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China Palace
- Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 11:30 am - 10 pm
Fri-Sat 11:30 am - 11 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for China Palace
5 reviews in English
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Review from Dharti A.
5/14/2009
This is not just a Chinese restaurant! Its a great Hakka food (Indian style Chinese food) restaurant! They have the standard Chinese fare, but really is about the Hakka!
Its a rather cool/surreal experience when you go in and the staff is all Chinese, the menu looks pretty Chinese, they are playing Hindi music(Bollywood variety) and all of the people in the restaurant are Indian!!
Try the veg and paneer pakoras - they are made differently and very tasty. Get the chili paneer (or for those non-veg eaters, the chili chicken) - that tastes great! I like the manchurian veg dish - its made with cabbage which is what I am familiar with. And of course the hakka chow mein!
Please note that Hakka food is meant to be spicy!! So for those that don' t like the spice, stick to the chinese standard fare and ask for it to be not spicy. -
Review from Coy W.
11/24/2011
This place serves what some consider Hakka food in Toronto. It's a mix of Indian and Chinese food and you should really do your homework before coming here as the usual fare that you get from your "Chinese restaurant" will never be as good because you're probably ordering Cantonese, Shanghai or Szechuan food and this restaurant doesn't specialize in that and keeps it on the menu for familiarity sake.
We came by here before a wedding ceremony (much later in the day) and ordered some snacks which consisted of shrimp pakora's, chicken pakora's and chili chicken.
The chicken pakora's and chili chicken were ok but MY GOODNESS THE SHRIMP PAKORA'S!!! Dip it in the sauce and you're in food bliss!!! In the car I mentioned that I thought the shrimp pakora's was actually in the top 3 pakora's I've ever tried and all my Indian and Chinese friends that tried them that afternoon agreed that it was one of the best ones they've had.
I'd give the shrimp pakora's a 5 star rating on their own. The rest of it was ok. -
Review from Darren S.
Markham, ON
6/13/2011
Very good food (if unspectacular), but very ugh building.
Firstly, we had the Manchurian Fish and the Ginger Chicken. The chicken had very good sauce (extremely important in Chinese Indian food) but wasn't very freshly fried. The meat itself was a bit dry. The fish was moist and the Manchurian sauce is absolutely wonderful. The taste is as good as any of the many really nice Chinese Indian restaurants around town.
The service was also very friendly, and the overall experience was good. The thing is, the restaurant looked VERY tired. It badly needed a renovation, as it reminded me of an old 1980's Pizza Hut restaurant. While this usually wouldn't be cause for reduced score in simple restaurants, the simple fact remains that there are many nicer-looking Chinese Indian places around the GTA. Case in point would be China Cottage or Tangerine.
Price wise, each dish was around $10.50 which is a teensy bit more expensive than I expected. I was thinking that these dishes are usually around $9.50 in other places...but I may have remembered incorrectly. Thus the overall experience is one which is good, but not any better than any of the other Chinese Indian food I've had. I guess I've just been lucky that way. If you live anywhere close to Markham/Scarborough, there is no need to drive all the way over here to get your Manchurian fix.
Oh and by the way, you may have noticed that I don't like to use the word Hakka food when describing Indian Chinese food, and that's because Hakka is an ethnic group from China who immigrated EVERYWHERE around the world, not just India. I'm Hakka (from Indonesia) and I know that most of the Chinese population in exotic places like Guyana, Jamaica, et al are all Hakka. So just to make it clear to people: Hakka does NOT equal Indian Chinese people.
I don't know why but that bugged me a lot. Now I'm finally at peace about it. Phew. -
Review from Nico M.
12/5/2008
Pretty average chinese food here. We ordered spring rolls, vegetable fried rice, egg foo young, and Shanghai Noodles. All were pretty yummy and the noodles were very spicy!
Although they were pretty packed it was still a nice quite spot with calm dim lights.
The waitstaff was super nice and we were able to get a discount for paying with cash versus debit/credit. So that was pretty cool. -
Review from Jj J.
Bolton, ON
6/4/2011
Almost everything was good: the fried rice (as it must be at any decent chinese restaurant), Chili chicken, sweet and sour fish. We didn't like the corn soup. I call that a decent success rate, and I'll be adding this place to my list of reliable locals.
