New Ho King

Feb. 20, 2024 - uploaded new photos of my recent delivery order. Notice how squished the dishes are with most of the sauce squeezed into the bag. Tsk, the solution is simple - just package differently with an extra bag! Overall rating for New Ho King is a 3 star for a few reasons. Not gonna lie, food is consistent. Can I say that all dishes are delicious? Nope but they're good at what they're good at and their portions are huge. I have friends who will only order from them because it's their favourite place to go. Images shown here are from my most recent Uber delivery order. Restaurant is close to Spadina and College, near Kensington market. Bathrooms are in the basement so not wheelchair accessible. Place looks nice and a bit more modern. Review posted here is for a recent Uber delivery order but I've had their food several times now. Pro - the portions are huge so there was plenty of food to go around. The aforementioned friends were there so thus New Ho King was chosen as the food of choice. Con - New Ho King does a poor job of packaging your food for delivery and it has nothing to do with the delivery service. I don't have an issue with the tin containers and I appreciate the clear plastic bags that go over each dish. Again, portions are also great. What I have an issue with is that they stack all your dishes into only a few bundles. The sad dishes on the bottom are compressed to the point where all the sauce is now in the clear plastic bag. We had sauce drip all over our kitchen floor before we realized and got a plate to go under it. Considering I got fried rice and some drier dishes, the least you could have done was put them on the bottom! Here is a quick summary of some of the dishes we ordered. Cantonese fried noodle: lots of toppings over fried noodles that were decent but I'm convinced the oil has seen better days. Not too salty, tasted okay. Chicken and mushroom: overall flavour base is good (savoury, oyster sauce flavouring) but would have been a whole lot better probably if all the sauce hadn't been squeezed out and the chicken wasn't all compressed to a solid block. Keep in mind, the portions are huge so the sheer weight of the dishes on top was enough to flatten this dish. They didn't even put cardboard dividers in between the saucy dishes. You can see how compressed the chicken is and all the sauce that dripped out the side. *shakes head* New image added. New Ho King Fried rice: friends swear by it, tastes like standard Chinese fried rice to me. Mixed veggie dish with vermicelli: tastes decent, savoury, lighter in flavour, vermicelli was a solid block in the centre. Broccoli was very much al dente, not a heavy garlic flavour Pork Chop with Chef’s Special Sauce: flavour was good, sweet and savory but less tart than the standard sweet and sour pork. Large chunks of meat and fewer bones since this is with pork chop. Again, I'm convinced the oil used to fry this up has seen better days. It tasted okay but I could taste the oil wasn't fresh. Also, most of the sauce was in the bag. New image added. Would I order again? Well, I like my friends and the food is edible so I'll order it again but if I was getting it food for my family, I'd go with another place that serves better tasting food that isn't messy. This isn't the first time I've ordered from them and it happens EVERY time where the saucy dish is inevitably on the bottom. If they'd change how they package their deliveries so I can taste the food with the dish intact, my opinion might change but until then, it's a 'meh' for me.

Best Chinese food in Toronto. Love this place. I love the crispy lemon chicken, BBQ pork fried rice and sezchuan mixed vegetables. Whatever your favorites are this place knows how to make them fresh and tasty. I usually order in but happened to be on Spadina and dropped in with a friend for an early dinner. We were the only ones there it was that early. Nevertheless the food was fantastic, service was OK, the place itself is ok also. You're really there for the food.

General Tao on chicken fried rice combo is better than a happy ending massage from one of the waitresses

Make sure you check the receipt. They automatically charge you for gratuity, and won't tell you. The machine will also ask you to add a tip. The food was super delicious, the service not so good.