Da Fu Seafood Cuisine 大福

The food is good here I like it. Not the best selection but the staff were nice to us. We always come alot though.

Where do I start?
I’ve been frequenting this place for the last 5 — 6 years for dim sum only and have always left satisfied.
Call ahead to book and go with a large group. They wont take reservations for less than 5 ppl.
If you’ve their ‘membership’, tea is free and 10% off on every visit. It’s definitely worth it.
In winter, wear warm yet not too bulky jacket because you might end up sitting near the entrance and you’ve to put on your jacket while you eat.
But…today’s (Jan 17, 2016) visit has left me questioning whether the chef has changed or the ingredients have changed… Because the beef tender wasn’t as ‘red’ or saucy, beef ball (with chestnut) wasn’t as dark colored and texture was different, sweet yellow bun (with the egg york filling) was kinda dry. Like it was frozen too long and not steamed long enough.
OK enough of my complain. I’ll go back again and give it another chance. Maybe after 6 months :)

Came here many times with my inlaws. It can be busy and you often have to wait. It can get crowded at the entrance with everyone waiting plus every time someone opens the door you can feel the wind come in (I can only imagine how cold the wind will be in January or February). There are a lot of tables but they can be a bit crowded. I have been satisfied with the food every time I came here. The price is also reasonable. Not my favourite dim sum place to go to because of the crowds, but my inlaws love this place (they even have a card giving them 10% off each time).

This review is for dim sum only. We came late around 1:30pm on a Sunday afternoon. Wait wasn’t too long as I believe dim sum ended around 3:30pm.
Was very surprised at the value of dishes as all the standard dishes (ie. S/​M/​L) were all the same price of $ 2.68. Dishes that were more was indicated on the order form.
Food came out quick and hot so that was a plus. All the items were very good quality including the har gow, siu mai, etc. A great surprise was the fried taro root cake which was made with small slices of taro and carrots!
Staff for the most part was good and friendly… only negative was the greeter who seemed to have an attitude when we asked for a bigger table to fit our large group.
Washrooms weren’t the cleanest either so that was a negative as well.
Other then that can’t complain as we all enjoyed the food. Will definitely come back again for dim sum!

I’m quite surprised to see so many negative reviews for this place, as this is our go to place for dim sum every Saturday for the past 4 years.
Every Saturday we order the same dishes.
— Steamed beef ribs
— chicken feet
— har gow
— either the beef rice roll or olive and ribs rice
— deep fried shrimp with mayo
The food is always flavourful and delicious. Not too salty like some places, but also not tasteless. Occasionally they have lunch specials for their lobster noodle. Omg so delicious and full of flavour! –drools–
When it comes to chinese dim sum, this place meets all three expectations: cheap, delicious, and good quality.
For dinner — I’ve only been here once and we only had the Alaskan King Crab (3 styles), which ended up costing $ 300 for the both of us. it was amazing, but costly :’(

Came here for an early dinner on a Sunday. We got there at around 5:30pm. There was only one other table that was earlier than us. An hour later the place was pretty full. Since we were one of the only ones there the service was quite fast. Within 5 minutes of placing our orders, food began arriving.
The meal starts off with complementary soup. I thought the soup had great flavour and a hint of sweetness.
Sweet and sour pork with pineapples — cooked well with nice outer crunchy batter but there were some pieces of pork that had way too much batter. Wish there were more pineapples.
Beef and onion dish — not sure why the beef was chopped into such small cubes. I would have rather them be in larger chunks. The sauce was a sweet BBQ type flavour. Beef was somewhat tender but hard to tell since the pieces are cut so small.
Snow pea leaf tips — cooked very well and good portion. The leaves were fresh and harvested young so they tasted very good.
Mixed seafood dish which had shrimp, scallop, squid and mixed veggies. I thought the amount of seafood was generous. The seafood also tasted very fresh — squid was soft and easy to chew, shrimps had good bite to them and the scallops were large and tasty.
Meal ended with complementary dessert: sweet glutinous rice soup and also jello cubes.
Overall, a very good Chinese restaurant.

Came to this place for dinner, the service was really bad, food was nasty had a really bad stomach ache after. DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE AT ALL!!!

Went for dim sum today for Father’s Day weekend. Dead cockroaches fell out of some of the dim sum bamboo containers onto the table when the lady put it down. The manager immediately took it away and decided to make up for it by giving us free dessert. Found cockroaches inside the dessert. We left immediately.

‘We come here for dinner, once in a while. Tonight we got sashimi propellor clams. We got some steamed ones too. Food is quite good here and portions are big. Would recommend you come for dinner. They serve dim sum in the mornings but I’ve never tried lunch. Service is ok, for a chinese place.

Food is great here. We had our Chinese new years dinner here and they definitely do sea food well! I wish the Peking duck came earlier though. We got ours at the very very end of our meal and had to get two orders because the one duck wasn’t big enough.
Service is average. They were friendly but really pushy and messy. Our server kept talking over us and then taking to other people while we were taking to her. General rude behaviors, but hey, we got the right orders.
Not much else to comment on. Bathrooms could be cleaner but they weren’t awful. Average place, OK service, good food. :)

Service slow and not always friendly. The food is good during down times. When the place gets busy like Chinese new year, the food quality plummets. I find a lot of Chinese cuisines do this during holidays or special occasions. They probably prepare the food in batch. So sad. Won’t be coming back, unless parents go.

Came for dinner and it was pretty good overall~ Got free soup and two kinds of desserts and the waiters were friendly!
I wouldn’t mind coming back~ but I didn’t looooove anything in particular so I guess I would have to give it a 3 for pretty good but not blowing my mind amazing. Maybe I didn’t order the right stuff: p

had dimsum at this place recently.
it’s pretty standard. the one dish that stood out i don’t even remember what it was called, my friend ordered it since he had been here before.
it was some sort of dumpling with pork and chives? not on the dimsum order sheet. it was a special $ 4.99 order.

We’ve been here for dim sum and dinners for many times. This is well known for affordable food. For the price you are paying, the food taste much better than anywhere else that has similar price range. So If you don’t want to spend too much yet want to have some tasty food, then you should definitely try out this place.

Not too shabby for $ 2 dim sum spot!
Da Fu improved a lot from what I remembered last year. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the dishes. The portion was fair, and the food was not overall greasy like every other $ 2 dim sum spot. The service wasn’t slow, everything came out pretty much all at the same time.
It’s like a zoo in there during the weekends though. so come early for a spot!
They serve cold soy milk while you wait — sweet…

Affordable dim sum? Look no further. However only some of the regular staple of Chinese dim sum are up to my «tasty» standard. Tasty: ha gao (steam shrimp dumpling), siew mai, fung jow (chicken feet), ngao yuk (beef ball) and cheung fun (rice roll). The rest are ok; better at other dim sum places.
If you don’t want to wait for a table on the the weekend, come before 10am. After that it starts filling up!
The free homemade soy milk, is a nice touch. Always get myself a cup.

We waited over 30 minutes for our fried radish cake. We also just realized they used plastic plates for hot food which isn’t the most appealing. The table arrangement is very poor. Customers and staff have difficulty getting around the tables. Lastly, the service was only good around Chinese New Year (in the hopes that they’ll get red pockets). Can’t say I like this restaurant.

I really enjoyed our dinner here. I came here with my family on the Winter Solstice. IT was a bit of a trek, but this was the only place that had any seats for this apparently super popular festival. We ordered a 10-​course lobster meal (the standard for my family) and the dishes started coming out. FAST. At one point, we had to tell them to put a pause on everything, we couldn’t eat it fast enough. I thought everything was very good, particularly the lobster. My brother loved the crispy skin chicken. The fried rice and noodles were also good, as was the fish. Best of all, instead of the dreaded red bean soup for dessert, we had the taro dessert soup. The meal even came with pop.
The damage came to roughly $ 33 per person (there were 10 of us) with tax and tip. Considering we took boxes of food home and were absolutely stuffed, I’d say that’s one hell of a deal.
There wasn’t a dish I didn’t like here, I’d be glad to return, despite how far it is.

Went here on a mini road trip to T&T Middlefield. Ordered three dishes: shrimp in salad, pan fried taro cake, and ham sui kok.
The taro cake tasted blah and when it cools down it is even worse.
Their crispy shrimp with salad is excessively oily. I had to take out the skin.
Their ham sui kok had a weird smell for their meat.
MSG levels are off the roof at this restaurant as well.
Never coming here again on my own next time.

This is a new restaurant that opened in the same plaza as T&T at Middlefield and Steeles.
They have set dinners for a resonable prices. From $ 38.99 is a choice of 4 dishes with soup and dessert. I think the best value is the one for $ 88 that includes a 4 – 5 lbs lobster that can feed 6 people.
Since we only has 3 of us, we ended up order the $ 38.99 specials. The deep fried shrimps was the best with 12 big size butterflied shrimps. We were so surprised that there were so many shrimps. The hot pot with fish and tofu was good too!
However, the sweet and sour beef they over marinated it in baking soda. There were no texture at all left in the beef. I really not sure if those are beef anymore!
They do serve dim sum during the day, I might drop by and try it one day.
CASH only!