White Orchid

First time to visit this restaurant and it had a very clean, nice and cozy ambience. The hainan chicken was very tender and crab rice is really really tasty. The rice has a very nice flavour of chicken soup but not soggy at all. Dessert was very light, it was Chinese chrsanthemum and radish jello… Very very tasty! Will definitely recommend to Terry and will come back for more triala like more authentic Malaysian dish like laksa. Two thumbs up.

White Orchid falls into the category of «I really want to like it, but…»
We ordered a dinner combo for 2. It came with satay appetizers (eggrolls, satay chicken and Thai fish cake), sweet and sour fish, curry beef brisket with 3 pieces of roti, boiled vegetable with oyster sauce and dessert. This would be a good sampling of Malaysian staples. Out of them, the curry was quite flavourful and creamy, but the beef brisket was tougher than desired. If I could get this curry with lamb or chicken, I would be quite contented. The boiled vegetable with oyster sauce was home styled, which was okay. The fish fillets in the sweet and sour fish were too thin, so I was eating chewy dough more the meat. The satay appetizers were so bland that all the taste came from the dipping sauces.
Services were okay. Food arrived promptly. Decoration was very nice.
At this point, I don’t evaluate whether White Orchid offers authentic SE Asian cooking or not. For tasty food, only the curry was good this evening. I think I would return to try other offerings, such as chicken rice and basil noodle. Hopefully, the rice and noodles are better.

This place is run by Mandarin people. Came here to try the Malaysian food but it feel way short of my expectations.
Started off with the mixed skewers for $ 12 (two skewers each of chicken, lamb and beef). The worst skewers I have ever eaten. They were over cooked and had huge chucks of fat on it. The dipping sauce was just as bad. The only good thing that came from ordering the skewers is that they forgot to charge us for it… LOL
My dad had the Singapore chicken rice for $ 8.50 — this was pretty decent according to my old man. I never got to try any though :(
My mom got the Malay curry chicken with roti $ 5.99 + $ 1 to substitute rice for roti. The curry sauce was really thick and didn’t taste really good to me. The roti was really small in size but you do get two of them.
My sister got the laksa for $ 7.50 — I did get to try a little and it was decent at best. There was hardly any seafood in it.
I got the curry beef brisket with roti $ 7.50 + $ 1 to substitute rice for roti. The beef brisket was soft but once again there were huge chucks of fat. The sauce was the same as mentioned above.
Overall, very disappointing. When I am unhappy with my meal I tend to complain about it throughout the whole meal. I think I got that from my dad :)

Food’s portion is small which in terms make it more expensive than it should be. The selection from the menu wasn’t extensive and a number of things were sold out (we went at around 7:30 — 8pm, prime dinner time). The crispy tofu was made EXACTLY like the ones you’d see in any karaōke — which wasn’t a good sign. The other ones weren’t memorable at all and I honestly can’t recall something that stood out.
The service was really strange — even though they were somewhat courteous. When we arrived, the place was full (it was a tiny place), that’s fine — but the waitress promptly told us «sorry, we’re full». Without any indication that we’d need to wait or how long it’d be, it felt like she just wanted to send us away. We decided to just stand there until one of the tables finally left — when we were seated there was another elderly couple who came after us and received the same treatment so they just left. The waitress also assumed that we didn’t need any change and just hung us out to dry after collecting the bill, we had to actually asked for it. It was a very odd experience.

Great place for sharing side dishes with a group of friends! Ordered their curry dishes with Roti and I highly recommend everyone try their thick egg noodles.
Update: they also serve delicious pork belly bao that’s not in their regular menu (but might add eventually). Ask their server for the pork belly bao! It’s awesome! :)

Authentic and super tasty Malaysian food. Owner is super nice and offered curry sauce for dipping free of charge. Excellent service and price is reasonable. I highly recommend this place to anyone who loves south Asian food!

Food is good but not great. Portions are just too small. We ordered the wasbi mayo shrimps hoping it will be spicy (as indicated on the menu) but it was more mayo than wasibi in it. And for $ 12, we only got 10 pieces. Size of each shrimp was like the size of a loonie, which was fitting for the price of dish.
The balachan seafood fried rice was good. Fried very well and had a pretty decent amount of seafood in it. The only problem was, it was not spicy at all.
The other dish we got was the sweet and spicy pork chop. This dish was again, more sweet than spicy and the amount of chops you get, is equivalent to 2 pieces only.
Coming in to this place, we should have ordered roti with curry as many people have suggested that it is what this restaurant is known for. But for some reason, when the curry dishes came out to other tables, i was not able to smell the curry or the roti.
Oh well, maybe it was our fault for not ordering their signature dishes. I was just not tempted to eat it i guess.
Will i come back… unlikely. There is a good Malaysian place near Midland and McNicoll where i know i can smell the curry and the fresh roti.

Don’t order Tung yum Kung soup (very bad)! Curry chicken (chicken seem over a months), they say 海南鳮 is the best in Toronto but nothing special. steam fish cake was cold and reheat at microwave in mins! Over all I won’t come again!

I had a chance to try this new restaurant on Sunday night with my family. It was very busy given it’s still in its 10% off grand opening promotion. There were about 10 to 12 tables packed in a small place. Three of us had to wait at door for 30 mins in order to get a table.
Décor was modern and bright. Service was pretty good. The chef/​owner came out to greet customers which was very nice. Food was quite tasty but dishes were small and expensive. (acceptable with the 10% off)
We had the beef satay skewers (4 pcs), roti with curry beef, ½ Hainan chicken with «chicken oil» rice, and stir-​fried veggies with belachan (馬拉棧炒通菜).
Out of the four dishes, we liked the stir-​fried veggies the most. It was extremely flavorful but unfortunately the dish was ridiculously small for $ 11. The roti was crispy and fluffy, but a little bit on the oily side; the small bowl of curry beef had strong herbs but not enough spiciness. Hainan chicken was alright, but this version had the chicken bones intact. It also didn’t come with the traditional «black soy sauce» for condiment. I’ve tried this same dish many times at other places in Toronto and in Singapore, and they had the chicken bones removed.
So far I think it’s a good start for this tiny restaurant. Not all dishes were done in a traditional way. We didn’t seem to taste too much MSG in the food. If they could sort out problems here and there and make the dishes a bit larger, they should do okay.
I still enjoy Restoran Malaysian better than White Orchid, but I wouldn’t mind giving it another try some time later either.

This restaurant is just as delicious as when it was called Delicious. Of course, it’s the same chef so we are not surprised when we visited tonight that the food is still delicious. The chef just applied his expertise to a different style of food but really, he still kept most of the «old» dishes. The HaiNan chicken is still the best in the GTA and I’ve tried many restaurants’ chicken made in a similar style even though they may be called another name. This is not just a Malaysian Singaporean restaurant, it’s a regular Chinese restaurant with a SE Asian twist. The Fukien food is still there but there is now more variety in the menu.
We made a point of trying something on the new menu in addition to the HaiNan chicken. The roti and curry chicken is superb! Never tasted such crisp and light roti. We also tried the Pad Thai — perfectly done al dente and not sugary sweet as in some other restaurants. The owner mentioned it was tough reopening after a month of renovations so it is possible people who visited that opening week may not be seeing it at its best. I would recommend trying them again.
The décor is definitely outstanding. I agreed with another reviewer who described it as having a downtown feel uptown. Entrees are actually cheaper than a chain like Spring Roll and tasted much better.
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Had a chance to try this new place after seeing it after yoga.
Food was tasty, being a curry fan I went straight for their green curry chicken with coconut rice. Had just the right amount of heat and the chicken was tender and more than enough!
Crispy tofu and a satay platter started us off which was a nice start to our spicy meal!!!
Service was great, even got a free mango sticky rice! (grand opening special???, not sure)
It’s good to finally have an alternative for Malaysian/​Singapore food in RH/​Markham area. I found it priced well especially for the size and quality of the dishes. The space is a fresh change to other restaurants in the area, a downtown feel north of Hwy #7.

2.5 Star
This used to be Delicious Food Restaurant
that serves quite unique Fukienese dishes. Now after a revamp, redecoration, renaming and it becomes another Southeast Asian Restaurant.
When I saw the menu posted outside, I was surprised by their price point with entrees from $ 10 and up. Even fried noodle and rice dishes are all over $ 10! I don’t mind if the food is worth the price but at least the Singapore Laksa ($ 9) was disappointing lack of the taste of the rich coconut broth nor that spiciness. The noodle was undercooked and really chewy.
The owner, staff and cook are all the same from the previous business. They are nice people and I wish them luck.
The decoration is really nice. The restaurant looks really chic and clean now compare to before. I wish they would have improve on their food too!
BTW, there is $ 2 charge person for Chinese tea.