Mon Shing

Cheap, lot of food, lunch special combinations is what I can say about this place. I was so hungry that I could have even ate a horse. There were several restaurants around in the china town and this restaurant got my eye and I immediately dropped in. The waiter who waited on me looks very rude and pissed off. He saw me and asked if I was the only person dining in, I said yes, he looked at me and took me over to a table.
He got the menu and threw it on the table in front of me. I was hungry and I didn’t had the patience to give him the taste of my fiery fists. just kidding. I simply ignored his discourteousness. I went ahead and took a lunch special which includes plain rice served with egg roll, a side dish (I opted for sweet and sour chicken) and a small bowl of soup (Chose hot and sour chicken soup).
As soon as I ordered, he grabbed the menu card, barged into the kitchen, got a kettle of tea and placed it on the table and moved on with his business. I poured myself a cup of tea and started sipping.
He served me the bowl of soup which was thick and fantastic, I really thought of having one more bowl but wasn’t able to tolerate his behavior. So, I just waited for the rest of the meal to be served.
The egg roll was too oily but tasted good and the chicken was too sweet. Disappointed with the service, with the food and the ambiance. Nothing was special there except for the soup.
I finished my food quickly, sipped one more cup of tea, paid the bill at the counter. Even the owner of the restaurant is one boorish impudent living soul. Just handed her the money and left.
I would recommend you all not to come to this place if you want to keep away from the mannerless, ill-​behaved service. I would give this place a zero but aah, maybe just the soup deserves a small brown star!

Sometimes the best places are the most unassuming. Mon Shing certainly falls under that category. Our family of 5 ordered two combo meals with the menu indicating that each meal was large enough to feed two people. The amount of food not only fed us all, but we had ample amounts of food left over for dinner the next day. This restaurant was also very reasonably priced. I would highly recommend this place if you have a craving for solid, reasonably priced Chinese food.

Je pensais vraiment faire une bonne affaire en allant manger là le midi… Question «qualité/​prix», mais je me suis trompé. Bien que le menu soit intéressant et peu dispendieux, (entre 6 et 10 $ pour une soupe, rouleaux et plats)…Ce n’était pas très appétissant. La soupe né goûtait pas grand chose et il y avait seulement UN won ton… J’ai commander des nouilles croustillante, poulet et légumes. Le poulet goûtait le poulet bouillit blanc… et les légumes le congelé…Le rouleau… mmmm je né sais pas ce qu’il y avait dedana… c’était louche… Bref… Pour finir… PAS d’INTERACT…
Si vous êtes en mode Low budget… allez-​y de la nourriture ça reste de la nourriture, mais sinon… il y a d’autres resto dans le quartier chinois bien meilleur…

Where a zero star when you need one? Do yourself a favor and literally eat anywhere else in Montréal. Anywhere else. Find a Tim Horton’s even.
After we were pointed in the direction of our table, we were given a piece of paper to write down our order. Makes less work for them, right? After about 10 mins someone saunters over and answers our questions with abrupt yes and no. There was even a disdainful comment from her to my young child about not knowing the difference between Chow Mein and Lo Mein! The travesty continued — we order an appetizer and I inquire about one of their wines. We were then told that entrees have to be ordered as well.
Fast forward to about 15 minutes with no one coming back to the tables about beverages or my question about the wine. All of sudden, one of the main courses arrives and she leaves before we have a chance to ask what happened to the appetizer. Couple of minutes later the second course arrives. Upon asking she says the appetizers are being made right now and will come out when they’re ready. Good thing we didn’t order dessert because that might have come out first! After we are halfway through, the appetizer suddenly shows up. We finish everything and half of the plates are cleared away and 10 minutes after that third and final course shows up. When we tell them that our dinner is wrapped up, they act surprised about why we don’t want to start eating again after we are done. Yes, still no mention of the wine I had asked about.
To end the experience I was forced at the desk to pay a more appropriate tip for all the «service» we received. There is a reason this restaurant had hardly a crowd during rush dinner hour. Easily the worst services I’ve had my entire life with very mediocre quality food. Avoid at all costs

If it were up to my 9 year-​old daughter, we would have eaten lunch there everyday. A bit of a hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant but a great find. Shrimp ball soup was delicious as was the pepper tofu. My son ordered the sweet & sour chicken (run of the mill yet good) and calamari (delicious). My husband and I ordered the baby mustard leaves as well as an order of vegetable in broth; both were extremely tasty and pleasing. Someone mentioned the «cold service» and, although would agree upon our first visit, the second time we stopped there for lunch (on the pleading of our daughter), the service was warm and extremely attentive.
The place seems very popular with the local Chinese community and the restaurant was practically full on our second visit. A few other locals but little to no tourist. Very enjoyable atmosphere.
We recommend Mon Shing without hesitation and look forward to a future trip to Montréal where we will dine here again.

Food is excellent! Looks very inconspicuous but really great tasting dishes. We ordered lobster with ginger, general tao, beef flank with flat noodles, and fried mustard greens.

While wandering around Chinatown looking for a place to have lunch we stumbled into Mon Shing.
I ordered the watercress/​shrimp ball soup and my husband got some Singapore noodles, we also shared shrimp dim sum.
I loved my soup, it was great and so were the dim sum, the noodles were okay — nothing special, I drowned them in sriracha which helped a great deal.
The service is a little on the cold side but I didn’t really care, it wasn’t bothersome.
Prices are very reasonable.
We will be back, because I want to try more of their soups (bird’s nest for one).

I had been walking all around the city all day with some visiting relatives, and we were starved. Mon Shing had a fairly decent crowd inside, so we figured it must be good.
The entrees all came out at once — except for mine. Though my family members offered me a few bites from their giant plates, we hadn’t planned to share full-​scale, so I mostly just sat and waited for my food, feeling too hungry to even engage in conversation.
We tried to get the waiters’ attention to ask if my entrée was on its way or if it had been forgotten. The first couple of times the guy blew right by us. When he finally did come to our table, he seemed angry, and he blamed the kitchen for not making my dish.
At last my food came out. Actually the waiter FLUNG it on the table with a loud clattering sound, not saying a word. So I started eating my dinner around the time everyone else at my table was finishing theirs.
The dish was tough, grisly MSG chicken — and I know I shouldn’t have expected more from a cheap Chinese place, but after that long wait I had really counted on something good.
Two stars because the unappetizing food doesn’t cost much, and there’s a lot of it.

I have a little secret to share. I have this thing where I like to go to Chinese Restaurants in Montréal and try to order «off-​menu» meaning, disregard what the menu says and ask if they can create something that I know would be awesome. This also lets me get a good idea if I’d like their food or not because sometimes the chef is fine, but it’s just the dishes that I find not so appealing. Believe it or not this works in about 90% of the Chinese Restaurants here. Sometimes I just dont feel like a spring roll, or general tao or something in peanut sauce.
I came here and ordered a crispy noodle chow mein, with tofu, chicken, chinese mushrooms, broccoli and in a sauce that was slightly spicy and not sweet. I got exactly what I envisioned and it was delicious, my friend got a quarter duck (quarterquack), bowl of rice. We both had a filling meal, and the service was great. The server accommodated to what I wanted with no problem. We joked around for a bit. Prices are very affordable, and best of all we showed up at quarter to midnight, and sometimes there is not a lot of selection when it’s that late. Mon Shing is open til 4am! There were a few tables of people that were there as well, so it seemed like the place to go for some midnight eating.

Came here tonight after being disappointed from Congee Queen in Toronto. Food here was quite delicious!
Interior: Not uuberly roomy, but enough seats that we didn’t need to wait at 9:30 at night.
Food: To start, Bu Bo tofu soup. it wasn’t the tastiest :(, gotta add the white pepper. The lobster (ginger scallion cooked), crispy chicken, snow pea leaves, tong choy, yeung chow fried rice, and salt pepper pork chop were all fantabulous!
Service: Prompt and accommodating
Overall: 4.2 stars, but 5 stars cuz it’s definitely better than 2.5

Mon Shing, where bad service is the thing…
So we had finished up a morning of exploring the Jardin Botanique and were thinking Chinese food so a trip to Chinatown was in order.
And Mon Shing seemed promising enough at first, with a $ 28 feast for two people that would satisfy our cravings.
The place seemed authentic and there were plenty of locals happily lunching. It’s a testament to the diversity of Montréal that in a Chinese restaurant you can hear so many different languages spoken.
I should have known to retreat and flee the scene when the waiter yelled to me, after asked if they have bottled water, «Across the street!» and motioning to some other establishment.
There was enough oil and grease on the initial spring roll to have been left over from the BP spill.
The shrimp ball soup was actually tasty and was the highlight of the meal (not including our exit, of course).
The fried shrimp was way too salty and left a bad aftertaste in my mouth.
The rice that accompanied our main course of chicken consisted of shrimp, pork and peas. The peas were barely defrosted, as in, I could still taste the freezer.
Our chicken was tough, stringy and obviously a cheap cut.
Poor service combined with sub-​par food makes for a 1 star review. Fortunately the aftertaste of this place was washed away by the gourmet food festival going on at Poinet-​a– Calliere museum.

I asked the server what kind of sauce was the XO sauce. He told me it was an Asian sauce. I was thinking, «DUH, I’m in an Asian restaurant!» So the server was not knowledgeable and a little condescending. That’s okay though because the mixed seafood with XO sauce was good. I think there were way too many snow pea pods on the dish but for the price it was worth it. I think this place is better for groups than a solo diner.

Best and only restaurant open at 3AM in Chinatown!

I’ve been to this place a few times, and keep wanting to go back. If I had to recommend one dish, I’d suggest you try the Pekking Duck.
Go for tasty Chinese comfort food, and bring good company. In the multiple times I have been there, I have never had rude service, in fact it has always been decent (in reference to other reviews).
Last time I went I wrote a review that you can read here:

The food here was delicious, the prices were amazing, but we had a terrible experience.
Prices: $ 27 bought us a 4 course menu (soup, egg rolls, two entrees, fried rice, and oranges/​fortune cookies). We only had about $ 35 Canadian left on our last night and this was definitely the way to get the most out of it. They had 5 different 4 course menus so you could pick your combination of food. Unbeatable.
Food: Delicious. We had been to the restaurant next door the night before so had a pretty fresh comparison. To start we had the shrimp cake soup with greens. The soup base was under seasoned (we added soy sauce) but the shrimp cakes were extremely flavorful and the greens were bright and still had a bit of a crunch. The eggrolls were way too oily and just had salted bean sprouts in it… gross. The salt and pepper shrimp was incredible. I removed all the fried parts from mine and the flavor was still incredibly strong. The shrimp themselves were high quality. The fried rice was flavorful but subtle (soy sauce wasn’t the main ingredient). Finally we had a chicken stir fry — amazing. The chicken was so moist and high quality and the vegetables were perfectly prepared. The food was so good and so high quality, I wondered how they could afford to basically give it away.
Service: Terrible. I am usually a very generous tipper, but this was a no tip situation. We got our first two dishes relatively fast. Then a huge party sat behind us, the place got a little busy and they forgot about us… for half an hour plus. When we were finally able to get the waiters attention (we were in a corner) he came over annoyed and waved us away as we tried to explain that we hadn’t gotten our main dishes. He brought the dessert serving and then the check. When we tried to explain again that we hadn’t gotten our main courses, he didn’t believe us, had to bring another waiter over to verify before finally getting our food 10 mins later. Seriously, why would we lie about not being fed? They brought the food with no apology. Terrible.
We get that our experience may be isolated, so take it with a grain of salt. Great deal, great food, questionable service.

We were starving and came across this place, and because of the cheap prices for lunch, we decided just to eat here. Lunch came with choice of soup, rice, and an egg roll. We had the singapore noodles with shrimp that costs 4.25 and the hunan beef which cost $ 6. Both were actually quite flavorful, however we could have done without the egg roll which was essentially just stuffed with bean sprouts. The wonton soup and hot and sour soup were also nothing special. At least we came out full… both our bellies and our wallets!

My friends and I were in Montréal for the weekend, and we decided to check out Montréal’s Chinatown. It was around 5pm on Saturday, and after walking around for a bit, we decided we were hungry and wanted dinner. It was hard to tell which of the restaurants were good, since it was too early for the restaurants to be crowded, and some of them looked sketchy from the outside. We eventually settled on Mon Shing.
We ordered spring rolls, fried wontons, yang chow fried rice (pork & shrimp), beef with chinese broccoli, mapo tofu (tofu with pork, scallions and spicy sauce) and 1L of the house white wine. The wine came out first, and was actually really delicious, and only $ 22. The food came out quickly and was good. Not the best Chinese food I’ve ever had, but definitely good. There was SO MUCH food. We finished the appetizers, wine and broccoli, but left half the fried rice and ¾ of the tofu. It was all really delicious– we just couldn’t finish it. With our check, they gave us 8 slices of oranges and 3 fortune cookies. Yummy! The meal took just the right length of time, and as we were leaving, there was a decent line of people waiting to be seated.
Definitely go if you’re hungry and looking for solid, cheap Chinese food. With tip, the meal cost us about $ 20 each for a liter of wine and more food than we could eat!