Creekside Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Airdrie

My wife had told me we had ordered from this restaurant a few years ago. But I did not believe her because I typically always go back to a restaurant that I like. If I ever only go to a restaurant once it was for a reason.

Well after we picked up our pickup order and brought it home I remembered why. I did not go back here. We ordered a Szechuan chicken dish, black bean chicken dish and beef broccoli.

From my perspective there was 90% vegetables and 10% meat! Keep in mind each dish cost about $12.99. so, the cost of putting 90% vegetables and like 10% chicken is far less than what they charge for the dish yet they prepare the dish this way anyway.

Now maybe I'm not understanding something. It has been my experience when eating at Chinese restaurants that sometimes the dish is very much influenced by the region of China the chefs hell from.

But there's no excuse for them not giving us what we paid for. There's a reasonable expectation that the dish should at least be 50% meat and 50% vegetables. I later went back to check the reviews of this place and it has four stars on Google out of 184 reviews. However, one thing I noticed was that the one two star reviews did feature people who were upset about the composition of their dishes. When they were take out. They complained about how there was more vegetables than I was meat.

However, people who eaten at the buffet tended to have a better experience. So, what I would recommend to anybody who reads this review is to definitely be mindful of whether or not you're going to get what you pay for for takeout.

As you well all notice I am active in the Google review community so I would certainly encourage you to consider what I have written. However, I also understand that different people have different tastes and you may not agree with me after you have visited...

I'm pretty sure this is a family run restaurant. The food is fairly typical of westernized Chinese fare and is of similar quality to the other Chinese restaurants in town. The exception being the Peking duck which isn't common. The staff is what boosts this from 3-star to 4-star.

Ordered the Peking Duck three course meal and the ginger beef. I arrived when the food was to be ready and had to wait about half an hour for the food to be finished.

I was not upset by the wait at all. The lady running front-of-house explained the ducks they received were larger than usual so took longer to prepare. She gave me a Coke while I waited as a thank you for being patient. Really nice staff to deal with.

She gave me a box for the food and I am so glad she did. The food contained more duck than 3 people should eat, two large containers of soup, a large amount of duck fried rice, the ginger beef, and an extra serving of pancakes for the duck as another thank you for waiting.

The Peking duck was better than I was expecting. The fried rice was a bit dry. There were chunks of pineapple in the fried rice, which I don't like, but is a common practice I had forgotten about when placing the order.

I'll go back due to the service and...

I ordered my fave : beef ho fan noodles with black bean sauce. This is 1 of the dishes I gauge if I like the Chinese restaurant or not. Finding thru Google, I said I will try this resto out even though it's further from my house. I called the woman who took my order is super nice. Very friendly. Same as other big city Chinese resto, 20 to 25mins. I went to go get it, she was super nice. Had a little chat. To my surprise they do have certain dimsum as well! Whaaaa! Psyched! I got home took it out, at first glance I was like darn! Lots of onion and green pepper. Then, I see lots of balck beans! Then smell! It's getting more promising! The moment of truth! Tasted the first bite... I was like darn! I forgot to ask for chili oil. But it was good! I love it! Too bad they don't have bok choy or gai Lan with beef! Oh! That will be sooo good too! Well! I shall be returning needless to say I will try the MA Po Tofu! 2 thumbs up! This will be my to go to Chinese restaurant...