Canada Cafe — Restaurant in Merritt

My boyfriend and his family are Chinese, so we thought we would try Canada Cafe. We got to the restaurant, and we found the overall experience quite disappointing. We had the two people working who I presume are the owners go to the back for 15 minutes at a time (restaurant and take out was not busy from what we could see). We had to ask after we did eventually get our meals for plates, serving spoons, and chopsticks as we waited 10+ minutes with them in the back again. When we needed assistance, we needed to wait 15 minutes for one of the people to come out and ask. We never recieved any water to start for anyone at the table. I have a gluten allergy, and i got told a dish was "gluten free" after my boyfriend's dad translated no wheat and no soy sauce, but the singapore rice noodle did in fact have wheat and braised pork in it-i got sick later that night; according to my boyfriend, my meal out of the 4 dishes we had was the best flavour and could have used more spice-my overall rating for flavour would be 3.5-4/5 for my dish. Overall, it was a very mediocre dinner. Unfortunately, we will not be going back as there was no gluten free options; the service was poor and felt like they couldn't be bothered as we never received waters to start or offered a refill on our drinks we did eventually get; and the food was not the best (according to other people...

Ordered takeout from here twice and consistently disappointed. First visit the shrimp & mushroom fried rice was bland - had to add soy sauce to enhance it. Thing is, I ordered shrimp & mushroom chow mein, but didn't say anything as I also like fried rice. Well, not this one.

The 2nd experience was more unsettling. While waiting for my food (wasn't ready on time), I noticed they slightly overcharged me. Not a big deal and wasn't looking for a refund, but just thought I'd point it out because of the price discrepancy on the menu. The guy kept telling me that that price didn't include tax. I told him the total was still incorrect. I only ordered 2 items so told him to add them together and add 5% GST to see what the total should be. He still couldn't get it.

More disturbing is that he made no effort to socially distance from me while talking, and wasn't wearing a mask. None of the staff were for that matter, including the cooking staff (his parents) in the kitchen. I would have been more forgivable if the chow mein was good, but it too was bland. And spring rolls saturated with grease.

The combination of bland food and lack of Covid precautions is a big red flag. Stay Away! Their competition, Crystal Restaurant, has a much more flavorful chow mein with a generous serving of shrimp. And they are taking Covid...

Ordered chow Mein sweet and sour pork deep fries prawn and fried wontons Chow mein was very good along with deep fried prawns Sweet and soup pork was hard and dry and sauce was bland and didn’t taste like normal sweet and sour sauce ? Fried wontons were tasty had bits of chicken in them but were fried to a crisp and chewy A staff member was very ackward when picking up made me feel very comfortable could not understand s what they are saying half time They had 3 debit machine 2 which where broken and 1 that was out in delivery so only option was to pay cash or wait very...