Canton Restaurant

I really enjoyed the clam chowder; spare ribs and stur fried rice at an extremely reasonable price. The hostess was very friendly and engaging. So much food was given a to go box was a sure thing. I will be returning often and with anticipation.

Been here twice and the food is very very good, going to become a regular here. Fast service food is always good quality food the servings are big. A must try in Barstow.

The food is pretty good. The staff is very friendly. If you are looking for good, home cooking style food, this is your place. It’s not fancy, but it’s made fresh and all hone ade, no frozen crap.

We are a bit puzzled by «American Chinese Restaurant» sign. Is it American or Chinese???
The served food was not so excellent, but it was good enough for us to satisfy our appetite for Asian food after days of American meals.
Especially the Shanghai style chow mein was good.

I’ve passed by this place many times without knowing that it was actually open. The restaurant sign looks like it would be in front of an abandoned place. . not to mention. Matter of fact I was so sure that was closed that I even thought it was closed when I went up to the door after the guy at American Tire Depot suggested I go there to get a coffee (I was thinking, isn’t that place closed?) Outside of a few corporate spots (iHop, Denny’s), there’s 4 restaurants in Barstow that are worth your time. One Italian and two Mexican. . This place is a good optionm I plan on returning. They just need more vegetarian and gluten-​free options and they’d be great
If you count the vegetable fried rice there’s 2 vegetarian options — the other is eggplant in garlic sauce. . but it’s very oily

Been living in the high desert for almost 4 years and the best Chinese food I could find was Panda Express. I decided to give this place a try and this is the second time I’ve gone. The food is fresh. Beef and broccoli is so good and today I had their egg rolls.
Seriously the best most freshest egg roll I’ve ever had. Also there sweet and sour chicken was great. It’s not like the other places that are over sauced and over breaded. Everyone is also very nice when I come to pick up my take out. I was pleased. Thank you canton.

We wanted Vietnamese Phở but nothing like that in this town. Every fast food joint you can name is here. Went to Canton for some hot and sour. My wife got that and she liked it. Just too much. I thought I’d try the pork egg foo young. Taste was good but the gravy they smothered it with was an interesting concept. And gravy on the steamed rice. And a bowl of rich gravy on the side just in case!!! Never have I had Chinese food with gravy. Ate about half of it. The menu was limited with about half the food being American favorites like chicken fried steak, burgers, sandwich and some simple chines samplings. Looks like the local go hear because it is cheap eats. $ 20 for two.

Yuck, the food was horrible. My wife ordered lo mein with chicken and got a big plate full of bean sprouts, there was probably only 10 noodles in there and some chicken. My daughter had orange chicken and the sauce tasted strange. Everything seemed dirty. When I got home I had serious diarrhea. We travel a lot and have been all over and have lived in Asia, my wife is from the Philippines and loves and knows all types of asian dishes.

NOTE — this is a late review — it’s been about 18 months since our visit. In fact, it was this experience that motivated me to get a Unilocal account so I could leave a review. I just forgot to leave the review! This place is the epitome of the «before» Kitchen Nightmares!
I wonder from the other reviews, if there are two «The Canton» restaurants in Barstow. For many years I’ve gotten a creepy feeling from this place and either not gone in or quickly left without being sat or eating.
Finally thought I’d give it a try for take out — some friends came over, suggested we try it and in the spirit of adventure, I said What the Heck — it can’t kill us. About two hours later no one could eat more than a bite or two of any of it — really strange looking, chewy, unfamiliar tastes from all of it. I threw away about 50 bucks worth of carry out, but on the plus side for all you large portion fans, for 50 bucks, there was really a lot of food! Just couldn’t eat it, that’s all.
So about six months later, thinking the above experience was a fluke (the parking lot is usually full — good sign, right?), my Lady and I give it another shot. It was late — the place was almost empty, save one or two at the bar. The décor was dated, the place was dirty and well, not wholesome feeling at all, more cartoonish — felt like the twilight zone — bright humming fluorescent lights with a kind of green hue, like something you would expect in a morgue or a broken power plant break room.
We order — I don’t even remember what it was, but as any good first time patron, you go with the waitress recommendation. The green tea was good — and though I can’ton remember what we had, I will never forget the oily film it left in my mouth that no lie, was still there the next day. If my memory serves me, they took out order quickly but it took forever to be served, and the food, all of it, when we finally got it, looked like it had been previously served.
We poked at it a tiny bit, put small amounts in our mouth — not enough you’d think, to get an oily film from hell, but No exaggeration, that’s how it went.
The waitress agreed that the food didn’t look very good, and with the bosses permission, we left without paying. On the plus side though — the portions were large, very large, and it was reasonably priced.

Came here because I was getting my tires done next door, so me and my family decided to get breakfast. Well it is a quite little place and home feel. But the service sadly was very disappointing, the female waitress was so slow and talked so low it was actually annoying cause you could not understand her. The food was ok,. Typical breakfast, it was good. The wait time for food and a refill was ridiculous. It was pretty dirty too. Ooohhh and they give cold ketchup. (I hate that). Don’t think I will be back.

Went there just to use the wifi and ended up having a great 4.00 breakfast and great company with all the regulars. But the best part was the waitress Savanna, really liked her attitude! Thanks Savanna for the help with my kindle !!!

I eat lunch here, large selection of American sandwiches, all good. Large selection of American and Chinese (Cantonese?) dinners, all large portions. They even have Chinese family style dinners for 3 – 5 people. Prices are very low, portions are very large. American breakfasts are good, and I think are served all day. I’ve never been disappointed, always satisfied. Well worth the price. Large parking lot (large vehicles should enter from street behind restaurant). Located north of I-​15 on West Main St. East of Ave L exit.

The food was good and the price was in line. Definitely not as bad as some of the reviews suggest. This is an old place in an old area of town.
They obviously survived when many of the surrounding restaurants closed due to the quality, local customers and price for the food served.

Eek! Eek! The food here are terrible. If you call your restaurant «Canton», you probably know Kung Fu or some forms of Chinese cooking. I assumed. Well, they don’t.
We were headed for LV from SF and stopped by for Chinese food. We ordered Chicken Chow Mein, Mongolian Beef, and French Fries for the kids.
Mongolian beef was super tough and overcooked. The fries were soggy and had a frozen, powdery dry taste to them; can’t get my kids to eat them.
The most interesting dish was the Chicken Chow Mein… Where are the noodles, I asked the waitress? She pointed to one and said, «There… is.» SEE PHOTO. They should just call it Chicken Chow Bean Sprouts Leftover Veggies with hint of Mein.
Okay! Maybe they do know Kung Fu; but definitely not Chinese cooking.

Great prices, but you are getting what you pay for. The food is just average. The Chinese is very fresh with the possible exception of the fried rice which is neither fresh or good. Egg roll is different-​almost like a tempura batter rather than an egg roll wrapper. Also ordered a burger and fries. No complaint here, entirely ordinary. The bacon we ordered on the other hand was a little odd and looked like maybe it was deep fried too. Biggest let down of the day… no refills on soft drinks, but all the iced tea you want (yuck)! Really glad they told us up front though. Waitress service is about what you can expect in a Chinese restaurant-​ok, not great. The location itself is old and out dated but it is obvious that they try to keep it looking nice. It is nice and clean

FIVE stars. Totally decent prices — AUTHENTIC Cantonese food… Holy jeebus, I’m so glad I sent Antonio G. here when I was just plain being a bad, lazy kid and didn’t want to cook this stuff myself.
They were so incredibly generous with the veggies… their hot and sour soup made me really, REALLY happy with how loaded it was… full of mushrooms, bamboo, egg, tofu, scallions and bits of meat — with a very balanced flavor profile. It was not very spicy, in my opinion — but I’d rather add that element than not have the option — especially since I’ve been told I eat lava levels of hot anyway.
On top of it all — they paid attention to the details when packing our to-​go order. Crispy items were still very crispy — and everything was still hot and delicious by the time Antonio G. made the long drive home to Ft. Irwin. He also won’t stop raving about how nice the staff/​owners were. SUPER awesome. So much love for them.
What a gem. Seriously… I am SO grateful to have this place nearby-​ish. It was like hitting up my mom’s house — nothing was *too* salty and I didn’t have to feel super guilty because of an overabundance of grease that you find with American Chinese food.
The to-​go servings were also incredibly well portioned out — super generous even… my Chicken Chow Mein flipping filled up an entire dinner plate with me worrying that it might overflow. SO much food — for simply ordering hot & sour soup, chicken chow mein, orange chicken, and potstickers. We’ll probably have enough for the two of us to last another two meals.
*SQUEE!!!*
Ecstatic doesn’t even relay how happy this little Asian girl is right now… especially after being sad face and just needing comfort food. This totally hit the spot.

On a Sunday night we ordered the family dinner for three. The food was on our table in five minutes. Cold fried rice, egg foo young with a biscuit gravy, sweet and sour pork that had been sitting in a warming tray for days, egg roll so greasy you needed a bib and fried shrimp, you know the kind with a tiny shrimp covered in a heavy batter. The star attraction was the almond cookie. The worst Chinese food ever, ever, ever!
I suppose the «learning moment» here is when the nightly special at the Chinese Restaurant is Prime Rib, order it! Or turn around and head out the door.

–Old coffee shop atmosphere
–large variety on the menu
–American food is good
–Chinese food is good and fairly inexpensive
-$ 9 Prime Rib on Sundays

I thought I had a review for this place from shortly after I visited, but I don’t so here’s my best shot at trying to remember.
Food: Order sweet and sour shrimp and sweet and sour pork. The shrimp was fine but the pork was super hard and it seemed like they took old pork and battered it so they didn’t have to through it away. The sauce itself was by far NOT the best I’ve had, but I can’t honestly say it’s the worst simply because I can’t remember having worse but want to be honest.
They get two stars because at very least the server was nice and didn’t give us a problem when replacing the yucky s&s pork. It really makes me sad because I’ve been wanting chinese food for a hot minute, and was really looking forward to this stop, but since my hubby doesn’t like it, I usually have to wait until he’s traveling.

Not so great for gluten free, but thats hard for a chinese restaurant. I got a «salad» and rice and mixed the two with my own GF soy sauce. My husband got the fried chicken dinner platter, «it tastes about as strongly as the salad, which is to say barely». Portions were generous, especially for the fried chicken dinner. Interesting mix of other patrons, people from all over.