Hong Fa Restaurant - Sydney, Nova Scotia

Mary N.

I ordered food for two people this evening, and it was absolutely horrible. The chicken balls were incredibly hard, and the rice was disgusting. The only thing I enjoyed from the meal was the ribs. There definitely won’t be a next time.

Remi N.

My first ever 1* and hope I never have to do that again. For neither do I ever like that for any business nor my financial wastage.

Ordered food for 3 hungry kids. From their lunch special combination to friedrice.. we had 4 set of items. Everything looked almost same and tasted really bad. Literally, the kids who would eat anything - were forcing it down to an extent where I had to assure them thats its ok to garbage the food if they really didnt like it. The only thing they liked was the fortune cookies that came with it. Fried rice - 2 types, Chowmein, Beef & Broccoli, Spring Rolls, Sweet & Sour Chicken and some ball shaped item that was covered in a red gravy... 🙁

Off the lot - i could eat the sweet and sour chicken and thats it.. rest went off to garbage. Felt sorry for the money spent and for wasting food. But we had no other choice. I am feeling really sorry for this review.

Disclaimer- as the kids too said, maybe its feeling so for only us. Maybe it was indeed tasty and would have had a different opinion from others. I can atleast assure that it was no where like the fried rice I had my whole life.

Carol T.

Hong fa is the BEST place for chinese food in Cape Breton as far as Hubby and I are concerned. Portions are great and the prices can't be beat!! Staff are ALWAYS friendly and accommodate you in every way they can 🙂

J

Ordered Szechuan chicken for New Year’s Eve and was absolutely DELIGHTED to discover that it is a similar (but BETTER version) of my favourite dish by the same name at another local restaurant…
Breaded white meat with large chunks of fresh carrots, onions, and red and green pepper. All in a thick and very flavourful sauce, which isn’t very spicy in my opinion (some may find it spicy, I just found it flavourful)
My partner got the #5 and also really enjoyed his!
I will 100% be ordering again!!
Happy new years 🙂

Laura P.

I ordered the C combo,it was delicious and the portions was more then enough. The service was great. Will definitely be eating there again.

Eileen M.

Delicious! Generous portions. Great selection. Friendly service.

Valerie S.

I drove an hour to pick this up and an hour back home, the only special request was to put the sweet and sour sauce for the chicken balls on the side and there were two orders… got home … no sweet and sour sauce… just so typical of places these days I find … pay a high price and don’t receive even standard service…I was told I should have checked my order before I left… isn’t that the job of the establishment

Eugene F.

The food from here used to be awesome! But now - worse Chinese food I have ever eaten! Waste of $100+! I would give it five negative stars if provided the option! Everything was bland and tasteless, soft to the point of mushy, and completely waterlogged! I mean SOAKED! The chicken chow mein, mushroom chow mein, and shrimp chow mein - nothing but water! The mixed vegetables in oyster sauce were so drenched they were floating in the tray! Even if you let the vegetables drain a bit before putting them on your plate, your serving of rice would literally be in a quarter inch deep layer of water on your plate within five minutes! All these items should have been called soup on the menu! I am sure these were made from canned bean sprouts and canned vegetables factory packed in water that were just dumped in a pan and heated up! The mushroom fried rice and chicken fried rice was hard and dry and I had to pound it apart with a fork to eat it! Must have been sitting for a long time to get to this state! The sweet and sour chicken balls and the pineapple chicken balls came uncoated in their boxes and with small containers of sauce not filled with enough sauce to coat all the chicken balls! Egg rolls were the only thing I could rate a bit higher! I've eaten a lot of chinese food over the years and from various places across Canada but this is the first time I've had Chinese food flavored soup! Really disappointing! Edible but just barely and certainly not really enjoyable! We definitely won't be getting our Chinese food from here again and I would not recommend it to anyone!