Near East

Reviews about Near East

• 5 / 5

  By Thomas Hackett
  Great service and very authentic Cantonese food.
  May 03, 2017
• 5 / 5

  By RussianCelt
  Excellent food and amazing service! When they forgot to include the sauce for our lemon chicken, they actually came to our house to drop it off! You don't get that kind of service often. We will definitely be going back here soon, and can't wait to try their dim sum. Highly recommend eating here.
  January 30, 2017
• 3 / 5

  By Stephen Gouthro
  Food was fresh and tasty. Kitchen is not very flexible with modifying dishes for special requirements. Small but well stocked Asian grocery store attached.
  January 22, 2017
• 2 / 5

  By David C
  Please note I am not spiteful and not here to damage their reputation. Their service was good and I do not hate them. This place has high reviews from others so they must be doing something right for the people of Moncton. However, if you're used to good ol' western and Cantonese food from Toronto just be weary, this food is very different.
  
  We were very excited to try this place as it offered both western style and Cantonesr style chinese food. Being a CBC my heart has room for both styles of Chinese food. Unfortunately the execution of both were not that great, not sure if we just went on a bad day but the dishes were not good at all.
  
  The service was great, prompt, and very friendly. The atmosphere was nice and clean. Unfortunately, I still cannot recommend this place. :(
  
  [Cantonese style dishes]
  -Gai lan (aka chinese broccoli): very mushy and stringy. We could not bite through it. No "wok hei". May have been frozen as I never had such a mushy version.
  -Wonton mein (wonton noodle soup): this was on the dimsum menu and the picture looked legit so I was very excited to try this. However it was just a typical western style wonton noodle soup and very expensive. They use chow mein noodles instead of thin wonton noodles. They also do not use the thin wonton wraps. The broth was salty and over powered by the fried shallots. If the picture did not trick us, if it was taken off the dimsum/cantonese menu, and if the price was lowered it would be an ok dish.
  
  [Western style dishes]
  -Chow fan (fried rice): had good "wok hei" but way too salty and contained very little veggies. I counted 4 little peices of onion.
  -Chicken balls: standard but the sauce was a bit funky, maybe they used beet juice because it stained our fingernails pink. There was no zing to the sauce either.
  -Gou lao rou (sweet and sour pork): this was ok. Fried nicely but but no bell peppers and no "wok hei" so I believe they just deep fried the pork peices and poured sauce over. But overall this was ok.
  -Egg rolls: fried nicely but inside was a bit mushy. No beansprout either.
  January 21, 2017
• 5 / 5

  By Christopher Chang
  Fantastic food. It's a bit away from the city so parking isn't hard. Very personable staff. They is a mini mart inside the restaurant should you want some extra Asian snacks or ingredients after your meal!
  August 27, 2016