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Hakka Village Chinese Restaurant
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 10:30 pm
Fri-Sat 11 am - 11 pm
Sun 1 pm - 10:30 pm
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
2 reviews for Hakka Village Chinese Restaurant
2 reviews in English
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Review from Janelle W.
10/26/2010
My mother tells the story of the day prior to my first day of preschool, when she was instructing me that I'd need to obey my teachers. She asked me, "When the teachers say you need to sit down, what are you going to do?". My response was an unflappable, "Stand up!".
I don't know that there's another story that better captures my personality. Always an independent thinker and a bit of a Curious George, I don't like giving heed to warnings. So despite Christine C. warning me -- twice -- about Hakka Village, I still wanted to try it, if for no other reason than to taste just how bad it was.
So I pulled in to the unlit plaza one evening and stumbled in to Hakka Village. But I couldn't walk in without ignoring yet another warning sign -- the creep who was loitering in the parking lot. I didn't worry much about him, since the guy was only Canada-sketchy, which, in Detroit, means he's as safe and trustworthy as a firefighter.
Nevertheless, I kept one eye trained on my car and the other on Hakka Village's menu. Like any typical Chinese restaurant, Hakka Village has over 200 choices on the menu, and one is expected to know one's order in sixty seconds flat. Knowing better than to keep a stubborn Chinese woman waiting, I quickly rattled off three classic Hakka dishes that would provide a solid cross-restaurant comparison.
Fifteen minutes later -- albeit this was 15 minutes measured on their shoddy made-in-China "Rorex" timepiece -- a heavy satchel of Hakka noodles, tandoori fried rice, and Bombay chicken (billed to be a crispy chilli chicken, but spicier) emerged from the kitchen.
The spicy aromas were intoxicating, but ultimately unmatched in taste. The Hakka noodles ($8.49) were leathery strings of lo mein, bound together by a flavorless dark soy gravy and limp sheets of cabbage that flopped about like the poster child for Viagra®. The tandoori fried rice ($7.49), despite its promising brilliant orange color, tasted exactly like the Hakka noodles. I'd say the Bombay chicken ($9.99) -- crunchy battered bites of hen wrapped in a vinegary, garlicky sauce -- was the standout dish in this lot, but that'd be like boasting about Sidney Crosby skating circles around one-legged Siamese twins.
So as fate would have it, Christine C. was right about how bad Hakka Village is. My impudence failed me this time. If only Yelp had a "Told You So" compliment, I deserve one of those right about now. -
Review from Christine C.
Etobicoke, ON
4/6/2010
Two & a half stars.
I keep hoping there is food life in suburbia. A girl can remain hopeful, right? Tonight I was on a suburbia hakka hunt and I figured Brampton was as good a place as any to look for some hakka since it has a fairly ethnic population. So I hit up the Hakka Village on a very dicey area on Kennedy Road. As a matter of fact there was a bit of a police raid in the plaza where the restaurant was located. Okie dokie. On to the food.
We went with dishes I have already tried in some other hakka hot spots since they are the line by which all else is to be measured. I ordered the ginger chicken and the crispy beef, some noodles and a hakka fried rice. The crispy beef was on par with what I had before but after that it was all downhill. The beef was sticky and slightly sweet and I liked this a lot. The ginger chicken was gloopy (official culinary terminology) and not really very gingery. The noodles were bland and rice could have come right off the steam table at the Mandarin. The restaurant is non descript and the guy cooking was also doing the serving. Good thing there was only a couple of other people in the place the whole we were there.
The upside is that this place was cheap, cheap, cheap. A couple of Kingfishers and the food came out to $35 bucks, with some leftovers to go.
My search for really decent phone in suburbia continues. Fire up the GPS. On to the next spot.Listed in: Hakka Hakka Hakka!
