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Best Chinese Restaurant

Gold Winner Fan’s Chinese Restaurant Silver Winner Look Ho Ho Restaurant Bronze Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Hall of fame The Great Wall It would be ludicrously easy to take the entire 100-word allotment for this writeup to list the many mouthwatering menu items at Fan’s. Homemade Northern dumplings, Dan Dan noodle soup, Ma Po tofu—there’s […]

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Best Chinese Restaurant

Gold Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Silver Winner Fan’s Chinese Restaurant Bronze Winner Look Ho Ho Restaurant Hall of Fame The Great Wall Restaurant Another year and another win for Jean’s Chinese Restaurant as Halifax’s best Chinese food. Cue the trolls. No other category seems to provoke more heated debate online. Everyone has their favourite location, […]

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Best Chinese Restaurant

Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee The Great Wall Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Bronze Winner Fan’s Chinese Restaurant Editor’s note: With its latest Best Chinese win in 2016, Great Wall was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Why have Haligonians voted Great Wall the Best Chinese in the city for nearly […]

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Best Chinese Restaurant

Gold Winner The Great Wall Restaurant Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Bronze Winner Fan’s Chinese Restaurant The Great Wall opened in 1984 and has been winning for Best Chinese for as long as the Coast has been doing this survey (that’s 12 years). And owner Patrick Wong is there every day for his customers and […]

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Best Chinese Restaurant

Gold Winner The Great Wall Restaurant Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Bronze Winner Fan’s People like it simple, says manager Patrick Wong. The Great Wall’s approach to service is down-to-earth: serve lots of people, offer lots of combinations and provide lunch specials for busy office workers and students. What’s good? Ginger fried beef is a house […]

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Fan’s delivers to Halifax

For those Haligonians who know of its startlingly good ginger beef, Fan’s Chinese Restaurant (451 Windmill Road, 469-9165) is very much worth the trip to Dartmouth. Now we’ve learned we needn’t always make that trip, that Fan’s will deliver to peninsular Halifax. The catch is the service is only available after 7:30pm in the evening, […]

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Dartmouth daytripper

As San Francisco has Oakland and New York has Jersey, Halifax has my dear Dartmouth. I opted to settle there when I moved back from Toronto a month ago. Plenty of Haligonians think Dartmouth is just a place to drive through on the way to the airport, but here are a few of the reasons […]

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