Best Suzhou/Soochow restaurant in North America! - Two Suzhou natives approve this message :-)Recommended dishesSu-style eight-treasure rice: the taste of Lao Huang Tianyuan!Honey-glazed smoked fish: the texture and taste are very preciseVarious noodle soups: You can ask the boss lady to add more sugar to perfectly restore the taste of Tong DexingMeat mooncake: similar to the long-haired one, with more meatTiaotou Cake: The scent of osmanthus will make you cry~Not recommended.I'll add more when I find something particularly good.03/2024 Additional recommendation: Grilled crucian carp with green onionsFeeling average: simple version of lion head
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Jason King
The store was very crowded. When I asked on the phone how long it would take to get there, I was told 35 minutes. They said it was just about 40 minutes after I made the call when I arrived. They asked me to wait for another 20 minutes. Finally, they told me that it was because there were not enough utensils for making xiaolongbao. Yes, if the utensils are broken or if you have to wait for such a long time, you can tell the guests in advance instead of asking the guests to wait here until they get home and then tell them that their eel paste is half less than the usual amount. I took a picture. Kaifeng video
Charles Yu
Hooray!! Toronto’s protracted ‘praise-worthy‘ Shanghainese Cuisine drought is finally over!!From a foodie’s perspective, the one single glaring gaping hole within our GTA Chinese culinary landscape is the absence of note-worthy, commendable, authentic Shanghainese Cuisine…….until now! This evening’s exceptional and memorable meal not only managed to fill up our city’s ‘Shanghainese Cuisine void’. The stand-out menu, featuring some scarce, authenticold-school offerings easily fulfilled my long overdue craving and more. Not since the now defunct ‘Sika Deer‘ on Finch and Midland has there been the emergence of such a traditional Shanghainese establishment, whipping up arrays of well executed, genuine Shanghainese fare!Just their simple and heavenly good Xiao Long Bao soup dumpling alone deserves unceasing kudos and accolades. Never have I encountered such delicious and umami packed elixir of a soup dumpling broth outside of the Orient! The remaining delicately seasoned and packed pork filling plus the translucently thin pocket combined to create, IMHO, the BEST XLB in the GTA!Other authentic and traditional dishes our party ordered included:- Deep Fried Aromatic and Crispy Duck ( Chinese rendition of Duck Confit….but way more flavorful! A truly finger-licking-good ‘Duck’ experience! )- Stir fried Snake-Head Fish with Black Fungus in fermented rice/wine sauce ( Delicate, perfectly cooked fish with attractive aromatic and slightly sweet fermented rice essence )- Shanghai Style Oil Poached Shrimp. ( Subtle and delectable. The shrimp unbelievably crunchy and sweet. )- Braised Bamboo shoot in seasoned oil ( A classic Shanghainese vegetable dish done well )- Water, Pan-fried crispy bottom Buns with Crab and Pork filling ( Piping hot, so, eat with care! Tasty and delightful. Oozing with delicious broth. )- Hearing the lady chef owner was an accomplished Chinese dessert chef from Suzhou, China. We finished our meal with a Dessert platter of various mochis and cakes, the stand out being the one with hand made organic red-bean paste filling! A rarity and sooo good!With the delectable food well exceeded our expectation and our party touching only the tip of a vast ‘menu iceberg‘. This is one establishment that for sure, we will have numerous returns!On the surface, the menu pricing for most dishes seemed to be on the highside. However, for the quality, authenticity, rarity and deliciousness of the food. Paying a premium to savor such a culinary experience in the GTA is IMHO, well worth it!Lastly, our super friendly and attentive lady server ‘ Cindy ‘ deserves a special mention. Despite a packed and full house by 6.30 pm, she never missed a beat and provided us with unwavering help and attention!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lily
Please ask this restaurant to train the waiters who answer the phone. When you talk about high-end restaurants, do you know the basics of respecting others? What kind of qualities are they?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Gong Lance
As an authentic Suzhou and Huaiyang cuisine (especially Subang cuisine) chef, I think their cooking is not amazing but it's okay. However, their prices are set very high, which is not a price that can be supported by "okay" dishes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
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For Uber DriversDo not accept this restaurant orderOwner or employee is extremely rude.We are not your slave._________To OwnerShe spoke as order to me."Come, done go go" like a boss.Mad, and strong accent.I understand you are busy at that time but you should not talk like that.Review will prove your store employees are extremely rude.
Boonboon Li
Overall it's quite delicious. But the portions have really gotten smaller over the past two months. . I understand that it is exquisite and expensive, but I don’t understand if the cost of stir-fried loofah with gluten has doubled... Why did it change from one plate to half a plate, and finally to half a plate spread out... The smell of eel paste costs 68 yuan It’s actually pretty good, but it feels a bit shabby to find shredded eel in a similar sweet noodle sauce ?Oh, if I can make a few comments, can the voice-activated Santa Claus at the door be removed? It’s really scary, because there is a lag of a few seconds, so usually he suddenly bursts into laughter a few seconds after he arrives, and every time he enters, he laughs loudly. I was scared twice and was so weird that I had no friends. . .
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Sam Wong
Great find and great food.def comming
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Zyfong Cheung
Apart from being a bit expensive, the boss should be from Shanghai Ning with a nice accent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Eileen C
my friend and i went to Yan’s for shanghai food i like very much to check out which level it hit, turned out it was disastrous. we ordered the very usual shanghainese dishes like 大白菜炒年糕、麵筋毛豆炒絲瓜 and 生煎包. it all came in extremely oily and with quite an amount of msg. the 炒年糕 was 90%年糕 and i barely see napa cabbage and shredded meat. i even ordered 獅子頭麵 as takeout, and the texture and taste almost exactly same as luncheon meat. the total of everything with tips was $86.i dont know what’s wrong with this place, trying to run a business or scamming people i dont know.
Green crab fried rice cake ??♀️ (Not the braised flavor I imagined, more like shrimp paste? But the taste is quite good, the remaining sauce goes well with the rice. There are too few rice cake slices
D Y
Poor service.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
王逸轩
A serving of bacon and vegetable rice costs RMB 25, and the quantity is extremely small. It tastes ugly and looks like it has never made any money.
I’m from Shanghai, and I have to say this is indeed some authentic Shanghai (as well as Suzhou & Zhejiang area) cuisine, the prices of some items are a bit too high though, for example the fish, well this dish is indeed quite expensive even back in China but still, for such price we would expect some better knife skills.Among all what we have ordered, I will definitely recommend the dishes in picture 3,5 (red braised pork belly with abalone, need to reserve beforehand, other versions of red braised pork belly don’t need to reserve and should be awesome as well) and 7, authentic and delicious as they should be, if you don’t know the name of the dishes you can just show the picture to the waitress.Then there’s the crab sauce noodle, it is a bit too watery and not that savory, but still ok; the sticky rice cakes are insanely expensive, this is my personal favorite dessert back in Shanghai, it is ok but is it worth 22 dollars? I don’t know, it depends, for me, i probably will still order it the next time because I really don’t know where else can I find it here in Toronto lolThe service is not that good, don’t think for a moment you will get excellent service because of the price you pay for the dishes here, the attitude of waitresses is just not that good; the restaurant itself is also not that fancy, it’s just like some cheap ordinary Chinese restaurants you can find in china town, tons of black marks on the wall next to our tables lol.
Best Suzhou/Soochow restaurant in North America! - Two Suzhou natives approve this message :-)Recommended dishesSu-style eight-treasure rice: the taste of Lao Huang Tianyuan!Honey-glazed smoked fish: the texture and taste are very preciseVarious noodle soups: You can ask the boss lady to add more sugar to perfectly restore the taste of Tong DexingMeat mooncake: similar to the long-haired one, with more meatTiaotou Cake: The scent of osmanthus will make you cry~Not recommended.I'll add more when I find something particularly good.03/2024 Additional recommendation: Grilled crucian carp with green onionsFeeling average: simple version of lion head
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
The store was very crowded. When I asked on the phone how long it would take to get there, I was told 35 minutes. They said it was just about 40 minutes after I made the call when I arrived. They asked me to wait for another 20 minutes. Finally, they told me that it was because there were not enough utensils for making xiaolongbao. Yes, if the utensils are broken or if you have to wait for such a long time, you can tell the guests in advance instead of asking the guests to wait here until they get home and then tell them that their eel paste is half less than the usual amount. I took a picture. Kaifeng video
Hooray!! Toronto’s protracted ‘praise-worthy‘ Shanghainese Cuisine drought is finally over!!From a foodie’s perspective, the one single glaring gaping hole within our GTA Chinese culinary landscape is the absence of note-worthy, commendable, authentic Shanghainese Cuisine…….until now! This evening’s exceptional and memorable meal not only managed to fill up our city’s ‘Shanghainese Cuisine void’. The stand-out menu, featuring some scarce, authenticold-school offerings easily fulfilled my long overdue craving and more. Not since the now defunct ‘Sika Deer‘ on Finch and Midland has there been the emergence of such a traditional Shanghainese establishment, whipping up arrays of well executed, genuine Shanghainese fare!Just their simple and heavenly good Xiao Long Bao soup dumpling alone deserves unceasing kudos and accolades. Never have I encountered such delicious and umami packed elixir of a soup dumpling broth outside of the Orient! The remaining delicately seasoned and packed pork filling plus the translucently thin pocket combined to create, IMHO, the BEST XLB in the GTA!Other authentic and traditional dishes our party ordered included:- Deep Fried Aromatic and Crispy Duck ( Chinese rendition of Duck Confit….but way more flavorful! A truly finger-licking-good ‘Duck’ experience! )- Stir fried Snake-Head Fish with Black Fungus in fermented rice/wine sauce ( Delicate, perfectly cooked fish with attractive aromatic and slightly sweet fermented rice essence )- Shanghai Style Oil Poached Shrimp. ( Subtle and delectable. The shrimp unbelievably crunchy and sweet. )- Braised Bamboo shoot in seasoned oil ( A classic Shanghainese vegetable dish done well )- Water, Pan-fried crispy bottom Buns with Crab and Pork filling ( Piping hot, so, eat with care! Tasty and delightful. Oozing with delicious broth. )- Hearing the lady chef owner was an accomplished Chinese dessert chef from Suzhou, China. We finished our meal with a Dessert platter of various mochis and cakes, the stand out being the one with hand made organic red-bean paste filling! A rarity and sooo good!With the delectable food well exceeded our expectation and our party touching only the tip of a vast ‘menu iceberg‘. This is one establishment that for sure, we will have numerous returns!On the surface, the menu pricing for most dishes seemed to be on the highside. However, for the quality, authenticity, rarity and deliciousness of the food. Paying a premium to savor such a culinary experience in the GTA is IMHO, well worth it!Lastly, our super friendly and attentive lady server ‘ Cindy ‘ deserves a special mention. Despite a packed and full house by 6.30 pm, she never missed a beat and provided us with unwavering help and attention!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Please ask this restaurant to train the waiters who answer the phone. When you talk about high-end restaurants, do you know the basics of respecting others? What kind of qualities are they?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
As an authentic Suzhou and Huaiyang cuisine (especially Subang cuisine) chef, I think their cooking is not amazing but it's okay. However, their prices are set very high, which is not a price that can be supported by "okay" dishes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
For Uber DriversDo not accept this restaurant orderOwner or employee is extremely rude.We are not your slave._________To OwnerShe spoke as order to me."Come, done go go" like a boss.Mad, and strong accent.I understand you are busy at that time but you should not talk like that.Review will prove your store employees are extremely rude.
Overall it's quite delicious. But the portions have really gotten smaller over the past two months. . I understand that it is exquisite and expensive, but I don’t understand if the cost of stir-fried loofah with gluten has doubled... Why did it change from one plate to half a plate, and finally to half a plate spread out... The smell of eel paste costs 68 yuan It’s actually pretty good, but it feels a bit shabby to find shredded eel in a similar sweet noodle sauce ?Oh, if I can make a few comments, can the voice-activated Santa Claus at the door be removed? It’s really scary, because there is a lag of a few seconds, so usually he suddenly bursts into laughter a few seconds after he arrives, and every time he enters, he laughs loudly. I was scared twice and was so weird that I had no friends. . .
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Great find and great food.def comming
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Apart from being a bit expensive, the boss should be from Shanghai Ning with a nice accent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
my friend and i went to Yan’s for shanghai food i like very much to check out which level it hit, turned out it was disastrous. we ordered the very usual shanghainese dishes like 大白菜炒年糕、麵筋毛豆炒絲瓜 and 生煎包. it all came in extremely oily and with quite an amount of msg. the 炒年糕 was 90%年糕 and i barely see napa cabbage and shredded meat. i even ordered 獅子頭麵 as takeout, and the texture and taste almost exactly same as luncheon meat. the total of everything with tips was $86.i dont know what’s wrong with this place, trying to run a business or scamming people i dont know.
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Green crab fried rice cake ??♀️ (Not the braised flavor I imagined, more like shrimp paste? But the taste is quite good, the remaining sauce goes well with the rice. There are too few rice cake slices
Poor service.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
A serving of bacon and vegetable rice costs RMB 25, and the quantity is extremely small. It tastes ugly and looks like it has never made any money.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
good. The soup is quite delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: shanghai meat bun 1pc 120g 上海鲜肉大肉包 1个 爆汁 120克
I’m from Shanghai, and I have to say this is indeed some authentic Shanghai (as well as Suzhou & Zhejiang area) cuisine, the prices of some items are a bit too high though, for example the fish, well this dish is indeed quite expensive even back in China but still, for such price we would expect some better knife skills.Among all what we have ordered, I will definitely recommend the dishes in picture 3,5 (red braised pork belly with abalone, need to reserve beforehand, other versions of red braised pork belly don’t need to reserve and should be awesome as well) and 7, authentic and delicious as they should be, if you don’t know the name of the dishes you can just show the picture to the waitress.Then there’s the crab sauce noodle, it is a bit too watery and not that savory, but still ok; the sticky rice cakes are insanely expensive, this is my personal favorite dessert back in Shanghai, it is ok but is it worth 22 dollars? I don’t know, it depends, for me, i probably will still order it the next time because I really don’t know where else can I find it here in Toronto lolThe service is not that good, don’t think for a moment you will get excellent service because of the price you pay for the dishes here, the attitude of waitresses is just not that good; the restaurant itself is also not that fancy, it’s just like some cheap ordinary Chinese restaurants you can find in china town, tons of black marks on the wall next to our tables lol.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: 生煎包 Fried Pork Dumplings, 红烧肉百叶结