Taste of China

Short and sweet, I enjoy the food here we always get general Tao chicken & fried rice with wonton soup I reccomend anyone passing through spadina to check it out

This my second time eatting at this Chinese restaurant. My first time were 12 years ago and my wife had been told me to return to Toronto Chinatown just want to eat their food again. Finally after 12 years we r back and this is our first meal and we want this place. Again. The food is amazingly good. This time I told my wife that we will return in the summer time. Love the food and the city. !!! Ps. Hot sour soup

Great choice. Love the wonton soup with noodles! Perfect option for Chinese delivery

Great food. I left Canada 12 years ago and came back to Toronto this year and the first place I came to eat at was here. Food taste the same and excellent as usual. Would highly recommend this place if you’re looking for great and real Chinese food.

Can’t wait to go back and try more of their dishes — the sizzling chilli chicken is new to us and didn’t disappoint. Place is nice and the staff were really pleasant but we came during downtime around 2:30 pm. Thanks to reviews and photos on Unilocal

Christmas Day day dinner couldn’t get any better despite the wait. Fried prawns, crispy beef and fried rice supreme were delicious! If you get Ling as your server, you’re in luck! Just ask for her food recommendations.

Been to Taste of China twice in 3 days, that itself should be a testament of my addiction. One for a lunch with 10 people and the second time at 2 am.
1^st visit Highlights:
— Peking duck two course meal — the first choice is ok, but the second meal which consists of duck and lettuce wraps is AMAAZING! I could eat the whole thing myself.
— wonton soup — delicious
— general tsao chicken — spicy and yummy
— soft shell deep fried crab — the best part of the meal, by far
— xo sauce chicken noodles — these were delicious too
2^nd visit highlights:
— soft shell crab again .of course!
I would highly recommend. Service is great and they recognized me the second time around which was amazing. Even at 2 am, it was packed. Open till 4am, so if you’re feeling Chinese food at 4am, I recommend Taste of China!

I could not believe how bad the service here is. I have ordered many times but tonight I placed an order and called back to ask a question about one of the dishes. The man could not understand me and so I switched my order last minute. When i thought about it I called back two minutes later (I checked the time stamp on my phone) to say I wanted to stick with my original order. The man said it was too late and refused to let me change my order even though I offered to wait if they were busy. Do I just cancelled my order. Really aggravating situation and very rude to a good customer.

My spouse and I have been regulars here for years. There’s a reason. It seriously has the most consistent food quality and efficient service of Chinese restaurants in this neighbourhood. It’s our spot.

Found this place on
and since my wife and I are new to Toronto, thought we would give it a go. Glad we did! Order the dinner for two, plus shrimp rolls, free delivery! Yes it took a while, but we guessed it might, so no big deal. Will keep these guys menu and order again.

This is my go to Chinese restaurant in the city. Dumplings, Shanghai noodles and General Tso. Literally been going here for over a decade!!! This is the only place to go to late night.

Willing to wait 2 hrs for food? Yes? Ok go ahead and give them a call. They take their sweet time with food delivery. Food is average for a Chinese restaurant.

The good? So, I have to admit two out of four dishes we pretty good. Best chickens wings ever.
The bad? Where do I start. We got this corn soup that was basically egg drop with a can of corn. Not so good. The seafood dish was bland and not spicy like I ordered. However the worst was the service. I am writing this review as I am waiting for our waitress to come over so we can get out check. She and all the other servers are rude and basically ignore you. Even when they bring a dish over they do it while turning their face away then leave. We have been waiting for over 30 minutes for our server. She hasn’t asked how our food is or anything. But she has had time to look at pictures from someone’s cell phone and replace silverware and dishes. Worst service ever!!! There are so many other restaurants on the street please try a different one.

«There were blue metal chairs and basic tables both rectangular and circular with numerous layers of plastic table cloths probably to make the cleaning easier. The walls were light green and beige with dark wooden elements and an authentic floral patterned carpet. «
“We had their Spicy Filet Mignon with Broccoli. This was a heavier dish, yet the way the thinly sliced beef was prepared made it very tender. The steamed broccoli made a bed where the beef lied, mixed in with a bean sauce, spicy red peppers and some green ones.»
«As for A Taste of China, if you ever feel intimidated to try a Chinese restaurant, this is just the place for you. Ling, the owner, is known to help people find out what they like and guide them in making decisions through the overwhelming choices and culture surrounding one as soon as they step through the front door. «
A few bites from our full experience.

I like it. Service was good. We got our soup pretty quick. Got fortune cookies at the end of the meal.
Not super fancy. They have menus posted on the walls and still use plastic table clothes.

This is my go to Canadian-​Chinese place for delivery when I’m downtown toronto. My order arrived in literally 30 minutes it was pretty fresh, tasty, and still scorching hot :-)
I ordered too much food lol but I don’t regret it at all. The portion sizes are very generous! The shrimp with lobster sauce on rice was massive and pretty flavorful. The chicken wings, and honey spare ribs were great: D I’ve never had spare ribs and I really enjoyed them! They had hardly any fat (thankfully) and they fell off the bone.
I was a little disappointed in the Szechwan vegetables though. They were bland and not a single tingle of spice. I wouldn’t order that again.
Overall if your looking for fast, fresh Chinese food it’s definitely worth a try :-)

Came here for a late night feast. We did not order well. None of my friends wanted to get seafood so I ended up getting the crispy beef. Everything was edible but nothing struck me as really memorable. I will try to go back and get some of the house specialities.

I’m glad I found a Chinese food restaurant that doesn’t actually make me sick or feeling weird hours later because I have a pretty sensitive stomach.
Taste of China is located downtown on Spadina. I never dined inside so I can’t give details of the venue but delivery came within 30 minutes, food was hot, portions were huge, even ordering 3 items, was enough to feed 2 – 3 hungry ass people. If you order over $ 30, you don’t get charged delivery fee.
We ordered C1 Dinner for 2 ($ 27)
It comes with Chicken Fried Rice, General Tao’s chicken, Sliced Beef with Mixed Vegetables, 2 Vegetable Spring Rolls and Fortune Cookies. We also added Cantonese Chow Mein ($ 10.95) to the order. Total was about $ 40.
The food lasted in the fridge for 2 days, it’s prolly the best take out Chinese I’ve yet to come across :)

We ordered delivery on a Sunday night because our usual delivery place was closed. Food-​wise, it’s very hard to judge. We ordered a very white-​people selection of dishes: Shrimp Spring Rolls, Sliced Szechuan Beef, House Fried Rice and Canotnese Chow Mein.
Spring Rolls were very small for the price, but crunchy and tasty without being greasy.
Szechuan Beef was okay. Lots of veggies and the beef was very tender but I’m not sure what was Szechuan about this dish. There were no peppercorns and absolutely no heat.
Cantonese Chow Mein was just ok as well. Noodles were all soft (I like the crispy ones at the edge).
House Fried Rice was really nice. Crunchy green peas and chunks of shrimp, chicken and pork.
Overall, the veggies in each dish were kind of overcooked and mushy, but what I REALLLY liked was the fact that none of the dishes were oily or greasy. At first I thought the food was sort of bland, but in the end I appreciated the lack of grease that was left on my plate and in my system.
I’m leaving room to try this place for dine in and hopefully add a star or two on.

I think we were ordered the wrong stuff.
I keep reading about how Toronto chefs eat here and I wanted to know what the hype was all about.
I will order actual dishes next time, not just noodles and congee. They were okay, but I still want to know why this place has got the WOW factor.
Until next time…