Beijing Legend

Prices are fair and servings are larger than normal! Great place for a late night Chinese fare. Out of curiosity I inquired about the shark fin soup that was displayed on the menu for over $100 for a large serving, and was told off abruptly. Doesn’t change my experience, but I felt shoo’d away from asking about the menu.

This place is so underrated in this city on Google Reviews, I don't really understand why. Their main food is fine, we've had a banquet dinner there once before which had some mixed dishes but overall was okay for this city. Where Beijing Legend gets it right is their dim sum. There is nowhere better in the city for dim sum. Period, full stop. Hung Sum may have been in contention before but having gone again recently, their quality seems to have taken a bit of a dip (the chiu chow dumplings were frankly a bit stinky and the wrappers for everything were a bit thicker than I remembered previously, though everything else was mostly still good). Meanwhile, I've been to Beijing Legend numerous times with multiple people, and finally went back for the first time post-pandemic a few weeks ago and for the most part, it hasn't lost a step. Their har gows do fall apart a bit, and the beef cheung fun didn't taste so great this time, but everything else was great and as consistent as it always has been. And this place is second to none for variety in the city when it comes to dim sum. The taro puffs were delicious, the ginger and green onion squid was cooked to perfection, no chewiness whatsoever. The egg tarts had the multiple layers of pastry that they should. Honestly, I think this place really deserves more credit in this city, even just for the egg tarts alone as the only place that seems to actually make egg tarts themselves and do it well. Ng's Cuisine is too greasy when it comes to their dim sum, Hung Sum is solid but recently wasn't so good, Yangtze is decent if you just have a quick dim sum craving, Oriental Chu Shing, YiMin and Ha's don't even bother. Are there better places in Toronto? Tons. But for Ottawa, this is as good as it gets.

I ordered take out and it was just not good. I use to order from this place and it was so good. The quality is no longer there and inedible food. Probably won’t order from they anytime soon

Have been here for a long time. They renovated the restaurant recently, the environment is great. The staffs are friendly as usual, the food is absolutely scrumptious. My friends and I are enjoy dining here.

Scammed. Go somewhere else. Don't dine in and don't order takeout/delivery. I went on New Years Eve and ordered the full peking duck from the dine in menu. The dine in menu said $42.95 and when I received the bill it said $57.95. The waiter told me that the dine in menu was "outdated" and that I needed to pay the new "updated" price even though there was no mention at all. The boss lady walked over and we told her we felt tricked and she did not correct this for us. This is how they treat fellow Chinese people, so it goes to show what they're willing to do to milk every dollar out of their customers. BTW the whole time there the phone was ringing off the hook and skip drivers were piling up at the door with several of them waiting 15+ minutes for the food. They clearly cannot meet demand; order from here if you enjoy getting your food late.

Ordered two dishes - deep fried pork and veg and Singaporean fried vermicelli. The deep fried pork and veg (咸水角) - more glutinous rice than pork and veg. There were no vegetables inside the dumpling and small portion of minced pork. They were soggy and full of grease when delivered. I had to air fry them to get back its crispy texture but even that didn't help with the amount of filling inside the dumpling. I ordered deep fried pork and veg (咸水角) from another restaurant through Uber and they did not arrived soggy. One star because I was able to revive them using an air fryer. Singaporean fried vermicelli - what disaster! It didn't had the curry flavour instead I think turmeric and white pepper were used to create the dish. I would not recommend the dish but I gave one star for the amount of BBQ and shrimp in the dish.

Delicious food, well priced, and the staff are thorough and considerate. We did an UberEats order and the driver forgot two items. The restaurant phoned me and offered to bring us the items to our door themselves. The food was delicious. Will go back!

The food there has excellent portions and reasonable prices. My friends and I visited them several times and in all of those occasions we were able to have a great meal and get nice services from the staff working there. The seafood soup thing was absolutely delicious and is a must order for sure.