Tao Canteen

Tao Canteen is a Hong Kong style café that opened a couple of years ago.  Always meant to check it out, but never got around to it.  It really isn’t in the most convenient of areas where you would go grocery shopping and say to yourself, I’m hungry and lets stop here to eat.  The only thing around here is Home Depot and Food Basics. 

There’s a steady stream of people coming in and leaving, with a lot of regulars.  The waitresses knew a lot of the customers names.  So food must be good right?  Not sure if we ordered the wrong dishes, but we didn’t find the food good enough to warrant bringing us back for a next visit.  We ordered lemongrass chicken, beef in red wine sauce, seafood veggie dish, and laksa.  The lemongrass chicken lacked lemongrass flavour.  The beef in red wine sauce didn’t even look like red wine sauce.  It was more ketchup based than wine.  The seafood and veggie dish was ok.  The laksa had spicy curry like flavour, but no coconut milk.  So overall, pretty disappointing, not understanding why there are so many regulars.  Did we order the wrong dishes?

Lemon Grass Chicken

Red Wine Braised Beef

Seafood Veggie Dish

Laksa

Tao Canteen

1250 Castlemore Ave.,

Markham, ON

L6E 0H7

Phone:  (905) 201-1168

Hours:  Monday - Sunday 8am - 10pm