Toy sun Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Tasmania

Don't you just love being able to leave honest reviews after horrendous dining experiences?!? I just wish Id thought of reading some before we entered Toy Sun Chinese restaurant in Wynyard. Hmmmm where to start... The girl who served us tonight was lovely... Really nice. Couldn't fault her... But I feel sorry for her. How embarrassed must she have felt to witness a table full of faces hastily lean in towards each plate with squinted eye, looking for the meat. The child's sized plate of scarcely fried rice with 1 peice of ham in it was a joke right?!?!

My husband and 3 growing boys have manners; they don't 'guts out'. They leave enough for the next person. But here's the thing. I was the last to dig in to the original meager offerings. Disappointment only escalated after this point. On scraping up the last of the Mongolian beef to the sweet sweet sounds of my youngest declaring "I LEFT THE BIGGEST PEICE FOR YOU MUMMY!", I discovered that the 'biggest peice' now on my spoon was, infact, just a big peice of brown, sauce covered onion. Not a single shred of beef in sight. Dark sauce on a dark plate hides so much. We worked out that there were exactly 8 thin slices of beef in that $25 dish. Luckily they give you finger bowls to eat out of. Clever mind trickery there. Full bowl; full tummy.

Was the honey chicken supposed to taste like that?!?! Guess we'll soon see.

Then there's my hot and sour soup. It had canned prawns in it. Yep! Sad isn't it. It's Tasmania guys! Wynyard is a seaside town and you are cracking open tinned prawns?!?! And thanks for dumping half a packet of frozen peas in there! I don't even like peas! And im still looking for the mushrooms...pork...egg... Tofu...bamboo shoots...

But wait, there's more! $4 for a pot of jasmine tea??? Pricey, given it's only water and leaves!!! You can only imagine how much I regretted offering to share the pot with my husband when she presented me with my "teapot". It was the size of a regular tea CUP...and the tea cups themselves, were not much bigger than an egg cup. I had to laugh. I really laughed my head off! Suffice it to say, I really wish we'd gone across the street...

Service is lovely - thank you :) Lunch special $30 for two people ordering straight from the menu no alterations. Small portions on children's plates. Lemon chicken had been pre battered and fried, in fact it had the same textured as a softened corrugated cardboard stack. A very small stack as not much chicken were harmed in the making of my chicken dish. Meagre sauce offering. Fried rice dry and a tiny portion. So so dry. And tasteless. I added salt pepper and soy sauce in attempt to bring joy to my plate. Nothing can make up for dry crusty rice though. We also had a combination chop suey- dark brown - exceptionally salty gravy, frozen vegetables and a quick game of find the meat. A short game because there were little to find. One piece of beef. My pensioner mother doesn't complain a great deal but.... I'm a fairly slight person and not a huge eater but I were left wanting also.... got a sandwich elsewhere. We love supporting small town chinese restaurants but we wouldn't be returning to this one. The service were...

Ordered two dishes and fried rice. Wife had a chicken dish and I had Mongolian sizzling beef. The dish was certainly sizzling and there was lots of onion and leek in it but not much beef at all. I generally love country Chinese restaurants and I always order sizzling Mongolian as it's normally my favourite dish. This one was so gluggy with sauce and hardly any meat. The worst I've had.The fried rice was just ok but a tiny amount for the $8.50 cost. To top it all off I ordered ONE glass of Coke but the bill showed charge of $6 for two Cokes! Bill was adjusted when I questioned it but no apology. Quite a sad experience that won't be repeated! Ironically we are about to become locals for part of the year as we've bought a holiday house in a nearby village. It would have been nice to think we had a good local Chinese restaurant. I rated the atmosphere as a 1 star because the dining room was empty (funny that!) and screened off from the front door and the street,...