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I'm pretty sure they load their food up with msg cause we were thirsty all night long. We ordered their scrambled egg with shrimp on rice - not too bad. Their fried rice noodles were quite good as were their pea shoots in garlic. The fish maw and crab soup was quite yummy...but then, something horrible happened. Of the four of us, three of us got belly aches. We think it was the soup because I was the only one who didn't have soup; therefore, no belly ache. The cleanliness of this place is questionable. We will not be returning.
Nothing special here, we popped by on a minor craving and because the other congee place was shut down.
This is your usual "old school" Cantonese style noodle and congee (and rice of course) place. The prices are inexpensive and you can get pretty decent lunch meals.
There is nothing surprising here, the food is passable, but nothing to be amazed at.
Service is what you'd expect from a place like this. They get you your food and that's about it.
Doesn't look too grungy and we never got sick afterwards :-)
Not worth a visit. It's not bad, it's just not anything special. If you're hungry, it's a good place to pop in and have a munch, but otherwise, spend your stomach space elsewhere.
Recently, there was a shooting here where several customers tried to overpower a man who tried to rob this restaurant. One customer died and several others are in hospital. I sincerely hope those who were injured will be okay and my sympathies go out to the family members of the patron who lost his/her life in this senseless tragedy.
Food: amazing honey garlic spareribs and the best hot and sour soup I've ever had. All of their dishes have actually been nothing short of awesome. I've honestly driven all the way from Delta to eat here on many occasions.
Service: being regular customers, we've always received awesome service. It can be slow during busy times but it's to be expected from a small/family-run establishment.
Ambiance: nice hole in the wall for cheap eats so don't expect a five-star/gold-plated restaurant.
I feel terribly sad about the recent event at this wonderful restaurant and would absolutely return if they decided to re-open. Again, my deepest sympathies for all those involved in this tragedy. RIP.
From back when it was Daimo before the owner lost the prime and bustling location in a night of gambling (so says the rumour tree), Kwong Chow is always bustling with business. The food is kept to a certain standard. Though I've eaten so much delivery from there in the past that I can't stand to take another bite. But they're always a good default, and are opened late enough for a late snack, etc.. Just be warned that they do get fairly crowded and busy through certain hours of the night!
As with any chinese restaurant, we always ask for less oil and less salt. Sometimes it makes a difference.
Its a cheap chinese place to eat, and the food is decent when you want some comfort food. Its far better food and value than MacDonalds. $4.25 dishes 11am-12pm is enough for one. The bigger dishes at $6.50 are quite large, and definitely worth it. Two of these dishes can feed 3 average people...
We were here on the weekend, ordered from the lunch specialsl: sweet n sour pork & a beef & a vegetable fried noodle dishe. The pork was very juicy, tender and nicely deep fried in a delicious sauce and comes with a bowl of rice.The noodle dish came in a generous portion and there was lots of beef and it was quite tasty. It includes house soup too. The service was pretty quick too. We will return for sure..
Due to the late night hours, we came here for snacks after the Casino. Winners pay for the losers. And again I ate for free!
Squab.
Preserve vegetable congee.
Shanghai style rice noodle dried fried.
Curry chicken chow Mein.
Fresh seafood and mushroom chow mein.
Large special house wonton soup.
Lamb hot pot.
The service was expedient and our order was up Chop-Chop for the hungry mob to inhale. The food was pretty standard fare, don’t expect gourmet dinning and you won’t be disappointed. But there were lots of it and plenty left over for doggy bags as well.
Come here where quantity is more important than quality!
a lot of reviewers missed the point of how you are suppose to get the atmosphere of asia in asian restaurant. I mean do you want sushi served to you in a western dining atmosphere?? wait.. some ppl do.. for i don't know what reason. As i don't think anyone would go to McDonald's for sushi either.
We all come here for their greasy food and cheap beer. As simple as that sounds people seem to miss that point. $3 for a bottle of beer is cheap. After 9pm the have the late night dishes that is around $5-$6 which is amazing. If you order $20 or more you can get the special of quale for $6 or prawns for $3.
they also make congee with the consistency that your mom wish she can make. Late night, cheap beer, greasy food and good congee. Hard to ask for more...
And stop complaining about service. Would you work for such thin profit? Tip your waitress well... she'll be nicer next time.
Strangely enough I've come here a few times (at different times during the day (or night) and always out of the respect of good friends who seem to like this place for whatever reason, probably because it's dirt cheap). ANYWAYS, I've driven past this place so many times before but never thought anything of it. It's another place now that I will go out of my way for considering much better options close by.
It's open late (something like 2am) and that's about all it has going for it.
I've had a few menu items here as well as their Preserved Egg & Pork Congee several times. Prices are slightly cheaper with their congee (the large order) very inexpensive at around 11 dollars (a good 6-7 dollars atleast cheaper than other places). Their Chow Mein is oily, their noodles in their Fried Rice Noodles with Beef are soft and broken up and their Congee was burnt the first couple of times I went there. The Chinese Donut (which is actually decent) seems a waste with the lousy congee to accompany it. You'd figure with chinese food which relies on consistency with their simplicity can still have it screwed up.
Service is decent and food comes out fairly quick although servers seem hurried and their demeanor suggests they don't want to be bothered too much if you have any issues but they do top up your tea.
The place is a sty even for a chinese restaurant. The walls are dirty and most of the floor is slippery.
There are always at least half a dozen other tables occupied when I've come here and I have no idea why they would come here other than the fact that it's cheap and it's open late.
Sorry but the drive-through at McDonalds gets my business way before this place.
My gf and i came here after we couldn't find parking at Congee noodle house. We had driven by here a few times, and always made fun of the knock off store name. We went in and I wasn't really surprised by anything.
Food: I ordered the Sweet and Sour Pork and Rice. This is what i usually get at Chinese places I'm trying for the first time, since its one of those dishes you have to get right in order to survive in Vancouver. The Sauce was okay/good. Not the best i ever had, but acceptable. The Pork was softer than I would have liked, usually more crunchy at other places. My gf ordered wonton Noodle soup, which wasn't bad. The shrimp tasted fresh and there was a generous amount. Overall a 3 - cant really get sweet and sour pork wrong.
Service: The service wasn't terrible. basically, the server was there to bring us tea and when we wanted to order. After that, the server was rarely seen. She only appeared when there was more customers to be seated. And strangely appeared almost instantly when we decided we wanted the bill. Overall a 2.5 - no refills for tea, plus invisible servers.
Value : The value was hard to rate. for 6.95, I expected more with my order. The pork came in a long small plate and had quite a bit of red/green pepper as well as other stuff. There was probably 10 pieces of pork altogether. But the wontons on the other hand were big and had a good amount of shrimp in it. There were five altogether for $5. Overall a 3 - Since my plate was too small, but my gf liked the wontons.
Ambiance: This was a strange place. It's decoration resembled congee noodle house, but also, classier chinese restaurants. They had some nice decor that you would see in chinese seafood restaurants, such as a big mirror on the wall (with pheonix/dragon? I can't remember), there were also other things that slips my mind now. What so strange? there were a few things they had that really hurt their ambiance values. For one, the table we got was unbalanced, so they had stuck a thickly folded newpaper to fix it. It was so torn up, i wondered how long it had been there. There was a small flat screen TV on the wall. It was the same image the entire time we were there. Lastly, their tables reminded us of a really really really bad restaurant that we went to once (Top Quality Something). So 2 overall - Thats a bit harsh, but the newspaper thing really stuck out.
It's been a long while since I went there but a recent review prompted me to register these comments.
My decision to NEVER go there again was the result of more than a few incidents, but here are the last two.
1. I ordered takeout and they missed one wonton noodle, which I didn't discover until I got home. I called and the lady says they'll just make it up by giving me a free one next time I visit. I hung up and then wondered how they are going to know that it was me when I ask them next. I also wondered how many times this has happened to me at this place, as this was not the first time.
2. So when I went to "claim" my noodle, I was greeted with much rudeness. It was before 5:30pm. There were THREE tables occupied with 2 or 3 customers at each. I chose a larger round table for four for myself as I have some reading material to spread out. The waitress yelled at me and told me to sit at the table for 2. I explained why I needed the larger table and she grumpily acknowledged it but walked away without a word. I then waited, and waited, and waited, for someone to come back to take the order, but no one did. I got up to walk out, and the cashier saw me but never bothered to ask me why I'm leaving.
This tells me they don't CARE. That's good enough a reason for me to never return. Oh, and the food, as pointed but many reviews here, is just mediocre. No worse or better than most of your average wonton joint.
One last thing....don't forget they also had a late night shooting there a few years back. Scared? You should be.
Inexpensive Chinese lunch dishes, from $5.95 and up. Great food.
One suggestion though, you should bring a jacket with you since they have turn their air-conditioner on HIGH. Also due to their great air-con, you should eat your food fast otherwise it will be cold in 5 minutes.
I just got back from this place... Oh gosh! It's really good! I oredered congee and kai lan. The congee is pretty great. I've had runny and glopy congee before but this was the perfect consistency.
The kai lan was a bit over steamed but still good. Food came w/in 3 mins of ordering which was good cause I was starvin!
Very sad about the shooting.
Excellent congee of course (and you can have bad congee out there).Broad noodles are great.Quick service and clean place.It is a family palce and you always feel welcome there.
Always go back,2 times a week sometimes.
Tried this place for the first time. It's open til 2 am so no pressure on late evening diners.
Fresh poached and spiced scallops on special, very tasty with steamed rice. Corn chicken swirl soup - no complaint (small bowl was massive). Friendly, on the ball, service. Slightly slow but they were busy. Good value. Bathroom not visited.
I've been here a few times for congee and other items such as rice dishes and noodle dishes. Typical Chinese fare.... nothing overly impressive or overly disgusting.
But WAIT... last night I had their "special" ling cod filet congee.. the fish was REALLY mushy-sign of a fish beyond its prime surely... and the chow mein with black bean spareribs was really really salty.
Looks like I need to start looking for a new congee place again...
I live nearby and thought I'd try this place for lunch. Ordered the chicken congee. I received my food pretty quickly. However, it was terrible: chunks of gristle, cartlige, and bone suspended in thick porridge with no meat whatsoever. A few very tough and rubbery mushrooms were all that was close to edible. I've eaten at dodgy restaurants throughout South and Southeast Asia, and this was the first meal I simply couldn't eat. I tried ... but after 1/4 bowl I was near gagging.
By the time I left (just after noon) the place was packed, so I'm guessing that there are other dishes on the menu that are edible. I won't be coming back, however.
The place is very inexpensive, but one of the worst meals I've ever tasted.
Went there with the family of 4 and waited and waited for our food so long that I should have brought my razor and toothbrush.
The noodle dish I ordered was too greasy and such a small portion that the cumulative experience was extremely frustrating.
I guess if you order the congee or dumplings then you might get your food quicker since they prep it up front behind the glass partition, but anything you order from the kitchen will rival the time it took to build the Great Wall. The place was not even busy when we were there, since the staff was having a lunch break also, however their food was prep quickly.
Will not be back as I said to my wife "A" that maybe the table we were assigned is jinx as I remember the last time we were there we had the same table and the service was also terrible and slow, I believe in feng shui.
Noot going back
Last night I went to KC with my brother. We had deep fried wontons, pan fried beef noodles, crab and a vegetable dish I'm not familiar with (On choy with shrimp paste?)
The food is fresh and tasty. This is a great little place if you want some decent Chinese food without any frills.
The bathroom can use a renovation but the place seems clean and the service is general good.
I went to Kwong Chow last Tuesday as I was craving some greasy Chinese food. Sometimes I just like to eat cheap greasy Chinese food and Kwong Chow's is the place to go if that's what you're craving. The place was full less one table for us and a full restaurant is usually a good sign.
There are two menus and both are very extensive. One menu is congee, noodles, and rice and the other menu is everything else. Most of the entrees come in two sizes so you can order lots of little dishes if you want.
We had a crispy squab, pan fried sea bass fillets, shrimp dumpling and noodle soup, gai lan with oyster sauce, and spare ribs in black bean sauce on chow mein. I wanted to order so much more so it took us awhile to narrow down our selections.
The squab was very tasty as squab tends to be. I particularly like the salt squab comes with. The fish was a little too salty (maybe because of the salt from the squab) and one generally expects Chinese food to be salty so the fish was particularly salty. Everything else was great. We only had some chow mein as left overs probably because we ordered small dishes. I'm looking forward to my next visit as there are so many dishes to try. Lots of tables had hot pot dishes so I'll be sure to try one of those.
The restaurant was a bit dirty, but that's to be expected at this kind of restaurant. The service was pretty standard for this kind of Chinese restaurant.
I like that the restaurant is open late (until 2 am) as few restaurants in Vancouver are open late.
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