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Jardin De Jade Poon Kai Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Chinese Restaurants Buffets Chinese, Buffets [Edit]
57 Rue De La Gauchetiere EMontreal, QC H2Z 1C2
(514) 861-4941
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
14 reviews for Jardin De Jade Poon Kai Restaurant
14 reviews in English
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Review from Victor F.
Updated - 11/17/2011
Coming here during the week yields a noticeably different experience...offerings not as fresh as the weekends but still light-years better than the best NYC dares to offer. By no means should this place vanish from anyone's radar, but you'll be best advised to stick to this spot on weekends.
Remember, this comes from someone who thinks Chinese food is a gross failure of the culinary arts. Therefore, feel free to roam about this wonderful buffet spot..on weekends.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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5/30/2010
Being born and raised on NYC-Chinese food is no duck walk. As a kid, I relished it...chicken wings… Read more »
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Review from Sean D.
11/21/2011
Our petite China town is pretty cool here in Montreal. I ate at JDJPKR, (I use that for short), for lunch today. There's a massive buffet! Overall though, I found the quality of food a bit disappointing. The mussels weren't great, the ginger beef was fatty, even the chicken balls had very little ball in them.
Price was cheap, but I tasted why. I may try China town again tomorrow...different place!
Does not take Amex. -
Review from Coty S.
7/12/2011
I do not come here for the scarey buffet.
Instead, I come here for the cheap and always pleasant bakery area. While all of the streets are dead quiet in the early morning and Poon Kai is the only storefront open. Grab some freshly baked items and enjoy them on the red picnic tables out front, on the quiet brick street in the early hours. There is nothing better than eating a massive steaming sesame ball in the middle of winter. The two-handed act of devouring the crispy treat, filling your face with warm steam as you enjoy the hearty sweet interior... This entire experience for a dollar coin. Need I say more?Listed in: Downtown Montreal
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Review from Angie C.
Toronto, ON
8/31/2011
There are a lot of bad reviews for this place, but I didn't find it so bad. The inside of the restaurant is run down, but service was polite and attentive. The price was cheap. It's a buffet that offers many, many choices. Some dishes are better, some are worse. We went very late at night, and enjoyed that...:
- There were bamboo baskets of dim sum at 10pm.
- There is a drink station for coffee, tea (both oolong & jasmine) and fruit drinks.
- They had some very traditional Chinese veggies (nappa, black fungus, yams, etc).
- They had a pot of glutenous (sticky) rice in addition to plain and fried.
- There were several seafood selections (crab, baby squid, shrimp, fish).
- There were traditional gross out dishes (stewed pigs feet, chicken feet, tripe).
I would eat there again, but only during lunch or late night prices ($11.99) since I'm a cheapo. -
Review from Ed C.
4/28/2011
While not the best Chinese buffet I've ever been to, it certainly wasn't the worst by any means. It's in the middle of Chinatown, so at least the food tasted like it was made by people who know what they are doing.
I tried everything. And everything tasted good. But not a lot of it was memorable. I did get seconds on the chicken feet and the braised short ribs. But again, not much to write home about.
I read the past reviews of this place and I have to say that all of the dishes looked and tasted fresh as far as I could tell. And the grease level on most of the dishes seemed within typical expectations at a Chinese buffet.
Not bad. Not great. I got full. And it was cheap. -
Review from Dave H.
8/14/2008 9 photos
Jardin de Jade's buffet is open every day of the week. Not only that, this huge Chinatown venue is a banquet facility, and handles dim sum service and karaoke, to boot. Friends and I trooped in for lunch one Sunday, and despite the crowd of locals and tourists, were seated quickly.
There's no Americanized Chinese food in their buffet (uh, you're not in the US), you'll instead find numerous tasty, traditional Cantonese and Szechuan options, including atypical items like Chinese sausage, beef egg stew, congee (yes, like the soup), breadsticks, and PIG FEET - I love pig feet; theirs tasted somewhat sweet! Typical buffet dishes and desserts are there like lo mein, pizza, hot dogs, pudding, jello, and little cakes.
For all the quality food you're going to eat, their pre-tip price-per-head - about C$10; 15% tip expected - is an appetizing bargain. (Credit cards accepted.) Jardin de Jade is a buffet to be reckoned with - stop in! -
Review from Dave L.
9/17/2008 2 photos
Bao!
There's the buffet in the back, but the store in the front is a dedicated bun aka "bao" pumping machine for to-go orders. You can smell the sweet fluffy bread from a block away. They have meat and veggie buns and of course the classic b.b.q. pork bun aka "char siu bao." They aren't like the ones you get at dim sum. These bad boys are big, like Costco-big, like size of a baby's head-big. Eat a couple of these baos, and you're stuffed.
Tips: You gotta know what you want. It's crazy Canto style up in there. They also sell some dim sum.Listed in: Montreal & More
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Review from Jean-Arellia T.
6/28/2009
Buffets are buffets are buffets.
It's like a bad story retold for the nth time. When you've had BAD chinese buffet, you've had this place. Greasy noodles, coagulated beef and broccoli, browned and bruised "fresh" veggies...
Please steer clear! -
Review from Emily C.
Montréal, QC
7/24/2011
I eat here every couple of months, when I'm in the mood to stuff my face with as much food as possible for under $12 including tax and tip (2pm special). Coming here is like playing the lottery. Will you win or will you lose? Is the food today going to be good or is it going to be crap?
Whenever you go, there'll be at least a few dishes which aren't totally gross. There are some that, even just by the look of them, you know are going to be totally gross. Do not take the hard boiled eggs! They are ALWAYS hard and gross. Ditto the red bean tong sui.
4.5* to the separate bakery section at the other door. 90c pork buns FTW! -
Review from Kim K.
12/16/2010
The price is right but the food is not. Oily, heavy, greasy, uninspired, inauthentic, and just downright gross.
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Review from Joey L.
12/17/2010
When I first met my (now) wife, this restaurant is where we went on one of our first dates. The service was good and the food was fantastic. It was a very memorable experience for both of us. Last week we returned to Montreal for the first time in three years and were eager to return to our favorite Chinese buffet.
To say we were disappointed would be a massive understatement.
The food looked like it had been sitting out for days. The vegetables were brown and spoiled. The sauces were syrupy and disgusting. The meats were nauseatingly greasy. The store-bought steamed buns were so old they had fused with the paper they were sitting on.
There was not one dish I can honestly say I enjoyed... and I tried a LOT of dishes. Normally I'd feel guilty at a buffet if I didn't eat everything on my plate before going back for more. Here I felt like I was doing the next guy a favor.
The place is now wallpapered with advertisements for an assortment of absurdly extravagant alcoholic drinks (we're talking umbrellas, dry ice, and fruit wedges). I have to assume pushing these overpriced novelties is their focus now - serving good food certainly is not.
Absolutely disgusting. The only redeeming aspect is how quick they are to refill your drink... and you're going to need a lot of refills to wash the taste out of your mouth. Avoid. -
Review from Amber D.
9/9/2010
Greasy, questionable interpretations of dishes that did not seem fresh. Even allowing for the difference between Chinese food in different regions, this was terrible.
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Review from Andrew H.
9/9/2010
The best anything got here for me was vaguely acceptable, at a normal Chinese buffet I don't expect much but this place was still a disappointment, I couldn't even finish one plate of food, do yourself a favor and eat at one of the many other Chinese restaurants instead.
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Review from Brian H.
9/21/2009
Worst buffet ever. Food was incredibly greasy and the food tasted extremely bland. Tried to pour out of one of the soy sauce bottles on the table, but it was more of a syrup than a sauce. Gross. Definitely a big mistake going to a buffet in Chinatown when Im sure there a dozens of other places in the area that I would have gladly gave my money to instead.
