Rol Jui Seafood Restaurant

I have been coming to this place since I was on a student budget. Above average food, good value, kitchen slow at times. Waitresses are always friendly and efficient. will continue to come back with my family and friends. Pls, Love the fresh live seasonal seafood!

Today was our third time visiting here for $ 5.99 lunch specials. We came to be quite fond of the restaurant’s lunch specials and planned to visit regularly as we have school nearby. Today they have lost our business permanently and won’t be recommending the place to others. There were 2 waitresses, one short-​haired and one long-​haired lady in a ponytail. When I went up to the counter to pay and handed her cash without saying anything, she counted the money, and without giving me change, she announced «No tip included» and just stood still. I told her yes, I know. She continuously shouted «No tip included» «No service charge included» about 5 – 6 times. I started to get angry with her rude attitude– and I sternly said «can I have the change» (I did not ask for change until now). She hollared over her fellow waitress while handing me the change, and uttered some stuff in Chinese to each other, and they both showered us with «No tip included» «No service charge included» and started yelling at us. They both were getting pretty heated up and on top of their lungs yelling, «If there was something wrong, tell us» and «Don’t come back next time». As angry as I was, I did not try arguing with them and sternly left as it is their loss of my business with them.
It amazes me how the waitresses behave when the owner isn’t around (she was around for my previous two visits). It also further amazes me how rude the waitresses are when it comes to tipping– the audacity and the entitlement. Unlike the U.S. where you might get paid $ 2.50/hour, you get paid $ 9.80/hour here, only $ 1.45 less than minimum wage. You drop off the food to my table, and go chit-​chat with your fellow waitress loudly right next to us, and for that you deserve a 20% tip? What difference is the waitress delivering take-​out packaged food from the kitchen to me waiting at the front, compared with her bringing a plate of food from the kitchen to my table, and doing nothing else other than that?
I intended to just pay the cash and leave without expecting the change. But as soon as she counts the cash, for her to announce «no tip included» and just stand there expecting tips, is simply rude. There’s no such thing as being entitled to a tip, it is optional. Nice try trying to talk me into giving you a $ 5 tip, you just proved with your action that you did not deserve it. I was a waitress for 3 years and I was thankful that I even got tables and customers which gave me the hours and the shifts in return. Every tip is to be appreciated, not expected. Wrong attitude, bad service. The food was excellent, sadly the service wasn’t.

I never understand why my mom love their lobsters so much, this is her go to place for lobster. Their lobsters are really just mediocre-​average. Everything else tasted decent, quite greasy, nothing stands out. I have to admit I really enjoy the taro tapioca dessert at the end of the meal. Great service, decent food, price is fair.
3.5÷5

I was visiting Toronto and we have tried it yesterday, Saturday around 19pm.
Bad service ever. Even to get a glass of water it took 25 minutes.
We’ve ordered some seafood and fried rice… it took more than 45minutes to get the rice and we were about to leave… when the rice eventually arrived, all the seafood and chicken were cold… First and last time for me.

Anywhere where Lazy Susan dominates the scene is A OK by me.
I popped in here after an event with some buddies and ordered way too much of the good stuff. We were a motley crew of two big dudes, a pregnant lady, a small lady and a vegan. We went through the gamut of the usual goodness from hot and sour soup, to dumplings, to veggies, to fried rice, to meat dishes and back again. All of it was decent, and the staff was lovely.
My favourite part of the evening was when a table mate ordered a vodka soda, and the language barrier made it slightly challenging. Our server then went and brought over a bottle of vodka to make sure she understood and free poured her drink. Awesome.

Greeted by enthusiastic waitresses as my friends and I stepped into this restaurant one evening. Menus on the wall, plastic tablecloth, seems like a typical Chinese restaurant. Their kitchen is in the basement, and food is transported via a dumbwaiter.
We ordered Beef and Choi Sum, Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetable, and Eggplants with Minced Pork en Casserole. The meal came with complimentary Pork and Vegetable Soup, and Red Bean and Tapioca for dessert. All the dishes were delicious, although the Braised Pork tasted a little different than what I’m used to. It was less spicy and had spinach underneath the meat. This dish took a while to make, so make sure you put this order in when you first arrive, as our friendly waitress suggested.
Meal was satisfactory, price was great, staff was welcoming, will come back for other dishes in the future.

Worst experience ever! Seafood is frozen when advertised as fresh. Dishes were oily and covered with msg. Staff were pushy and rude. Had to ask three times for tea and the restaurant was empty. Sounds of arguing amongst staff and kitchen made the experience very uncomfortable. When received the bill I was charged for phantom dishes and had to argue for corrections to be made. Was denied washroom privileges after meal even as a customer! Won’t be going back ever.

Wow !!! Pleasant friendly English speaking waitress at a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown,. Amazing! The best in my experience. Always ask about daily special dishes first.

Since my friend took me to this place months ago, I have become regular visitor. The food is always delicious, fresh, and really yummy. The service is fantastic. The staff is very friendly and welcoming.
Plus, absolutely love their steamed fish and free range chicken.

Very plain dim sum, nothing fancy at all. was a bit disappointed.
As Unilocal describes it: «A-​OK.»

Lunch special is very good, but their cooking speed is VERY slow! (even with very few patron in the restaurant)
Reviewed during: Mon — Fri Lunch time
Service Speed: ⁴⁄₅
Cooking speed: 2.5 /​5
Food Quality: ⁴⁄₅
Food Quantity: ⁴⁄₅
Price: ⁵⁄₅ (Lunch special is $ 4.99)
Cleanness: ⁴⁄₅
Repeat: Yes

I was first introduced to Rol Jui through my girlfriend’s family, it’s here that we’ve been coming for years to have family dinners for all sorts of special occasions like birthdays and holidays. The restaurant is always filled and the food is very consistent.
Dishes always come out piping hot, and are always tasty. Though I don’t always know what the dishes we order are called, I have no problem going through eight of them over the course of a dinner. Even with so many dishes going through the kitchen, service is always great and fast. They’ve never gotten one of our dishes wrong either which is pretty amazing now that I think about it.
Some of the dishes I first tried at Rol Jui include salt and pepper pork chops which are fried and spicy. They’re a common dish at Chinese restaurants, but some serve them with extra fatty or boney piece of pork, Rol Jui’s are great. I’m also a fan of the Lemon chicken, and the tapioca desert.
If you are looking for a Chinese restaurant for two people, or 10, then Rol Jui is great.

I really do have a food crush on this place!
I have eaten in this restaurant several times and always have had a good experience.
I love the plastic table clothes, I love the lazy susan and I love the staff. Service is quick and the food comes out quickly too. Staff have always been friendly and helpful. This feels like a family place. The restaurant is clean. I love that the menus are on the walls.
Food — fresh, hot and tasty. The crispy ginger beef is delicious, as are the curries, stir frys, dumplings, sweet and sour. Fried rice dishes are huge! Portions are big, you could easily share a main dish and fried rice between two people.
I need to remember that this place does take out!
Definitely worth a try, certainly one of my preferred places to eat in Chinatown

Took awhile for me to get around to this review as my experience of this restaurant was on a Friday night on the Canada day long weekend.
Was in the area again on the weekend and before I gave this place one star I wanted to make sure it was the right place.
So like most the joints on this section there is absolutely nothing fancy about the interior or anything amazing about the ambience, it is all about the food and I give this one star based on the one bite I took out of a beef curry before I got up and left.
Arriving early morning around 2am we randomly chose this place as it was not busy apart from one group of 6 already there.
We sat down, ordered our dishes quick and myself opting for a simple beef curry.
Mine was the first dish to come out and to be fair it was a very large portion so I offered it to two others to help themselves but after taking my first bite I had to spit it out into a napkin.
The beef was rotten and the rice was completely off, after advising my friends to stop eating there share I decided I was not going to return the dish and ask for anything else so I quietly told the waitress lady the problem and politely told her we are going somewhere else.
I will not be going here ever again

Fuck is Susan ever lazy… but if you like Lazy Susan you’ll love Rol Jui.
Open most nights until 5am, this is easily my go late night (early morning) to china town eatery and as you’ve guessed it they have lazy susans on their tables.
The place seems pretty ghetto once your start to deconstruct your surroundings. We have faded pictures of food blown up and mounted on the walls, the white garbage bag table cloths and the giant fish tanks with mammoth fish that often throw themselves against the tank (and scare the shit out of me every time!) The best or worse part is the cleanup… the waitress just grabs all four garbage bag table cloth corners and carries the plates and utensils in a makeshift bag-​cluster to the back room (seriously I wish I could do this at home!)
Now on to the food, which is delicious! I usually get the squid and crab corn chowder. The portions are large and made for sharing so bring friends and don’t sit near the fish tank if you get startled easily!

Toronto is a tough town for late night eats, but Rol Jui definitely fit the bill! Good food. Fast service. Open late. Fast. Friendly staff. Popular but not too crowded.
Last Saturday night after 11PM was my first visit to Rol Jui, but it won’t be my last. We ordered and started getting served within minutes. And the food was good and plentiful!
Recommend: Hot and sour soup. Beef short ribs. Sizzling shrimp hot plate.
Seriously good, fast service, and very nice staff. I will be back.

No where else in Chinatown would I risk a parking ticket for takeout.
Upon entry it looks like any other Chinese food restaurant — with those elusive Chinese only menus on the wall which make you wonder if THAT menu is cheaper and the suspicious yet intriguing tank full of lazy/​half dead lobsters.
But don’t let that fool you the food here is pretty great. I highly recommend the crab corn soup or the spicy fried squid. The service is quick and friendly and this place is open late!
Its also large and pretty stroller friendly, good to bring a couple in there and the waitresses really love babies and pregnant women!
But if you aren’t in the baby way and you’re looking for some eats after last call — order their «cold tea» which is code for beer in a tea pot.

Fine, fine Chinese seafood restaurant. I was there at relatively off times 1:30 and 3 pm and it wasn’t crowded. The staff were friendly and attentive. The waitress also described my choices as among her favorites, but then…
On one visit I had the Steamed Lobster with Ginger and Onions, the Crab and Fish Maw Soup and the Stuff Crab Claws. All wonderful. On the second visit Steamed Sea Bass with Ginger and Onions. Also excellent.
They have a pretty extensive menu but since this restaurant specializes is seafood that’s what I wanted to try.
Chinatown in Toronto is at least as good as its counterpart in New York. Lots of choices.
I will return.

This is the Chinese restaurant we always go to. We really enjoy the Lemon Chicken, Cantonese Noodle Dish, Ginger and Onion Lobster, and Seafood Soup. We have had probably 5 other dishes and they were all very good as well. Service is always good (may be because we are regulars) and the beer is cheep. We got the discount card and always get a percentage off our meal when we pay with cash. I am taking one star off for the plastic tablecloths.

An authentic Chinese restaurant. There were huge menus on the walls with mouth-​watering pictures of menu items.
Maybe because it was we were all Asian, or maybe because we ordered in Chinese, but the waiter didn’t offer to suggest anything to us or offered us forks — which I think is probably more of a positive thing.
The service was good for a Chinese restaurant, the waiters asked us if we needed white rice and served the soup for us when it came out. We had the seafood & fish maw soup, spicy beef and scallop & veggie dish (all with white rice). It was all very good, and reasonably priced. I would recommend this restaurant.
The reason for only 3 star is that there was not one particular thing that popped out, when compared with other Chinese restaurant’s I’ve been to. I also don’t like how there are bugs in the red vinegar (but this is very typical of the vinegar in Chinese restaurants that keep the vinegar on the table). The décor is also not that nice, but better than most Chinese restaurants that are owner owned.