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 […]
Jean’s Chinese Restaurant
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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 Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Silver Winner Look Ho Ho Restaurant Bronze Winner May Garden, Dartmouth Hall of Fame The Great Wall Last year’s retirement of The Great Wall into the Hall of Fame made way for Jean’s Chinese Restaurant—which was long on its tail—to take over the top spot in this category. And owner […]
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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 Food Delivery
Gold Winner Alexandra’s Pizza, Queen Street Silver Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen Bronze Winner Jean’s Chinese Conveying cheese-enrobed foodstuffs from a hot, hot, hot oven to your greedy mouths and shameless bellies is the 21st century’s truest art form. It’s late. You? Drunk. Cupboards are bare. Money’s tight. Morning’s pressing down. A cardboard pizza box is […]
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Killer combination
Yan’s Restaurant 752 Sackville Drive At this Sackville family restaurant, which specializes in Cantonese and Szechuan, every combination is under $10, every extra add-on (extra spare ribs, please!) is $3.50 and the classics—you know, the sweet and sour chicken, almond gai ding, beef and broccoli deals—are a cool $7.95. Jean’s Restaurant 5972 Spring Garden Road […]
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Gold Winner The Great Wall Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Bronze Winner Look Ho Ho The Great Wall is over 30 years old. That’s three whole decades serving up delicious delectables and divine dim sum to the drooling mouths of Haligonians. Every year this award has existed, it’s taken top honours. Like its service, The Great […]
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Gold Winner The Great Wall Restaurant Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Bronze Winner 9 + Nine Chinese Cuisine Great Wall is the perennial winner of Best Chinese honours, it’s won every single year this award has existed. Whether you’re looking for battered, sweet-and-sour Canadian Chinese food or an authentic experience, these guys deliver it. Try […]
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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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Go local on Spring Garden Road
Strolling down the most popular shopping district in Atlantic Canada, from Robie down to Brunswick—including side-streets bristling with boutiques—the sheer number of vital businesses provides an embarrassment of riches for Shoptalk. More than anywhere else in our fine city, we slam up against the limitation of space on this page. A street that provides a […]