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Que Ling Restaurant
Categories: Food Specialty Food Ethnic Food Restaurants Vietnamese Ethnic Food, Vietnamese [Edit]
248 Boulton AveToronto, ON M4M 2K1
Neighbourhood: Riverdale
(416) 778-4038
- Price Range:
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$
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
4 reviews for Que Ling Restaurant
4 reviews in English
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Review from Julia H.
East York, ON
7/15/2010
This place is awesome! Definitely authentic!!!
My two favourite dishes are the rice flour rolls and the chicken pho. The rice flour rolls are always fresh whenever I'm there! And the chicken pho is always flavourful!! mmmm....just thinking of it makes me want some!
My boyfriend is Vietnamese and he agrees that this place is authentic and one of the best Vietnamese restaurants he has ever eaten at.
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Review from Neil T.
Toronto, ON
6/5/2010
I really really wanted to like this place. I love sketchy holes-in-the-wall that serve authentic grub...but this place....meh....
1. Known for the banh cuon (rice flour rolls with pork and mushroom) this place doesn't deliver the goods. We saw them grab these from a big tupperware container and throw it into the microwave. My mom's version destroys these re-heated rolls. And when I go out to eat, I don't want to eat leftovers, thanks!
2. Bun Bo Hue broth is all wrong -- also likely re-heated since the broth was "separated" and "settled". The meat in this dish was chewy (at least the tendon and some other mystery meats). Pork blood was good though.
3. I thought it would be hard to mess up rice with pork chop and fried egg. Not at this place! They do use broken rice (+1), but the rice had a distinct smell of "not-so-fresh". The Chinese have a word for it ("sook"?), but I don't know the exact translation to Engrish. Meat and egg were fairly average.
4. The good? They have cold tea (actual tea that is cold...not beer!). This was really nice on a hot day.
I do like the "family-ness" of this place -- with their son watching Sponge Bob and working sewing in the dining room. However, I can't deny that the food simply wasn't good.
Sidenote: they have weird ass hours. Most nights, I think they're done around 7pm.Listed in: My Vietnamese Food Rankings
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Review from Deanna W.
5/17/2009
Ahhh Que Ling! Literally a hole in the wall though and kinda smelly inside, perhaps not for squeamish diners. It would definitely fit the bill for a "pho" shack! However they reportedly serve up one of the city's finer phos. I did not find it to be anything special, broth was rather salty, no special notes of flavour detected in the stock however the accompanying herb plate was full of saw, basil and cilantro-bonus points for that. And the beef is kinda "scrungy" looking and suffers from massive shrinkage once submerged in the broth but still tastes okay.
Banh Cuon here is good, the rice rolls are filled with ground pork and mushroom and the wrapping is thin and light. Will prolly venture back at some point, the prices are low across the board and there's always a stream of neighborhood regulars coming in and out.Listed in: Fie Fi Pho Fum!
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Review from Jenny T.
2/10/2010
This is the most authentic Vietnamese place I've been to. My parents actually really like going here and my dad regularly eats the blood jello dish, which is literally blood that's thickened into a jello consistency served with peanuts, fish sauce and coriander/cilantro. I don't touch that stuff though.
I've never been to Vietnam but I'd imagine that they'd have little pho shops like this all over the place. The owners actually speak Vietnamese and not Chinese. (Actually, they speak really poor Chinese too - I just remembered that).
The pho is just regular, nothing special. My mom likes that she can order half pho rice noodles and half regular flour noodles and she raves about the chicken broth pho here - again, I think it's just okay. Maybe she likes it because it kind of tastes like her rendition of these dishes.
They also make the "banh cuon" dish, which is a rice flour roll with pork/mushrooms inside and it's not like steamed in a steamer, but are made by having a boiling pot of water and a stretched fabric over-top and cooking the rice flour and water on top of the fabric and then hand rolling it. My dad buys these for take out and they taste really good even after bringing it home, but I feel gross if I eat the whole box.
If you want a truly authentic Vietnamese place to go to - this is it, but if you're looking for taste, ambiance, decor, cleanliness or some kind of excellent service... you're better off going somewhere else.
