Red Lotus

The food here is extremely authentic and SOO delicious. My family and I eat here almost every time we visit Mississauga, which is often!
This restaurant is more suited for Chinese people as the staff speak Mandarin and Cantonese with broken English, but I would still recommend this to anyone who enjoys Chinese food.
Everyone time we come, we order the fried green beans, beef slices and frog legs. We recently tried the Peking duck. While delicious, my only complaint is about the duck, as the fat is not rendered properly, but the portion size makes up for it!
Overall this is one of my go to spot to eat for authentic Chinese food. If you love orange chicken and fried rice, definitely give this place a shot for some REAL Chinese food.

This place has excellent food. Our go to is usually the bamboo chicken, beef noodle soup, sautéed green beans, fried pork and chive dumplings and steamed pork and bok choy dumplings and sweet potato pancake. They’ve also done a great job with their recent reno. Great northern Chinese restaurant.

We brought our little one here and she needed a change, and we found ourselves in the uncomfortable situation of a baby with poo and no change table. The staff was super nice and let us use one of their VIP rooms (they have about 3, and they were all empty) to change her. They didn’t seem to keen about it and watched us closely when we came back (perhaps to see if we’d dump the poo diaper in the bathroom? I took it home with me so they had nothing to worry about), but it’s nice that they gave us the room.
Lunch specials are available, but you have to ask for them. They have a pretty decent selection, all around $ 8 — $ 9, and each comes with a spring roll and a drink. The lunch menus have a variety of food options, but the main menu is mostly northern food. Their XLBs are pretty good though the skin is a bit thicker than I’d like, and their shanghai stirfry noodles are well flavoured. Overall, it’s a good food option and at $ 10 per person (average), it’s a good contender in this plaza!

Fish in a pot, Kung pao chicken and bamboo chicken. You just can’t go wrong with the taste and authenticity! Highly recommended

This place is not as busy as the others in the plaza primarily I think because it costs more to eat here. The quality of the food more than makes up for that differential. Cheap and cheerful is nice but flavourful is hugely important too people!
Cumin pork ribs, chive and beef dumpling, Shanghai noodles, and ma Po tofu. Huge portions, nice spicy tofu and the pork ribs are to die for! Toasted cumin seeds really make the dish along with the chillies. Dumplings were boiled and that’s about it. Probably my least favourite dish although stuffed with fresh pork and veggies.
I have to eat here more and try everything on the menu! Service is what you expect in an Asian resto.

I love the food but not the service. Can’t really be picky about the service though i guess. Typical Chinese service. :/​i would give this place a 5 otherwise. The food though is amazing. Definitely go for the bamboo chicken and the cumin mushrooms are mouth watering. Pricing is a bit higher than average for Chinese but kind of on par for schezuan.

Good place for a quick bite at a reasonable price. Service leaves much to be desired which is why I awarded 3 stars. Ordered a lunch special which included a soup which never came till I asked for it.
The Soup finally arrived 10 minutes after the main course, as a result, my food was cold. Asked for tomato sauce, was given hot sauce instead which ruined the taste of my soup.
I think there exists a linguistic barrier so for mandarin speaking people, this would be a great place to dine. Food was delicious in taste and quantity was sufficient.
Décor was simple and the place is clean.
For ketchup fanatics like myself, I recommend that you carry your own bottle. Abundant free parking available.

It’s located in Golden Square, which are surrounded by so many restaurants.
Obviously, it’s a Sichuan cuisine.
Yujie and I ordered the Spicy Dry Pot, super yummy. Full of locus roots, pork, mushrooms and vegetables.
The cumin mushrooms in aluminum foil, hmm, below the average. Not worth the money.
Highly recommend this Chinese restaurant, if you are a spicy teeth lol

Despite all the other so-​so reviews I must say it is my favorite Szechuan restaurant in Mississauga.
Seriously, if you wan to eat szechuan then you better be prepared for spicy. If you can’t eat spicy don’t bother, because that is how it is suppose to be eaten.
I haven’t got the chance to try everything yet, but here are few dishes I lovee!
— Cold trio dish in spicy peanut sauce (it has beef, tripe etc.)
— Spicy hot pot fish (white fish cooked in oil and lots of chillies with some numbing peppers and beansprouts)
–Cumin stir fried kidney
–Fried chicken with spices (forgot the name but its wrapped in a bamboo net contraption)
–Hot and sour cabbage (sooo good, brings out the flavors and the spiceyness)
–Hot and Sour Soup (it is pretty good here and the key is not to use red vinegar but black vinegar to pull out the real flavors)
Their noodles and dumplings are… meh so just stick to ordering dishes to share

The last time that I was here several years ago, and at that time the food was too spicy to eat and the décor was in serious need of a update from the tacky 1980s setup they had going. This place makes northern Chinese dishes, which are far more spicy than what most of us are used too. On this visit, I was surprised that I was able to eat the food without breaking a sweat and also that they had redone the interior. Apparently they can still make overly spicy food on request, but have toned it down for everyone else. The noodles, house made dumplings, and roast pork were excellent. I suggest trying the home made dumplings with the, of course, spicy dipping sauce. The food is not expensive.

Came here for my friend’s birthday and they served a party of 8 at one of their larger round tables. Although I’ve been here plenty of times before I’ve never actually noticed how terrible their service is.
We ordered 8 dishes in total including various pork, chicken and fish dishes. Their food was absolutely delicious, I’m a big fan of spicy food so I really loved their authentic SiChuan cuisine. If you can’t handle spice then this is definitely not the place for you. The food on the menu was the only enjoyable part of my experience at Red Lotus ().
The waitress spoke in Chinese through out the entire dinner despite only about 4 people at the table were Mandarin, and one guy was clearly white but that was the least of my complaints. Our bill came to a total of $ 107 which was paid by the birthday girl, however she only had $ 100 cash on her so I pitched threw in whatever cash I had left in my wallet which was approximately $ 12, we realize this isn’t enough for tips so everyone else was in the process of looking through their wallets for change. As soon as the waitress saw that we had money placed on the bill ($ 112), she rushed over and took the bill from my hand, then she proceeded to count the money and gave our table a strange stare, she said (in Chinese): «this isn’t enough, you guys only have $ 5 for tips, this is not enough, you need more. –eye roll-​» While she was complaining about the amount of tip she got despite the less-​than-​satisfactory service we have received all night long, my friend who sat beside her has already taken out her cash and was waiting to put it on the bill, after hearing her complaints she slowly placed $ 10 on the menu… and our waitress said: «yep, now it’s enough» and turned to walk away without another word.
After this incident our table was slightly put off by their request for more tips, but as I was complaining, some of my friends who eat here more frequently than I do told me that this is definitely not the first time this has happened, apparently when the tip is anywhere around 10% or lower then they will say you have not paid «enough». To me, this is outrageous… I’ve worked in the service industry throughout high school and being a waitress I expect tips when I deserved it (by having a good service attitude). So upon reading some other reviews which showed complaints in their service as well I feel that the restaurant should really consider training their waitresses properly or hire some new ones which actually have the courtesy to speak english to a table that is CLEARLY not all Chinese.

Was pretty good. The food was pretty salty and spicy. Just make sure to ask to make it less spicy

We came here for dinner and ordered spicy beef noodle soup, sweet and sour fish and Homestyle Tofu dish. The fish was not that sweet and it was good. The noodle was nice and spicy and the tofu dish was great. Service was VERY slow. I think that they had one chef cooking that night because there was a large table who ordered alot of entrees and kept having plate after plate being delivered to them. We were a table of 3 and waited for about 30 mins before our food came. Waitress wasn’t too friendly. Even though the food was ok, I don’t think I will be returning because of the service.

Good dishes here so far:
Beef with spicy noodles
Spicy fried lamb
Steamed or pan fried dumplings
Chef special fried rice (I think that’s the name?)
Dan dan noodles
Mediocre:
Beef and broccoli
Mushroom mix with broccoli
Beef and egg soup?
Not a bad record so far! The best part is the food tastes authentic and not americanized.

If I ever find myself in Mississauga, this will always be my #1 choice for food.
The spicy fried chicken is to die for. This hotness level of this dish will challenge even the most hardcore spice aficianado. The seafood dumplings are also a favorite of mine. They are plentiful, juicy, and very flavourful. I also recommend the fish eggplant dish. I haven’t had a meal here that wasn’t fulfilling on every level.
I wish Red Lotus existed in Toronto! I’ll just have to settle for going there whenever I’m with a friend with a car or just happen to be in Mississauga.

Like Bashu, this is another excellent restaurant to eat authentic Sichuan food in Mississauga. We always have to make a hard decision to choose between Bashu and Red Lotus because they are just equally good.

I used to dislike this place because of the poorly maintained store. However they recently renovated the place and I am shocked by how much it has improved. The place is now well kept, nicely decorated, and the owners are more professional looking :)
They have very authentic Si-​Chuan food, most are spicy. I usually don’t eat spicy food so the dishes here are way too spicy for my tastes. But they are delicious if you can handle it. It might be hard to order here if you don’t understand Chinese. They are pretty smart and put a lot of pictures in their menu. All their nice dishes are on there so it’s safe to go by the pictures.

Excellent authentic mainland Chinese food. Has quite a good variety dishes, so you won’t be bored coming back.

Authentic great tasting Chinese. Very nice décor, we’ll be back!

Two words Pork Hock!
Probably one of my favourite dishes of the night. I went with six other friends and we ordered a total of 14 different dishes. Yes, 14 different dishes. Nothing was left. The food was really good. Spicy when it needed to be and sweet when it needed to be.
The only challenge we were faced with is, no one at the table spoke Chinese and it was hard to communicate to the staff what it is we wanted. Maybe they just didn’t believe that we were going to eat as much as we were ordering.
Fooled them :)