China Boat — Restaurant in New Glasgow

We were at the China Boat on September 20 or 21, 2021 passing through New Glasgow during our trip to Nova Scotia. I have to say the food was excellent and the service very quick. There seemed to be a lot of take-out orders as only three tables were occupied while we were there. We were the first customers to enter the restaurant. The only negative thing to say about our evening was the rudeness of the waitress. I do not understand how a restaurant owner can trust an employee like her to greet customers. Every time I asked her a question, she answered me rudely. I had read very good reviews on the food served at this restaurant and we wanted to eat Chinese food that night and that is why we decided to stay and ignore her behavior. We were very uncomfortable with her and I told my husband I would not leave any tips. Then two ladies entered the restaurant and were served the same as us. One of the ladies really didn't like her behavior and asked to see the boss and demanded to be served by the boss. The attitude of the waitress completely changed from that point on and we received better service after this event. We were very pleased with the food served. My husband suggested that I leave a tip anyway as he suspected the waitress was suffering from a mental health issue. Too bad for her...

This is a fairly good restaurant!

The interior is well decorated and modern with good spacing between tables! The menu is pretty straightforward and has a good variety.

Parking is good for the size of the restaurant and reasonably easy to maneuver in and out of.

Prices were fair.

We ordered a hot and sour soup, spring roll, dumplings and a set combo.

The soup was good, it's always good to see a good proportion of BBQ pork and some tofu in there. The flavors were as expected.

The spring roll was fair. Nothing super but not bad, very crunchy the filling could have been more various. The included amount of dipping sauce was ample though.

The dumplings were spot on, pork filled fried dumplings they also included a choice of various choices. I've never had that before we had the honey garlic but ended up putting soy sauce in there anyways it really is better!

The set combo was a chicken fried rice with 2 chicken sides. The portion was huge! The chicken balls were also spot on with a perfect batter to chicken ratio (lots of chicken). The other chicken side was also very very well portioned and had loads of veg and chicken in a...

Boy I so wish I didn't go here. The food is trash. We ordered two chicken fried rice and asked the lady to recommend a spicy chicken dish. She said go with general tao. So we went with that. General tao was sweet. Kind of like honey chicken. The fried rice was more like rice cooked with soy sauce and then fried until it was burnt a bit and then some chicken pieces added to it. I would not recommend this place to even try. Sorry ma'am. $40 and we left the entire food and she was apologizing when we were leaving after we said no to packing the leftover. The only thing I can recommend here is the Chinese tea and a bottle of water which we also ordered along with the trash. Sorry for being blunt but...