Canton Lee Restaurant — Restaurant in Kendall

5/6/2020 COVID-19 UPDATE I have ordered twice from this restaurant since the "Stay At Home" order was given for Miami-Dade County. I was very pleased when the driver came to deliver. Both times, the driver not only was wearing a face mask and gloves, but also a face shield. We were confident that the utmost of care was given to our order to prevent contamination. This restaurant continues to pleasantly surprise me. So, if you need take-out food while confined at home, this is the place to go! Thank you, Canton Lee for assuring our safety and also for staying open so we can still enjoy Chinese/Cantonese food :)

ORIGINAL REVIEW We just finished eating our order from this restaurant. We had used another restaurant for the past 30 years and when they changed ownership, it went down the tubes. I was SO impressed with the quality of the food that arrived. For example, the lo mien chicken had actual FRESH mushrooms - not the canned mushy straw mushrooms. The snow peas were nicely crisp. Another nice thing that they do is with the honey fried chicken - most restaurants will dump the honey-garlic sauce on the chicken and by the time it arrives, it's soggy. Canton Lee puts the fried chicken pieces in a separate container from the honey-garlic, so it stays nice and crisp. The chow fun (broad noodles with beef) was seasoned very nicely, and a generous portion of beef was included in the dish. Finally, the special fried rice (shrimp, pork, chicken & beef) was a real treat! It was not oily at all - the grains of rice nicely separated and all of the flavors were blended to perfection. I can't say for sure, but my guess would be that they don't use MSG in their food because it doesn't have that "sodium" taste and you actually taste the fresh flavors of each item in the recipe. Because Canton Lee is a "Cantonese" restaurant, you will find lots of additional goodies to sample over many restaurants. For example, it is very hard to find the Chow Fun, and I was delighted that Canton Lee offers it. If I could give this restaurant 10 stars, I certainly would. Be aware, though, that if you are expecting the soggy, MSG laden and overcooked food you get from a lot of oriental restaurants, you will probably be very pleasantly surprised. If it tastes really different from what you've always gotten, give the food a chance on your palate. It is truly fresh, good food! I highly recommend that you give this...

I eat and have eaten a lot of Chinese food in my life. And I have eaten at Canton Lee before as I have lived in this area for 20+ years. Today I was totally let down. The standards at Canton Lee have clearly dropped. I ordered roughly $80 worth of food today and it was ALL terrible. If you order Fried rice of any kind from any Chinese restaurant that isn't made fresh, they don't care about their food. I ordered 2 quarts of special fried rice with no shrimp and the moment I saw the rice, let alone taste it, I was completely disappointed. The rice was stale and barely warm. Nothing in either container tasted fresh at all. It tasted like it had sat in a fridge for more than one day AND I doubt it was even warmed in a wok. I'm sorry Canton Lee but there is no excuse to serve ANYONE stale leftover rice. If other restaurants can make fresh rice daily for their customers than you should too. I ordered sweet and sour pork. Look at the picture I've uploaded. A majority of my "pork" was just small pieces of dough with little or no pork and everything was burnt to a crisp. Every piece of breaded pork was hard as a rock. Why? Clearly this was again, left over pork they simply refried instead of making me fresh food. Everything I ordered including the chicken lo-mein and orange chicken was either old, over cooked or both. Inexcusable. I ordered all this food for celebrating mother's day and was embarrassed because my entire family could taste how horrible the food was. I feel cheated and extremely...

I've been coming to Canton Lee's since they opened in the 90's when I lived in the area. They are family owned and is one of the best (if not THE best) places you can go to have good Asian food for your money. When I moved by the Redlands, I would come all the down here since no other Chinese restaurant would even come close. If you want a place to dine with all the bells and whistles that includes a candelabra and a chandelier, this is not your place. Go spend a fortune for mediocre food somewhere else. This is a simple place that's been successfully open with happy customers for about 30 years where you can go in jeans in a relaxed atmosphere, order food that is delicious, get great service from Karen or Ally (who are wonderful) and the owner and their family is really nice and treats you like family. ANYONE who gave a bad review is either a restaurant competitor, someone who does not know good food, is a typical rude & demanding Miamian, or simply a hateful person who has issues and in great need of love. AND NO, I was not paid in any way to post this review (for those who wrote that perhaps the good reviews were because the person was being paid. Having a successful business for 30 years must mean you're doing SOMETHING right.) It just upsets me when I read unjust reviews based on lies just to discredit someone. Rest assured that you will have great food and service in a relaxed...