Phoenix

Absolutely delicious! It’s nice to visit a restaurant that is clean and airy. You’re not sitting too close to people next to you.
The food was amazing! It was our first experience with Hakka. If you’re worried about the food being too spicy, don’t be. The food is flavour forward with some heat.
The service was prompt and courteous and the food didn’t take too long to be served.
I’d definitely go back without a second thought. Highly recommended!

Phoenix is without a doubt my favourite restaurant in Scarborough.
The employees are very friendly and knowledgeable, the pricing is very good, the food is absolutely delicious, and the portion sizes are more than fair. Waistline permitting I would eat here several times a week!

Came here to order a beef dish with some rice and of course the service was exceptional as well as the food. No complaints, will definitely come by here again and probably venture into other dishes to see what’s up.

Very nice restaurant, simple and quite, affordable price, tasty food, friendly staff. Overall it’s a good restaurant. Food is served right away. Good customer service!
Highly recommended!

I’ve been a regular here since before my family even had smartphones, probably back as far as 2007. The staff are and have always been amazing to us, so much so that sometimes, when I just want my usual, I’ll show up, and they’ll bring it out.
The staff are friendly, helpful, and attentive. The food is of great quality and amazing portion size. I’m always stuffed whenever I eat here, and they are sensitive to my food allergy to peanuts!
I always come here for comfort foods, since the wide variety let’s me pick if I want more veggies or more meat in the meal I’m ordering. I try to go whenever I come back from out of town, but sometimes that can be months apart. The food still tasted great today and I still will be a regular here for years to come, even if I move away!
What more can I say besides the fact that they have amazingly priced lunch specials between 11am and 3pm? You need to come here if you’re a fan of Chinese /​Indian «Hakka» cuisine. Worth becoming a regular for, especially if you live in the area!

This place is amazing. We ordered the Hakka chow mein, crispy beef and green curry. Everything and I mean everything was delicious! If you are ever in the Kingston rd and eglinton area, make sure you go here. The staff is so friendly and attentive.
I will be back.

I was on the way home from the airport and was so hungry and craving noodles, soup and veggies. Searched «Asian» on here and found this place had good reviews. They were so right. The service was friendly, the place was clean and warm (the staff member shut the door to the outside as I chose a seat right beside the door). The wonton soup came first and it came quick, it was perfectly heated and tasted very good. Then The cucumber salad came and it was equally perfect. I was able to eat half and bring half home with me. Then, the perfect amount of time later, my pad Thai came and it was delicious. I ate half and brought that home too. All for $ 25 including tip. I wish I lived closer and this would be my go to place. Unfortunately in bowmanville we have nothing like this. I will totally recommend this place and hop to go back. Maybe the next time I’m visiting my parents in Scarborough.

I’d lived in downtown Toronto for the past 20+ years and i recently moved to Scarborough. Feeling a bit unsure about food in this area, I was completely surprised to find Phoenix the first day we moved in!
The food was very flavourful and not greasy at all, unlike most Chinese takeout places. There was no sign of overusing corn starch in sauces and marinated meat and that is rare. And nothing was over battered. I know I will keep going back for food.
I am Chinese from Hong Kong and I can honestly say that this is as close to home cooking as you can get. Perhaps those who did not enjoy the food wanted the typical greasy Chinese takeout food. Phoenix definitely gets 5 stars from me!

Tried this restaurant based on Unilocal reviews, and was very disappointed…
Spec fried rice bland and too muck fake crab… Szechuan beef… Not sure if it was beef and very watery and wrong kind of hot… Chicken wings were old…
I could go on…
The people seemed nice, from phone manner and delivery guy was very nice … Shame about the food…

This place has a very nice green curry with chicken and veggies

This place is still as great as the first time I described it. The new servers are just as friendly as the old ones and the food is consistently great.
They have recently improved their front entrance to help for the coming winter months you now have a landing area and you have to go through two doors instead of the way it was set up before. They have also painted the walls recently.

Cheap, mediocre Chinese food in a clean restaurant run by nice, attentive people.
Our high Unilocal-​review-​based hopes for the place faltered a bit when we saw the tables set with knives and forks… and our hopes sank a bit more when our request for chopsticks was answered with the cheap wooden takeout variety… but we gave it a go to see what the Hakka style was all about.
We tried a variety of starters and shared a Hakka main. All in all, everything was perfectly mediocre, and generally either bland or too sweet.
Mango salad: Not bad, but I found the sugared peanut topping to be gritty and unnecessarily sweet.
Onion pancakes: Okay… nothing special. Much thinner and flatter (and less oniony) than what I’ve seen in other places.
Manchurian style chicken: Deep fried and covered in a thick sauce. (Menu fail: We didn’t expect — and really didn’t want — deep fried.)
Masala fried rice: Heavy on the frozen veggies, light on flavour.
If you’re used to Chinatown fare and looking for that great little place in an obscure strip mall, keep on looking!

This place is awesome. They are fast and they serve fresh dishes that are thai, hakka, and chinese. I always order their Manchurian Chicken or their Chili Chicken. Its the best. They also have a lunch special depending on what you order on the menu each lunch item’s total is either 6.50 or 5.95 that comes with rice, main dish, soup, egg roll, and pop. They also take the time to talk to their patrons and I think its to get to know what they are into so they can recommend something else on their next visit.
On my most recent visit it wasnt during lunch time special but I had their ginger chicken ask for dry… as a recommendation by one of the staff. It was very delicious it was crispy, not saucy, coated in i guess a ginger based powder then deep fried or just fried but honestly you just have to try it. If your looking for something more saucy maybe ask for it not dry… I also ordered beef fried rice and that combo was good (I usually get Chicken fried rice but it probably would have felt like overkill chicken on chicken) hehe
Anyway if you want really good food, cooked fresh, and inexpensive I recommed this place, highly.
Clean restaurant, clean washroom, the appearance of the staff is also clean.
Parking is available infront and usually always has empty spots.
The staff here are also welcoming and polite.

Based on previous reviews of this place, I was expecting to be wowed. Realistically, this is an Asian restaurant in a strip mall.
There are, however, several good things to be said about it:
The service is very friendly and fast, perhaps even too fast, as they removed the dipping sauce before my partner had finished his spring roll.
Yes, this place is definitely nice and clean.
Now to the food.
The crispy beef is crispy, but that actually made it kind of hard to chew. It was almost like jerky, in fact. You can taste the garlic and a hint of spice, but generally it was pretty bland.
Shanghai noodles were bland as well, and almost gluey.
The worst thing by far, though, was the coconut soup, which was watery and except for a hint of coconut, was virtually tasteless.
The spring rolls were fresh, hot and crispy, but suffered from the same tastelessness.
I’d like to give this place the benefit of the doubt and suggest that the regular chef had already gone home for the evening. I have no idea if that’s true, but it’s the only explanation for why our food experience was so different from previous reviewers.
It’s not likely we will head back here.

This place is amazing. My husband and I went there because of all the amazing Unilocal reviews, and I have to say, for all the fuss, this restaurant is definitely not overrated.
This is quite literally the cleanest Asian restaurant I have ever been to. The waiter is amazing. We went back a second time and he remembered us, and exactly what we ordered. He’s very friendly but doesn’t intrude too much.
We started out getting some of the food recommended on here, and then strayed. Haven’t had anything I didn’t like at this restaurant, to be honest! But if I had to choose a favourite, I’d pick the Stir Fried Ho-​Fun Noodles. They’re amazing.
Definitely go check this place out if you’re in the area. As for my husband and I, we’re now regulars.

I was inspired by other reviews to try Phoenix and I was not disappointed! The place is clean with a nice atmosphere, despite its strip mall location. They have a whole vegetarian section in the menu, so ordering for me was east. I recommend the onion pancake as an appetizer. I’ve had this in many Chinese restaurants and this was the best by far. Many places buy them frozen and then deep fry them before serving. As you can imagine, they tend to be greasy. These had a much nicer texture. They were and seemed to be homemade and pan fried-​not greasy at all! For my entrée, I had the Vegetarian Delight and, as the name suggests, it was delightful! Great portion size and perfectly cooked. I will definitely return here next time I’m in the area.

Fellow Unilocalers took me here for the first time.
This place is incredible, not only in terms of quality and service, but also price!
The food is delicious! We ordered off the vegetarian menu and were not disappointed. The service is warm and friendly. The staff took the time out to talk to us and tell him about his experiences.
Overall, a fantastic place and one that is on my «Must Visit» list if I’m in Scarborough!

I live in Waterloo, but whenever I come home, this is the first restaurant I visit.
Lunch specials are fantastically priced, good portions, great service, will continue eating here on a regular basis.

You will not be disappointed if you try this place out.
I have to admit I am a bit of a regular here, but that is mostly because it is cheap and delicious. While I am there it seems that everyone else who walks in the place is also a regular. This place is so good it keeps people coming back.
While there are lots of things to gloat about, one of the highlights is definitely the service. The waiter is always the same. He is awesome with a great memory and will remember what you ordered to events in your life (if you care to share them with him).
While this is an ethnic place, with authentic food you can find something for everyone. I come from a large family and even my little picky-​eatting brother likes the food here.
Some of my personal recommendations are:
1 — Crispy beef for the meat lovers
2 — Okra and potato for the veggie lovers
3 — Manchurian sauce and any of the dishes that come with it.
4 — Onion pancakes — they are great to share as an appetizer.
Other great things about this place:
1 — Cleanliness
2 — The dishes are made from fresh ingredients. Even the filling in the spring rolls was cut up the same day you eat it.
3 — Parking is available
4 — It is on Kingston Rd, so it is easy to get to.
5 — The guava candy that you get at the end is yummy.
6 — You can get take-​out.
Hope you enjoy this place as much as I do.