Congee Queen Centrepoint mall

Solid Chinese comfort food. Because of location and fancier décor, they’re charging a few dollars more per dish. Service pretty typical of a congee place — get the food on the table ASAP and try to turn tables quickly. Clean.
Tonight we had:
Cha siu which was delicious and excellent quality
Snow pea leaves in garlic sauce, also yummy
Ying Yang fried rice, nicely presented and delicious
All in all a good meal. We had leftovers to take home.

Been here more times than I can count now, it’s become a regular stop for my family especially on weeknights. Conveniently located just at the edge of the TTC network, it’s easy access and a great post-​work stop no matter how late I get off work.
The atmosphere is casual and typical of other «congee and noodle» locations. They have their own roaster, their own fish tank, and quite a bit of seating space. On weeknights there’s never a problem getting a table, but make reservations on the weekend if you’re set on coming! The menu prices are acceptable, and generally of worthy value based on taste and portion size. They are decently staffed but things get busy — as I’ve come more often I’ve gotten to know the servers and they’re all very nice and genuinely trying — it’s just not a kind of restaurant to be super polite and wait your turn — raise those hands and wave and get their attention! They’re happy to help.
Typically for dinner we order a fried rice in lieu of steamed white rice, a steamed fish, and a simple leafy green. We’ll pick another two or three more dishes depending on the number of people, from beef and mushrooms, to lemon chicken, to sweet and sour pork, to various stir fried and casseroles. Their roaster also has great BBQ pork and chicken, so those are great picks. If you are a fish fan, go for steamed fish. For chicken, lemon chicken is a tasty option. For pork, BBQ pork is the go-​to. Finally for beef, their hot plate beef and mushroom is great. As to fried rice, the six grain rice is a healthy option, or I recommend their fried rice with egg whites, smoked salmon, and fish roe.
The items I do not recommend include their house special stir fry, mango chicken and tiger shrimp, and garoupa casserole. The stir fry is a mix of garlic shoots, fried tofu bits, fried taro chips, and peanuts — entirely nothing special nor worth the price. It was like eating Asian bits and bites at dinnertime. The mango chicken and tiger shrimp was overdone the last few times I’ve ordered it, and the deep fry job was nothing close to fresh. Finally the garoupa casserole — a favourite for my family because of the taste, but I highly dislike the tons of bones and the deep fried texture of the fish, combined with only a small proportion of tofu and bok choy.
House dessert is always a cold sago-​like dessert soup, with red beans, tapioca, herbal jelly, and coconut milk. Refreshing for the warmer months of the year and always on the house, so don’t miss out!
What keeps me and my family coming back all the time is the quality taste of each dish and the consistency. We’ve frequented many other similar restaurants in the area and found gradual but significant decline in food quality, but have so far been satisfied with this Congee Queen location. Fingers crossed they keep it up!

Awesome family friendly restaurant. I have been enjoying their food since the day they have opened a few years ago. Other locations they have, and that are equally great are on Steeles & Don Mills, and Lawrence & Dufferin.

This location was a surprise to me, even though I have been here a million times. The location is also incredibly busy! I was surprised how busy it was. Nevertheless the wait time wasn’t anything crazy. We were able to find a table for 2 within a reasonable amount of time. We ordered a few items, from each of the different food groups: pork, beef, chicken, you get the idea. With all the food groups covered, we had a really enjoyable time. The food was good, and the service was speedy. The only drawback might have been the noise level, but there’s not much you can do about that with a full restaurant on a very busy day.

The food here is decent. I come here with family a lot — it’s good for serving a big group, but is a bit pricey if you’re with less than 4. The service is not good. It takes a long time to get attention, and my order had been messed up several times.

Went here on a Sunday with the family. We had a party of 8. Food was delicious, fast service and you can really tell the quality difference in comparison to your everyday Chinese food restaurant. Parking was a bit of a challenge being in the heart of a mall and busy streets. Being a busy restaurant on a Sunday it was challenging getting our waiters attention. I will be coming back with the family soon.

Walking into this Congee Queen for the first time; the décor is fancier than the other locations. Maybe the fancyness of this place has the front staff acting pompous… I’m not sure.
This place would have gotten a 1 star based on the type of service received… but the food was on point. Got the usual (the I don’t need a menu, I already know what to order) — minced pork & fish w/​beans, crispy chicken, fried squid w/​spicy salt, cantonese chow mein. ohhh and the BBQ pork.
BBQ pork was succulent. Crispy chicken, skin crispy, chicken juicy… veggies on other dishes not overcooked… Have to say The. Food. Was. Goooood
If the food is always like this at this location — a tip for management/​owners… Get rid of the front of house staff — servers, hosts. THEY SUCK. Let patrons sit themselves and order for themselves, let the cooks get the credit they deserve and guarantee 4 and 5 star ratings will be the norm.

I’ve been coming here for about a year now and out of the year, it totalled to 6 visits. I should have written a review when I was out with my family but after my last visit, I had to let some steam out.
My girlfriend and I including another friend dropped in about 2 hours before closing right after the gym. (We were definitely HANGRY) So I noticed that they finished with there late night dinner rush. We were shown to our seats and we’ve placed out order with the server who spoke english. As we waited (30 minutes in) I noticed that other tablets that came after us were being served including the table next to us that just sat down within 5 minutes of me noticing that we weren’t being served.
We ended up eating 1 dish out of the 5 we’ve order and I’ve decided to check out since we only received 3 dishes out of the 5. So the other 2 got cold and I said «fuck it» we are leaving. At the cash out, this is where it got REALLY bad. The host/​owner printed out our receipt and I noticed that there were only 3 dishes ordered and that was when I noticed how these sneaky servers are.
TIP: If you are planning on coming here, make sure they read back your order. ALSO if you notice that you didn’t get your entire order at your table at a timely manner, DO NOT check with the server because chances are, they probably forgot to punch it in and they will not even tell you that. They will tell you that «it’s being made right now» in order to cover up their fuck up.
If it’s one thing I hate its a cover up of a mistake you’ve made. OWN UP TO IT.
So pretty much at the cash out, the server was debating why I didn’t follow up with him and in my mind I was like «uhhh, I know your dirty secret of how you cover things up so…» pretty much it confirmed a lot of my experiences before at this location.
Cherry On Top — They expected us to pay the entire bill when we only ate 1 dish out of the 3 that was ordered. Management didn’t bother to offer to comp our meal, or offered anything for our bad experience.
WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS LOCATION

The best Chinese food I have ever had in my life. The honey garlic wings had actual honey and garlic shavings, not some fake honey garlic sauce. The general Tao chicken was the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. The rice noodles with satay sauce had the yumiest grill flavour. Excellent service and good price. Would definitely go back there again.

I’m a huge fan of the Congee Queen franchise. I’ve been to the Congee Queen on Steeles and Don Mills and Markville location a million times so I used those locations as comparisons.
I went at lunch on a weekday. The parking lot was really busy (likely because of the mall) but it wasn’t busy inside. The space is large with 2 sides and beautifully decorated.
We ordered Singapore noodles, Cantonese chow mein, roasted pork and their signature Congee Wong super bowl, and found the food quality to be the same as other locations. The roasted pork skin was really crispy, the portions were big, and the dishes were flavourful.
I’ll be back when I’m in the area. Price is reasonable for what you get.

Food is good but the staff are so unkind to none asians. Very poor discriminated service
They always take none asian people to sit on the end side which nobody is there

Finally went to the new Congee Queen. It was easy to find. Situated close to Pickle Barrel/​No Frills. Or for those who are more familiar with the separate plaza across, across from Beer Store/​Timmys/​Baskin Robbins.
Lots of space when we entered here on Saturday evening. We ordered…
E4 Taiwanese Vermicelli —
This was a bit dry and a tad bland.
K47 Crab Meat Seaweed Salad —
It looked very impressive in the photos but it didn’t taste that good. Maybe they could add more mayo. I’ve had much better crab meat salad before. Also there was very little seaweed in there. Unless cucumbers count as seaweed.
K53 Fried Chili Turnip Patties —
Bland. Usually you can taste the spice. The turnips were cut quite large.
K38 Fried wings w/​garlic —
It was ok. I still think Kenny’s delight is better. But it tasted better a day later. Too sticky with the honey.
K17 Snow pea leaves w/​garlic sauce —
This was probably the best dish. Very tasty and just perfection. But it better be for $ 12.99
K22 General Tao chicken —
Disappointing. I liked this dish more at ‘fake’ Chinese restaurants. Portion was a bit small.
It was ok but I prefer the location and standards of the 404/​Steeles location better.

we went to Congee Queen in Christmas Eve. It is not our first choice. We went to Mr Congee but we couldn’t find a parking spot there so we decided to give this congee restaurant a try.
Since it was christmas eve and there were a lot of people waiting there. We waited half an hour before getting seated. The restaurant is very noisy as any other busy Chinese restaurant so we wouldn’t expect any difference. However, the food is very disappointing.
we ordered a congee with seafood and minced winter melon. The seafood was not very fresh, so the entire congee had unpleasant smell. There were a lot of ginger slices inside the congee, which was very annoying since I don’t eat ginger so I had to take them one by one. As for the winter melon part, it was so undercooked that it was very crunchy. I have had seafood and winter melon congee in other restaurants and this is the first time I had raw winter melon in it.
We also ordered Fried Eggplant with minced pork and spicy sauce. The sauce was nothing but salty, and there was a lot of starch in the sauce, making it very unpleasant in texture.
Another dish we ordered was fried handmade udon with beef and soy sauce. This is usually a signature dish in any cantonese style Chinese restaurant, and every good chef should be able to serve a good one. However, what’s on our table was very bad. The noodle was broken badly while some of the noodle sticked together and undercooked. The soy sauce seemed to be burnt and tasted bitter.
The only decent dish that night was the stewed beef tendon.
I don’t know whether the food was always that bad in Congee Queen, or it was because of the Christmas eve and the main chef was taking a break. The dining experience was so terrible that we wouldn’t give it another try.

Food came out quite quickly, which was great. Only downfall was that I was seated by the door, making it a little chilly. Other than that, keep up the great work Congee Queen!

There seems to be no indoor entrance so you can only get in from the outside. There is a mall entrance just left of the restaurant.
Portions are big. Place is clean. The wait staff didn’t exactly asked us if everything is alright or anything but they did take away empty dishes fairly quickly.
Place was pretty packed when we went Sunday evening.
Thank you

The good:
* Fried Chili Turnip Patties (diced turnip patties stir fried with shrimp, chicken, pickle and egg) — fan favourite.
* Beef Tendon/​Beef Brisket Noodle in Soup — Big chunks of beef with delicious «mein» noodles in a flavourful broth.
* Fried Squid — Big chunks of squid, battered lightly with salt and pepper.
* Fried rice — big shrimps!
The meh:
* Their congee is super thick and flavourless. I like mine thin and well, flavourful.
* Beef and gai lan. Pretty meh.
* Lychee Bubble Tea — very watered down and the bubbles were mushy.
The décor is modern and spacious. Plenty of seating and great for big groups.

Food is pretty good here, service not so much. Prices also went up (but still very reasonable).
Even during a non-​busy time, the service was lacking. It was hard to find someone to flag down.
On our most recent visit, we ordered:
Congee (dried fishstock & pork bone & peanut) — ordered the small size and most of the bowl was pork bone, so not as much congee as we would’ve liked
Chili turnip patties — turnip cubes were mushy this time around. Tip: add chili oil
Spice and pepper pork chop — delicious, esp w white rice
Dough fritter rice noodle roll — I think these were overdone as they were very crispy. Also didn’t come with enough soy sauce.
Snow pea leaf w king mushroom — This was the best dish on the table. Done pretty much perfectly.

Nice atmosphere similar to Springrolls, comfy chairs and good food for good prices but the service was bad. It was hard to get a server’s attention because she doesn’t look at you even when you stare at her to get her to take your order.
Neither of us knew what to order from their menu. There are so many kinds of congee, soup, chow mein and rice dishes as well as drinks and desserts. I wanted to try Fried Chili Turnip Patties and she got Corn and Bean Curd Congee and Fried Thick Noodles with Shrimp & Shredded Pork in Shanghai Style.
Fried Chili Turnip Patties was pretty good. It tasted like roasted chopped potatoes. I think I could have it for breakfast. The congee was okay. I wouldn’t choose congees with bean curds in them though, because bean curds are soft; I want some crispiness or some flavour in my congee. Fried Thick Noodles was really bad. After taking one bite, we didn’t want to eat it. I felt so bad wasting that huge dish but we didn’t even have it packed to go. It was that bad. I’m sure people enjoy that dish but it just wasn’t for us. There were very little pieces of shrimps and shredded pork; it was mostly the noodles and even the noodles were cut short and broke easily.
I would try a different congee if I come here again.

Congee Queen has another location and this one is just as good as the others. This one is a bit hard to find but it is located on the South side of Centrepoint Mall by the No Frills. The place itself is rather large and can accompany any size table from just the two of you to a larger group of 10+. The service here is actually on the friendlier side and I’ve always thought they were nicer than most Chinese restaurants.
We had the Lobster with E-​Fu Noodle, Crab and Seaweed Salad, and a Roast Duck/​Roast Pork Rice Combo. The Crab and Seaweed Salad was to serve as a small appetizer, but the plate was huge! The crab and seaweed mixture was complemented with julienned cucumber as well as some crisp. The crab meat and seaweed were plentifully and I liked how it all worked together.
Lobster in E-​Fu noodle is a favorite of the gf as she loves how the thick e-​fu noodle soaks in all the lobster broth and flavor. The lobster meat itself is somewhat in the background, but there is a whole 1lb lobster for you to enjoy regardless. The Roast duck was good as well as the roast pork. The portion sizes are no joke so come hungry.
This new location is just like the others, so no complaints here. There actually isn’t much Chinese food around the Yonge/​Steeles area, so it’s kind of nice having this one around. If you’re looking for some good meals at good prices, this is definitely a nice spot to go.

Been here a couple of times now and the very first time I came here, it was very disappointing. A lot of people were waiting at the front door because it was a Saturday night and it was extremely busy. We had a reservation for that night and the hostess at the front took forever to attend to us. We had to force ourselves in the front to get them to talk to us. And even then, a lot of customers were complaining about how they were given different information about reservations. They were questioning why they were told they couldn’t reserve when others were able to reserve seats. Knowing that there were other angry customers made it really awkward for us who were able to reserve seats fine.
Even with reservations, we waited for about 20 minutes. Finally, we got seated. The rest of the service were good from then. Food came fast (and we ordered a bunch of food) and we were able to get out there within an hour.
The second experience I had was today… and a lot better. Service was fast and better organized. We were immediately seated and our orders were taken right away. We ordered the shredded pork congee with salted and golden egg… this congee is really delicious and comforting. They have so many other choices on the menu but this one sounded really good. and it was! Super delicious and filling. Can be shared between two people. Good portions and reasonably priced.
We also got the deep fried shrimp wontons. it came with 8 shrimp wontons. and for $ 6.50, it was really worth it.
Service was 10x better this time. I highly suggest to go on days and hours where it is less busy… because you get a good and quick service. The food is always good so there are no complaints there. Prices are reasonable and portions are great and shareable. Nice and clean place. Servers and hosts are okay… some need to be friendly, but if you’re looking for quick service, this place is great… just avoid the busy hours.