Toronto’s Best Chinese Food!! Chinese Capital Of Canada!!

I’m taking you the real center of Chinese Food and Culture in Toronto! I'm going deep into First Markham Place to try out the famous Ding Tai Fung, Chinese BBQ, but I'm also talking to the locals about the Chinese community in Toronto. From noodles, to Hong Kong Style Milk Tea, to amazing Xiaolongbao, I'm trying the best Toronto Chinese Food there is.

Toronto is home to the second largest Chinese community in North America, and is also home to the 8 distinct Chinese cooking styles. I can't wait to show you these Toronto Chinese Food gems, lets go!

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[rca]

My son is a paramedic in Toronto but, he lived in China for six years. When he misses the food he goes to Markham! There are so many places there that have excellent Chinese food from many different provinces. Pro Tip if you are learning Mandarin or speak it as a learned language and want to keep up or practice? Go to Markham.

[em]

I Love the Chinese food in Markham and Toronto and I am Jamaican but it's great to taste different types of Food since Toronto is such a big multicultural City

[mnarciso]

First Markham Place? And you know about the 2 bbq places? You a real one David!

[Porscheman]

Hey David, I just want to say: Thank you for visiting the GTA and making such great videos about the diversity of our cultures, food & enjoying what this country has to offer. Come by Mississauga and we will show you a whole new dynamic of what we have to offer . Much ❤ from Port Credit & Cooksville ON! Also a big shoutout to Jamaica ~ Happy Independence day! Wah Gwaan!

[wctoronto]

I’m Chinese Canadian, born and raised in Toronto, then Scarborough and now resident of Markham. My late maternal grandfather immigrated from Guangzhou to Montreal in 1918, over 106 years ago!

Been to Ding Tai Fung and didn’t like it at all. I found their xiaolongbao skin/wrapper as well as their other dumplings were way too thick. Also had the food at Gol’s Lanzhou Noodle. The texture of the noodles were too chewy and not springy/bouncy. We ordered 2 kinds of noodles and they were both terrible. I do love and recommend the food at Green Tea Restaurant though (you passed by but didn’t go in to try their food).

As for Hong Kong milk tea, I’ve tried many all over the GTA and so far, nothing closely compares to the award-winning one at Marathon Cafe (4 locations). Highly recommend it there.

There’s also tons of Chinese restaurants in Richmond Hill, Ontario, on or near Hwy 7, west of Hwy 404. First Markham Place offers just a ‘handful’ of choices. The GTA has a number of great dim sum places and many restaurants that offer great Peking duck. Our family’s go-to dim sum restaurant is The ONE Fusion Cuisine. To answer your question, Hwy 7 is not a highway (it was a provincial highway in the 1920s). It is actually a major road that stretches across several regions.

[wc]

Beside Toronto, NY or San Francisco, Richmond BC is another mega Chinese food destination…

[marvinsulzer]

Markham is LITERALLY a separate city from Toronto. All you gotta do is ask who the mayor is, and get a different answer between Toronto and Markham. Markham is a city of 400, 000 people, about population of Buffalo, NY… except 2/3rds of the population is Chinese.

[BunnyWatson-kw]

There are a lot of good places for Chinese food in Toronto and the surrounding area (Mississauga, Markham, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Newmarket). Try Vancouver and surrounding cities like Richmond and Burnaby.

[stubbystubby]

I did some business in NYC. I heard the best soup filled dumplings were in NYC. One of the guys from NYC said you have to try them in NYC. I told him I'm from Markham and soup filled dumplings is my favorite comfort food. He said you are from Markham? Dont waste your time in NYC for dumplings. Markham has way better dumplings than NYC.

[raykhemraj]

I live in Toronto but I never went to Markham mall. Love Toronto with all the different ethnic groups. All the food looks yummy. I watch lots of your videos.

[dennisdunn]

Dude with all the food you eat you should be 300 Lbs! LOL. David You're The Man!

[ingridbee]

Been there a few times. I'm happy you got to go there David. So much to explore and taste. Love it 💕💕

[Lord.Kiltridge]

I'm in the western GTA. Born and raised in Etobicoke and moved to Mississauga not far from where Harlan (Col.) Sanders lived from 1965-80. We rarely go east of Yonge St.

[SigmaHailey]

Chinese foods ....one of my all-time favorite ...fried rice....noodles....stir/fry veges....fried chicken....just the taking a note of the restaurants so when I visit Toronto will know where to dine.... beautiful as always...Thanks David safe travels....Peace and Blessings.

[wolfeamv]

Crazy to see markham being covered like this... I go here a lot so its nice to see some love!

[jimmyjimmyeegalok]

With Markham and FMP, you are just scratching the surface when it comes to the GTA Chinese community and food. As Chinese Americans from New England, my family and I have been visited the GTA for over 4 decades and have seen the migration and expansion of the Chinese community from Spadina/Dunda Chinatown to Scarborough, Markham, Richmond Hills, and now Aurora and northward. There are hundreds of Chinese restaurants bounded by Sheppard Ave, MaCowan Road, Major MacKenzie, and Bayview Ave. For Cantonese food, the GTA food scene is much better than what is available here in the States.

[cherylguerra]

Will you visit Pacific Mall too? Like this place too.

And when you do caribbean food I hope you stop by Chadon beni and Drupaties ( i love their doubles )for Trinidadian food. And visit Old Bahamas where Keith Lee went.

And visit the Latina Plaza for Latin food.

[VL-un]

Thank you for sharing the food passion for all different cultures❤😊

[fionaforbes-rose]

Loved the lady at the Study & Immigration centre - Did anyone notice at 37:07 - '' Congratuations' on the certificates and also at 37:18 - No L in it?

[KethTamilTubing]

my favourite food court in Markham, go there all the time when i used to work around there. love this BBQ place. Same people since 2001.