Hakka Spice — Restaurant in Mississauga

Updated Jan-2018 The Manchurian was again amazing the sauce/gravy is the star of the dish. The Hot n Sour Soup was great, a little bit more spicy hot for the family, however perfect for me. The Szechuan Paneer Fried Rice was for the family and they loved it. The spice again a bit on the higher side than expected, but good. However we requested NO eggs in the Fried Rice and towards the end we found a few pieces of eggs. All Indian restaurant chefs know that one DOES NOT put eggs in a Vegetarian dish. Disappointing to say the least

Review notes from an earlier visit Was in the neighbourhood and daughter was looking for something not fast food. Had been to Longo's nearby and seen this sign a week ago. Decided to give it a try, but wanted something to take home.

The inside is still not ready as of yet. The decor inside seems incomplete and does not seem to be a place where you can still eat in. When inquired found out that the restaurant had opened less than three weeks ago. Once complete would surely give it a try.

Picked up a Veggie Manchurian and a Vegetarian Fried Rice. No waiters just the owner/manager busy with some big takeout order. The Manchurian comes with an order of steamed rice.

The Manchurian was spot on. Perfectly spiced, good flavour. The pakoras was a bit soggy for us, but perhaps it was take out. The Fried Rice was amazing. The rice was long grain rice and not sticky rice kind. The rice not at all greasy which we like. The spices used was different and came out authentic Hakka taste; Indian Style. Not too spicy and perfect blend of rice and spices. The veggies couldn't have been a bit more.

The plain rice was good.

All in all, good food, averagely priced. But the taste was amazing. Can't wait to come back and try other dishes and perhaps...

I used to go here all the time, but after my last experience, I will not be going back.

I placed an order using their app for dinner before 7pm. I mentioned in the notes it was for dining in. I called just to confirm that they received the order, and they explained that ordering through the app meant the meal was strictly for takeout, but would make an exception this one time since I didn't know (and because it wasn't listed on the app anywhere).

A few minutes later I received a call from Hakka Spice stating that I wouldn't receive the 10% because I was dining in, which I said was fine, but I confirmed that the order would be ready by 8:15pm because we had somewhere to be directly after, and they said yes.

When we arrived at 8:10pm, the table was ready. After twenty minutes the appetizers (pakoras) came out. After another 30 minutes the soup came out, and then 45 minutes after the mains started coming out. We mentioned that the service was slow, and that we had ordered in advance to avoid this issue with our server who took things personally and told us that she spoke to someone on the phone about the app (which has nothing to do with the slow service especially considering how few people were dining in, and how early we had placed the order). I also could tell the server was annoyed with us even though we had been nothing short of polite even after waiting an hour and a half for mains.

We ended up paying the 10% discounted on the app before leaving, and received a very disingenuous apology about the slow service followed by "ordering on the app means takeout". Like thanks, we know now. That's something you need to...

I'm not sure about how can someone rate this place so good. Food was awful, forget about hakka Chinese I would seriously doubt if their chef knows how to cook food or what good food is. Sweet corn soup was super sweet and full of cornstarch. Chilli Chicken was crunchy deep fried chicken in some tasteless spicy sauce. Chilli paneer was equally bad in same sauce. The best thing I liked about this restaurant was they're plain rice offered with food and their staff who served us very well because we were the only customers there. It was dinner time and for the full 45 minutes we were there, neither did any customer show up nor they got any phone call for a takeout order. Guys beware!!! don't fall for the reviews like we did and stay away from this place. Trust me there are much better hakka Chinese food restaurants in the area and Google is your friend. Update: I really appreciate the owner taking out time to reply on my review. I never said the reviews were fake but all I wanted to say was that after reading all the reviews, I ended up going to this restaurant and compared to other Hakka restaurants, I did not like this restaurant's food at all. The servers and staff were cheerful and courteous and I would have felt guilty if I would have given a bad feedback about the food right...