Garlic Onion

Excellent food… I was here with my family and kids, had Mongolian fried rice and some other dishes ., tasted really good… have to mention specially about their service, constantly friendly even with all the confusion we made with the kids menu. great authentic food to try !!!

been here plenty times for the beef soup amazing tasty and all freshly made to order. prices are fantastic .very nice newly renovated and cozy great atmosphere and a loving family working together makes you feel at home with your own family. The dad has a sense of humor the son is very polite. They will come check up make sure everything is good not once did I have to ask for anything they always had everything ready for you. running out of water? he’s always there for refill before you’re even done the glass. I give this place a aaa+ and anyone who hasn’t been here needs to visit and taste there delicious food

Worst Chinese restaurant I’ve ever experienced. I asked for steamed vegetables and they gave me steamed head lettuce.

I’ve been here many times with my family and the staff is always very friendly. The taste of the food is authentic, and still tastes great without MSG. By far, my favorite dish here is their Ginger Beef, it’s very different and I’ve never had it anywhere else before.
Generally, all the foods I’ve tried here tastes great, and we will continue to revisit this restaurant as a family favourite.

The staff here are consistently friendly!
The food is has no MSG, which is one of their specialties. It’s honestly not greasy, and every plate I’ve had here by far is excellent.
Would definitely come back often!

Tried this place TWICE, and it sucked both times. Both times were for take out.
First the wait was extremely LONG. 30 minutes wait for take out? Seriously?
Then the taste. We have tried the following and they were all tasteless and gross:
Lemon Grass Pork Chops
Chicken Pad Thai
Blackbean Beef
Wonton Soup (they use instant noodles)
General Tao Chicken
The fried rice upgrade was just egg fried rice and was extremely greasy.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. NEVER AGAIN.

This used to be a decent place for some cheap chinese food. Not anymore. The last time I ordered their fried chicken, there was not ONE piece of meat in it, and nothing but fried dough on chicken skin. I left with such a disgusting taste in my mouth, never again.

Poor service, and unprofessional Managment!!! My husband and I just walked out of that wanna be Boiling Crab. We walked in right before 10 pm, and we were immediately given looks from the employees like «why are you seating them?» After waiting like 5 mins for someone to take our drink order, the waitress comes and when we ask for a recommendation she tells us «I have never eaten here»… What??? After that about 10 mins goes by and the waitress comes back and says «sorry but I was just told that after 10 o’clock we can’t serve any alcohol» again WHAT?! Why didn’t tell us this when we put in our drink order. At this point my husband is over this joint wasting 15 mins of our time, so he says let just leave. We get up to walk out and the manager follows us to the door and apologizes and says «see you next time» not «sorry what can I do to help». Just really weird vibe of and unprofessional employees and manager. We will not be back!!! Save your time and go to Boiling Crab!

We ordered a Stir Fried Flat Noodle ($ 8.50) with Beef and a Shanghai Wonton Soup Noodle ($ 5.99) from the lunch menu. The Stir Fried Flat Noodle with Beef looked and tasted decent. The portion was good enough for 2 people who were not super hungry. There was enough beef slices as well. The Shanghai Wonton Soup Noodle tasted decent, too. It was a bit expensive for the ingredients and the portion. For the same price, I prefer the Cantonese style Shrimp Wonton Soup Noodle. In reality the Cantonese Shrimp Wonton Soup Noodle often sells for less. Garlic Onion can remedy this by upping the portion.
Garlic Onion is not bad for lunch, especially there isn’t much competition around this area.

The pad Thai had no flavor. The house special rice was tasty but only with few shrimps and bits of beef.

Ironically, this place is called «Garlic Onion», but there wasn’t a trace of Garlic, Onion or any flavor in the food for that matter!
Overall, not a pleasant experience.
Highlights:
— None of the 4 dishes ordered by our family of 4 had any flavor in it whatsoever
— All patrons were chinese, which makes made think it may be more catered to a traditional Chinese audience
— General cleanliness of the restaurant wasn’t that great. One of our plates had some caked on food stuck to it.
— Similar to the comment of another reviewer, the staff had trouble speaking English as it was a bit hard to understand what they were trying to say
Price was ok though, but I guess you get what you pay for. The bill came to $ 55 for 4 people, including 3 Perrier’s.
The only other real positive was that they advertise No MSG.
It was worth a try as no one in our party had been here, but I definitely won’t be coming back.

The food was ok, too much garlic and onion. Hence the name. Wasn’t able to catch that blast of flavour I was hoping for, since there were tons of garlic in my dish. I was surprised the garlic wasn’t strong. Surprised and sad at the same time. I love garlic and not even that delivered.
The second time I went was for afternoon tea. I ordered spaghetti with a cream sauce to go with it. I URGE all curious individuals to not explore this place any further because it sucked so HARD. The sauce wasn’t even sauce. It was friggin white water. I was able to see the separation of cream and water. Just bad! When my milk tea came, it further supported my «sucked HARD» statement. B/​c that’s how HARD it sucked. There was no taste to the milk tea, just the sugar I put in. I don’t know if it was just try luck, but two times with similar experience really doesn’t help in changing my perspective.
Food sucked, drink sucked. But the boss man was very friendly. That deserves a full 1 star in my book. He wasn’t spectacular, but still really good. Happy greeting when I arrived, took my order politely and always checking up on us to see if we needed anything.
.5 star for the food and an extra star for a cool boss (the chubby man), so this would be a freakin 1.5 star in total. What a shame. It’s in a good location too. :(

I wouldn’t say this place offered authentic Chinese food, it’s more like a cross between Hong Kong style and a westernized Chinese food joint. The food is ok, not great. It is the only place in the area that offers Chinese food without having to go in the heart of downtown Richmond Hill.
The fried vegetable udon was ok. The stir fry tofu with vegetables were salty. The sweet and sour chicken was very good. It was a good balance of sweet and sour. I would return for some more sweet and sour chicken.

I came by Saturday for lunch. I wasn’t disappointed at all.
Price– around $ 8 meal including a drink (coffee, tea or soy milk) and vegetarian spring rolls.
Décor — it’s very comfortable in here. It’s clean. They have a couple TVs as well.
Food — the food is 4 stars. They have a wide selection of Chinese food. Reminds me of restaurants in Hong Kong. A little bit of everything.
Service — they deserve 6 stars. Very few Chinese restaurants offer such good service.
They’re attentive, flexible and nice.

The Garlic Onion is our «go to» Chinese food restaurant. The food is great, not too greasy but just enough! They have a great variety of dishes on the menu, ranging from the staples (like sweet and sour pork, my favourite!) as well as some originals. We call and pickup but they are always friendly and polite on the phone as well as when you go in. They also give a discount if you pay in cash, always great! Plus the food never takes more than 15 minutes!

Quite expensive compared to other Chinese /​Vietnamese /​Malaysian restaurant.

First of all I respect that I am at an ethnic restaurant and I am Chinese myself. But it always bothers me though when staff cannot speak English. This is Canada and I find it unacceptable.
Eating here on a Friday evening during prime time. Not even half full. Dishes came out at a excruciatingly slow pace. 20 minutes before spicy wontons appetizers. Another 10 before the soup, another 10 minutes before the main dishes arrived. What kind of chinese restaurant is this? Either they were understaffed in the kitchen or suffering some sort of delay… regardless I’d be embarrassed to be running such a restaurant with such slowness.
Food in general was pretty average, with pricing higher than what you’d expect.
My general advice, with plenty of options a 10 minute drive away on highway 7, either cook at home or go elsewhere.

NO MSG is what’s advertised. I can’t confirm if this is true, but if true I like this place already.
This restaurant fills the need for a Chinese restaurant this far north from Hwy 7. We ordered 2 items from their Sunday lunch special (lemongrass pork chop rice and beef brisket rice noodle soup). The food was decent, no real complaints, the spring rolls were small but quite tasty and were fried fresh!
The interior décor is hit or miss. The seating and general atmosphere is quite nice, but the TV’s and car posters I feel detract from the overall look giving it a bit of a low-​end diner feel. The bar itself reminds me of a swimming pool.
I remember seeing a sign on the side Elgin Mills Rd earlier during the summer which said «Dim Sum». I did not see any dim sum on their menu.
The staff seemed friendly enough for our first time there. Possible repeat in the future due to convenience since I live in the area.

My family loves frequenting this restaurant. After many visits, we’ve come to know the family that runs this place, and their treating us like long-​term friends definitely adds to the overall cozy and family-​friendly atmosphere of the place.
Food-​wise, you definitely have to try their Crispy Ginger Chicken. It is without a doubt the most delicious version of this oft-​repeated dish. We would come here just for this dish, and never been disappointed.
Service-​wise, you could probably tell that I like this place, but not only because we know the people who run it, but also because even their other servers are always friendly and obliging. They diligently ask if they could refill your drinks, and most speak very passable English. This is a Godsend for people who love Chinese food but are fed up (like me) with EVERYONE expecting you to speak Cantonese. The service is much more «Western-​like» with waitresses that actually seem to give a crap, and the overall experience is much the better for it.
Unfortunately, all of this comes at a price. Literally. While this place is not expensive, an average dish comes to around $ 15 or so, which is quite expensive for a family Chinese restaurant. However their portions are huge, so that offsets is somewhat.
In addition, it’s also usually quite peaceful. Even with several families eating there, the ambience doesn’t feel as loud and chaotic as your average Chinese restaurant. Dare I say… possible date place?
Well it’s not romantic or anything, but at least you can actually have a conversation in this place. I would definitely recommend this place!

2.5 star
Garlic Onion is trying too too hard… Trying to serve every Asian Cuisines: Cantonese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian under 1 roof… ended up nothing really stand out to be exceptional! and some can be downright embrassing!
Lunch Specials are quite good value from $ 6.99 that includes a drink. The selections are quite extensive!
Noodle with Peanut Sauce in Soup ($ 6.99)
— The broth is quite flavoured with good kick of spiciness
— noodle though are store brought ones… overcooked and soggy without any bite at all
Home Style Vermicelli with Chicken and Shrimp ($ 10.99) with 2 spring rolls
— a huge disappointment for value/​taste/​presentation
— the vermicelli is the really really thin one… and they just tasted undercooked and dried
— not much flavour, dare I say tasteless?
The services though is friendly and efficient. Tons of booth seatings and the chairs are heavily padded!
Garlic Onion really needs to trimmed down their offerings and work on making their dishes better tasting.
They accepts Visa and Mastercard.