Noodle Star

Due to some karma I am not made aware of, I have always thought of Noodle Star as a dinner restaurant, in spite of the obvious suggestion by the restaurant name. I had dinners a few times here over the past 2 years, at times with a big group, while other times with a family member. A recent visit reinforced my impression and conviction that Noodle Star is a competent Chinese restaurant for regular family dinners.
We ordered from a select-​your-​dishes combo menu. Dinner for two costs a mere $ 18.50. Get that? Just a hair more than 2 take-​out entrées from the T&T Supermarket in the same mall, yet this is a sit down place with waiting services. We ordered conventional family dinner dishes: stir fried vegetables with beef, and pork chops in black vinegar. Both were authentic and boldly flavoured. Portion was generous. Admittedly common dishes, the only flaw was the slightly excessive oil. I don’t flaw the chefs though, as Chinese stir fry has a higher tolerance towards oiliness. The services of the last visit was polite and effective. The welcoming demeanor impressed. At this price point, I am happy to revisit for dinner in the near future.

BBQ PORK
Yeung chow fried rice
Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce
Wonton soup or chicken egg soup
Yummy
Bulbs were blown some were flickering, interior seemed tired and worn out
Recently under new management
New front desk attendant who speaks both Chinese and English fluently which makes a big difference!!!

Large portions! Sometimes I find that the woks are not hot enough for «dry» noodles. Overall, the food here is pretty consistent. Expect quick and inexpensive comfort food.
The older male waiter with the glasses is always really kind and polite, super attentive even when it’s busy. The service here is usually pretty solid.
It’s a good late-​night choice.

Usually when a business has an off day or one bad day of service, it wouldn’t change my entire review. However, the way they dealt with a situation today was absolutely ridiculous.
I ordered the bbq duck on noodles for lunch, which is my usual. It usually comes out on Ho fun and that’s how I like it. However, today it was served on these disgusting, smells-​like-​feet, yellow noodles. the cheapest noodles of life. the dirt of the noodles. I asked him nicely why it wasn’t served on ho fun and they responded with «if you don’t like it, give it to your boyfriend to eat» …WHAT? I even asked if I could pay a bit extra just to switch the noodle and they were rude, impatient and implied it was my own fault for not ordering properly and that they can’t switch it. They told me to get a new bowl. Um no, I’m not going to pay $ 7 for a new bowl of noodles when this one is untouched and I only want to switch the noodles.
Absolutely ridiculous, service is horrid. Never again. This noodle makes me want to vomit just smelling it. I just left the place, paid barely 5% tip and now I have to get a new lunch because I ate less than 1% of the dish.

So we just finished our dinner saturday nite. Only half full at 8pm now. Staff had to be waved down everytime… annoying but wjen they did arrive they were polite. Food came out quick. 3 dishes and steamed rice. Could have been more chicken in the chicken with black bean sauce, tofu and broc a plenty. Last dish was fried squid. All tasted good. Quality was good cant fault them on taste. Price is average for place like this but leaning towards pricier side of average on some dishes. Congee Wong i can get fukien fried rice for 10 i think. Here its 11. Then again i havent been to CW in a while either. So i came hee over a year ago when owners changed and was disappointed so i never came back till today. I can say i would frequent this place again after this last experience. Server working here over 5 years recognized me. Always nice. So actually im giving 3.5 stars but im rounding up because im leaving happy. Also i cudnt use credit card last time but could this time.

I’ve been going here since this place opened, which is easily over 10 years ago. I have a nostalgic love for this restaurant. This is the place you come too when you’re down on your luck (cheap), when no one else will take you in (opens late), when you need a familiar face (decent service) and when you’re hungry (big portions). Don’t overthink it, its good food made quickly, Jerry.

First time being here and this restaurant is ok if you’re looking for some place to eat late night food with ok quality and ok service. Went here one time after 10pm and ordered a few plates of food and the server had the nerve to tell us, «I think thats enough for you guys to eat.» Are you kidding me? I’m paying for the food so who are you to tell us how much we can or cannot eat? Mind you we dont waste the food or chuck it out if we can’t finish it if that were the case here!
Anyway, food came out at a reasonable timing. The stir fry vegetables were a tad oily and the typical wonton noodle soup had noodles that were soggy. Not exactly impressed and their fried rice was the regular, nothing special.
Overall the presentation of the restaurant was all right and it is an option if you want to have a late night snack/​food.

The only reason I still come here is because they have good service. The food isn’t good anymore. If he owner is reading these reviews then they know they need to upscale there cooks. The rice noodle roll is too soft and he rice noodle is not soft. I used to give 3.5 star but now really 2.5 stars.

This place has gotten pretty bad over the years, I remember coming here and the food was decent. I ordered a curry rice and seriously? You can serve this to your customers? The rice was so mushy, the curry had no taste, the chicken seems like it was cooked overnight. The plate was $ 7 which I found was quite pricey for the size and the taste. I will not come back here. Horrible food!

This place has gotten a lot worse, either a new cook or a new owner — prices have increased dramatically, while the food gets a lot worse, along with the selection.
They do not have beef chow mein anymore because the cook states he does not know how to make it. However, the cook makes other noodles with beef and makes Cantonese chow mein — take away the shrimps and such, add the beef and there you go, a beef chow mein. In addition, they used to have combos that included a side of congee or a drink. Now they do not offer congee, rather, they offer corn soup.
It wasn’t amazing to begin with, now it’s just not worth the money.
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I would actually give this 2.5 stars.
I ordered the B lunch special which was some rice with chicken in red sauce and peppers. It also came with a soup and a spring roll. First of all, the rice was dry and all I could taste from the dish was sweet watery tomato. The flavour was way to overpowering and honestly I almost puked. I had to drink a lot of tea to wash it down.
Secondly, the soup that came was barely warm and the spring roll was way too oily although decent taste.
The service was okay, however I was handed the bill way too early even though I didn’t ask for it not did I even finish my food. Not that I could finish it anyway.
I don’t recommend the rice dishes but I am curious to try their noodles or congee next time.

Standard fare. Food is alright, service fast. I like this place because it is fast and there are big portions for less. In my experiences the food has always been cooked well.

Food is okay. Not as good as Congee Queen or Congee Wong but at least their service is good. I would go back if I’m in the neighbourhood again.

Been here many times, mostly for lunch where they offer a free drink.
Food is very decent for the price.
Beverage is meh, I stick to lemon tea that requires no skills to prepare
Service is excellent, can’t ask for more from a typical Chinese place
Overall, a great choice for lunch and dinner if you want decently priced Chinese food

I attend Noodle Star on a pretty regular basis, so I’ll finally give it a review that it deserves. A 3 star rating. I used to really like this place for its cheap late night deals. Over the years they have increased their prices like 3 times. A dish and a Coke used to be $ 5.29 + tax. It went up to $ 5.99, then $ 6.29, and now it’s $ 6.99. Just a whole bunch of price changes that made this place quite unattractive. I give it another year from today and it’ll jump to 8 bucks. I get inflation but it’s supposed to be consistent. Just my opinion… I also find that the service has been lacking as of lately. I also get the odd time where our server is quite rude. Or another server who doesn’t speak proper English. And example of this would be when we asked for hot lemon tea (repeated it multiple times), and the waitress brought us coffee. On the upside we will get the server with broken chinglish and pronounce things such as blackbean sauce as bwack bwean sauce, and we just laugh our asses off. Overall an okay place to go for a good deal between 2:30−5pm and 9:30-close, for good portions and mediocre service place.

This is my number one staple restaurant to eat in right after landing at Pearson following any sort of overseas trip. It’s sort of my «hi Canada, I missed you» hello, though I’m aware of the rather quirky attribute of associating Canada with Cantonese food. Speaks volumes about York Region, I guess: P
The place serves good, solid Cantonese food. The dim sum selections (particularly the hargow) are usually very large and quite tasty, the variety of menu is ever-​increasing without any noticeable drops in quality, and the service is, well, NOT rude and usually efficient, which is probably the most that I can expect from a relatively old-​school Cantonese establishment.
The Cantonese chow mein here is actually one of the better ones I’ve tasted, as the sauce and the overall dish actually has a strong, distinct flavour that I enjoy, but still retains the subtlety of Cantonese cooking. It really is very nice, with a huge portion to boot!
The main issue I have with the restaurant is its noise level. Absolutely unbearable when the place is anywhere above 75% full (which is often), I usually just end up ordering stuff to go, provided I didn’t just come straight from the airport (which is also often, lol).
Granted, the fact that I frequent this place is a highly subjective matter because the place is very close to my place, but hey, isn’t that what reviews are all about?
Good, solid, no-​nonsense restaurant. Go for the food and nice portion sizes. But it gets a D for ambience/​atmosphere, which is unfortunately something that is quite important for me.

This is my main dinner spot when I feel lazy and don’t want to cook. Been to noodle star over 100 times now and I still love it. Everything I ordered is good. The congee is the best I had so far. I like the singapore noodle, the black bean ho fan and the eggplant minced meat rice. They also have combo dinners. The chicken and deep fried oysters are amazing. The fish maw soup is very tasty as well. I def will be back soon. Can’t wait to get their congee especially when it start getting cold outside.

First meal ever eaten on Canada turf and it’s Cantonese food at Noodle Star at 11 o’clock in the evening :-)
Make a note that Noodle Star is opened until MIDNIGHT, but don’t let the late night shift fool you into thinking that the quality of food disgustingly decreases. No no no, on the contrary — everything was hot — from the congee to the sautéed bok choy — and the food was flavorful like comfort food at its finest ;-) I had a beef tripe and beef brisket soup with egg noodles that became a godsend for the hungry little me.
We had our last meal in Markham at Noodle Star, which was super fun because there were, indeed, 4 bowls of congee, one of which was a SUPERBOWL. Mmmm mmm breakfast was too good to be true. My favorite dishes from Noodle Star: the fried squid (take THAT, calamari ;-)), minced beef congee (SUPERBOWL), and the beef tripe and brisket noodle soup (despite the fattiness).

I started coming here much more lately. This place has been open for more than a few years I believe. At first, I thought it was kinda a risk for them to open in a plaza with more Canadian-​like plaza (not so much chinese stuff) cuz chinese people tend to gather everything in one place.
Since T&T has opened and more chinese stores have taken ove in the plaza. I am sure the business has become better.
I use to really like congee wong in the past but the quality has seriously gone down hence I changed my fav. congee place to this place.
The quality of food is good, prices are reasonable in this day and age. I’m a regular on sundays after service. =D

I came here again to try out other dishes on a Sunday Afternoon.
The food is still quite good. We order the big Seafood Congee. It is great because there are scallops, white grouper fish, Cuttle fish and others. I love grouper fish so I give an extra thumb up for that! and for $ 7.75… that thing is huge!
I have to tell you the service is not too good. The wait staffs are really indifferent. They all looks like zombies wandering around the restaurant (maybe they party until late on Saturday night?)