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Jim Chai Kee
Category: Restaurants Chinese Chinese [Edit]
270 W Beaver Creek RdRichmond Hill, ON L4B 3Y9
(905) 881-8778
- Hours:
Mon-Tue, Thu-Sun 10 am - 8 pm
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch
- Alcohol:
- No
16 reviews for Jim Chai Kee
16 reviews in English
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Review from Suor K.
Maple, ON
9/6/2011
Went here for lunch and wasn't disappointed. The shrimp wontons were huge and delicious. The noodles and broth taste great. The parents wondered whether they noodles were hand-made, since they taste less crunchy than the ones they've had in NYC. Service was fast (water is self-service), price was cheap for what you get.
From what I hear, their other location in Hong Kong is extremely popular. -
Review from WaYnE c.
Maple, ON
11/24/2011
It's fascinating how much an individual's perspective can change.
When seeing the World through another person's Optical Lenses.
Normality that you take for granted is another person's amuse.
I have some New York Friends to Thank for that.
I can see clearly now. :D
I grew up next door to a Wonton Noodle business in Hong Kong.
For some reason, I never actually felt excited compared to other Noodles.
Truth is unlike my Parents, I tend to eat more Instant Ramen than WN.
It's especially true in Canada as Wonton Noodle shops are not walking distance away.
It doesn't help that they all close CRAZY early.
The Food comes HK-style speedy, faster than your perception of Fast-Food.
I'm old-school Wonton person with memories of smaller Porkier originals.
JCK does golf-ball pure Shrimp Wonton that bites back at you.
The Wonton Noodle has good texture within the Clear Soup.
If I had more Disposable Income and my Uncles were 30 years younger.
I would definitely take them here and challenge them to their own game.
At least so they can stop talking about eating bowls-and-bowls...
While my generation can fill up on AIR.Listed in: 4+ ****Stars****, Pull My Noodles - Chinese
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Review from Kiwi M.
Toronto, ON
9/8/2011
Extremely fast noodles with great wontons!!
The shrimp wonton is one of the best I've seen in Toronto.
Prepared in less than a minute, literally.
Price is cheap.
I like this place
3.5/5 -
Review from Jonathan L.
Richmond Hill, ON
1/2/2012
Cheap, quick, good food.
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Review from Johnny L.
11/24/2011 1 Check-in Here
Best shrimp wontons I ever had. Faster than fast service. Food came in less than 2 minutes. Awesome place. Price very affordable.
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Review from rob T.
Markham, ON
10/12/2011
Great- quick lunch with the kids. Feels family run. Went there to see just how fast, but they didn't have their game on- took a whole 4 minutes to get all our food :)
There were really nice to the kids- We'll be back -
Review from Joeie K.
Mississauga, ON
Agreed w/ Valery C- Jim's is a place that had got their specialties down pat. There's not a huge variety at ALL of food, but what they do have, is delicious!
Would come back again.
Pros
- shrimp wontons are huge and delicious
- soup and noodles do not have the "soap" taste; haha, this sounds weird, but it's a Chinese thing. Sometimes when you eat wonton noodles, there's a taste that we say in Cantonese called "soap taste" which is a bad thing, and this place does not have it!
- fast & efficient service - you order, and you get your food almost immediately
- the chili oil sauce is *delicious*
Cons
- no variety; but that's the charm of the place
What they do have and just variations of the type of noodle or combination of "toppings":
- shrimp wonton
- beef balls
- fish balls -
Review from Bijan V.
8/4/2009 ROTD 11/13/2009
15 Word Summary: An order of cheap wonton noodles served so fast you wonder where it came from!
Important Notes: CASH ONLY!
This place is pretty much a completely ad-hoc restaurant. You walk in, no menu is served, it's on a plastic stand on a table with limited choice (Wonton, Fish ball or beef noodle soup or non-soup), vegetables with oyster sauce and that's pretty much it. Also nothing is actually served except the food, so you gotta get up from your lazy ass and serve yourself some tea (meh I guess I can do that but it makes me pretty reluctant in providing any tip!).
Now one thing about this place that it's known for and that is it's INSANE SPEED!! You can be in and out of this place in less than 10 minutes flat if you're in a rush! My friends and co-workers had constantly told me about the ridiculous speeds at which they serve their food here so I decided to actually time it to see if they were bullshitting me or not. KID YOU NOT, we ordered 2 wonton noodle soups and a plate of chinese vegetables with oyster sauce. The timing is as follows:
30 SECONDS AFTER ORDER: Vegatables Served!!!!
25 SECONDS AFTER VEGETABLES: Both wonton noodles soups Served!!
Yes you read that right, nearly A MINUTE after walking into the restaurant we were already served our food! Now this brings up the question of what the hell are they serving us but it actually was pretty decent. The food is a bit bland but the shrimp wontons are pretty big and for $4.50 I cannot complain one bit!Listed in: Working around Hwy 7 & Leslie!
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Review from wendy c.
4/23/2010
A must-go place if you like Hong Kong style wonton noodle soup. Sister restaurant is Hong Kong is ranked on of the best.
From your second trip and onward, you won't need a menu:
-- Pick the topping: shrimp wonton or fish balls or beef balls or any of the two or all three
-- Pick the noodles: skinny chewie Cantonese type, or rice noodles, if you don't like soupy noodles, order Lo Mein so you get broth on the side
You can get the topping without the noodles, too. I usually get a bowl of shrimp wontons in broth. Be warned, each wonton is the size of a baby's fist, and you get 6 in one order!
Super fast and efficient service (tea is self-serving), no ambiance but that's not what you should be going there for.
Cash Only -
Review from Vivian C.
7/30/2010 1 photo
We picked up some take-out here for a snack - shrimp dumpling noodle soup. Four HUGE dumplings - stuffed with fresh good sized shrimp pieces - per order. Yum.
Place closes early though, so if you're wanting dinner, please note that they close at 8pm. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
This is for sure if you want a quick fast lunch!
I usually order the same thing.. the wonton and beef with rice noodle.
This is a good place if you don't want to look at pages and pages of menu in order to decide what you want to eat. Since they only serves wonton/ fish ball/ beef, with rice noodles/noodles/vermicelli or no noodle. in soup or no soup with oyster sauce.
The wontons are big with all shrimps no fillings... so if you loves shrimps you will enjoy that!!
I love the hot chilly sauce a lot though!! I think I am here to eat the chilli sauce instead of the wonton...
A word of warning, if you come during busy lunch hour that is weekdays and weekends, you will have problem to find parking! and you will has to share table with others when it is busy. (And you never know you are sharing a table with me!!)
BTW, don't even think about lingering for a little R&R after you finished eating. Your bill is placed on your table right after you order and you has to go and pay at the cashier...and the efficient wait staffs would has cleaned out your bowels and plates the minute you finished eating!Listed in: Wonton Noodle Speciality…
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Review from Valery C.
6/13/2010 1 photo
Perfect example of a place that survives on the strength of a very specific item. This was my one wonton noodle excursion this trip to Toronto, a non-descript place located in Jubilee Square, with two rows of small, round tables, register up front and hot tea available for self-serve from the back.
You take your pick of 3 toppings (shrimp wonton, fish balls, sliced beef), noodles (egg, rice, vermicelli), and having it in soup or soup on the side (lo mein).
I ordered shrimp wonton and sliced beef over traditional egg noodles in soup. Served pronto, it comes in a medium sized bowl, noodles and ping pong sized wontons popping out of the soup. The sliced beef, still rare, sit on the bottom. The gigantic wontons are filled with multiple perfectly cooked shrimps, the noodles have just the right taste and bite, the beef is very tender and a surprisingly good inclusion, and the soup is light, with a nice flavor. I do note I prefer wontons with a shrimp AND meat filling, but this is one of the best shrimp-only wontons I've had. Had a dish of plain, blanched greens to go with the meal, well-prepared, perfect together.
In sum, a perfect wonton noodle soup. Highly recommended as a quick stop to get that wonton noodle fix. Super cheap too. -
Review from Eileen S.
10/10/2010 3 photos
plump golfball sized shrimp wontons! delicious wonton soup. can't get this taste in Philly or NYC anymore so when meetings bring me back into the GTA, I make a detour here.
get an order of wonton (with or without noodles), add some chili oil and you are in business. as others have noted, bring cash and if considering this place for dinner stop by early as they close at 8pm. -
Review from Alan C.
4/25/2011
AWESOME place for wonton noodle soup! You get 4 large shrimp wontons, along with egg noodles. Quite tasty if you ask me! And there isn't any msg in their soup base. I'm quite impressed at how fast you get your order after it has been placed.....less than a minute!
Definitely would eat here again whenever I travel to Toronto area! -
Review from Lala L.
11/3/2010
Stopped here to eat 2x during my weekend trip in Toronto with my friends. It is soooooooooooooooooo good! There were at least 3 big shrimps in each wonton and that's it. Simple and perfect! The egg noodles were fresh and had the quality of any good wonton noodle shop in Hong Kong. I'd definately go back when I'm in the Toronto area again.
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Review from Simon N.
Scarborough, ON
7/31/2009
"The one where the food arrived on our tables less than a minute after ordering"
The Good:
Blistering fast arrival of food; fast but satisfying meal; large tasty jumbo wontons, good price
The Bad:
Service could be better (everything is self-serve including getting your own tea); servings could be a little larger
Overview:
After a long morning occupied by a 4 hour meeting, my coworker and I decided to go for something tasty but at the same time fast as we were expecting some e-mails back at work so we decided to come here. Been here many times before but first time for my coworker. We entered the main door, asked for a table of two and sat down. The menus were in plastic menu stands on each table and was quite limited in terms of what you can get. Wonton noodles in soup, Sliced Beef noodles in soup, Fish Ball noodles in soup and combinations of them (could have been more but these were generally the ones I can remember). Of course, they're known for their wonton noodles in soup so we each ordered one of these. Each was $4.50. We also decided to share a dish of Chinese vegetables (was either $2.50 or $3.50, can't remember). Right after the waitress took our order I told my coworker about how getting tea is self-serve so we walked towards the corner with the Styrofoam cups and tea. Even before I could start filling up my cup via self-serve, our vegetables had arrived at our table. Wow. As were joking about how fast it was, the wonton noodles in soup arrived right after, before I even sat down. Wow. Talk about fast service. Did this mean the food wasn't fresh? Not at all. I've been there many times, once at 11AM and I've seen them preparing the wontons for their typical lunch time servings. They'd sit in one of the main tables where customers normally sat and wrap wontons. I once asked how fresh the wontons were and they answered that the "lunch time" wontons are prepared ~11:00AM for lunch servings up to 1:30PM. They basically have them prepared, get a bowl, scoop up the noodles and soup and add the wontons so your food's ready in less than 2 minutes.
Noodles themselves were quite tasty and the soup base was your typical wonton noodle soup. The wontons themselves were different from others in that they were huge! Stuffed with shrimp, they give you 4 and I found them to be quite tasty. Vegetables were normal with a side dish of oyster sauce; nothing special but it goes well with the wonton noodles since the oyster sauce is salty and some may find (i.e. my coworker) the soup to be a little bland. Right after ordering, the waiter writes your bill and hands it to you. You go to the cashier with it when you're ready to leave, so technically they're not really waiters. Bill came out to be $7 each.
Place itself isn't really that large, it mainly has tables accommodating parties of 2-6, but then again I doubt this would be a place you'd want to bring a large party to sit down, catch up and just talk since your food would arrive and you'd be done in less than 15 minutes.
Overall, a pretty decent quick bite. Good for those in a rush (like we were) and if you really love shrimp then you should definitely give their wontons a try. Just don't expect the best (if any) service.
- Simon
