Congee Queen

Ok food. Service could be better. I like the fried rice with eel. It’s cconvenient to go to Shops at Don Mills and walk around before or after.

Huge portions for the price you pay. There’s so much on the menu you could literally try something different every time you go. Nothing like Chinese fast food. BBQ pork on fried rice and spicy fried turnip is always a great choice!

There’s really not much to say.
Their food is consistent and tasty. The atmosphere is the same — well lit and in open view of everyone else dining in the restaurant. Servers are quick and to-​the-​point, but rude sometimes.
I’m a big fan of the Chicken & Duck congee (1 bowl should feed 3 – 4 people). The deep fried squid is great, as is the deep fried crab claw. Friends love the general tso chicken but I’m more of a Cantonese Chow Mein lover.
Prices are extremely reasonable. One big tip — try to bring 4 or more people to the restaurant. Each side dish is rather large so two people will have more than enough to eat with two side dishes. If you come to Congee Queen, you should really be able to sample a lot of their dishes, so you want to bring a bigger crowd. :)

Found a fly in my congee! I am a regular at Congee Queen at the Markham location, and always thought their food tasted good. Really disappointing for this location.

Rather disappointing! Had scallop and tiger shrimp congee very bland. No seafood flavor whatsoever. And my friend stir fry noodle with beef was even worse. The beef is tender no texture and taste like cardboard. Instead of stir frying the noodle is piled up underneath the lousy sauce. It was overall an awful dining experience.

Want decent Chinese food? Want large portions? Want 10 different types of congee? If yes, then come here. Quick service with prices ranging from $ 6+ congee medium-​sized bowls to $ 11+ rice/​noodle dishes. The prices vary on what kind of items you want in the food. Way better than Chinese fast food. Large place with tons of seating with tons of free parking.
Go for: cheap congee with fast parking, seating, and service
Don’t go for: fanciness

Excellent value and delicious food. The shrimp wonton soup is to die for. The chilli turnip patties are delicious, and the E33 Vermicelli fried with shrimp and barbecue pork was also delicious. Unfortunately, we didn’t have room for anything else! The portions are huge and we have enough leftovers for at least two more dinners for 2 here at home. The total bill was $ 20. and change, before tip. What a bargain. Good food, great prices. The restaurant is open and clean, the service is fast and efficient, and both the servers were very friendly and welcoming. It was busy, but we were early, around 5 pm so there was no problem getting a table. We will definitely go back again on our next Toronto jaunt next month to try other items. Most diners are Asian so you know the food is authentic. The menu is huge and diverse. Highly recommended.

Great food at this place
No matter what location you go to
Turnips
BBQ Pork
Udon
Shanghai Noodles
Even the Thai food is decent
Have had both the mango salad and the pad thai is quite yummy
My parents have always ordered their Chinese food since it arrived
We’ll definitely keep ordering from here

Gross. Food court food.
I don’t know what everyone is talking about, this place is not great.
Hot and Sour Soup — really flavorful. Disgusting bits of rubbery pork that was probably alive last century. Slimy little vein-​in shrimps that I didn’t even eat. Too much stuff in the broth — tons of giant chunks of black mushroom, tons of squiggly egg bits. Too much bamboo. The tofu was good though.
General Tao’s Chicken — tasted like sweet and sour chicken. The menu said spicy. Not a hint of spice. I ate an entire red chili and other than being like chewing on a wad of Saran Wrap, no spice whatsoever. Chilies tasted very very old. The fist bite was chicken skin and fat. I had one piece that had white meat in it. No pieces without fat and skin.
Beef, Ginger and Green Onion — Beef was that gelatinous kind that was probably cooked a decade ago and then frozen. Giant ugly chunks of shriveled ginger, the green onions were too chewy to break apart in my mouth.
BBQ Pork Fried Rice — NO flavor. None. The pork was NOT BBQ. At least it wasn’t super oily.
My friend had:
Sweet and Sour Pork — her first bite, and most of the bites after that, were gristle. Not good sauce. Batter was too dark. Too fried. Pork was basically oily jerky in breading.
Chicken Chow Mein — Noodles and sauce were good, chicken was nasty, Chinese broccoli was huge stalks, very little greens, and was practically raw. Hard to eat with noodles and chicken.
All of their meat was alive in the 90’s.
Charged a dollar extra to put three slices of lemon in my Coke.
Spring rolls were good. One star for that.
This food was gross. At least it was cheap. I was expecting better. So disappointing.

Food was good but service was horrible.
I’m not sure if it was our waiter but the food took forever. We ordered things and only 2 came out, waited for 15 minutes after we finished the rest of our food and it still did not come so we had to ask the waiter again to see if our food was done. He then re-​placed the order in the system. 15 minutes later still no food and we were all fed up by that time so we just asked for the bill and left. After telling what had happened to another waiter whom which we asked the bill for, he seemed pissed off that we weren’t waiting for the food. Never going back to this location.

My favorite spot to eat when i am in Toronto visiting relatives. Service is quick and the foods are really reasonable prices and a lot to pick. I love the soysause chicken and deep fried squid. Shopping area right next to it. This is a good spot to shop and eat instead of go to downtown Toronto.

Great food that upholds the standard across the other Congee Queen locations.
The service here was good and our server was kind enough to give us recommendations to get the most bang for our buck. Moral of the story is that the serving sizes are huge and that I really need to work on overestimating how much I can eat!
If you’re new to the chain, I’d suggest you try their signature House Seafood & Mixed Veggie Fried Vermicelli (it goes amazing with their chili oil which is fragrant but not overly spicy) and their BBQ meats.

Comfortable Chinese food and fancy restaurant. My friend and I visited there around 2 pm after shopping. It was not too busy and waiters can cover all the tables.
We two girls ordered a regular size portion of Tingzai Congee, mango salad and fried chilli turnip cake. All the dishes were so tasty. The congee tasted very smooth and yummy because it cooked with roasted bbq duck and seafood. Salad was fresh and sweet although it didn’t use the green mango to make an authentic thai food. Fried turnip cake was the best, lightly hot and not as greasy as other restaurants.
We cannot have them all and package the turnip cake to go. The staff just served as normal and the price was reasonable too. I still want to try their dim sum and bbq pork.

My family and I come here about once every two weeks, and for a good reason!
One thing I love about this Congee Queen location is that it is consistent. The food and service has always been good, repeatedly, time after time.
Their chili fried turnip cakes, dough fritter, vegetarian six grain fried rice are our family favourites! The quality of food is great, and priced reasonably. The service is fast and efficient.
We usually go on the weekdays for dinner when there aren’t much line ups. But if you’re looking to come here Fri– Sun, I’d suggest making reservations as it can be quite packed.
Overall, great food and service at this location. I highly recommend trying this place if you haven’t already! ⁴⁄₅!

Again my compliant is that none of these awesome Chinese places are in Mississauga.
Food is awesome and price is right!
There is so much variety. Takes me 10 minutes to read the menu and next table is done eating.

I used to go here often but I realized their food wasn’t that good… The food can be plain & the service is eh.
I prefer congee star which is a few blocks south of Don Mills and Lawrence

Expertly prepared Cantonese food, including congee, noodles of all sorts and Popular dishes including fried squids, bbq pork and duck. Busy at lunch and dinner time. Why not go for their «afternoon tea» (3−5pm weekdays) with a wide selection of regular dishes. It comes with a complementary drink. A glass of red bean with a scoop of ice cream is one of the selections.
Highly recommended.

Came for Chinese New Year. Um, yes. Chinese New Year. Odd choice. S’okay. The one to please is Grandpa. He quite enjoyed it here last time, so we figured we could get away with it cuz our first choice was fully booked out.
Grandpa’s opinion of the night: even better than the last time we came. He went so far as to say that next time, instead of going to one of the fancier Chinese restaurants, we should just come back here. This is highly odd of him. His logic is usually that the more expensive the restaurant, the better it is… not saying he doesn’t know food, cuz he totally does.
My new notes:
Roasted pork belly/​ribs: They’ve always had good Chinese BBQ, but this takes the cake. One of the top 5 experiences I’ve ever had with Roasted pork. Served hot. Perfect ratio of fat to meat to crispy skin. What I mean is that there was just enough fat that the entire piece of meat was just meltingly juicy, but just not enough fat that I wanted to spit out a fat chunk. Ohhhhhh.
Vegetarian six grains fried rice: At $ 11.50, I thought this was here to rip off non-​Chinese people who think they’re eating health food. I’m sorry. I’m a horrible person. I truly apologize. We ordered this because my cousin really likes it. He’s a banana (Chinese on the outside, white on the inside… not a derogatory thing. A descriptor. I too am a banana, to some extent). I figured I’d try it just cuz it was there. It was oddly Chinese tasting. Actually, it’s good enough that I might just replace my regular fried rice orders with this. Various types of fungus in here. Trust me, you won’t miss the meat.
Mixed fungus and fried gluten in hot pot: At $ 13.99, this is a tad pricey, but it too was surprisingly good. My aunt’s pick of the night. I’m a huge fan of both fungus and gluten, so this was amazing for me. It was so amazing, in fact, that today, I bought the ingredients to attempt to make this at home. Here’s to hoping!
Side note: Even amidst renovations (their sign has yet to go back up), Chinese New year (when Chinese people want to go to fancier restaurants) and lots of snow (made for horrible traffic conditions that night), the restaurant had quite the lineup by 7pm. Make reservations!

I have remembered this location of Congee Queen years ago. I used to work at Yonge and Eglinton. Whenever I had to plan a trip, I’d visit the CAA around the corner. This restaurant was always busy and I have been meaning to give it a try.
My wish came true last night. My boyfriend needed to drop off some used coats that he wanted to donate, which was along Lawrence Avenue East. He loves Chinese food, so I recommended that we have dinner here.
I love Unilocal for researching eateries. Many tips said to book a reservation. I did a couple of nights ago. The woman on the other end of the phone was polite and competent. Sure enough, when we got there on a snowy evening, our reservation was right in front of her, on a yellow sticky note.
We were promptly seated. We actually got two tables mashed together, mainly because my guy had brought me some goodies from his recent travels and had just got off the plane to come see me.
He was hungry. We ordered the crab and corn soup. The regular size is rather large, but it was fine for two people. The soup came promptly and the hunger pangs disappeared immediately. There were generous chunks of crab and lots of corn kernels in the soup. I loved it so much.
We then got me our chicken black bean chicken and seafood ramen on hot sizzling plates. They were both good, but had a couple of weaknesses. Like the soup, the food portions are huge and the restaurant does not skimp on ingredients. There were a ton of chicken, scallops, shrimp, squid, green peppers, and more. The black bean chicken was tasty, but was too salty. The ramen was good, but it lacked flavour. We both figured to mix the two dishes up, which made both perfect.
We boxed our remaining food. It was a lovely date night. The ambiance is perfect for a snowy, miserable night.
I will return to sample more good food. I highly recommend the crab and corn soup. Unfortunately, we didn’t have any soup left to take home. It is one of the best soups that I have in a awhile.

Our friend insisted driving out of downtown Toronto (where we were staying) to eat at Congee Queen.
When we arrived around 6:30PM on a Friday night, it was packed. After waiting for about 20 minutes, we were seated and started our feast.
Garlic stir fry pea shoots, BBQ duck, BBQ pork, sweet and sour soup, beef stir fry with rice noodles, chicken congee and pan fried radish cake with XO sauce. Everything was pretty good and definitely a 4.5 stars.