My Wonderful Kitchen

I’m very unimpressed with this place. First of all, when parked, the door and signs facing highway 7. THIS IS THE BACK… WTF? The door only said «please use other entrance» without any signs that tell you where to go. My lost ass wandered around until I peeked in like a creeper and saw that people were exiting in the back. Ugh.
When walking in, there’s a man just sitting at a desk but he’s not a host. he’s literally just there. He looked up at us and had a look like «why are you just standing here.» until he eventually pointed us in through this long and dreary hallway, where we were surprised to see tables situated along the side of. how completely AWKWARD would it be sitting there. Definitely would NOT like to see any random faces staring me down as they pass by while I’m enjoying a meal. Lucky for me, it doesn’t look like I’ll be enjoying anything here anytime soon.
Upon sitting down (8pm), we were informed that we can’t get the thing we came for (those heavenly pics of the baked spaghetti, carbonara. in the brick toast). Apparently anything ‘western’ style was off limits because that chef had closed kitchen. Ummmm… but your restaurant closes at 11pm. There’s a first for everything and that was a first I’ve heard of a kitchen closing 3hrs early. She told me that chef finishes work at 7pm while the other one who can do all the other dishes is still working. HUH??? The dishes are not in any means ‘difficult’ to make, so would it be that difficult hiring somebody who can do both? Or training both chefs to make all dishes on the menu? So inconvenient.
We ended up ordering pineapple and soft-​shelled crab fried rice and this chicken/​corn soup. I also had this ice cream coffee thing because I was craving naughty foods. They were both meh and definitely something we could’ve gotten a bigger portion of for a cheaper price at congee queen. The soft-​shell crab was saltier than the ocean it came from. We didn’t 100% finish any of the dishes before leaving because our appetites were just not having it.
+1 for service because honestly they were very nice and smiley, something you don’t witness a lot in chinese restaurants. They smiled through the pain of a screaming child (who I almost cussed out) so props to them.

Location:
This place is within walking distance to my house, so there is zero parking anxiety. I do know there is a lot of parking. Behind you cn find a wee parking garage and you can park in the lot next door and take a (not so) secret staircase to get to here.
The building in on highway 7, you can tell newbies (I did it too so I’m not judging) because they come around to the highway 7 side and try to get in. There’s no door there, it’s around back.
Décor:
The place is bright and modern. as you are ushered into the main dining room you pass by booths that are always filled with people, tables loaded with delicious looking and amazing smelling dishes. I found my self wondering what wonderful things these people were eating. in the main dining room you have the option of round tables, booths, or the booth/​table hybrids.
Menus are in english and cantonese. The décor is nice. They have a neat wall that’s covered in cutting boards. The tables are close together but not jammed in like you find at some other restaurants. This is a nicer place, someplace you bring people you like.
Food:
The food is great. There was a special on a chicken in wine soup. I was just recovering from a cold so we got it. Kinda neat. They brought out a hot plate, the kind with a fire, and then put a covered pot with a clear liquid and some twigs and berries in it. Had it boil up for a while. Then the guy tell my friend to watch out. Bam!!! GIANT FIRE BALL! He set the liquid on fire. It was pretty awesome.
Dinner AND a show!
Talk about a show, they brought out black chicken, Never had that before. Raw it looked a bit like eggplant while cooked it looked a little bit like the creature from alien.
I seriously love the restaurants in my neighbourhood.
We also had sweet and sour pork. Served in a PINEAPPLE. Nice. Also had a vegetable dish with some beige sauce and pumpkin or some other squash. It was delicious. Would have never ordered it on my own. Yum.
My favourite was the salty spicy tofu. Will be ordering that every time I go. Finally we also got a hotpot rice, with chicken. It came last when we were almost done.
I have to say every thing was delicious.
Staff:
The staff were great. They wear neon name tags. Lighted up. Lots of staff.
Verdict:
I give this place two thumbs up. :)

We ordered the baked rice toast box with chicken & black pepper sauce and a sliced fish & preserved egg congee.
Congee was pretty standard as expected but this place seems to be known for its savoury toast boxes so I had high expectations going in. In the end, I wasn’t disappointed but wasn’t overly impressed either. The rice and sauce were good and consistent with what you would find at any HK café. I liked the contrast of flavours between the savouriness of the sauce and the sweetness of the toast. However, my boyfriend didn’t like that the sauce made the toast soggy and said that the chicken was quite dry.
In the end, not a bad meal. This place goes pretty heavy on the oil and salt though so you might want to order lighter side dishes!

Nothing to write home about. One of the true test of going to this type of restaurants is to have the baked pork chop rice/​spaghetti. Came here for afternoon tea and ordered exactly that and was disappointed that it was just like any other. First of all, it was not even baked. Not even for one minute to crisp the top of the sauce. The pork was alright, but no taste if it wasn’t for the sauce. Spaghetti was alright, but made the dish watery as previously stated in other reviews. The cup of milk tea tasted well enough, but was small compared to other restaurants like this. I would not come here unless I was already in the neighborhood.

Food isn’t that good. Service is terrible and prices are high for the food quality. The restaurant is huge, so you better pray you get seated somewhere the waitresses can see you or you’re never going to get your order in. The parking lot for this place is also a nightmare on the weekends.

Entrance to the restaurant was confusing. The service was poor and slow some servers lacking in communication since they only speak Mandarin. The portions were small for stir fried noodles and was also small for the plate of vegetables. After going through a few dishes we ordered and finished eating, we were missing fried rice and seafood congee. The fried rice didn’t come out until 15 mins after and the seafood congee never made it out at all so we cancelled. Overall, not a good first time experience and food was mediocre.

Food: ⁷⁄₁₀ — Value: ⁷⁄₁₀ — Service: ⁷⁄₁₀ — Ambiance/​Décor: ⁸⁄₁₀
Wi-​fi password is 9 058 891 088.
For a Chinese diner-​ish place, it’s pretty nicely decorated. Staff have LED marquee name tags and it’s comfortable inside. The red vertical lights on the outside have a pleasant strip club vibe. Counter-​intuitively, you have to drive to the back of the restaurant to enter because you can’t enter where all the lights and restaurant sign are.
If you’re sitting near the front of the restaurant in that awkward row of tables, it’s going to be rough; you might never get service. The last time I went and sat further in though, they had buttons at our table, so maybe they have these at the front too, which would solve that problem.
My favourite thing here is the box toast, fried rice, meat, and sauce dish. It’s best with ketchup/​tomato sauce; the white cream sauce is not flavourful enough and doesn’t seem to go with everything else. The first time I had this dish, it was so good. The toast was so crispy and tasty.
Most recently, it was too oily and I felt like such a slob after eating maybe half of it. The meat also had a bit of an old taste to it.
So maybe it’s hit or miss. It’s probably one of the more refined Chinese diners but the service and food can sometimes be spotty.

I like this place as it always has suprises for me. The food is very authentic to South East Asia, especially congee /​soup. Not a lot of Hong Kong style café in Richomd Hill could make the taste as such. Price range is pretty decent.

3.5 stars
We tried the chicken with pepper sauce in brick bread, the pepper sauce was good, very peppery; chicken was was a bit salty & dry. The brick bread was deep fried so it tasted like Chinese oil stick 油炸鬼 which made the dish super filling. It was a great idea with good presentation.
We also tried chicken congee with egg white… I guess they used the same seasoning to marinated their chicken because it tasted the same as above chicken dish. I didn’t expect a salty chicken in congee to be honest with u. When I ordered congee, I wanted it light with a hint of salt only… This is just my personal preference.
We also ordered rice in hot pot; it took over 20 mins to prepare the dish as warned by the waiter so we had no complain about the wait time. Hm… I don’t think they cooked the rice/​dish directly in the clay pot because there was no charred burned rice at the bottom?!? Steamed may be… I don’t know… may be some people would like it because it was light, healthier & less oily. But if u expected to eat charred burned rice at the bottom of the clay pot; u would be disappointed.
We also tried street eat steamed rice noodle rolls 街邊腸粉. It was good if they gave a bit more sesame sauce. You have to eat this fast, once it was cold, the rice noodle rolls would be harder. It was great to eat it when it was still steamy hot. Just a little note, the soy sauce was at the bottom so stir them before u eat.
The restaurant was clean and bright. Most of their wait staff have a big LED name tags lol first time to see it :). Customer service was good too
For sure, I will go back to try some more of their dishes.

Been here once before. Tonight was our second time here. Nice décor inside. Service ain’t half bad. The food ain’t half bad either. Typical Chinese cuisine options from congee to noodles to rice. All kinds of assortments. Recommendation for dining here during a Friday evening or any evening during the weekend… Go earlier than 6 PM, otherwise good luck finding parking for your vehicle ‘cuz this restaurant is situated on Highway 7 and people who know the area know Highway 7.

Not a big fan of this place at all. The place is nice and the seating area is cool and fun to be at. But the food is not my type I had a plate of sweet chicken and they were not impressive the thing that I really did not like is the soup. They had special soup for 3 99 which I assumed is a good deal as all the other soups are like 10 buck. Anyways the soup I ordered was pork soup which was horrible they guy brought a whole station to keep the soup warm and stuff but the soup itself was bad. And I mean bad it is water with bones and the water did not taste good at all. My refunded toon when u come to this place is not to order the soup.

A: Let’s go to My Wonderful Kitchen.
B: But you don’t have any food in your fridge.
A: Exactly! Let’s go.
Vibrant playful décor, half full dining room, 1 to 4 staff-​tables ratio.
No CP24, no Fairchild, no TVpad, not my style of HK café/​kitchen.
Not much that’ll give me the go-​ahead to map the place for you.
On my return, I shall choose the following:
N01. Baked Rice with Pork Chop served in Bread Loaf (Tomato Sauce)
— Meaty, carby, saucy, greasy, umami, filling, wonderful.
— Perfect for a growing boy (singular, max 2 ppl not really).
— Makes you wonder why others only fill soup in bread bowls.
Complimentary dessert
— It’s free
— It’s tiny
— But free

Lots of selections. I would definitely like to come back to try a bit more items.
We ordered K01 Fried Taiwanese vermicelli with dried scallop & chicken. The noodles were a bit dry. Fried shrimp was tasty. Service was extremely fast (food arrived in 5 mins) and the waiter was pleasant and helpful when it came to what to order. I would love to come back for the baked spaghetti bolognaise… my usual favourite at these hk café type restaurants.

*Insert unoriginal get back to the kitchen joke*
Great place for groups. Wonderful décor. I ordered the Crispy chicken (picture below) Not what I expected. I thought it’s breaded, fried boneless chicken. It was pretty tasty so I’m not complaining. My friend ordered spicy beef and said that he loved it.
They had a huge bowl of pork bone soup for $ 3.99. Sounds like a sweet deal but trust me its not worth it as it tastes like meh. Order a decent soup from their soup menu or don’t order soup at all

This place is a modern HK tea café… a menu with a twist!
I wanted to come here mostly for the brick toast with pork chop and ketchup sauce on fried rice. it was delicious!.. but very filling. and greasy… definitely could feed 3 – 4 people.
This place also has afternoon tea specials that come with a beverage, great value… as a nice bonus, you can choose a dessert (¼ of a waffle with ice cream or mango pudding).
Overall, this place is great for typical fried rice, noodles, snack dishes… I don’t know if I would come here for the dinner seafood dishes.

Not sure why some ratings are so harsh on this place but it’s always packed whenever I go. Their food is what you came here for… Hk style food. I liked their lobster though. It’s a big place so wait time is usually not too long.

This place should really be called My Interesting Kitchen.
They have interesting menu items for sure, like a curry served in the middle of a piece of thick toast (the core is removed so that only the crust remains to hold the curry inside). Or honey & black pepper fried oysters, served on little slices of bread.
The dishes have cute names, too, like the «Brokenhearted Pork Chops».
The issue I had was in the execution: everything was oddly bland. Oddly, you say? The salted egg yolk-​covered, fried fish balls were mushy on the inside — I suspect they were simply boiled in hot water for a very long time. The salted egg yolks were weirdly barely salty.
The only item that really tasted of anything was the beef curry, which tasted of spiciness (I’d say a ⁵⁄₁₀ spicy factor) but not much else.
The HK milk tea and honey lemon iced tea were also very bland and watered down.
In brutal honesty, it feels like the chef has never actually sampled their own dishes before serving it. Which is too bad, because I think this place has potential. Maybe that’s why the pork chop has a broken heart…

We always drive by this place when we’re around Highway 7. Finally decided to give it a try. Think Congee Wong, not as good food but better atmosphere and appearance.
Pros:
Restaurant has great décor and atmosphere, very professional looking
Portions on their rice and noodle dishes are huge
Cons:
Prices are a little higher
Food is average at best
When you drive in, you notice that the side facing the street is not the entrance. You need to drive all the way round back to find the main entrance. As soon as you get in though, you notice this place is huge. There are plenty of seats. The décor is very nice as well. This place’s main selling point in my opinion is how it looks and feels. It’s very modern looking like a expensive restaurant should be. The seat s are some of the more comfortable seats I’ve sat in recent memory. Everything about this place tries to shout fine dining.
As soon as I sit down I l glance over at the table next to us. I see they’ve ordered a fired noodle. What I notice more is the plate it’s on. It’s huge and they filled it all the way. I have never seen an order of noodles that big. We order a noodle ourselves, a plate of veggies, clams (on recommendation by the server) and a soup. My Wonderful Kitchen offers a soup for $ 3.99 that’s served in a clay pot over a burner. Most places might offer soup for free, but the soup here and how it’s done is worth the 4 dollars.
The food altogether was a little underwhelming. It’s OK, but it doesn’t match the atmosphere level of this place. I found a lot of the dishes to be over salted. The clams that were recommended were nothing special at all. It was my least favourite actually. Don’t get me wrong, none of them were particularly bad, but nothing I would recommend myself. The soup was my fav, it was a little weird paying for soup, but well worth it.
My Wonderful Kitchen is one of the best looking Chinese restaurants I’ve ever been too. If the food could match that level is would definitely be 5 star review. You will still enjoy yourself, but I think the atmosphere sets your expectations way too high for the food to impress you.

My Wonderful Kitchen wasn’t that wonderful.
At first I thought it is a lunch and dinner restaurant, but instead it’s a Hong Kong café /​congee and noodle place with a modern twist. Therefore we ordered the wrong type of dishes for dinner. I should have looked around and ordered what other people ordered such as fried rice and noodles.
Atmosphere:
The restaurant looked clean and the seats were comfortable. Lots of space and so I expected a little more from this restaurant.
Food:
— «A» Choy (Taiwanese Lettuce) with fried dace with salted black beans
Bad choice #1! The «A» Choy was OILY, wilted, not crunchy and very salty overall. Seriously you need a lot of oil to cook A choy but if the wok is hot enough, the vegetable will absorb the oil and still be crunchy. I had the same dish at New Choice two days before I went to My Wonderful Kitchen. Hands down New Choice had better «wok hei» and tasted much better.
I looked over to another table to their Sautee Vegetable (Yau Choy) and from far away, I could see the oil sheen. Defeat the purpose of having vegetables if they are using that much oil.
— Chicken and Chestnuts in Clay Pot
Bad choice #2! I had a bad feeling when the clay pot wasn’t sizzling. Simply put, the clay pot wasn’t hot enough to make this dish wonderful. The chicken was fillet instead of chicken with bones, and covered in very thick breading. The chestnuts weren’t cooked long enough to be melty and sweet. Also I bet there were more onions than all the chicken and chestnuts added together.
— Stuffed Portuguese Chicken Fried Rice in Bread Toast
The stuffed bread toast was the main reason we wanted to try this restaurant out. It was a good looking on all the photos I came across.
Turned out to be bad choice #3!!!The Portuguese Chicken Fried Rice was okay, but he fried rice tasted really weird with the bread toast. The toast was coated with something sweet so it tasted like the Sweet Fried Dough /​Ox-​tongue pastry (牛脷酥) for congee. The sweetness and the Portuguese sauce didn’t go well together. The dish was way too oily and too filling.
— Mango Sago Dessert
The complimentary dessert was the only thing that was good. It comes in small shooter glass and it wasn’t too sweet.
I went home and had an upset stomach. The food were all too oily for me. With the choices of restaurants along Hwy 7, I don’t think I would and need to come here again.

Great food and nice clean and modern place. I haven’t tried that many dishes here, but my favourite is the claypot rice. Please note that this will take 25 – 30 mins, so order this first! This rice is authentic and comes out piping hot. Leave the rice in the pot for a bit and you would get the crispy rice along the outer side. The soya sauce was not too salty and really sweet, perfect complement to the rice. The sausage and spare ribs were okay.
I liked the barbecue pork and duck, although it was a bit salty and fatty. And I like the fried taiwanese vermicelli with dried scallop. I can’t wait to try the baked rice in block toast and I can’t believe they serve waffles here, the kids love it. Overall, the dishes were up to standards, the décor is okay. The service from the staff was meh. And they didn’t accept credit cards for us.