Mei

While in Montréal we were craving dim sum on a Sunday morning. We got there right as it opened at 11 AM and for15 minutes we were the only people there. We love soup dumplings so we were thrilled that they had a wide variety of them. They were very good. We also had hand pulled noodles with spicy ground pork and that was very good also. The service was fine but the ambience is severely lacking. It was good in a pinch but I wouldn’t make a special trip to go there.

Travelling in Montréal and this restaurant is pretty close to our hotel. Food is really family style and I like it. We ordered Jian Bing, dumplings and Dou Hua. All of them are delicious (though Jian bing kind of different from what you got in China). The soup was poured a bit in our take-​out bag, which was a little thing that bothered us (maybe not) a bit. Overall good experience, would like to stop by and get other stuffs while still in Montréal

A foodie friend brought me here and ordered his favourite dishes for us to share. VERY delicious «fungus salad» (chinese mushrooms, fresh coriander and onions — surprisingly good combination), steamed pork handmade ‘raviolis’, and this interesting meal soup (cabbage, porc, hotdog, tofu and glass noodles).
Very reasonably priced but only takes cash/​debit so be prepared. Also, we went off hours (2pm) on a Sunday so it was very quiet and didn’t have to wait at all. I can see it being a long wait if busy. Fun to watch them hand make the ‘raviolis’. YUM!

My friend and I picked this restaurant because both of us aren’t big fans of meat and wanted a restaurant that had more than one non-​meat entrée. Loved the vibe and the art, and the service was good. I got the pad thai with tofu, which was good but a little spicy. I also got a glass of the house red.
My meal came out to 28 Canadian dollars, which seemed like a good deal. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend making a special trip for the food but if in the neighborhood, it’s a good spot. And there are tons of options (different types of Asian food and various entrees with chicken, seafood, etc.).

Fresh homemade dumpling are good. Went in a group and we also had some soup and cold noodles. Both were good. So the dumplings are good but I’m not ready to say that they are the best ones I’ve ever had. Service is a bit slow because there’s only one waitress for all of the tables. And they don’t take credit cards. Cash or debit only which was not expected.

I pass by this restaurant everytime I go to the library from EV building and never had the chance to try. The place looks sketchy from the outside, but when you get inside… DAYUM.
Traditional Chinese decoration.
There were so many dishes to try omgogmog.
I went for a JianBing (must try) compare to the one I had before on Saint-​catherine street. This one was pretty decent.
Then, we tried some kind of «rolled dumplings. Enjoyable side dishes. Same feeling as dumpling. It was great.
My love for lamb meat made me try the 羊肉串 (Lamb skewered), I’d say it’s not the best (I didn’t went crazy about it), but it tastes good.
I also went for the Stewed Lamb noodle. DAYUUUMMMMM When the soup noodle tastes like lamb, i swear it was incredible haha.
I talked a lot with my friend on that day. There wasn’t many customers, so they let us stay. They even offered tea for free.
Good customer service. Kind waitress. Cup always filled with water.
Bad point: Takes a while before food comes, don’t go if you are in a rush.
Decoration is great. Traditional chinese.
I will definitely come back to try more of their dishes.
Good place for a date too haha

I go to Mei regularly. Last time it was so full of people, and there was only one waitress. Serving table and collecting bills were all on her. No wonder everyone complains about the service.
We were so thirsty after finished the dishes. We would like to fetch ourselves some water to drink because the waitress was so busy. We only found all the water bottle were empty, and had to bother her for some water. We felt sorry for her also when the chef/​owner (maybe) was not nice to her.
The food is genuine Chinese food for sure. The taste is wonderful. Go for the Chinses pancake/​crêpe, fried pan-​stickers. tofu dishes. You will love them. The BBQ is only OK compared to other dishes.

Despite slow service, I did enjoy the variety and uniqueness of the menu. I ordered things from here that I haven’t seen anywhere else in Montréal (tofu bowl, wood ear mushroom salad, etc.) they really do have a bit of everything on their menu.
Prices were on the cheaper side and the food seemed to be fresh and tasty. One of my fave Chinese Restos in this area for sure!

Real good to taste a bunch of different small and tasty things, tapas-​style, and very cheap. Friendly and quick service.

Bonne 1ère expérience mais l’endroit est trop mal ventilé, ça sent le vestiaire de gymnase

My favorite restaurant near Concordia. An as yet unknown place with the best dumplings in the city. They have the biggest portions of dumplings which are served in the traditional steamer unlike other places. The Crispy Pancake is really flavorful as well. The noodle dishes are not that great. I would rather order a combination of small dishes along with the dumplings to share. The beef calzone type dish was really good too.
Don’t try the bubble tea there or any of the satay or grilled dishes.

We used the groupon 27 $ for 50 $, and we tried a lot of thing… the steam dumplings are very good and also you can order half steam half fried… in the dumplings, you can taste a lot of juice. so yummy! and we had bbq ManTou, it was delicious, crispy and tasty. but we don’t like the Peking noodles. the sauce was weird… for the service, friendly and fast. but they can’t speak in French…

Excellent! Soft jazz, warm dumplings and spicy noodles. Perfect setting for a romantic date after an exhausting day at the video lab. They take Visa too.

The food is pretty good, not fantastic, but decent for a casual dinning restaurant. The menu is very hard to navigate. It’s a large menu in no apparent order. It felt like it was just two different menus just bound together into one. I have been here a few times and each time I found all their waitresses were very nice. There is only one waitress working the entire restaurant so the service is slow, but they have a great attitude and are very polite. Be prepared to wait for your food! Once I waited close to an hour to receive my first dish. Although the waitress apologized profusely for the wait time, that was still 2 hours of my evening wasted waiting for my order. I would suggest ordering takeout if you see that the restaurant looks busy. The dumplings don’t taste as good with takeout as they tend to dry out a bit, but better than waiting an hour for your food.

We went on a Friday night and probably because it was on Dealfind it was quite busy with only one waitress. So it took a bit long before our orders were taken. However, food was served pretty fast.
Most of the dishes look appealing and were pleasant. Flavour seems to have been adapted to more sweet than the true authentic but it shouldn’t matter much to the customers.
Price is higher than many Chinese restaurants of this type but it is justified by better décor, ambiance, and overall offerings.

There’s a delivery fee which they never informed me when I made the order. I was short of cash so I checked the total price with a calculator to make sure I have enough cash, but it turns out there’s a $ 3 delivery fee that I’ve not been informed of. I like the food but I’m disappointed at their service both inside the restaurant or delivery (it usually takes 1.5 hour for the food to arrive and as you can guess the food has almost entirely cooled down, which is never good for a Chinese meal). The service on site was a nightmare for me.
Above all, the food is very good.

Upon entering wondered why for such a casual place did we need reservations?
The menu using many photos might suggest would be easy to navigate, not. There were several menu items that had no prices?
We started with the special wonton soup (not) and the Seaweed and egg drop soup (reasonable), the portion size was small as were all the plates except the Curry Beef dumplings.
Here’s a question why were half of the Curry Beef dumplings sour and the other not? The beef in the dumplings must have been half fat was when bitten into a good spoonful of grease poured out.
The homemade noodle with pork were contained both bean sprouts and shredded cucumber, so there was a puddle under the noodles which tasteless despite the addition of the chilly oil and soy sauce.
Whether or not one is accustomed to these flavours is not so much the point as the lack of flavour. The red bean soup is meant to be dessert = sweet (not) even the rice flour dumplings in the soup had no sugar.
In all the plates there was no use of salt or seasonings. The meal was a major letdown as were the scary dirty bathroom with an overhead fan that made so much noise it shook the fillings in your teeth.
Two words — no value. Not going back there.
For ½ to ¹⁄₃ the price a much more gratifying meal can be had in a handful in restaurants in Chinatown.

I read somewhere that they served (xiaolongbao) soup dumplings here…
I had been meaning to come here for weeks, but couldn’t find a friend to come with. And then we finally made it.
Soup dumplings are kind of an acquired taste I think. First time I had them, I thought it was nasty, but then the more I ate them the more a learned to like them.
Honestly, they are kinda fussy to eat. They come in the bamboo tray steaming hot. You have to wait for them to cool a bit before you bite into them otherwise you might scald your tongue. But if you wait too long the soupy liquid inside starts to congeal and you lose that soupy texture that makes them unique.
I usually put them in my spoon and poke a hole in it to let the soup seep out then douse it with black vinegar then eat it in two bites.
At Mei restaurant, the vinegar is already on the table so you put the amount you want. One important thing I’m missing is usually the vinegar has slivers of ginger in it, which brings out a lot of flavor. But here there is no ginger, I didn’t bother asking for any.
I am rather disappointed with the soup dumplings here. The filling is not soupy enough for me, and the meat inside is just ok. I feel like there’s something missing, but I can’t describe it exactly, the wrapping is a bit thick to my liking, and the texture inside is off. When you pick it up with your chopstick it doesn’t sag the way it’s supposed to… maybe i’m just being snooty but I was looking for satisfaction and didn’t find it.
As far as I know there aren’t any place in Mtl that make it well. I’ve had some at Kam Fung in brossard for dim sum and they were not good.
The crispy chinese crêpe was very crispy and tasty though, so at least that was a good find. We also ordered the regular dumplings which were 7 – 8 $ for 15, they were amazing, as good as mai xiang yuan on St-​Laurent, and cheaper.
I would definitely come back for regular dumpling and crispy crêpe, it’s very good and so cheap :)

Two words: Soup dumplings
In Chinese culture, dumplings are world in themselves. Having tried the steamed, fried and various dim-​sum varieties I have been itching to try out the real soup dumplings of Shanghai for a while now. No, they are not dumplings in a soup, but rather soup inside of dumplings. The mystery is in the preparation, a mixture of meat, veggies and spices along with some fat are placed in the dumpling and closed up. Place the dumpling on hot steam, and the steam renders the fat into a delicious broth inside the dumpling.
Whatever you do, don’t bite into the dumpling straight away or else you’re going to risk scalding your mouth. Rather, puncture a small hole and sip out the broth slowly and then eat the dumpling. I think this is the only place in Chinatown2 that makes the real thing. Go check it out and try it, you’ll be hooked by the slurpy deliciousness.

Smallish place, modern, spare décor, complete with a fake fireplace and exposed brick walls. We were a party of 4 in for late lunch and started with a cold fungus and coriander salad, very tasty, followed by another cold dish of spicy Schecwan beef noodles. This was tasty as well, but the beef was nothing but grizzle. Third order was pan-​fried veggie dumplings, very good, followed by an order of pan-​fried chicken/​coriander filled dumplings… delicious!
We then proceeded with the last dish ordered, crispy pancakes;essentially a crispy pancake stuffed inside an omelette… tasty with a touch of spice. All in all, very good with prompt service. Only complaint… tea was warm.

I love their noodle dishes
this was my second time at Mei restaurant and I tried their house noodles and pork dumplings this time. They were both delicious.

C’est la folie des dumplings à Montréal depuis quelques années et Mei est un des restaurants les plus récents à se lancer dans l’arèné. La place en tant que tel est pas mal sympathique. En masse d’espace pour des petits groupes, en plus d’avoir une section avec des tables balançoires, vous n’aurez pas à attendre trop longtemps pour une place — sauf s’il est midi en semaine. Si c’est le cas, attendez vous à vous mettre en fil avec tous les étudiants de Concordia!
Pour ce qui est du menu, j’ai quelques réserves. Mon amie s’est commandée une soupe won ton et elle était peu goûteuse, même chose pour la salade d’algues, mais les raviolis (dumplings) étaient pas mal bons. Nous avons pris une commande de soup dumplings porc & crevettes cuits à la vapeur, ainsi que deux commandes de raviolis frits, boeuf & coriandre et porc & poireaux.
Cependant, ma vrai réserve est le fait que le service s’est très difficilement en français, voire même en anglais et, même si nous étions seulement 5 personnes dans le restaurant, le service était très lent. Mais bon. Je pardonne facilement et donne toujours une autre chance aux gens, alors je n’hésiterai quand même pas à y retourner.