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Spring Villa Chinese Cuisine
Categories: Food Specialty Food Ethnic Food Restaurants Chinese Dim Sum Ethnic Food, Dim Sum [Edit]
7301 Woodbine AvenueMarkham, ON L3R 3V7
(905) 940-2888
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
21 reviews for Spring Villa Chinese Cuisine
Review Highlights
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"My favorites are meaty squid tentacles and fried taro." In 2 reviews -
"...their vegetarian options (steamed dumplings) as well as..." In 3 reviews -
"...and even mushrooms and young pea leaves in rice noodles." In 2 reviews
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21 reviews in English
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Review from r k.
Toronto, ON
3/25/2012
Really delicious dim sum. Everything tasted fresh and was steaming hot. standouts included vegetable dumplings, spicy pan fried rice rolls, deep fried squid, deep fried fish with thousand island sauce (sounded weird but were good). The only downside is that the place is super busy but the wait usually is only about 10 mins. Would definitely return!
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Review from Jennifer M.
Toronto, ON
10/11/2011 1 Check-in Here
Went for Dim Sum with the SO, 2pm, so we missed the before 11am price. It was ok. I personally was not too impressed. Where as some dishes were tasty for certain, you don't get the outrageously beautiful presentation of the Crown restaurants, and the pricing is similar.
Service was good, tea was hot but $45 for Dim Sum is just too much, especially considering I liked the dumplings at Asian Legend
(of all places) better. I was thinking about them as I was eating the Spring Villa version. The crispy octopus here was really the stand out, and maybe the har-gow which was also really good.
A-ok. I would return for the discount price.Listed in: Associasian Eats, Markham Asian Eats.
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Review from Robin D.
7/3/2011
mmMMmhhh.. had a nice meal. I agree the price is above average, but the service was good and all the food came came out fresh.
This was a Saturday late lunch. The only dish I did not like was the fried squid.. I like the fried battered one at rol san. -
Review from Carol S.
12/27/2010
3.5 stars
This place was super busy on a Monday afternoon. We had to wait a good half hour to get seated. A good sign I guess.
Dim sum was pretty decent. Pricey for dim sum, but the service was good and you didnt have to spend time flagging down the ladies nor did you have to worry about being banged by carts squeezing by your table.
My favorites: fried taro, spicy fried squid and fried shrimp.
The runner ups: har-gow and wonton soup that came in an individual sized bowl with one large wonton that exploded into yummy goodness when poked. -
Review from Archimedes T.
Toronto, ON
10/2/2010
Went here for Dim Sum
Service is excellent in this place. Food was okay, still above average fare, their shrimp dumpling was excellent, one of the better tasting ones. I think I'll still go for Very Fair for the dim sum though.
The place was not packed like other places for the time I went. I think that's because of the excessively high price. For 2 people we spent close to $30 on Dimsum.
I still have to try their Peking duck, someone told me they were better than the one in Chung King.
No free wifi -
Review from Tony Y.
10/29/2011
I was pleasantly surprised when i walked inside this place. On the outside, you would think this is a low key type traditional restaurant. Turned out to be a very clean well run establishment, packed w/ regulars. Food was very good, in the same league as stalwarts like Golden Court and Ambassador. My only disappointment, just a slight one, is that the $$ rating assigned is not that accurate. Maybe for Dim Sum, it's a moderate priced restaurant. On this Saturday evening which I visited, the prices were more like $$$, so Yelpers take note, there's a discrepancy there. But if you are looking for good quality Cantonese food in this part of Markham and don't wish to venture further north to Hwy 7 or Bayview Richmond Hills, this would be a great choice. I shall follow up with a Dim Sum report if I can swing by during the week.
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Review from Edwin A.
My friends at work told me about this restaurant on Woodbine that served dim sum for cheap if you go early in the morning. There special is order before 10:45am, dim sum is $2.60 per dish.
So we decided we'll check this place out early one Saturday morning. Normally we don't roll into a dim sum this early but to avoid the crowds we arrived at 9am. The restaurant was already at half capacity. Saw a lot of older people dining and reading their papers.
On the order sheet with picked a variety of standard dim sum dishes. Sui Mai, Har Gow, Sticky Rice wrapped in a Lotus leaf, Beef Rice Noodle Roll, Crispy Chicken & Shrimp dumpling (a new menu item), and a spare ribs & rice in a pot.
From all that we ordered I only liked the Beef Rice Noodle Roll and the Sticky Rice. Everything else was so-so in taste.
When we left at around 10:30am the restaurant was packed. So it pays to come early.
Taste was okay but for $2.60 for each dish you can't really complain. So the value is excellent.. just recommend getting here early to avoid waiting in line. It's a pretty popular place. -
Review from Helen L.
Toronto, ON
12/23/2009
Most dim sum places are not very veg friendly. Spring Villa makes it a bit easier for herbivores to eat with their omnivore family and friends as they have quite a few options for everyone.
The vegetarian dishes we ordered were vegetarian liver (which tasted more like curry fish balls), fried squash, mushroom & pea shoots in rice noodles, chow mein with bean sprouts, baby bok choy and veg smoked duck. All were great and I'd happily order again.
I also like the fact that you order from a menu as opposed to the carts. I know most people perfer the atmosphere of ordering from carts but when you don't know what is in the basket and can't communicate with the people pushing the carts...it makes things a bit difficult if you don't bring a translator! -
Review from Mike T.
11/3/2011
We had some good recommendations to try the dim sum there.
The total meal cost was a great price, only for the early bird special however. If we had gotten there any later, we would have paid regular price which is actually pretty expensive. They were able to accommodate a large group quickly, and the service was good.
The food was fresh and was quick. The restaurant was large, clean, pretty nice inside. A higher class place that I think was well worth the drive.
I would definitely go back. -
Review from Min Min T.
Scarborough, ON
8/29/2009 4 photos
The line-ups here on Saturday morning are pretty redonk. Get here by 8:45 am if you want a seat when the doors open at 9 am! Everything is made fresh and takes a bit of time for it to come out of the kitchen, so don't expect to leave before 10:30 am.
The dim sum here is carefully crafted and there are handfull of choices for the herbivore. Marinted tofu, deep-fried salted Japanese squash, soy chunks in a curry satay sauce and even mushrooms and young pea leaves in rice noodles. Finish off with a piece of the soft, fluffy Malaysian-style dessert cake.
Can't say too much about the dinner menu as there isn't much for vegetarians. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
Spring Villa is really a good restaruant for dim sum.
We went on a Monday for lunch.. and we still need to wait for a table! This is not the special price time slots and the price is a lot more expensive but this place is still pack with people!
Always more fun to go with a bunch of people, as we can order more different food, I love the steamed beef rice noodle roll as there is watercress inside.. the first time I ate this combination. The chicken pie is great too! It has that melt in your mouth yumminess! All the other dim sum dishes are all really good!
Really need to come during specials, then one can order more food and have a bash!
They accepts Amex, Visa and MC!Listed in: Places Where I go for Dim Sum!
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Review from Michael C.
6/5/2009
This has got to be the best dim sum place I have been to. The food was on par, not exciting. But what makes it really five stars is that they serve ALL chinese dim sum foods from your basic plate of Siu Mai to the fancier stuff like grilled squid tentacles all for $2.60 before 11AM... though they are very flexible about that time period. You can order so much for under $60 that you may not want to touch another plate of Chinese food for another week.
Make you get here early and just park down and order a bunch of junk. If you don't finish it, you can always take it home. -
Review from Clement W.
Waterloo, ON
9/28/2010
Came upon this place at the recommendation of an uncle. Went with 4 other (non asian) buddies of mine two of whom had never had dim sum before if you can imagine that.
It's a pretty good experience. They do a good job of keeping the place much nicer looking than the average dimsum place. It seems more like a good Chinese banquet/wedding hall and it's not a very large space in general. They don't bring the carts around so you choose from their menus which as of last weekend were all text based - but still fairly easy to follow and identify.
We got there around 1 pm on a Saturday and didn't have any issues finding parking or a place but that's fairly late for dimsum. We had reasonably good service but this may have been because it was fairly late. Not that this is always a fantastic indicator for authenticity especially in Toronto, but when we did get there, it was about 3/4 full and the guys I brought were the only non-oriental looking people there.
We ordered a number of dishes but the biggest hits were the sweet egg bun (not exactly sure if that was the name on the menu), the fried shrimp balls (though we made a bit of a mess of the red vinegar) and the braised baby bok chois which were specially ordered.
We (all guys) ordered a ton of food and we were all ridiculously full, and we surprisingly finished everything but the total came to an average of just about $20 including tip which was in line with what my uncle thought would average $15 and all in all quite reasonable. -
Review from Charlotte W.
North York, ON
My family may not be very different than the average Chinese family in that it is a must that all children of the grandparents and progeny of said children get together once a week for dinner in the pretence that we all enjoy each other's company. Having said that, where can you go for a large group (14) where one person usually foots the bill (not too expensive), good food (not holes in Chinatown) and where there actually are large tables for 14 people? Welcome to Spring Villa!
For those who have read my previous reviews on LWH and LTH, know that those two will always, ALWAYS be my first choices for dim sum and dinner. But let me be honest. They both are expensive. And for large groups, and for my immediate family's purpose of meeting-every-week, it is not sustainable. So here is where you can find us! Spring Villa meets our needs: great food, less expensive than LWH and LTH, and did I say, great food?
Dim Sum
Dim Sum at this restaurant is a ZOO, especially on Saturday's. I think reservations for dim sum are a scam at this place, unless you have clout with management. But if you can get a table, you will be pleasantly surprised. The food choices here are a plenty and they have the usual fan fare of dim sum dishes. I love their vegetarian options (steamed dumplings) as well as their hot pot rice dishes (the crispy rice bits at the bottom are my fave)! As mentioned, this room is packed during lunch time and it gets noisy, but all the merrier?
Dinner
My favourite dish hands down is the egg and shrimp dish. My parents always make fun of me because it is the world's most ordinary dish but this restaurant manages to cook it just right. The eggs are creamy and with a bowl of rice, it is absolute heaven. I don't eat the shrimp, but this dish doesn't come without shrimp...otherwise you would be paying for eggs. The soups here are delicious as well. At Spring Villa, you can order individual soup portions served in clay pots. Each night they have a different soup (for example, they have soup with corn and burdock or meat with almond...English translation to these dishes do not do justice, but trust me on the taste!) Recently, when my parents went to Spring Villa, we ordered a special type of fresh fish (I think it was Dover Sole, but phonetically the dish is called Gum Do Bo) - this fish is exceptional. As a note, LWH also serves this fish...it is expensive but TOTALLY WORTH IT!
Dessert is always red bean soup (hate it) and this weird yellow pomello jello (brother from another mother) which is definitely an acquired taste...as in I finally have learned to love this desssert after coming here for the 100th time. But, this is the only Chinese restaurant I have been to that serves this fruit-with-pulp jello.
When I go back, and I know I will be back, I will endeavour to take pics...I find Chinese dishes very hard to explain because the English translation invariably sounds gross (as in, lets order the Congealed Pig Blood Congee dish...blech). So stay tuned until next time. Or, if you ever want to go someplace with your family, let Spring Villa be your next destination.Listed in: If you're ever in the area...
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Review from Kwoky L.
2/21/2011
My family comes here for dim sum all the time. The taste is pretty decent and the price is reasonable when compared to other dim sum restaurants in the area. My favorites are meaty squid tentacles and fried taro. If I remember correctly, their fried taro has a avocado and eel in it. Very interesting indeed. Service here is just so-so. Definitely worth a try if you haven't been here before.
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Review from Yumm Y.
Mississauga, ON
4/9/2011
the dim sum was good, but the menu is limited.
tried the new chicken & shrimp fried dumplings. didn't like it. inside has a weird goey-ness (?) of which im not entirely sure it's made of. it needs more actual shrimp & chicken.
also got fish maw soup. it with a dumpling that literally filled the entire bowl. it was beyond huge. to the point where you wouldnt even call it soup. i had no appetite for it. my friend, ryann o. said the dumpling was literally a gigantic shui mai ball. LOL. he seemed to like it.
it was nice and greasy, but i don't think i'll come back here again. -
Review from Wendy C.
2/20/2010
This place has been around for a long time, and the dim sum quality has been consistently excellent. Pretty good service too.
Worth getting up early on weekend mornings and get to the door by 9am. -
Review from Rudy W.
2/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
nice limited dim sum. the service to get your food out is very long, so expect a very long lunch time.
the quality is not bad. the shrimp dumpling were over cook ,because when you try to pick it up, the whole thing were falling apart.
siumai was good. chicken feet, hm... need more taste.
bbq bun, too sweet
custard (tan tat) is interesting, usually the top is yellow, this one is white. but the crust was quite nice.
over all, the food was ok. you wouldn't be too disappointed. as I mentioned, limited selection, but ok. and the food come out very slow. -
Review from Kris L.
6/26/2009
Really nice Chinese restaurant for dim sum. If you get in and out of there before 11AM, everything (except the "special" items) is $2.60. Such a deal! We ordered a bunch of food and didn't finish it, but you can always pack it to go. We were there on a Tuesday morning. Probably got there around 9:30a and it was already pretty packed. By the time we left (before 11a), there were a bunch of people waiting to be seated. This is on a Tuesday morning! I heard it's much fancier and more crowded on weekends. I'm glad we went on a weekday. Definitely worth going to. Make sure you go before 11am!
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Review from Jonathan W.
Calgary, AB
2/15/2009
Solid Chinese. great food and value. Service is above average and they have a special all plates $2.60 dim sum time. Worth going.
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Review from jack g.
Toronto, ON
5/16/2011
Dim sum here today. Great har gow but the rest indifferent though not overpriced. Attentive service in high end surroundings.
