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Lin Garden

Posted by Staff / Listed on August 15, 2012 / review policy

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lin garden torontoLin Garden serves up Indian Chinese favourites such as pakoras and chilli chicken, and you can expect weekend line-ups for take-out. Although the ambiance of the space itself isn't particularly impressive, the price and size of the dishes are worth a return visit. As well, be sure to try their house special shrimp.

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gristle / January 27, 2010 at 08:18 pm
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I love this place and eat here regularly. My favs are the sweet and sour chicken and the chicken fried rice. I recommend this place to everyone who likes Hakka food, and it's really cheap too with huge portions!
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Marcel / February 18, 2010 at 11:55 pm
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Chili chicken
Crispy Beef
House Shrimp
Green Beans

8 words that never disappoint.
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Asad / July 31, 2010 at 12:54 am
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I went to this restaurant after reading the reviews for this place, and although I was not expecting much, I am very non picky, and usually enjoy myself. However, I found the experience so terrible, I actually decided to write this critique, which is the first time I have done so. The food was awful, especially the chilli fish. Everything we ate was under seasoned, and soaked in oil. They managed to ruin everything including the "prawn" crackers, which were floating in oil. The chicken corn soup was the only dish which was palatable, however it was not very hot. I had read about the terrible service, and the horror stories about the staff, and it was all true. I would not have minded the poor service if they had good food, but they didnt, and it was the final nail in the coffin.
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Charm / November 18, 2010 at 09:19 pm
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I totally agreed with Asad! Not sure why this place is so popular. I went there only only and will never come back again. The food are all very oily and and most of them are deep fried and then drenched in sauce. That was the worst Chinese meal I ever have!
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Bash / August 18, 2011 at 06:46 pm
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This place is horrible, it was good when they first opened. I gave it a second and third chance and the food is still bad. I have no idea why people go here. I bought chilli chicken on two occasions and got pieces of batter with no chicken, on another occasion i got one big glob of flour and chicken stuck together. This place is really bad. I read other reviews about this place and the had the same experience as me. Oh yeah the food is oily!! I got take out and they took forever to get my food, the host then asked if I wanted to leave a tip???? I was confused as hell.
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Mr Mag / December 13, 2011 at 10:34 pm
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This place should have 2 stars at best. The place is a pig sty, the service is ridiculous, rude, bad tempered, arrogant, and it seems, racist. The food is very very oily, and the overall appearance of the place feels like your in a back alley somewhere. I tried it for the last time, my third time, tonight, I went in at 10, and the said they were closed, I asked what time they closed, the rude old pocked marked guy who seems to always mutter, told me 10, then I showed him the front of his menu that said 11, and he just said, not tonight. Needless to say, if your in a costumer service based industry, you should try to be polite, in the very least. Not worth your time, not worth you money, not worth even existing.
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Stayclassy / January 16, 2012 at 11:09 am
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I used to frequent Lin Garden pretty often but I find it's gone downhill. I found a long black hair in my fried rice a few years ago so I took a break from it and then about six months ago my husband found another hair in the crispy beef - we felt sick and threw all the food away. I won't be returning.
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lyn replying to a comment from Charm / July 10, 2012 at 11:37 pm
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Went into Lin Garden today (Tuesday July 10th at 6:00pm) to pick up dinner and ordered two dishes (unfortunately), Hakka noodles and Manchurian noodles -brought them home, only to open the bag and discover a ungodly stench coming from the noodles. The noodles had an extremely moist texture and seemed to have a certain slime to them. The owner linked the rotten noodles to the fact that it is summer and it is hot outside, after this first explanation he quickly changed his mind suggesting more ridiculous alternatives. i.e. it was likely a single noodle that had gone bad (a single noodle? that spawn across both boxes of noodles?!) They insisted on profusely arguing that it was a simple error and attempted to assure us they had gotten rid of the 'bad' batch of noodles. Just a disgusting experience all together.
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KiKi / April 9, 2013 at 06:08 pm
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I don't understand why people commenting here negatively (hair in food, spoiled food, etc.), would not report this establishment to Toronto Public Health? It sounds like a surprise inspection would be warranted with all of the complaints.

We've ordered takeout previously...several years ago and never had any issues. Found the food to be fresh. We had the green beans, sticky white rice, chili chicken and chili beef.
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1806 Pharmacy Avenue (Get Directions)
416.491.8484
Scarborough
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