PING'S Home Made Chinese Food — Restaurant in Kawartha Lakes

We were visiting my dad this weekend and he wanted Chinese food. I can't eat gluten, so I avoid it. Having read an article about how Ping makes home cooked food, my dad gave her a call and she was happy to find me options I could eat. When we called back to place the order, she made sure we had lots of options. While we had to wait a bit longer due to high volume of orders (a good sign in my books) she kept us informed of our order status and apologized profusely.

When we got the food home and sat down to eat, it was delicious. Because I can't eat gluten, there was no soy sauce in the dishes (she put it on the side so everyone else could add it to their dishes) and my husband commented that he liked it because it wasn't salty at all which Chinese food often is. The vegetable dishes were filled with loads of fresh vegetables, and cooked to perfection. We ordered the beef and broccoli, chicken vegetable, and pork and bean sprout dishes along with chicken fried rice. The Hot and Sour soup was piping hot and just the right amount of heat. If you don't like spicy, I would choose the wonton soup. My kids ordered the wonton soup and loved it. We also got egg rolls and chicken balls for everyone (besides me) and they told me they were delicious. Sometimes chicken balls can be all batter, but as I watched my daughter cut hers in half I saw it was a very nice proportion of batter to meat. Even with precautions I always worry about feeling sick after eating out due to cross contamination but I felt great. She took my dietary restrictions very seriously. I also like that they don't use MSG. We will definitely be back as I have missed...

As someone who’s was originally from mainland China I’d have to say Ping’s is probably the most authentic restaurant in the area. You won’t find anything more like real Chinese food unless you go down to the Great Toronto Area.

I read some reviews about certain dishes that were consistency rated poorly, such as the chicken balls. Quite frankly, dishes like those don’t even exist in China, it’s simply not authentic Chinese food. I was honestly surprised to find fried chicken wings on the menu. However, other Chinese restaurants like Friendly’s nearby have adapted to provide well made fried foods like the mentioned chicken balls as a selling point to an alternative culture of consumers. This I must admit Ping’s may be a bit lacking, but if those are what I’m looking for I’d also be visiting the wrong place for it, like looking for water in the desert.

The style of cuisine offered here are foods you would find in their original form in China, particularly Northern regions. THAT is the amazing thing about Ping’s in a small town like Lindsay. Where Friendly’s and other nearby Chinese restaurants are more based upon southern Chinese cuizines and heavily adapted to Western tastes, Ping’s bring the most authentic taste you won’t find elsewhere in the area.

Ultimately, I understand some people may find it difficult to enjoy Ping’s such that the food differ greatly from local, more familiar meals, but if you do enjoy authentic Chinese food there are no better place than here. (Unless you...

This food was worth the 11 and 1/2 months wait. I work in Lindsay for 1 month a year over the holidays, and staying at a motel in town I need to eat somewhere. I've tried all the take-out restaurants in town, and in my opinion Ping's is by far superior to all the rest. They have lots of the same food that you may recognize, but the tastes are so different, so unique and so yummy. After talking with the super duper friendly owner, I came to realize that many of these dishes are Mandarin and not just Cantonese like many other Chinese restaurants; this explains the new, different wonderful flavours. This time I tried a few new dishes... I got their Shanghai noodles, and their Chinese sausage fried rice which was delightful; and of course after almost a year, all I could think about was they're Spicy Double Cooked Bacon Style Pork.... so I got it again and I was not disappointed...soooo worth the wait for sure.....I actually mixed the spicy pork dish with the Chinese sausage rice dish, and that was an explosion of flavours. I cannot wait to hit Pings one more time before I go home, and bring myself a few dishes to eat over the holidays.... after being away for a month I will not want to cook as soon as I get home, and Pings IS a wonderful solution. If you have not tried this place yet, you really...