuming and always-buzzing Beijing tops many lists, with a reputation built on tasty, fresh Cantonese and Szechuan dishes, friendly service and its late-night hours.
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Swatow
Catering to a late-night crowd, the menu here covers cuisine from Swatow (a city now known as Shantou, on the coast of China’s Guangdong province). Nicknamed ‘red cooking’ for its potent splashings of fermented rice wine, the house noodles are fiery. Cash only; be prepared to queue.
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Fans Court
A menu graced with Cantonese, Szechuan and pan-Asian dishes distinguishes this place from its neighbors in this most Anglo of towns. The best part about Fans, however, is not the mango pork (though that’s delish), but the wonderful flowered courtyard.
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