Miss Congee

I went to this restaurant as it was right by my house I ordered the seafood congee a dough fritter and a dough fritter wrapped in rice noodle. Compared to all of the other similar restaurants congee queen congee wong keungs this has got to be the worst I’ve ever had. The congee had no real pieces of seafood it was all blended mush. It was extra bland compared to all the other restaurants I’ve ever I had 2 actually add salt to it. The dough fritter tasted as bad the soy sauce they used wasn’t even the proper soy sauce it was extremely salty. If I were any of u looking to try it I’d stay away

Terrible food here I will NEVER COME back ever again. Ordered three dishes, all three of them are disappointments.
1. Seafood congee: no seafood but charge you seafood price and it is like soup there is no thickness to the congee no actual texture to the congee.
2. Fried noodles: burnt all over. Tastes like you’ll get cancer after you eat a bowl.
3. Deep fried Yao tiu: not even fried properly, takes like dough.
Be warned never come. This place won’t last. The name doesn’t suit the food. Miss congee isn’t making congee she is making liquid soup.
Better off with with congee queen.

Food is mediocre but pricey.
One good thing is the service is friendly.

Food ²⁄₅
Lacking the ‘restaurant’ taste and aroma
Congee was gooey.
Go for Congee queen just a short drive east.
Service ³⁄₅
Not a very busy Sunday night. Typical Chinese restaurant service.
Ambience 2.5÷5
Minimalistic décor.
The golden brown design looks suspiciously similar to other Chinese restaurants
Summary
Give it another year or two
If it’s still around, I’d check the latest reviews first theb give it another try

Shots fired. In fact, many shots fired with all these 1 star reviews. But I think the dust has settled and I was finally brave enough to give Miss Congee a try.
First impression, the place is way too huge for it to support. If the place was half the size it would still be big enough. The menu is very extensive and way too much variety for one place to handle let alone a new restaurant trying to establish a customer base.
Came here on a Saturday morning/​afternoon at around 11:30am. The place was only a quarter full with customers but then again its still a lot of customers since this place is so large.
I’m not too sure how busy it was before but being only a quarter full of customers is pretty bad for a Chinese restaurant on a Saturday morning. I’m pretty sure the poor star reviews has scared away many customers.
I for one had a pretty good experience here. We ordered the lobster congee combo for $ 23.95 (Comes with selection of rice roll so we went with beef rice roll and also deep fried batter sticks). The congee came in a large bowl and an actual whole lobster. I was expecting only some small chunks so bonus points for this. The lobster was small but already exceeded my expectations. The beef rice roll was smooth and soft and had a good portion of beef inside. The batter sticks were light and crispy just like they should be. All the above food was excellent.
Also ordered beef rice noodle with XO sauce for $ 10.50 — this dish was pretty average but tasted good so no real complaints here.
Service was cold but fast and efficient. We had lobster shells all over our plates and they even replaced our plates without us asking.
This place has had a rough start but I’m gonna be that guy and give this place a 3.5 stars. There is no half stars on Unilocal so I will rate it a 4 just to give it a bump up on the overall review.
I think this places deserves a lot more than the average 1.5 star at this point in time. It probably does deserve all those one star reviews in the past. I was analyzing this place with a fine tooth comb to find any faults I could, but the cold service was the only real downfall I experienced. Don’t be discouraged with all the poor reviews and give this place a try.

If I can give no star, I will totally gave no star
This new place is a mess. Waitresses doesn’t know the table number.
After order the food and need to wait so long.
And the food finally arrived, the fried rice wasn’t hot any more it was just warm.
The food wasn’t good. The rice was way overcook and burned.

One star for the service. Another star for the food.
Came here a couple days ago, for NYD.
Before you start thinking I’m being too harsh, considering it’s NYD and they’d be swarmed, it wasn’t. An entire section of the store was empty. There was no line up at the door. At 7pm on NYD. (Felt kinda bad but oh well! Fairly new restaurant — must be hard to make a name for yourself right?)
Let me start off by saying the food was fine. Mediocre. Could be a little more creative? But hey, it’s not really a big thing. Basically a chinese restaurant you’d go to without making a reservation during rush time on NYD. (ha)
So, here’s the kicker — we get sat down, we order, it’s going well. We get the 2 dish peking duk, with 3 side dishes, and a hot honey lemon & cold HK milk tea. Immediately after we ordered, we got a cheque. Yeah, I know, weird. We check it, it’s for the table behind us. No big deal, we laugh it off and pass it over. Then, we wait.
My mom goes to pour us some tea. She can’t pick up my dad’s cup — too slippery — it’s covered in oil! We get a new one, and we wait.
We get our drinks! A cold honey lemon & a hot ovaltine — wait, that’s not what we ordered? We call them over, get our actual drinks, and then, you guessed it — we wait.
30 minutes in, our snow pea sprouts come out! We devour them in about two seconds flat. Aaaaaaand back to waiting!
Thankfully, our peking duk comes out soon after, followed by our diced beef and our steamed tilapia.
Life’s good. We ask for the bill, and — yep, we wait. They forgot. So we ask again, pay and leave.
I’m gonna keep go ahead and assume what I HOPE y’all are thinking — probably just a bad night. Hopefully.

Happy New Year! Well, almost… Got less than 2 hrs till to go. So before the countdown starts and I get to watch some of my friends go insanely drunk, I thought to take some time to post a review before the end of 2015.
Weeks, ago I was along Hwy 7 to catch up on my Xmas shopping and I couldn’t help to notice this New Congee place tucked in this plaza along with Dollarama and Danny’s Fish and Chips. It had this cute catchy name: «Miss Congee». As we were passing by, I noticed that the place was quite happening. Being Curious, I happened to tell my wife, gonna give this place a try someday. Well tonight, on our way back home from Markville Mall, we gave this place a try.
As we walked into this restaurant, the first impression was pretty good. The seating arrangements looked clean, spacious and was packed. The interior design consists of glittering light brown stone brick wall, adequate pot lighting and stained dark brown dividing headboards. On the far back there’s the BBQ glass window showing the hanging BBQ Duck and on the left side there’s a fish tank of live fishes swimming around.
The Host quickly seated us as soon as we walked in. We ended up sitting the bench seating nearby the BBQ Duck Window display.
As we glance through the menu, there were these Lobster Congee $ 23 and Peking Duck combo special $ 57. We did noticed a lot of tables ordering these. But since there were only 2 of us, we ordered half roast duck and the «Garlic Wined Ribs» (Chef Specialty).
The food did came out in 10 mins, so time was good in terms of quickness. Especially when the restaurant is fully packed.
Now on with the food:
The Roast Duck was ok though for me it was a bit dry. I’m thinking it was overcooked a bit.
The «Garlic Wined Ribs» was lightly coated with Minced Garlic and Deep fried in a batter. The rib was tender and the texture outside was just right. Only weird thing was I didn’t taste any wine marinate.
So of course you’re probably wondering why I gave so low of a score?
1) Must the kitchen need to hammer the bell every 10 secs? Really kill the ambience. Now it feels like a diner more than a restaurant. I understand food needed to be picked up by the waiter/​waitress, but of all the congee places I’ve been to all the staff are well trained to bring the food out of the kitchen without the bell. And since we were sitting so close, it annoys the hell outta my wife and I. Not to mention the staff looks lost everytime the bell goes off.
2) Lack of service. I don’t know if it’s because it’s New Years Eve and the place is packed with people, some ordering the Peking Duck Combo which needed more attention. But, it seemed the only attention the waiter/​waitress will give us was when we first order and when I decided to pay. As we finished our meal, my wife wanted to add desserts from the back of the menu. First we politely waved down the waiter, he said «Be with you in a minute» then he ran to seat the people who just walked in through the door and never came back. We tried to wave down two other waitresses with one saying the same thing and ran right into the kitchen to fetch more dishes out (never came back); the other waitress, completely blew by our table and was busy cleaning out the other table apparently. So I guess this restaurant don’t want more business or what?
Finally since they don’t have time for us to order desserts, we decided to call for the bill and headoff.
3) Remember we ordered the Garlic Wined Ribs (Chef Specialty). As we got the bill we realized that why we couldn’t taste the wine marinate. Cause according to the receipt we only ordered the regular garlic ribs (without the wine) and to think it wasn’t marinated enough.
To me, it’s not that the staff doesn’t work fast. I believe there’s lack of training, lack of communication and Too much confusion. I do have faith that there is potential in this establishment, but tonight it was just bleeping madness. I’m going to give a benefit of the doubt this business is new, but this restaurant can only hide behind the excuse for so long. I will give a second chance provided they smooth out the service. I don’t like giving low stars but this restaurant just have so much potential if they simply read other comments are probably no different.
Ambience: –2
Décor: 4
Food: 3
Service: –1

Came here first week they opened. Overall a less than mediocre restaurant. Took 45 minutes for 7 dishes to come out.
Ordered a hot pot rice wasn’t cooked enough to get the crispy rice. The pot they used had black stains/​ink coming off and onto the rice. A major health concern.
Also ordered veggies, fried noodles and fried tofu. Food was bland and tasteless. On the low end of taste, flavour and quality for a Chinese restaurant in Markham.
Had to ask for the check/​receipt from 3 different servers before getting the bill.
Overall a below average and very mediocre experience. Though it’s closer, I would not be going back. Save yourself the trouble and drive less than 5 minutes down the street and head to Congee Queen (better taste, faster service, more value).
Do not go to this place unless you want subpar food and service. A ready-​made microwavable meal would’ve been better than this place.

After reading all the low reviews, I was ready for some bs as I slowly wandered in here for lunch on a weekday. I was greeted right away by 2 servers and seated immediately. After looking around, I realized how big this restaurant is, not only on the outside but also inside. It’s decorated very nicely and it has a modern feel. It also doesn’t look sticky and disgusting like most chinese restaurants do.
We ordered hot milk teas, and I also had this roast duck noodle thingy. boyfriend ordered the baked chicken portuguese curry rice thingy. LOL sorry, I have no idea what the real names are. My boyfriend’s food was delicious (yes, I snuck some) and the chicken was super crispy and the sauce had a perfect amount of spice. My dish was HUGE– honestly I was stuffed and looked back down at the dish and my boyfriend said it looks like I didn’t even start it. It was the small too. the whole dish could’ve fed 5 people (with appetites like me) It wasn’t amazing but I didn’t mind it. The servers came to me 3 times and asked me how I was doing and tried really hard to make conversation. I think they made have had a bit of a crush on me because my bf didn’t get the same treatment, I’m flattered: D The menu is huge and offers a lot more than many congee places offer.
Anyways, miss congee wasn’t bad but I only went once, when it wasn’t really busy. Everyone I know that has been there in a busier time has also told me that the service is extremely slow. I’ll definitely avoid it during rush hour.

I’ve been meaning to try this place ever since I saw them put up their sign. I kept my eye on it as they continued to finish the building. Eventually I grew tired of stalking… I mean, waiting for the grand opening, and of course once that happens they open up and I don’t realize that until a month later.
I came on a Friday afternoon and was pleasantly surprised at their extensive menu, but it didn’t end up being the best quality food.
Staff: I didn’t have the same experience with staff that other reviewers seemed to have had. They greeted us quickly at the door and then seated us quickly. I had just returned from a trip, and while I didn’t have jetlag mentally, my stomach was in a completely different time zone and I was starving. So it was a really good thing the food came quickly, otherwise I would have been a grouch (moreso than I am on a regular basis).
Ambience: It was comfortable and pretty quiet but that may also be because it was a Friday afternoon.
Food: This was the first time I saw a menu with a Duck, BBQ Pork & Wonton Noodle Soup. All I ever wanted was to have more options with my wontons and this place provided that option, and so I just had to order it. I wish there was a size option though, because I could’ve used a lot more noodles and fixings in my dish. The duck was nice and fatty, the pork was flavourful, and while the wontons were nice and big, they were quite salty. In addition, I ordered their Beef and Dough Fritter Rice Roll, and that proved to be a mistake. The beef lacked flavour and had a crumbly texture and the dough fritter was soggy. Not sure how that dish went so wrong.
Overall, I’d try the menu again because they have a lot of options that interest me but will probably avoid the rice rolls next time.

If you ever wanted to see ME as a wait staff, you can take a glimpse of my style at Miss Congee. I’ll sit you down at the table and ask what you want next minute. You want another few minutes, cool I’m gonzo.
Waving me down, you ask if that dish is good? Oooh yeah! best in town (if that town has a population of 10). Next you want me to get the bill? Let me disappear and forget about it while the «rookie» cleans up the table and potentially spill food and tea on you.
That’s right, I take your tea away in an empty restaurant so you won’t stay. Huh, you wanted the bill why didn’t you ask? Leaving already? Please come again. Miss you, bye bye!
The food that I’ve had is closer to take-​out quality, under seasoned over tenderized. The chicken slices could have been medium tofu. It’s not all bad, but it kind of feels that way. I have to drive to this plaza just to have a single choice while 2 plazas east and west have multitude of selection.
Restaurant itself is open, stylish enough and clean-​looking which equals one word «generic». There’s no doubt this place can be busy on weekends and the first time here I didn’t bother lining up and simply drove to another Cantonese restaurant with less lines and better food. It’s not like it’s a hyped up Ramen Shop in Markham. I don’t even line up for those, so bad comparison.
I’ll let you imagine how the service and food would be if the restaurant was busy. Wait, maybe you can read other reviews on that. Why imagine if you don’t have to? Come here if you don’t have much choice but remember one TIP, watch the waiters like a hawk and get away from whatever they’re holding as far as possible before it has a chance to land on you.

I am incredibly dissatisfied with both the service and quality of food. I asked for curry shredded chicken on rice, and was given crispy chicken with tomato sauce. Not only did they get my order (type of protein and sauce) wrong, but they also didn’t even offer to replace the dish. Anyways, I tried the dish out and it tasted terrible — didn’t even finish half.
Aside from that mishap, the congee was very bland.
Miss Congee? Nope. Missed the point.

Saturday lunch with the family at this relatively new place on hwy 7 and kennedy. Their concept similar to congee queen nearby but their menu isnt as extensive (No phở though).
We ordered three items. The liver congee was pretty good but the bowl is small and can only feed about a group of 4. Their Yingyang rice was so-​so; the ketchup was too sour and needed some sugar. The turnip patties were not spicy but fresh and hot. There were some chicken and shrimp bits but the overall plate quantity is smaller than congee queen but turnip cubes are larger in size. Patties were slightly overburned. Overall mediocre food.
HA service. What service? Waitresses kind of wander around and chitchat on floor and they are not the most attentive. Its ironic that our table didnt get much service and yet there are so many waitresses on floor lol. Definitely needs to be retrained.
THE FUNNIEST THING was as we were leaving the parking lot, one of the waitresses came out looking for someone cause apparantly they got the order wrong for one of the customer’s takeout… Lol hope they find him/​her.
Wont be back.

Had absolutely no expectations when walking into this place due to the horrible reviews on Unilocal but surprisingly it wasn’t that bad and with improvement over time they can be a good competitor for congee queen.
To start off on a good note, the food quality and portions were decent. I had a noodle, congee, duck and fried pork — everything tasted amazing and on point.
However I do agree with most people where the service quality definitely needs improvement and they better do something about it fast because it’s obviously costing them their reputation. They surprisingly hired very very inexperienced waitresses and seem unorganized to a point where they may have opened prematurely.
Overall it exceeded my little expectations that I had and I’ll be back hoping for service improvements !

Second time coming here and the service still hasn’t changed. It’s still mediocre at best and not what I come to expect from a restaurant that’s supposed to be a Congee Queen doppelgänger. I ordered another baked rice with white sauce this time. Sauce was not overpowering in taste, just right in terms of creaminess. The chicken was crispy, not Popeye’s crispy which was understandable. It was juicy on the inside nevertheless, so this deserves points in my book! Also ordered a fried turnip dish that was pretty decent, though, I thought it was not fried enough. It just didn’t have enough crisp to it when I took bites. Maybe I’m just picky with my turnip cakes?

Terrible service and small portion size definitely stay away. We came at 7:30pm and they had no big bowl congee only the small ones wtf? Dishes we ordered were horribly small and still charged regular price. We ordered typical wet noodles with beef and the flat noodles was just dry and didnt have enough sauce. We ordered the Honey Beef Ribs and each piece was 80% fat with no meat, when we confronted the manager he said it was normal and only until we pressed further did he remove it from the bill. Needless to say we sent it back. The food definitely does not taste good and dont be fooled by the hype, there’s only a wait because its new, feel sorry for those who wait to eat at this sad excuse of a restaurant. Sorry but Miss Congee is no Congee Queen.

I dont usually give low ratings but sorry this place has bad service. Until they work on training their staff and we with their kitchen, I’m not coming back and not recommending this place.
They opened Oct 11, 2015 at dinner time.
Menu and set up is like Congee Queen just at McCowan and hwy 7 except they also serve some seafood like lobster, crab and lobster.
They do serve alcohol and first page advertises their lobster congee deal. They’re lobster is currently priced at $ 18.99/ lb.
Their fresh tank contains of half dead and floating fishes. … #micdrop
They’re newly opened on hwy 7 between kennedy and mccowan where the old shoppers drug mart was (beside dollarrama). If you’re coming from the east side there’s no light so be careful coming in cutting through on coming traffic .
1 food isn’t that great (better choices within 10 km radius)
2 service wasn’t good (no smiles, no introduction of the dish, still learning table numbers or punching in wrong numbers and argue with me what I ordered)
3 kitchen is very slow at delivering food
4 they ran out of congee … they’re a congee restaurant … at lunch …
5 it took me 1 hr and 15 mins to get 2 dishes and leave (story below)
My experience/​story:
So. i came in on Saturday 1PM for late lunch. i asked for a table of 2. She gave me a piece of paper that says 2 on it. I looked at her waiting list … i should be number 10 for 2 people. After a few min she looked at me. looked at her list and yanked the paper from my hands and said «I wrote it wrong you are number 10». Then a head hostess/​manager in black came and told that lady (in blue) to go away in front of people as she is messing things up. That’s very rude and not professional.
I was sat at table 51, a half booth in front of the washrooms. At 1:11pm i ordered 3 things. 1. Pork bone congee small. 2. Beef rice rolls. 3. Bbq pork lo mein. 15 mins later … a big bowl of «teng jai» congee came. I said it’s not ours, ours is small pork bone. Server said no its yours. It’s your congee i said no. Then a manager came and looked at her paper and said it’s for the previous guest at this table. And then they started discussing that previous orders for my table are still running and was arguing over that.
10 mins or so later my bbq pork noodles finally came. Noodle texture was good but lo mein had no sauce to «lo» (mix). We finished eating after 15 mins … sat there waiting … still no food.
Then we overheard a server tell the table next to us they’re out of congee. They were like «what? This is a congee restaurant and you’re out of congee at lunch!?» So we waved down our server and asked where our congee and rice roll was, it’s been half an hour. she said we got out big «teng jai» congee already. I said no I said that wasn’t ours we sent it back. Then she said oh then sorry were out of congee. That’s very unfair to us because we put in the order before you ran out, we didn’t get our congee now because you failed to keep track of your orders and failed to keep track notifying youe guests that you’re out of the dish you’re mainly selling.
So we asked to swap it for a beef hor fun (noodles) and cancel our beef rice roll. 15 mins later beef rice roll came. We said we cancelled it already. 15 mins later we get our beef noodles. It sucked. It was very bland and the beef didn’t taste very fresh. Then a manager came to ask if we got our beef rice roll yet. We said we cancelled it twice already.
We asked for the bill and as we were walking out i heard do many tables either complaining about the service or telling the servers they need to improve.
So it basically took me 1 hr and 15 mins at a quick restaurant to get most of my orders wrong or unavailable. On top of that I had to explain multiple times that theyre wrong with their orders and I still haven’t gotten mine yet.

Talking about an extensive menu! Miss Congee has everything!
Congee, Noodle, HK Style Western Food, Cantonese Stir Fried and more. A menu that has so many choices it took my dinner mate so long and still could not figure out what to order.
Being new, the interior is spacious and nicely decorated. Servers working hard and willing to please. Being new, quite a few items may not be available, including the Double Steamed Ginger Milk Dessert.
Assorted Tofu Served in a Hot Pot ($ 11.50)
Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice ($ 9.50)
Both tasted A-​OK.
Definitely will be back to have some congee and steamed rice roll.
Accepts credit and debit cards.

We came here for lunch today, I think the place opened a couple of days ago, not sure when.
This used to be the old Shoppers Drug Mart and now it’s been transformed into another congee, noodle and rice place.
The menu and prices are very similar to Congee Queen but they have an extra dinner menu, where you get a peking duck plus other dishes, that you choose yourself. Prices vary according to how many dishes you order. I think it was $ 58 for a duck plus 2 dishes.
We ordered the tureen of seafood congee, a steamed rice roll dish and a fried rice noodle dish. The food was nice and are very similar in size to Congee Queen. Service was a bit lacking, not enough staff to cover the restaurant, but it’s early days yet. The staff are really pleasant and welcoming, though.
I would definitely come back again because it’s easier for me to get here, than Congee Queen. Their foods and menus are pretty similar too.