Yummy Cantonese Restaurant

Cruising through the Scarborough area, starving and in need for some food, we stumbled upon Yummy Cantonese restaurant on the corner of Brimley Road and Sheppard Avenue.  The restaurant is tucked inside a newer plaza that was erected on that corner a few years ago.   Since most of the people in the car wanted some rice noodle rolls and noodles for lunch, we decided to stop into the restaurant as we had never been there before.

Once inside we were given a seat in the back corner.  The restaurant had a simple menu with some of the more simpler Chinese dishes contained within it.  After scanning the menu, we decided to go with the Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll ($3.25), The Deep Fried Bread Dough ($3.25), The Beef Brisket Noodle in Soup ($5.50) and the Pork Intestine Noodle in Soup ($5.50). I also order a milk tea/coffee to go with my meal however it had taken several inquiries and many unsure waitresses to find out whether there was still any tea left to make me the drink.

The plates all arrived roughly the same time.  The Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll arrive first and I almost laughed at how it looked.  It looked like the shrimp had been "strangled" with the noodle roll and then slapped onto a plate.  It didn't look very appealing and when one took a closer look, it looked like there was so much extra "rice noodle roll" or "extra skin" in the meal.  Despite the sweet soya sauce that came with it, it didn't have a lot of taste to it and not even the shrimp inside could enhance the overall flavor of the roll.  Needless to say, I didn't have much of it as it looked mind boggling to say the least.

Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll

The Beef Brisket Noodle Soup arrived next and it came as advertised.  One can't really fault them because it was exactly what was ordered however there was nothing special to the noodles and the soup was unfortunately just as bland.  The beef brisket meat itself was a bit chewy where the meat might have been either overcooked or that it was just the bad part of the beef that we had gotten.  I had one bowl of these noodles and the best part of it was the green vegetable.

Beef Brisket Noodle in Soup

The Pork Intestine Noodle in Soup was a little better in that the pork intestines provided a bit more flavor to the overall taste of the noodles.  There were plenty of pieces of pork intestines provided and the soup did benefit from the pieces of meat.  Personally adding or sprinkling some garnish in it certainly would not only add flavor but give it a better appearance to it.  The ones in Taiwan were similar but their soup base was a knock out and they had more onions and garnish to really this dish to life.  As it is, there was nothing really spectacular about the noodles.

Pork Intestine Noodle in Soup

Last to arrive were the Deep Fried Bread Dough.  It was probably the best dish of the four in taste, and overall appearance.  Usually this dish comes with sweet soya sauce and peanut sauce but only the sweer soya sauce was provided.  The deep fried dough on the inside was still crunchy although it was rapidly becoming soggy with the rice noodle on the outside weighing on top of it.  It was hot when it came out so that was an added bonus and for $3.25 I guess it was worth the price.  Still what happened to that peanut sauce??

Deep Fried Bread Dough

Not sure what to make of Yummy Cantonese Restaurant.  The rice noodle rolls were somewhat soggy, looked sloppy and didn't have a lot of taste to it.  The soup noodles were a little bit more respectable however it was very simple with the soup lacking little to no taste at all.  Even their ice coffee/milk tea drinks were a little off for my liking.  Not too sure if it was just a bad day or that's how it was in general.  Hard to say if i will ever make a second appearance to the restaurant.  Overall I give it a 1.5 out of 5.

Yummy Cantonese Restaurant
4400 Sheppard Avenue Unit 3 and 4
Scarborough, Ontario

647-352-7087