Countryside Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Ontario

I am staying Chatham for a few days because my mom had hip replacement surgery done, and I'm staying here while she recovers. While we were sitting with her and discussing dinner plans, the student nurse who was with her recommended this place. She had said it was a Chatham staple and everyone knows it. I had seen many awesome reviews on Facebook and Google, but nothing here, not even a photo.

We arrived around 5:30pm on a Thursday evening, and we were greeted right away and told we can sit wherever we wanted. We took a booth near the front, the place wasn't that full at the time we arrived. We were handed menus and our drink our was taken. They have a Chinese menu, and a Canadian menu, but we opted for Chinese cuisine that night. You can order the standard items separately, or they have a combination platter you can get that comes with wonton soup, and egg roll and desert. I ordered the combo platter with the sweet and sour pork, and my sister had the combo platter that came with three chicken balls, and beef and broccoli.

Everything came out so quickly, and our waitress was quite attentive with us as well as the other patrons in the restaurant. The owners were walking by and smiled when we first walked in. The food was delicious! it was hot, flavourful, and there was a lot. My sister enjoyed the beef & broccoli, and I enjoyed the sweet and sour pork, which came with sliced carrots and pineapple (which I'm not a fan of so I just scraped those to the side), and also came with chicken fried rice, which was hot and tasty! The egg roll was crunchy, and the wonton soup was tasty and not too salty. Our desert was a small piece of mocha coffee cake and a dollop of whipped cream drizzled with chocolate sauce. It was so good, and you only needed that small piece of a taste!

The prices were really good, it was $11.99 for the combo plate, and they take interac/major credit cards. You go up and pay at the front. We had a wonderful meal and you get a lot of food. This is definitely a Chatham staple and we were happy to report back to the student nurse how...

Update The lovely staff from the restaurant have reached out to me to ensure I was taken care of. After multiple attempts to resolve the issue it was an error with their online ordering system as I put instructions stating a marking on the vehicle with " " caused some type of glitch making the order only available to the IT department and not the restaurant. Moving the review to 3 stars as the replacement meal had errors but I did not want to complain further. I would suggest updating the ordering system to not accept special character or joining a service like skip the dishes.

horrible experience with the online ordering system. Placed a $46 order and waited almost 2 hours for delivery. Was patient as it is Friday. Called to follow up on my order to be told they were closed and that they were sorry . I am sorry for wasting my time as it will be the last time I attempt to waste my time or money there. How about joining a system that actually works like door dash or skip the dishes. This lame online ordering system is out dated and unreliable clearly. Best of luck in the future you just lost...

Ordered was placed online at 5:21 on Friday evening and the confirmation stated 35 minutes - wasn't delivered until 7 pm. I do understand we were ordering at probably their busiest time of the week, but then the online delivery estimate should reflect this. We ordered Szechwan Beef and Chicken Lo Mein, Veg Fried Rice. The portions were ample and even after the long delivery time, the food was still adequately warm, the vegetables were cooked just right -- still with a little crunch -- and the Szechwan dish was nice and spicy. However, the Lo Mein was quite disappointing -- 2/3rds noodles and NO chicken. Now I don't just mean there was hardly any chicken... I mean there was NONE. I've only just moved to the city and this was my first order of Chinese since moving. I will probably give them one more chance as the food was cooked well and was tasty but it wasn't a great...