半島餐廳 Ho Garden Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Markham

I grew up eating Ho Garden, all the way back when they were still located at Alton Towers. I luv how the family members all worked together to run this business.

Prices are fair and reasonable. Some of the food items are hit and miss but most of the time, they do deliver. I enjoyed it here. When you come here, you are not looking at fancy decor or superb service, but the comfort and casual dining. And this place brings nostalgic memories.

I always come here and order the "All-Day Combo" that has the fried egg sandwich, satay beef soup noodles and hot yin-yang. The fried egg sandwhich always made to the perfection when it's runny and steamy hot, it's thickness is amazing. The satay beef is nice as well.

Today, for some reason, I craved for congee so I ordered the breakfast combo which comes with century egg salty pork congee + bean sprouts stir fry ho fun noodles. This combo doesn't come with a hot beverage which I am ok. The congee itself is nicely prepared and smooth and steamy hot. However, it lacks enough ingredients and the pork seemed to be big pieces and not marinated enough as you can smell and taste the boiled pork smell, which I hate. Ho Fun was nicely stir fryed, you can smell and taste the "Wok He" and wok skillz, bean sprouts was crunch. The combo portion was so big that I have to bring ho fun home.

I also like to order the ham soup macaroni. The Hainanese chicken with oil rice and ginger/scallion is delicious.

For afternoon tea, I like to order the beef brisket tendon and shrimp wonton soup noodles.

I don't really dine here for dinner time, as I mostly visited for breakfast, lunch or afternoon...

Decided to try this HK style restaurant. Mistake. We ordered the signature chicken rice dish, beef brisket fried vermicelli and pork and egg congee. The meals come with Chinese or western style soup and a drink. Price was reasonable. The chicken in the rice dish was literally chopped up backs of a chicken. Barely any meat and all bone. Unlike any of the pictures of the chicken from other reviewers. Looks like our dish may have been an anomaly?? Phoenix restaurant has the best chicken rice dish.The beef brisket was ok not a lot flavour. The vermicelli noodle was fried and retained the shape of the bottom of the cooking vessel. We couldn't pull it apart - it was a clump of sticky noodles. Weird. The congee came after about 30 mins and there was about 2 small pieces of pork and about half of a preserved duck egg. The bowl was piping hot though. The menu was filthy and sticky. The server was efficient but could not be described as friendly. The tea with lemon came 30 mins after the first dish arrived. This restaurant would be a good pick for those who enjoy bland food with no discernable msg. First...

I ordered black pepper pork chop on spaghetti right off the menu (no special requests) and the chef got it wrong twice. The waitress came out with bolognese spaghetti with pork cutlet, which is completely different from what I ordered, as the sauce is different and the pork was different too. The waitress asked if it's okay and I sent it back because it's not what I ordered. After 15 minutes, they came out with black pepper spaghetti on pork cutlet, which is still not what I ordered. What was horrifying was that you can tell they washed the sauce off the noodles and just put black pepper sauce on top because there were red stains from the bolognese sauce. I sent it back again because that's unacceptable. They finally got my order right the third time. I want to point out that the restaurant wasn't busy at the time and there were maybe 3 tables there. I drank Ovaltine and it tasted like water, no amount of sugar helped. Also they spilled soup on the jacket of the lady beside me. Very dissatisfied with the service and the food here. I will not be...