Lin's Chinese restaurant — Restaurant in Antigonish

Having recently moved to Antigonish, this is the second Chinese food establishment I've tried. I walked in for the order and had my order promptly taken and food ready within 15 mins. Very courtious staff. I ordered two different combo plates and an order of sweet and sour shrimp.

Ok...on to the food. When I opened the box of shrimp, my wife thought they were donuts. They were huge, but it was just an illusion (see pics). When I bit into one, it was all dough. Eventually, I struck protien, a disappointing small shrimp that was sliced in half longways. It was dry and flavorless. I think these things were in a freezer far beyond a reasonable amount of time. Even if they were fresh, there is no value here. It's just a box of deep fried dough with very little old, tasteless shrimp.

The egg rolls were average at best. They were soggy and lacked any real fresh taste.

The chicken fried rice has an odd oily taste. I'm not sure what they fried the rice in, but it wasn't to my liking.

The egg rolls, like the shrimp noted above where too doughy. It took a while to find a nugget of chicken. The taste was ok and the best of what we had, but we ended throwing 60% of the content out. Again, no value here, just expensive dough.

The chowmein was also oily and not fresh tasting. It too looked old and beyond its peak freshness.

This is not the place for me. The food is too oily, doughy, and lacks fresh flavour. The staff it great but doesn't make up for the quality of...

Ridiculous, call up to order, I finally get a answer after all week trying to get threw if you don't order by 6:30 forget about it they just turn the sign off and don’t answer the phone… so tonight they got no rice for the chicken fried rice.. and to top it all off they don't even have sweet and sour sauce for their chicken balls! This place is delicious… but absolutely the worst customer service i have ever seen in antigonish! I try to get this after work because after 6:30 of working all day i don't feel like cooking… and this just topped it off tonight! Get...

We ordered dinner from Lin's. The food was prepared quickly. The chicken fried rice was very good. The wife liked the egg rolls. but we found the rest of our meal to be OK, but not as good as the above mentioned. Maybe it was just an off night. Be that as it may, I really would rate Lin's at 3.5 stars. But there is only 3 or 4. Maybe they would be better on another night. But we were just passing through and can't try them again. Let me be clear. Lin's was pretty good, but not really great for us. So that's why I rated...