Chow Family Restaurant

This is the worst chinese food I’ve ever had in my life. The wonton soup was so salty that we actually sent it back and didn’t want to even try another mouthful. It tasted as if they had accidentally dropped a bag of salt into the mix and left it. Then, we got General Gao’s spicy beef which was jut a gross thickly battered beef in a sweet sauce (not spicy at all, even after we had asked to make it as spicy as possible). We also got the lemon chicken, knowing that it would be deep fried in batter, but hoping to get a refreshing lemon zest from the dish. The dish was overwhelmingly sweet and only slightly lemon flavoured. We also ordered the cantonese chow mein. This ended up being the worst chow mein ever. We requested crispy noodles with this dish, and the noodles were mushy and had so little flavour.
Mid meal, all of us just wanted to leave. This place is horrible!

Typical, but good. Fresh ingredients and generous portions at lunch. Inexpensive (dare I say cheap?). My almond chicken guy ding was a bit salty, but otherwise fine. They have a gluten free menu — just ask for it. Friendly staff.

Favorite spot in Truro to get Chinese. Curry egg rolls though? Weird. Aside from that I order there over all other spots in Truro.
Good portions too. Pretty generic though.

In life often you get surprises. It’s really awesome when they are good ones!
Let me preface this review by saying I did not think this dinner would be very good! I thought I’d come in here to find a buffet, lots of fried food and an unclean environment. What I experienced was the total opposite. It’s really nice interior, clean and there are many plants in the eating area. There is a darker room and a room with more light to dine in. I ate in the room that had more light.
Looking over the menu they had a good selection of Cantonese Chinese style dishes with some of your usual Canadian Chinese classics, non Chinese food (burgers/​fries) and seafood. All in all good selection and lots to choose from.
I decided to to go for the hot and sour soup and a seafood chow mein. Hot and sour soup is one of my favourites and it’s been a while since I have had a good serving! The bowl came out as a generous servicing, nice and spicy but the same time he perfect amount of sour! Really a nice touch. The seafood chow mein came served as a generous heaping portion with lobster, shrimp, lots of broccoli and a few pieces of scallop. It had a really nice sauce and was really tasty how a Chow mein should taste.
It’s really hard to say you love a restaurant from trying one dish and a soup but I think from what I’ve experienced it’s solid Chinese food. I’ll update my review after I return again!

Wow whoever gave them five stars… no comment. I personally LOVE Chinese food and I’m sure I went to a lot of Chinese restaurants, but it was the first time that I left a restaurant after taking one bite of the food. (I paid tho) Table was dirty. Beef was too salty and it smelled. Ironically for a province that has ocean nearby, shrimps were poorer than any other Chinese restaurants that I’ve been in Toronto. I strongly recommend you to find a better restaurant.