Full House Chinese Cuisine — Restaurant in Toronto

Full House Chinese Cuisine is a simple authentic restaurant serving Dim Sum and Chinese food. We usually come here for dim sum and haven't really try its dinner options.

Anyhow, the interior is simple. Nothing fancy and not high-end about it but it serves good authentic, traditional and no gimmick dim sum at a very good price. The interior is your typical old traditional mama-papa Chinese restaurant. Interior looks dated and table cloth and chairs are dated as well. However, I don't mind as it's nostalgic and I prefer it keep the costs of the dim sum and other dinner dishes down vs renovated it up to fancy and then charge me more $ for each dish. I am here for a good time and not a long time so I can live with dated interior. Good food speaks for itself anyways.

Instead of listing small, medium, large or XL size, all dim sum are same price at $4.98 CDN + tax, which is super good price during this inflated food industry in Toronto. If you want some fancier dim sum items such as seafood dumplings with dried scallop broth or steam beef tripe, it's $5.98, which is still better price than many other competitors.

Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays, the regular dim sum prices is at $5.28 CDN, which is super reasonable as well.

You can also order stir fry items such as yang fried rice, crispy noodles, ho fun, and other soup noodles, ranging from reasonable $8.99 to $13+ CDN.

The Har Gao, Siu Mai, the usual suspects are very good, nice & piping steam hot, just the way we like it. The pork bone congee has nice amount of dried fish and peppery flavour in it.

I highly recommend you with the seafood dumpling with conpoy (dried scallop) with soup broth. Good amounts of dried scallop, shrimps, pork, normal scallops in the dumpling. Very worth the $5.98 CDN. You surely don't want to share with anyone and eat it yourself, so I recommend you each order one.

Tea per person is $2.00 CDN, which is fair.

If you are looking for some authentic traditional dim sum, Full House Chinese Cuisine is a great place in Scarborough.

Plenty of free parking space...

Are you looking for a hot and fresh dim sum without breaking the bank? Then give this place a try. You won't be spoiled with opulence and high-end decor. This restaurant looks tired and dated. But the most important part is the food.

We were looking for a new dim sum restaurant in the Scarborough area and came across this bustling plaza at Midland Ave and Finch Ave E. The parking lot is pretty full however there is parking in the rear as well.

The dim sum we ordered were the following:

Siu Mai- steamed shrimp and pork dumpling with fish roe on top Fried meat dumpling "Ham Sui Gok" Fried beancurd and egg plant with fish cake Plain congee with bread stick Beef brisket and tendon egg noodle soup $7.99

The dim sum are ordered from a menu card, and most of the items are at a flat rate of $4.68 on weekends and $4.48 Monday to Friday. Inflation has hit the restaurant industry, so I understand the increase in prices. This place has maintained their quality to price ratio.

Overall the food was tasted good and service was prompt. We will come back again to try other items on their dim sum menu.

Updated review 4 out of 5 stars

Came here for lunch after 1pm. The restaurant was almost full. They have a flat rate dim sum at $5.18 per item. They also have lots of lunch specials like stir-fried noodles, fried chicken wings, beef brisket, and tendon noodle soup. All the food was made fresh to order and served hot. We enjoyed all the food here. The service is friendly, and the food came out in a amount of time. The siu mai has large pieces of shrimp and fish eggs served on top like the traditional way. The fried chicken wings were outstanding. Large juicy chicken drum and flats.

The beef brisket and tendon noodle soup was also a great value $9.99. There is lots of beef brisket and tendon and a satisfying beef broth.

I recommend this restaurant if you're looking for a good quality price ratio. Give them a try, and you won't be...

We came here for dim sum on a weekend, it was pretty cheap compared to other dim sum restaurants in Toronto, I think our bill ended up at around 30-40cad incl taxes and tip for 5 dishes of dim sum.

Unfortunately, I rated this place a 3star as I feel the dim sum quality was lacking. I have previously lived in Hong Kong for 10 years and just came to Toronto so I'm not sure if the standards are unfair to compare to local dim sum in HK, but here is my review of each dish:

The Cheong fun was very soft almost mushy and not silky as it should be. The texture of this Cheong fun was interesting... Kind of reminds you of the microwave Cheong fun that comes in packets.

The har gow skin is also soft, broke easily with a chopstick poke, not like a fresh har gow skin that is usually translucent and have chewy texture. And the prawn inside is a lot smaller.

The pan fried dumpling filling tasted dry, not juicy like it should be.

The Sui mai normally has some prawn mixed in it in HK and this one didn't so it tastes a bit different from the normal Sui Mai we eat. Also the skin is very soft as well.. didn't seem fresh.

The fried squid we ate was very salty, rubbery (overcooked) and the quantity was a lot less.

Overall, I wasn't impressed as I heard that dim sum in Toronto is actually better quality than HK, but I may need to try other places here. Also to note, the menu is a lot more limited, and we did not try their noodles and rice dishes but I saw a lot of locals order them and they may be better quality than the dim sum. I think the only thing going for this place for dim sum is that the price is reasonable for Toronto. I suspect the dim sum here are not made fresh and that's why they all taste a bit funny and sub par and taste similar to microwave dim sum from frozen packets, but if they are making it fresh then they need better...