Perfect Chinese Restaurant

What is Perfect Chinese Restaurant? Anchored in a sprawling strip plaza along Sheppard Avenue East in Scarborough, Perfect Chinese Restaurant is a round-the-clock Cantonese institution that has defined late-night Toronto dining for decades. The cavernous, fluorescent-lit banquet hall leans unapologetically retro, packed with large spinning-turntable tables, bubbling seafood tanks, and private back rooms equipped with karaoke systems and automatic mahjong tables. Push carts still roll between tables during midday lunch, making way for night owls, industry staff, and students in the early morning hours.

Perfect Chinese Restaurant Menu & What to Order The encyclopedic menu covers traditional Cantonese comfort, live seafood, and all-day dim sum, where staples like har gow, char siu bao, and deep-fried taro dumplings arrive steaming hot at any hour. The heavyweight pick is the deep-fried lobster dusted with spicy salt and chilies, delivering pristine crustacean sweetness beneath a shatteringly crisp exterior. Tables regularly round out their feast with wok-charred beef chow fun laden with scallions and bean sprouts, or comforting chicken and salted fish fried rice that carries genuine wok hei.

Know Before You Go Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the restaurant operates almost entirely on walk-ins, though weekend midday dim sum and post-midnight weekend crowds frequently cause brief waits. Plaza parking is plentiful out front, and the 85 Sheppard East bus drops passengers steps from the entrance. If you want one of the coveted private rooms for mahjong and KTV, be sure to call ahead to reserve.