Great Fountain Fast Food

This is my go-​to spot for a cheap and quick meal. They have a variety of HK Style eats on their extensive menu, which I always have a hard time picking from. My favourite is the Honey Garlic Chicken and Fish on Rice. For $ 7, with a soup and Iced Lemon Tea, this was a great deal. The Chicken and Fish were lightly fried, and coated with their honey garlic sauce which was good, especially with the egg fried rice. Tons of seating here as it is in a large food court. Been coming here ever since I was a kid, and with the other stores beside coming and going, I’m glad this place is still here.

Went here for lunch. Ordered the hot plate with shrimp, steak and chicken with fried rice. It came with bubble tea, and soup. A great deal for $ 7! Food tasted good overall; steak was tender, shrimp was crispy, but the chicken was a little dry. I didn’t like the bubble tea, as the tapioca was still raw in the middle. The food court was clean and I saw a lady going around wiping and cleaning tables.

Amazing great value and huge portion Chinese food. First time I cannot finish whole meal (°°) and only cost around 7 dollars with salad, soup, and drink. I had Garlic Pork Chop w/​Honey Garlic Fish, it’s delicious! I like the tender and juicy pork chop, fish is great too. Especially, the fried rice is surprisingly tasty, its golden color egg fried rice, its not too dry or oil, i love it! Moreover, the drink is the best! I think it’s Hong Kong style homemade ice lemon tea, it’s real lemon add in. Really really recommend this place!

Seems everything on the menu is ok EXCEPT the chicken.
I’ve ordered the chicken+tofu twice and each time it was rotten.

Cheap, fast, big portions.
This is actually the owner’s third fast food joint. She sold the previous ones and moved on every time.
I’ve eaten her food since I was little. At least 15 years.
One tip: Listen for your number. If it’s busy and you take too long, you’ll get yelled at.

Great Well does FAST Chinese food. A HUGE menu that serves all day breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea items. Most of their items comes with a drink — depending on what you order — a chinese soup is also offered as well. Noodles, rice, sandwiches are standard — and there is probably over 100 items on their menu.
Items are in chinese and english — and their are pictures of almost every item up around their stall. This is standard practice for chinese food court places now. The staff are friendly and efficient. You place your order, they give you a number and you wait — never more than 7 minutes. The food comes hot — and fast. How fast food should be. You are getting your money’s worth. Soup noodles are about $ 5 – 6 for a giant bowl and you get a drink with that too. Fried dishes are about the same — but huge portions!
They also offer dinner items — sizzling hot plates with a variety of steaks (chicken, beef, pork, fish cutlet), fries, rice and some veggies — drink and soup for about $ 10 – 13. Seriously blows my mind how inexpensive you can eat here.
Breakfast — popular are the soup noodles paired with choice of ham, spam, hot dog chicken, beef, fish (basically any type of meat), egg and a side buttered bread white bread (bread isn’t great). They’re good about substituting choice of noodles.
They are really good w/​special request — less oil, less salt, less sauce, holding certain ingredients.
My go to items:
dan dan soup noodles w/​GIANT tofu fish balls — spicy and creamy soup base, peanuts and thick noodles and a couple of pieces of chinese veggies comes w/​iced drink (abt $ 5)
rice w/​fish cutlet — a good portion of fish fillet is nicely fried. They have it with a variety of sauces — meat sauce, tomato and top it off with fried egg on top (ask for it to be a little runny) comes with soup and a drink (abt $ 5.00)
They have tvs at both ends of the food court with fairchild chinese programming on at all times.
This is a clean up after yourself place — throw your garbage away — and try not to leave a mess for the next people using your table. They have a cleaning lady there to wipe down trays and tables and empty garbage cans.
Great Well is the most popular stall out of the ones in this plaza and have been there the longest. They always have the longest line, and yet, it moves so efficiently, and the staff members are friendly! FAST, HOT, and INEXPENSIVE food — quality is not #1. But when you need a hot meal, and have a $ 5 bill in hand and a bunch of change this is the place to spend that money.
Cash only as far as I know.

Food court restaurant ratings: I frequent this establishment regularly and I must say the food is always good and the quality is consistent. The price has gone up a bit but let’s face it, it’s still cheap. The service is fabulous and always a smile. After ordering the food, it usually turns out really quick which is a definite plus. Well done!

What I love about this place is the huge selection of HK Chinese style food with photos for you to choose from (breakfast/​lunch/​dinner). This is the largest food court stall I’ve ever seen (in an Asian food court). To handle all the customers, they have 5 – 6 staff on hand at any given time which is incredible since most stalls typically only have 1 – 2. There are often line ups during peak hours, while all the other stalls are empty. You can come to this place for HK style breakfast till evening when the mall closes.
Today I ordered the Salted Chicken Noodle Soup Served with Lemon Iced Tea $ 5.25.
It didn’t have much taste, as I found with some of their other soup noodles (the ones that come with breakfast). But their other selection of foods make up for the lack of flavour in their noodles.
They also have yin yang rice («chicken & shrimp with two kinds of sauce on rice») with soup and drink for $ 5.25

The food court here may as well be entirely theirs (at one point it nearly was, but they decided to go back to its original size), since that’s what almost EVERYONE in here is for, and for a good reason too.
Lots of choices to the point it’s overwhelming at times, food is served quick, tastes good for it’s value (most food can be paid for with a $ 5 bill), and you get a LOT of it. Yep, all checks out for a good fast food place. Now if only they’ll do something about those weak forks/​knives they give…

I really got overwhelmed when I trying to decide what I want to order at Great Fountain Fast Food!
All these colourful food photos, all screaming my name, telling me to choose them… But I have to tell them «I am so sorry. I am not that hungry. I am not going to eat all these fried food…»
If you are looking for healthy options. I doubt you can find that many at Great Fountain. but for people that are eating here, the goal is not to be healthy. it is value, taste and fast service, and Great Fountain for sure deliver!
Toasted with Condensed Milk with Tea ($ 2.20)
— all these condensed milk dripping out of my white toast… don’t even start me on the sugar level. I just eat worry about it later.
— Chinese dessert?
I will definitely will be coming back to try out other items… but what should I try next??? Too many choices here really stress me out!

Back when I was a High School student, places such as the Great Well made perfect sense because growing boys need lots of food for cheap. It helped that this place does it FAST and pretty consistent in terms of flavours even though they have an insane menu selection that would make any Food Network Chef CRY.
The menu is so large that you have to walk side-​to-​side behind or in front of other viewing patrons for around 10 minutes to come up with a preliminary decision. Restaurant Makeover Chefs please stay away for your own mental health purposes. They would wonder how they can keep the ingredients fresh, but when they see the flow of patrons then it will justify it won’t be any worst ingredients than any other Food Court shop.
Typical Hong Kong style Food Court offerings such as Baked Rice/​Spaghettis, Deep Fried Chicken Leg/​Wing w/​Salad or Fries, however through-​out the years they kept extending their Asian repertoire towards South Asian such as Lemon Grass Pork Chops or Viet Phở. Always comes with complimentary soup and a cold drink.
Min Min T. is right…
Within the Chinese men category that fits into this NO thrills but good/​cheap eats and always full stomach satisfaction. Why so many old couples or guys? It’s the perfect spot for those groups because no one feels out of place here since everyone’s goal when coming here is for one purpose only and nothing else.
Come here when you DON’T care about wait staff-​service, don’t care about atmosphere, don’t care about fancy chi chi food, don’t care about showing off and spending $$ for a mediocre meal in front of guest/​family. Understand now why it’s so EASY to love this place?
This place DEFINES why Scarborough is consistently known for offering valued Chinese fast meals. The 2 TV at each side of the large seating area makes for something vision to focus on.

Hidden in a strip mall in Agincourt, Great Well Fast Food is the largest and most popular shop in a shabby Chinese food court. Sometimes high school kids come here for lunch from Agincourt C.I., but typically they’re mostly Chinese men or old couples.
ORDERING: Around the counter is the menu, hand-​written in both Chinese and English; pictures of some of the dishes will help those unfamiliar with Asian cuisine. The kitchen here is amazingly fast, I’m not actually sure how many people are on a single shift, but it’s quite a lot! Once you make your order, you are given a piece of cardboard with a number and wait for your order to be called. You won’t have to wait longer than 10 minutes.
VEG OPTIONS: Towards the bottom righthand side of the menues is a list of a dozen vegetarian options. I ordered the ‘baked garden rice with cheeze, white sauce and vegetables’ (it sounds a lot nicer in Cantonese) and Singaporean rice noodle for $ 13! That also included a Hong-​Kong-​style milk tea WITH tapioca and a cup of soy milk.
Wait, wait, there’s more.
They also give you a bowl of daily soup — I’ve had a simple vegetable broth and a hot-​and-​overly-​sour soup. Considering everything that you get for that price, it’s an awesome deal!
The only thing that bugs me is the excessive use of Styrofoam. It’s not haute cuisine, but it really hits the spot when you’re famished!
TIP: If you plan on coming often, ask for a card. Once you buy 10 meals, you get your 11^th free.