Canton Chinese Restaurant

Reviews

• Barry P.

  star star star star star_border 8 June 2026

  In for a quick hot and sour soup. Fair price for a bowl, full of many ingredients. While many of the ingredients are not traditionally in the hot & sour soup they work. The chef has got the hot/sour combination working well. If they had a bigger bowl or it was all you could eat I would order another. Very strong 4, recommended if you are an amateur of hot & sour or spicey soups.

• Lori A.

  star star star star star_border 4 June 2026

  I come to Canton for dim sum frequently, and have been coming for more than a decade. Decor and service is pleasant.
  
  I find the dim sum dishes very flavourful and there is a nice variety. One disappointment is the pan fried shrimp paste stuffed green peppers... because they no longer use green pepper. It was my favourite item. They use red pepper which is alright but not the same.
  
  Some favourites of mine are the deep fried fish cakes (little strips of firm fish, deep fried), calamari (very salty but I like it like that), curry beef samosa, deep fried shrimp wrap with mixed fruit salad dressing (it's mayo I think), sticky rice, steamed bean curd rolls, red bean paste cakes (flat and dry, but I like it), deep fried savoury triangles ("footballs", dough is crispy outside and gummy inside with sweet and savoury pork filling), and siu mi. Make sure to get some chili oil!

• Tracy T.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  My boyfriend's been raving about two particular dishes from here for the past few months, so we came here for my first dinner in Thunder Bay.
  
  These two dishes were: the yeung chow fried rice and the stir-fry vegetables and vermicelli.. and honestly, I don't get his hype. The rice was pretty good, fair. It was stir-fried so that each grain of rice was evenly coated, the texture of the rice was slightly al dente, and there were a fair number of shrimps. But the vegetables and vermicelli pot?! Dayuuuum, I swear they used half a bottle of oil to make that stir fry. The pores on my face had already began to clog from just staring into that pot of regret.
  
  In part, I would argue that my poor review of this place is because I'm a Chinese person who's from Markham (the Chinatown of GTA) so I've had much better Chinese food... but ironically, so is my boyfriend and yet he still claims that the food here is better. I guess in considering that it IS Thunder Bay, the food isn't bad but what I really couldn't get over was the ridiculous pricing. Closing in at around $15 for each dish, I couldn't help but to think of how the same thing back home would cost less than half that price.

• DJ F.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  Tried their dimsum specials and was a bit disappointing. Their siu-mai and dumplings were expensive for their sizes, our take-out orders didn't have any chopsticks and soy sauce. Compared to dumpling places we've been to, this is the least liked. Not going there again.

• Terri C.

  star star star star star 23 May 2026

  Amazing food, friendly service, extremely fresh dim sum. Their dim sum tastes fresh and homemade where as the neighboring Chinese restaurants taste defrosted.
  
  I definitely would come back here again!