Swatow Restaurant

My all time favorite restaurant. Great food, old school Cantonese style restaurant. I recommend lobster shrimp sauce with fried ricen and chili fry chicken wings.

Among the busiest restaurants in Toronto’s bustling Chinatown, its specialty dishes are the outstanding beef and tripe noodles equal to the best in Hong Kong. Packed throughout the day, patience needed for a scarce table while you enjoy the Chinatown buzz.

Believe these reviews.. UNBELIEVABLE FOOD. Flavour, value, authenticity. True Chinese food teeming with freshness and succulence. The entire trip to Toronto was made by this restaurant. WAIT THE 15-30 MINUTES INSTEAD OF GOING NEXT DOOR OR ELSEWHERE. Promise it is so worth it.

The balance of garlics and chiles and ginger and umami and everything in every dish was simply PERFECT. Best Chinese food in Canada swear to god.

Decent food, restaurant on smaller side and typical prices for downtown restaurant.

Not very greasy which is nice!

For 5 people it was around $30 with tips

This place dishes out old school Hong Kong food. As someone of HK origin, I have to come check this place out but this tiny restaurant always has a long line outside!

Is it gourmet? Not exactly but it does a great job capturing and recreating the essential HK tastes and experience. The food is good and plentiful but quite salty. Will be happy to come back.

This place is really bad. I trusted the Google reviews. Either people in Canada have no taste in food or just seriously rich af 😆
We paid roughly $65 for 2 person. We could have eaten a sushi buffet in that.
1. Extremely outrageous price for small quantity. I was surprised to find how much I got for this price.
2. Food does NOT look like is made with love. The taste of the food was Mehhh…
3. Customer service!! I Asked them about a specific noodle and they gave a different one and say they can’t change.

Not the best Saturday and experience for us.
I hope this help you if you rely on reviews like us.

Good, quick Chinese food! Big portions and fast service. The beef chow mein was the best. General Tao chicken was too sweet.