Lin Garden Restaurant

What Reddit says

Beloved Scarborough Hakka restaurant that many regulars visited for years and still miss. House shrimp, chili chicken, egg fried rice and green beans are recalled fondly. People keep looking for a comparable replacement.

Paraphrased from the comments below.

What to order

• 8.3
  Chilli Chicken#2 for chilli chicken in Toronto
  Top pick
• Fried Rice1 Redditor

In their words

Short excerpts, each linked to the full comment on Reddit.

• “Our search for a worthy successor to fill the Lin Garden sized void in our heart continues.”

• “Two years ago I complained about missing Lin Garden and I still miss it.”

• “I'm still searching to fill the Lin Garden sized hole in my heart”

• “every few months my dad and i would make the trip down to lin garden for the chili chicken”

• “What have you found closest to Lin gardens if anything? Huge hole for me as well”

• “Went there at least biweekly for 15+ years. House shrimp, chili chicken, egg fried rice, green beans”

• “Lin Garden was great but there are lots of great hakka places”

• “I am a Lin Garden widow…..is this worth the drive from Sheppard?”

• “Cause otherwise I would really love it had they opened up somewhere else.”

• “this was and is still the gold standard for hakka food in the city”

• “Still looking for the place to fill the chili chicken shaped hole in my heart since Lin Garden closed.”

• “This will be my greatest sadness! I wish they opened another location”