The Royal Chinese Restaurant

This place is good for late-night eats. They're open until 1 a.m.
The stir-fried eggplant with enoki mushroom was tasty.
We asked for a stir-fried vermicelli noodle without eggs. The waiter suggested 2 kinds of chives vermicelli. It's quite oily, the green chives were stiff and hard to chew.

Food was overall pretty good. Prices are fair for majority of the dishes. Staff were friendly and attentive. Came for dinner and soup of the day was provided at the start and Chinese mung bean dessert was provided at the end.

Came on a Friday night and it was not too busy - did not have to wait in line.

Things I ordered:

Yang chow fried rice: 4/5 - very umami and had “wok hey”. A bit on the pricier side for fried rice

Clams: 5/5 - very fresh and the clams were very large and had lots of meat.

Steamed chicken: 4/5 - meat was tender and as good as any other restaurant for this classic dish

Seafood birds nest: 3/5 - while it was fresh and tasty, there was not a lot of seafood. Barely 4 pieces of shrimps, 2 scallops, and 3 squid. Also expected the nest part to be fried taro but it was some kind of fried flour mixture instead? It did not hold up well against the sauce and became really soggy at the end.

Beef with mushroom and onion: 1/5 - Did not enjoy this one at all. Portion was quite small, beef was quite chewy and the beef had a bizarre flavour to it, almost as if the beef was not fresh a sitting out too long. It did not really have a sauce so the beef and mushroom didn’t have much flavour. Mushrooms were also cut way too large. Too much yellow onions added to bulk up the dish.

I would recommend the beef with yu choy/Chinese broccoli instead. I saw many other tables ordered it and it looked much much better.

The food is very authentic fare, which kept me coming back time & again. Although the wait stuff don’t speak English [and can come off as rude to locals due to cultural difference, esp. the very cold blunt woman server], I still kept coming back/brought friends & spent countless dollars here now.

Today was extremely disappointing - 2 portions of a dish ordered, when you look at the picture, both of the boxes combined equal 1 box.
It was so scarce, I called to ask about it, and just got told that it’s a new employee who prepared it.
Would have thought they might offer a long-term loyal customer a better support, but they didn’t.

It was my first time here and the food here was delicious! One thing I do have to mention is the service! It was amazing!!!! Which I think hard to say for a lot of Chinese restaurants.

My go-to place for some quick Chinese dinner. The prices are decently priced for the amount they serve. The staff are also nice and friendly, it really does seem like you are part of the family.

The foods are delicious and traditional, that reminded me the dishes that we had in Asia. Staffs are very friendly as well. The only problem is that you will need to be a little bit more patient when looking for an empty parking lot (or come earler). But that also implies how popular that restaurant is.. 😀

Did the fam jam here for lunar new year and everyone basically enjoyed themselves. When i stepped into this restaurant, i felt like i was back in Asia with the hustle and bustle of servers rushing about putting food on the tables. There were chinese writings on the walls with all the various dishes and very affordable prices. No worries, they do have menus in English as well. All the tables were full, so it was a good thing we reserved a table before hand.
We chose from a set menu and also added some extra dishes. Each dish came in generous portions, and they were all delicious!! Some notable favorites were the crab claws, salt and pepper squid, and pork chops.
Service was very fast, and the servers were friendly and helpful.
The only thing that stopped me from giving a full 5 star rating is the lack of washroom cleanliness.
But yeah, great place for authentic Cantonese dishes.

Make sure you call ahead for a reservation or you will be standing on the sidelines watching people eat. The restaurant is VERY loud so expect to be shouting across the table when trying to have a conversation. Food was fresh and hot out of the wok. Free soup to start and red bean dessert to finish.