Name: Yin Ji Chang Fen 银记肠粉店
Add.: 7010 Warden Avenue Markham, ON L3R 5Y3
Introduction:
Yin Ji Chang Fen (Rice Noodle Roll) originated from Guangzhou city (in Guangdong province), China since starting in 1958. "Yin" was the master maker of the rice noodle roll. For the past 60 years, we have been offering affordable yet high quality Cantonese rice noodle rolls and have become the place for all Cantonese noodle rolls lovers.
Yin Ji Chang Fen has been renowned for the rice noodle rolls and congee with a variety of filling options. Our experienced chefs use only the freshest seasonal ingredients to our customers.
Welcome to Yin Ji Chang Fen for enjoying the authentic Cantonese rice noodle rolls and congee with your family and friends. We look forward to seeing you at Yin Ji Chang Fen.
Reviews:
LUNCH AT YIN JI CHANG FEN (MARKHAM, ONTARIO) 3:17:00 PM
For this foodie lunch adventure, my colleagues and I were hungry and wanted something to eat. I had a recommendation from @Richiebearington to try out this place on Steeles and Warden. The restaurant suggested was Yin Ji Chang Fen - with the name mostly meaning rice noodle roll. If a restaurant places emphasis on a dish within their name, it must be good right? To verify the claim, we ventured out to this place for food!
Atmosphere:
Parking can be sometimes crazy in this T&T plaza. Best to come quickly and have patience circling around like it was boxing day. The restaurant was located at the plaza building closest to Warden And Steeles. At lunch time, this was filled to the limit with customers. We probably waited 15 minutes before we got a full table for our party size. The placed looked newly renovated with white walls and laminate gray wood flooring on the ground.
Service:
I wouldn't expect much for service - very Asian service treatment. If the table was dirty, the servers performed a quick cloth wipe on the table. It was hard to flag them to take orders and get the final bill. From the online Yelp reviews, it might help if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin but we had no issues in English for this adventure.
Food:
This restaurant chain is the first in Canada. This chain originated from Guangzhou city (in Guangdong province), China since starting in 1958. "Yin" was the master maker of the rice noodle roll.
On the menu, there were various options for rice noodle rolls with some signature recommendations. In addition, they had the tradition congee dishes with common Asian toppings. For this lunch journey, we ordered a huge assortment of rice noodle rolls with the price average around $5 CAD per roll dish:
Beef and Shrimp Roll
Chicken Slice Roll
Shrimp with Chives Roll
BBQ Pork with Chives Roll
Beef with Chives Roll with Extra Egg and Extra Meat
Chicken Congee
Fried Dough Sticks
Normally, rice noodle roll is served as a snack, small meal or sometimes as a dish sum dish. For this lunch, it became our main meal. Some of the rice noodle roll dishes came with too much or too little soy sauce. I would have preferred that they provided a side bottle of sauce for your usages. With the multiple combinations for the rice noodle rolls, they were all soft and chewy. I personally like the ones with different meats due to the texture/taste contrast. Embedded in these rolls were the green lettuce leaves. I never had this variation at Toronto dim sum restaurants. The greens added a surprising crunch texture to the rolls.
Verdict:
Overall, the rice noodle rolls were delicious and would recommend to anyone craving them here. I wouldn't get anything else on the menu. With the influx of people coming in for lunch, I doubt this place will be closing anytime soon.
Reviewer: Eating With Gordon
Visit Date: March 2017
By EATING WITH GORDON
Honestly, I thought this place was pretty good and I would come back for breakfast and lunch. This place brings back nostalgic memories and I thought the food was tasty and quick! Came at around 8:30pm and there was a bit of a wait. Once we got seated the food came pretty promptly. We ordered 2 of the congee, the steamed noodles, fried dough, and frozen milk tea.
The congee was pretty decent, other reviews said it was too watery but I honestly prefer this. It didn't feel too watery to me, it was thinner than usual but it's a good balance.
The steamed noodles were great, we got the shrimp and beef one and also cha siu with egg. The star is def the shrimp/beef since the skin is so soft and thin!
Fried dough was good, a bit oily but goes good with congee.
Cantonese style rice noddle rolls and congee is what they are known for. Really smooth rice noodles with a variety of filling options. I had the standard shrimp with chives, if you like shrimp and chives, it's a good bet you'll enjoy it. The congee was okay but nothing spectacular. The consistency was good and it was served piping hot, almost burned my tongue. Taste is okay. The rice noodle rolls are the star in my opinion. Usually a late night snack item, this place is open pretty late (until midnight?). Next time I definitely want to try the egg mixed into the steamed rice rolls. Makes a great snack, this place is busy at lunch time but turn over is pretty fast!
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