Hakka Garden Chinese Restaurant

It use to be very good but recently they have decreased the quantity significantly. Also the customer service is not great. Food is okay. Personally, it is halal and that’s the reason I go there.

This place is good for take out only, not for dining. The food is spicy and there is a lot of demand for it. Service is slow but quick for take outs. The soup is bad (lots of starch), so give it a miss. The Bombay Fish is great but spicy. The noodles and fried rice are okay. The chicken lollipop is quite good and I could return just for that. Overall, not worth the hype but a good choice for take out if you want Hakka.

Corn starch galore!
I understand that Hakka cuising uses starch to add a glaze to their sauces, but not like this.
I was there with my family and we ordered hot and sour soup, Manchurian chicken, fried rice, another beef disk, and I think chow mein. It was really disappointing.
The hot and sour soup was thick. Like mucus. The heavy corn star consistency. Really not appetizing.
And same with the meat and their sauces. I couldn’t eat more than a few bites.
We ate at the restaurant and it was stupidly crowded with people picking up take out orders. Like people were almost leaning on our table. We didn’t finish out food and packed the rest to go.
I don’t think I’ll be back… I’ve had far better food for the price. My parents weren’t a fan of the food either.

This is one of the best Indian Hakka Chinese restaurants for take out. The food is fabulous and very much Indian taste. We love the chicken manchurian fried rice, chicken chowmein and garlic chicken gravy.

Ventured here before going to the Ontario Science Centre. The place has a cute” mom and pop” vibe. It is VERY CLEAN inside. The food is authentically Hakka (heard the staff speaking hakka as well). Staff were very attentive and pleasant!
hakka chow mein — ³⁄₅
mixed pakora — ⁴⁄₅ (thought the «mixed» meant a sampler of the different types of pakora but, it really meant that they mixed up all the meats into the batter! Was a pleasant accident though! There is a minty, coriander sauce that goes with it… soooo good)
chili chicken — ⁴⁄₅ (very crispy)

hot and sour soup — ⁴⁄₅ (I ate more than my share… so goood… and it was hot as the name implies… temperature-​wise. My fault though… it smelled so good. The cleft of my mouth blistered.)

This place offers fast service during lunch time, and they are quite accommodating, even when my team at work comes in as a large group of 10 – 12. I’d only recommend if you’re interested in spicy food, but the crispy beef and chilli green beans keep us coming back week after week.

I went to my friends place in Toronto and ordered food from here. We were all craving for indo-​chinese and turns out this place is pretty good.
Bombay fish– Amazingly awesome. Must try.
Chilli chicken– Good
Chicken fried rice– Good
Chicken noodles– okay
Prices are little higher than the other chinese places.

Amazing food, great service!
I absolutely love eating here, chilli chicken and manchurian noodles are the best out of the menu I would say!
Just writing this review makes my mouth water :)

Excellent Hakka food! I was a little wary of coming here because of the other reviews but don’t be. I ordered the shrimp pakora, crispy beef and singapore noodles and they were all ridiculously delicious. Food came out quickly and I had no issues with staff at all. Definitely worth coming here if you are in the area!!!

Best damn Hakka in Scarborough. Tried all the Hakka joints in Scarborough, but this joint has good food and backs the food up with good service. I keep on coming back for the chicken pakoras, chilli chicken and crispy ginger beef. Can’t go wrong with these choices.

Average food and mediocre setting but there seems to be no real competition in downtown Toronto for Hakka food so they are pretty busy.

Love this place! Can’t say enough about how good the food is. Let’s start by saying that the chicken pakoras are life changing. The Manchurian chicken soup is amazing, the Bombay fish is out of bounds great and if you go please try the tandoori chicken fried rice. I’m hungry now, hopefully I’ll see you there!

The food is Indian– Chinese style food and prepared in a delicious manner. The restaurant & restrooms are clean. However, the waitress has no smile, no welcoming words but a scowl on her face.
The veg stir fry Manchurian we ordered was extremely spicy. She never asked for our spice tolerance. Many other Indian-​Chinese places ask for spice levels & in the rare instances that it is forgotten the dishes are made mild as default.
When I mentioned this she argued with us. Whatever happened to accommodating the customer, apologizing for a mistake? This place doesn’t care about customers. They also only give 1 fork — have to specifically ask for spoons?!
Most people put up with this kind of treatment in Canada. Eventually such places close because of lack of customer treatment. I’m not sure if we will go here again.

Simply too good to resist! I had the garlic chicken, with egg fried chicken rice and it is simply the best! I also had the general tso chicken, but I thought the garlic chicken was better? If I remember correctly, it costs a dollar more too? We ordered these under a meal, in which we got wings for basically free! So that was neat! I had shrimp as well, and it’s decent, their meals are better!
Overall nice place to sit, decent food, decent price!

I make a really long drive just to eat here. Everything is so delicious! It beats any other Hakka restaurant out there, and I’ve been to a lot.
Favourites: Hot and sour soup, shrimp fried rice, pakoras and chilli chicken
The only down side is the restaurant seating and interior, it definitely needs an upgrade.

2.5
Heard some things about this place so I decided to go give a whirl. Hakka Garden is an OK place to go for Hakka, though i think you can do better.
Pros:
Food is served fast
Cons:
Food isn’t exactly Hakka style IMO
Prices are a bit higher than other Hakka places
I came here on a Sunday afternoon. When you first walk in, the place really doesn’t look like a restaurant at all. It looks more like a fast food joint. It’s bare bones no frills décor. You have tables and chairs, a couple of booths. That’s about it. This place looks family run so my hopes were high after ordering.
We ordered the chili chicken, garlic beef and spicy green beans. Unfortunately for me, my Hakka standards are very high. The food here is OK, but nothing special. The Chili Chicken was my fav of the 3 here. Not too bad, but not spicy enough for sure. Also, a little on the dry side in terms of sauce. The garlic beef should be renamed salty beef. That’s basically what it tasted like. The beans again were not spicy at all and more soy sauce-​y than anything else. It just didn’t really have any Hakka taste to it that I’m used to. It was still OK to eat, but it just didn’t feel Hakka to me.
The prices are also what you would see downtown. You’re looking at $ 10 a dish here. It’s about the same prices as downtown but more expensive that Scarborough and Markham have to offer. I don’t mind the price if the food matches up but in this case it didn’t.
This place is completely Halal which for them si good as it caters to the people living around the area. Maybe that’s the reason for the differnt tasting Hakka food? Regardless, there are better options for Hakka.

Food: 3.5
Customer Service: 1
My family and I order from here regularly. Food is decent (it’s not food that you end up craving) and take out portions are large.
They have terrible customer service. I did a phone order and I told the person on the phone that I wanted a dry noodle (one that was crispy, not cooked through in water) and she said she knew what I was talking about and put Shanghai noodles.
We did not check the order because it was nicely wrapped (our fault for not checking though) and I discovered they were not the type of noodle I wanted. I wanted the actual noodle to be dry, not dry sauce put on it.
I asked if I could get a credit towards my next purchase because we regularly purchase orders over $ 30, and the manager said yes, but next time I should know what I want because the part-​time workers don’t work all the time and don’t know everything. Any legitimate and customer oriented restaurant would never say this, so I told her we would not come back ever again.

Good value and quite tasty. If you feel for some Hakka cuisine which is a medley between Chinese and Indian cooking, give this place a try. Lots of variety on the menu, clean and reasonably priced although compared to other Hakka spots the serving portion is not that big. It’s a small sit down place in a strip plaza near don mills and eglinton. Not the trendiest area, but you’re there for the food right?

We started with the corn and chicken soup. I don’t usually order this but I’m not sure there’s anything you can do to make this soup extraordinary. It was as expected. Pretty delicious if you like this particular soup.
The chicken pakora came next. They were super tasty. The crispy beef was as delicious as other reviewers reported. I’d agree with it being amazing. The last dish Manchurian chicken was on the meh side.
Overall, the food was very good. Everything was freshly made. The server was friendly and gave us suggestions when asked. Lots of people came in to pick up take out while we were there on a Thursday night. I’ll definitely keep this place in mind when in the area.

This was my first time here, and I already cannot wait until I can come back!
We got the crispy beef (amazing), veggie hakka chow mein (great), veggie pakoras (also amazing), chicken lollipops (good), chicken dumplings (good) and manchurian chicken (okay).
I could not get enough of the crispy beef and veggie pakoras. Being Desi, you think you know a pakora pretty well. But I’m here to tell you that you don’t know what a pakora can actually be until you’ve had some of theirs.