Maple Yip Seafood Restaurant - Toronto

Pros:_- Maple Yip was the best Cantonese restaurant we frequented during our Toronto trip that we went twice in a row.

How come I never heard of this place before now? The food is good, really really good! The menu and ambiance reminded me of some of the restaurants I used

One to check off the list; it is worth a tryDefinitely not a cheap eats but glad to have the experience under the belt.

$45 for a medium winter melon soup is on the high side for me. Should be around $30. Their chicken stuffed with sticky rice was also too expensive. It's just a chicken with some sticky rice stuffed in it. The chicken skin was crispy though. We had some other other dishes and they were ok.The Braised duck in plum sauce was not a good dish. Give that dish 1.5 stars and I love duck!

This was our 2nd stop on a day we explored the Scarborough area. After filling ourselves with dimsum at Dragon Dynasty, we took a 2 hour break and came here around 3 pm. We were the only customers. Yay!The lady taking our order (presumably the owner), answered my wife's many questions. They talked at length. Since it was all in Mandarin, I have no idea what was said but at the end of it all we ended up with:Live Lobster with ginger and scallion sauce - Pretty good but slightly overcooked and not a lot of flavor. 3.5/5Steamed Fish with Ginger and Scallion sauce (bass) - Cooked to perfection. The bass was almost melting in my mouth. Tasted extremely fresh and light. 5/5Pork with Preserved Vegetable (Mei Cai Kou Rou) - The missus said she used to have this growing up so we decided to get this. The pork belly actually got pretty lean in the cooking process (though it didn't take anything away from the dish) and the preserved mustard greens had a good balance of salty and sweet. 4/5Crispy Fried Chicken(half order) - Another favorite of mine at this place. I was pleasantly surprised to see how well cooked the chicken was. Even the white meat was enjoyable because it wasn't dry. The best part was the perfectly crispy skin. It was delicious and not oily at all. 4.5/5Sauteed Water Spinach with Garlic- Lightly sauteed, not a crazy amount of oil and garlicy to the extreme. 4/5That was enough between the 4 of us. If not for the dimsum earlier, I think we probably would've stuffed ourselves with more food. The damage was a reasonable $30 per person all in. I have no idea when I'll go back to Scarborough next but this was a meal that I won't soon forget.