Canton Garden

Very clean, lots of parking, polite and friendly service, good portions. So why two stars? Even though the meal was a good size there wasn’t a lot of value. I ordered the meal for one; pork fried rice, chow main, sweet sour port and almond chicken and the meal was served with a cup of soup broth. Sounds like a lot I know but when you take a plate and load it with noodles and rice, two table spoons of sweet and sour pork and a small thin piece if almond chicken there isn’t much value. Even the chow main was weak on ingredients. What I’m saying is that I filled up on fillers… Noodles and rice.
The meal didn’t taste bad but it wasn’t great either. Kind of bland. For the price I’ve had better Chinese food in town, thought I’d give it a try and I won’t be back just because there are better places out there.
Just my two cents…

I’ve eaten here twice, and tried different things both times. Worst Chinese food I’ve ever had! It’s like they ran out of seasoning or something. Neither me or my girlfriend could eat more than a couple bites. I know people like this place, and I have no idea why. Total waste of money.

It is not exaggerating to say that this is the worse Chinese food I’ve ever eaten. Ordered the #2 combination, chow mein, fried rice, sweet and sour pork and almond chicken. It was unappealing from the moment it arrived, from presentation to taste. The only colour on the plate was the sweet and sour sauce. There was not a single vegetable in the chow mein or rice so the plate was all beige and brown. The almond chicken was a thin breaded cutlet that was covered in western style gravy, yes actual gravy. Under the breading it literally looked like a thick slice of chicken sandwich meat. The fried rice did not appear fried at all and as mentioned had nothing in it, aside from a few shreds of chicken cold cut. The chow mein tasted like a flavourless blob of over cooked, bland spaghetti. The sweet and sour pork was dry and flavourless, the sauce was mildly sweet and not at all sour and the best that it could be said for it is that it was red.
When the hostess asked how our meal was and I replied «honestly???» her face fell and she said «you’re from Vancouver aren’t you?» this tells me she expects anyone who’s ever had decent Chinese food to be disappointed. The only thing that made my girlfriend smile was when I pretended that my cookie said «you will have indigestion soon, and diarrhoea later.»

Canton is our go to place for Chinese food. They make it the same way as the places in Richmond and Vancouver that I went to when growing up. I never had a dish I didn’t like. iWe always go there for our anniversary and New Years dinners. Not hey even catered our son’s wedding for us.

Everyone raves about the Capitol for Chinese food in Chilliwack, but I like Canton Gardens way better. We only eat seafood, so I can’t offer an opinion about the meat dishes, but the seafood and vegetable dishes are all fresh and taste great, with laid back, friendly service for reasonable prices.

Some of the dishes are fine, like sweet &sour pork, but others like the hot & sour soup are dreadful. Service is great.