Ming Cuisine

Love the deep fried tofu with black sesame. Crispy on the outside and oh so soft on the inside.
Besides that, I found the food to be generally too salty. As part of our set meal, we had the choice of lobster either deep fried with egg yolk and pumpkin, or fried with scallion. We chose the deep fried with pumpkin, and I didn’t like the batter at all. It tasted very corn starch-​y and salty. All the other dishes were pretty average.

My review is based on my lunch experience.
Food: 4 stars — the lunch combo: choose from 10 main dish items and each comes with a bowl of double boiled soup and veggie spring roll. We ordered Hoi Nam style Chicken with Rice and Spare ribs Steam Rice in Bamboo pot. The quality of food is good. Chicken has a nice texture and flavour. Spare ribs are tender and well marinated.
Service: This is the problem and I feel hesitate to go back. Ming Cuisine seems to be a «higher end» Cantonese cuisine restaurant, but the lunch service is very lacking. We arrived shortly after noon, the restaurant is almost filled. Because of overly crowded, we needed to share a big table with another group (that is common in low end Chinese restaurants/​HK style cafes). After we are seated, We waited for 10 minutes and being ignored; even we waved to the servers numerous times and they avoided eye contact with me. Tea was not refilled during the whole meal.
My Unilocal friend, Jennifer K advised me to go there early otherwise the double boiled soup will be sold out and replaced with other type of soup. This time we are fortunate to get the double boiled soup, however the Hoi Nam Chicken ran out of chicken fat rice but we have to take the white rice after we placed the order.

Food was pretty decent. Service was excellent. Very clean and nice inside. Fairly pricy place to chow.

It’s a good idea to make a reservation for this place as it gets busy (thanks to the other reviewers for this tip). We had the fried egg yolk with prawn and pumpkin, a vermicelli dish, soup and, garoupa belly with tofu, and the app-​fried tofu. Everything was a notch up from other chinese restaurants. Our food arrived quickly and was mouth watering. It is definitely worth going back to try a few other dishes. The portions are large and we had 4 people (3 adults, 1 child) and lots of food leftover. They are really busy so don’t expect them to be super friendly. I left satisfied and am currently so stuffed!

Visited this location with some friends the other day. Nothing really to say about this location… it is clean, small restaurant. Traditional Cantonese food was served, Overall, it was a nice experience.
On thing that you have to be careful of is the parking. The parking here is terrible. There were crazy drivers everywhere, and I almost got hit by one person while I was trying to park. Off to the side, I saw two people arguing over a parking spot. Maybe it was the lunch hour rush, or maybe it was a sunday afternoon and everyone was hungry… Whatever it was… i will not be going back there any time soon.

Happy to find this comfortable little gem in Richmond Hill. Seafood dishes are excellent, service is good, love their soup. You can reserve double boiled soup when you reserve table for dinner and it’s for a reasonable price, one pot is good enough for 8 people or so. Their tiger prawns, sea cucumber, lobster and fish dishes are made with good quality and excellent flavours. Their lunch special including double boiled soup is such a nice treat (and good deal). Recommended.

We came on a cold sunny Saturday and were late enough to miss the lunch crowd but early enough to still be able to take advantage of the lunch specials.
Location:
This place is located on 16^th and Spadina Road. Its in a plaza with some other restaurants. There’s a bus stop on the corner if you want to bus it but dude, it’s the suburbs. Tonnes of free parking.
Décor:
Its small and very elegant. I love the décor. Its dark wood, and blues, with a pretty golden painting on the back wall. The first visit was when it had first opened and they were working out some kinks I guess. Seating consisted of tables and chairs, no booths. There’s a biggish private room to the side that looks like it can fit maybe 15– 20 people.
Food:
They have a three ‘course’ Prix fixe lunch specials for $ 9.99. We decided to each get one and share.
It comes with soup, a spring roll, and the main that you ordered. We got corn and chicken soup. (The house soup was out. We were bummed, it’s delicious), a tiny spring roll, and an order of egplant in minced pork with xo sauce and a steamed rice with Chinese sausage in a lotus leaf.
Soup was delicious I love the corn soup. It always looks like they opened a can of creamed corn in a pot of chicken soup. I really like creamed corn.. The spring roll came on a skewer and was nice a fresh and crunchy. I lived the steamed rice. I tend to find the Chinese sausage a strong flavour because it’s usually in big chunks but it was almost minced and I liked the flavour distribution. My favourite dish is the eggplant and chilli and this was not a disappointment. The eggplant was soft but not overcooked and stringy. The xo sauce was really flavourful and enhanced the pork nicely. Nice spice level too.
Service:
Service was efficient. I wouldn’t exactly call anyone who waited our table as friendly or concerned for our enjoyment, but we got the food and they refilled out tea fast and efficiently so who needs to make friends.
Love this place.
Now I only need to get a vip card for it because I picture myself coming back over and over!

High end Cantonese restaurant. It is packed full during dinner, so reservation is highly recommended. It can be difficult to figure out what to order if you don’t know cantonese food, but our waitress was very helpful in recommending their specialties. You can also look around to see what everyone else is getting since most that visit the place seem to be local Chinese. My gf enjoyed the TIger Prawns the best.

Truth without exaggeration, the wait is not avoidable. I waited for about 45 minutes. I walked in at the same time as another group of three. After 10 minutes they were seated. I then spent the next 35 minutes watching several tables of 4 – 8 being seated all of which had reservations. RESERVATIONS ARE A MUST. Then a couple walks in claiming they have a reservation. They clearly do not because their name was not on the reservation list I’ve been staring at for the last half hour. They were about to get seated when I complained. And then we finally got seated. It was a rush. After being seated I waited for 5 minutes and I watched he other table who was seated after us get their tea… So my husband complained and they finally came to get me tea. They also finally took our order. Turn around here is slow, they are understaffed. If they had more employees they would probably get us in and out faster and make more money with quicker turn arounds… Seriously I should give them ZERO stars for service.
Does the food make up for it?! Yes, it does. The originally 2 star service restaurant gets extra stars in the taste and quality of food. I would give this restaurant a 3.5 because all though my lobster noodles were fantastic, their menu is on the small or less choices side especially for a Chinese restaurant.

This place is easily one of the better high end Chinese places in the «Hill» for food. I’d prefer coming to this place over some of the other more well known High end Chinese places in the general vicinity.
There are downsides, in the sense, I am not the only one with this opinion, as it causes this place to be super busy for most days of the week, lunch & dinner.
Food is pretty solid and I don’t think I have had a bad dish there, since my family and I started visiting this place back in November 2014.
I find that their lunch specials are worth getting; along with the portions being fairly generous, it comes with a double boiled soup of the day; which already brings you good value, since there is a lot more work that goes into a double boiled soup versus the usual Chinese-​style soup of the day.
Dinner wise — I love the gun sai pumpkin and their sea cucumber shredded chicken with wasabi — my family will always order these dishes. The gum sai is literally a batter of salted egg yoke coating pumpkin — sooooo good — it’s just so salty, sweet and crispy and soft.
So the downside is that we’re not the only family, who thinks this place is the best High end Chinese restaurant in the «Hill:» Reservations are a MUST, even on a week night; I can not tell you how many times we’ve come here for dinner on a Tuesday night and found this place packed to the rafters. If you want to dine here– best make a reservation — they only do two seatings a night (1 at 6pm the other around 8pm) so dining time you are technically limited to 2 hours.
The space is quite cramped; as the tables are jammed together, so you may not find the dining experience to be most comfortable. If you are looking for a large private party dining — they only have 1 large private dining room of two ¹⁰⁄₁₂ people tables off to the site.
The service is friendly, but it can get extremely disorganized, especially if you are in the private dining area; because you’re off to the side and away from the main kitchen area — so you’re not as likely to get the attention of the limited staff working the floor.

4 and ½ stars. Really delicious Chinese food. Ordered the meal on the Chinese-​only menu that included:
Taiwanese appetizer plate, sausage, tofu and wood ear mushroomk
Lobster 2 ways, one coated with egg yolk, and the other with maggi sauce and vermicelli on top. The vermicelli had those fried coated crispy fish that soaked up the sauce. Mm mmm
Steamed whole Sea Bass. classic.
Stir Fried lotus root, sweet peas and other veg
Sweet Sour Pork
We added the soup which was very healthy/​nutritious and bowls of rice. Left very satisfied and with couple of boxes of leftovers, so definitely worth the $ compared to other Chinese seafood places.
Only con is space can be very small when tables are expanded to accommodate big parties… So I would say best to make reservations and keep to party of 6 – 8 people.

Ming Cuisine is a seafood Chinese restaurant — the space isn’t too big, so you would have to make a reservation in advance, especially on the weekend. We ordered the $ 148 5pound lobster combo for dinner:
The starter side dishes are Taiwanese sausages with garlic and a vegetarian medley of Chinese vegetables and tofu in a vinaigrette sauce. It is pretty unique and different from other starter dishes that I have had in the past.
The next dish was the first lobster dish — it was lobster with vermicelli. The dish had great flavour, and the vermicelli was cooked perfectly.
The second lobster dish was lobster meat and pumpkin cooked in fried egg yolk. That’s right, fried egg yolk. It tastes like a very rich and umami flavoured tempura. It was very filling even after eating two or three pieces.
The other dishes in the meal included half a chicken as well as beef tenderloin prepared in Chinese style. I found these dishes were mediocre — it was kind of bland, and the beef was a bit chewy. Lastly, there was an almond paste desert which was prepared very well.
The customer service was superb — all the staff were friendly and courteous. They changed our plates a few times and were very prompt with answering our questions on the menu. Overall, I really liked the meal and would definitely go again for their seafood.

Ming Ming, every time I come around yo city Ming Ming. You would think this is your typical Chinese restaurant located in Richmond Hill, but you are wrong my friend. No matter what time of day or day of the week, this place is rammed to the brim. Yes people that want to get their egg coated lobster on, or people simply coming to gaze at their Chinese porcelain décor head to Mings.
I came here with the GF and fam, and they loved it. The food here is not only fresh, it’s delicious. Probably the first place I have ever tried egg battered oysters or fried yellow-​fin Garoupa cooked to perfection. In fact the Garoupa here is the best I’ve had in Tdot, and I stand by that!
Service here is typical for this part of town, but the food comes out mega quick and their dishes and utensils are spick and span. Order with caution though, the dishes are ginormous and super rich. Expect to loosen up your belt a bit after a session at this joint!

Surprisingly good! We went during lunch and had the combos. Comes with soup, veggie spring roll, and an entrée.
We ordered 2 combos;
curry chicken and
steamed pork on rice.
Steamed pork was better came with Choy-​sum (veggies) and preserved veggies as garnish. It was steamed in the lotus leaf and you can really taste it!
Curry chicken was not deboned made it difficult to eat. Although I understand the concept of cooking with bones to extract flavour, I prefer to have my curry chicken deboned since you want to gulp it with the curry sauce, not gulp it with the bone! Also, curry a bit in the runny side.
Will go back to try the other lunch combos!

If you go to a new restaurant on a Wednesday night, at 9pm, and it is packed to the brim, you KNOW there’s a lil’ sumthin sumthin going on.
Came here with the family and ordered 3 dishes. The price of the dishes are around $ 15 – 20 each, but we ordered the fried yellow-​fin Garoupa, which is a pricier dish at $ 30. The meal comes with a big vat of soup, with the meats and veggies that the soup is made with being served alongside. Very delicious, and practically counts as a dish in itself. We ordered the steamed chicken, a classic dish. The chicken is smooth and meaty, not too salty. Also ordered the beef with bitter melon. Everyone on the table agreed that the beef was absurdly good — tender, flavourful, juicy. I think with these two dishes went ridiculously well with white rice.
The Pièce De Résistance was the fried Garoupa. The fish itself is white and meaty, and really takes on flavours well. We got a tail piece, and the main bone was already removed for us. This came with veggies on the side, and most remarkably, the skin was still crunchy and crispy, despite being slathered with sauce. Very very very good.
The prices here are actually very reasonable because the dishes are very large, so it’s perfect for sharing. The meal ended with complimentary dessert, which changes from evening to evening. We had the cashew paste, which was fantastic! Smooth and authentic!!!
Overall, I’d say this is a 4.5 star experience (but Unilocal offers no half stars…)

OH NO! I was super excited to like this place.
My dad had come here with friends and saw George — for those of you who frequent Spring Villa, he used to be one of the «heads» there. Him and Michelle had left Spring Villa, and my dad saw him here at Ming’s. We had to try this place!
This restaurant is small and super busy. There is a private-​ish area right by the entrance which fits two tables. Thank goodness the other table was relatively quiet as sound bounces off.
We ordered this Duck dish which was smothered in a sauce that tasted like Chalet sauce… no joke. It was really good, but after a while, I was really thirsty. We also ordered this fried fish dish with tofu which was also very good, but salty. Soup was just enough for 11 people and quite small.
Now, reservations are HIGHLY recommended because this restaurant gets insanely busy and I understand why. For all the dishes we ordered, the total bill came out to be $ 188 and change. At Spring Villa, I suspect it would have been double if not triple the amount. Having said that, the food was not that great, and salty.
Service was also in the «growing pains» phase. As this is a new restaurant, service was spotty. Our dishes went un-​cleared. Our pot of tea and water went unfilled. We had to hunt down for service every time we needed something. Because we were in the private-​ish room, it made it even harder to get service.
I don’t think we will be back here as Spring Villa is closer and the food, we find, better. Having said that, perhaps there will be improvements.

Points up for the décor! Yummy food :)
We ordered the set meal that came with:
— Marinated sausages & bean curd with veggies
— «Hand-​shredded» chicken (I liked this one a lot!)
— Sweet & sour pork (The fruit was guava. pretty special — it was yummy!)
— Salted egg yolk battered lobster (My favourite! There was salted egg yolk battered pumpkin too)
— Lobster with vermicelli
— Bok choy with mixed meats
Dessert: ALMOND SWEET SOUP
I don’t usually like almond sweet soup but this place made it so good: D
We will definitely return and will try their specialty soups («done tong»). We didn’t know about pre-​ordering this until we arrived. Make sure you mention it in the reservations if you plan on trying this!

Nice décor and cozy! This restaurant is decorated as what its Chinese name implies: «blue and white porcelain place». The lunch combo special comes with double boiled soup, one spring roll and an entrée (rice/​noodle). The soup is boiled with lot of ingredients and it is intensely flavored. The sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves comes in big portion. Before the bamboo steamer arrives, I have already smelled the lotus leaves. It smells both refreshing and delicious. The lunch combo is at great price; $ 8.99! Their congee special ranging from $ 17.80 to $ 38.80. The lunch snacks are of reasonable price as well. Fast and attentive service.

Ming Cuisine is a higher end Chinese that opened up recently in Richmond Hill.
The restaurant though smallish but nicely decorated. Love the blue and white theme instead of all those glittering gold.
Lunch Special $ 8.99 includes soup, spring roll and a noodle/​rice dish. There are snacks and sides for around $ 5 which is great to share.
Since I arrived for a late lunch, their usual double boiled soup 炖湯 was gone but replaced by fish maw soup which was good and supposed to be healthy too.
For main I ordered Rice in Lotus Leaf 秘製荷葉飯. It does take awhile to arrive as they all made to order. The portion is huge! Great to share.
Definitely worth coming for lunch. The special order menu can be quite interesting. Just make sure you call for reservations!