Congee Wong — Restaurant in Richmond Hill

“ Congee Wong, Spadina & 16th Ave., Richmond Hill “ - A surprisingly well executed, enjoyable meal at a ‘Congee Queen Clone’!

Located only steps… ( actually, more like a couple of minutes drive ) from my home. This casual ‘ Congee Queen Clone ‘ offers a wide range of near identical dishes to their popular competitor just down the road on Leslie and Hwy#7. For some unknown reason, we have been ignoring the place for years…until this evening?! With kids paying me a sudden impromptu visit and this senior too lazy to cook for the gang, we decided to eat out somewhere close by instead. Somehow, Congee Wong was the first place that came to mind?! So, with convenience a major factor, we decide to take a risk and give this neighborhood stranger a long-overdue try.

We ordered the following:

Cantonese Roasted Pork and Duck Combo Stirred fry Beef with Chinese Kale ( Ga-Lan ) Sizzling Satay Beef and Rice Vermicelli Hot Pot Shrimp & Velvety Scrambled Egg Fu-Yung Rice Noodle ( Ho-Fun )

To our astonishment, every single one of the aforementioned dishes were nicely prepared. The end result, delightfully tasty.

It’s been quite a while since I last encountered such a pleasurable and well executed stirred fry Beef with Gai Lan dish.....the tender beef, wonderfully seared, piping hot and with gorgeous wok-hay components.

The Satay used for the hot-pot was something special. We all loved the sweet, savory and spicy taste profile…..a special house blend?...we wondered?! Once again, the nicely caramelized beef was a stand-out.

We also enjoyed the well seasoned and delectable Cantonese roasted meats. IMO, they can easily rub shoulders with Congee Queen’s commendable version.

Though not as well executed as Ritzy Palace’s amazing version, Congee Wong’s still delivered a more than acceptable and tasty stirred fry Ho-Fun dish.

So glad we have now one more closeby and decent place worth considering when it comes to a quick, fair value and casual...

This restaurant has been in Richmond Hill many years and very close to our house so we've been there several times. This was the second time the restaurant staff upset us so much because of their attitude. First of all, the online order at the restaurant is totally a spam. They ask you to pay first then eventually when you pick up the order and they're missing some items, they DO NOT refund you right away. They ask you to "go home" and wait for the refunds by "text" because they just can't figure out how to refund you at their cashier. My husband asked them at the restaurant if they could refund the missing items while he's still there, they insisted not to and they literally said to my husband: Why are you still here? Just go! Because of their attitude, I called the restaurant later to ask why they couldn't refund us right away. They said they would, and then they hung up my phone right away without any apology. Yes eventually they did. But what upsets us the most was their absolutely arrogant attitude. Honestly, we sympathize every restaurant nowadays because of the pandemic so we always give generous tips even when we do the pick-up orders online. We absolutely do not deserve this attitude while we give them tips and pick up the order by ourselves. Whoever the management at the restaurant is, please educate your staff: customers are customers and customers are always right. And we are nice customers, not some "Karen" type of customers. We do not deserve being treated and talked to in this way. I'm a Chinese myself and I feel very bad this is how a Chinese restaurant treats their customers. I especially feel ashamed for Congee Wong. It has been such a great restaurant brand and now its reputation has been ruined by super rude staff...

0 star not even 1 star. Terrible service, food is only mediocre. Worst experience ever. AND they demand at least 10% gratuity for bad service, don't expect to leave without providing any. We order 12 dishes but 3 stood out the most....in an extremely BAD way. Deep fried squid tentacles was clearly stir fried with five spices. When we questioned this, the waitress [short bleach blond hair lady] argued that we ordered it wrong eventhough we wrote down what we wanted on a piece of paper. When she realized she/cook messed up the order she pulled the "this is the style here" bs. It's OK to get orders wrong but to not acknowledge that you're wrong and fix the problem, that's irredeemable. Beef chow mien was deep fried egg noodles with beef and veggies on it.....????? Clearly not chow mien. Birds nest with seafood, big disappointment for the price, stale seafood, had weird odour and they used deep fried rice paper as the nest not taro root...we just gave up at this point. Been coming here at least 2x/month for 15yrs, we notice the quality has gone down over the years but this is the worst, never coming back. Do yourself a favor go elsewhere, like Premiere Ballroom and Banquet Hall, a little more expensive but food and service will be...