Chinese Northern Foods Restaurant

After our previous favourite Chinese restaurant zen garden closed down, we were desperately looking for an alternative. We tried quite a few places, but when we tried Chinese Northern Foods in June this year, we knew we had found it! Everything we have ever eaten here is fantastic! It’s authenticity and flavour can be vouched for by the sheer number of Chinese people we have seen eating here and the ‘aunties’ who come with their casseroles and boxes to takeaway large orders to be consumed at home. The husband is addicted to their wonton soup and dreams of it often. I love the sweet corn chicken. I have to warn you though, that one order of soup is a whole meal in itself and you will still need to pack leftovers. We of course order 2 soups and a lot of other dishes besides and pack all the leftovers to be enjoyed for lunch at home. the next day. Every one of our friends whom we have taken with us to this place has loved it too.

This is our goto Chinese restaurant. Love the spicy calamari, garlic ribs, bok choy, mapu tofu and the eggplant.

Really authentic Chinese food, the braised pork with bok choi was a huge meal, extremely tender and flavourful. The hom3 style pork was sublime with some heat. Excellent food, highly recommend if you are after an authentic experience.

Absolutely loved the options. In fact I'll go back just to read the menu. We chose conservatively despite the many choices of real Chinese dishes we still had a very tasty dining experience. I'll definitely be back. Dishes are large so perfect for big groups of people to get value for money. Our waitress was an excellent host and answered all our questions and made good recommendations. If you are near Rivonia you need to try this place. It's the real McCoy.

Authentic Chinese cuisine, including various vegetarian, chicken, pork , beef and seafood dishes . The restaurant can get quite busy over a weekend. Table settings allow for social distancing. Small to medium sized groups can be accommodated. Staff are friendly and helpful. Good food

Good service, Great food, Be careful of very spicy hot dishesFood: 4/5

The pork belly was stale & rancid. The winter melon soup was old and had a weird taste. Only the hat cake was edible. Never going back there again. It was a scary & the most unpleasant experience.

The food is really good, specifically the iron tofu, but it's honestly a bit expensive for how much you get. It would be great if the price could be lowered by like 10 or 20 Rand.Food: 5/5

Extensive menu. All the good we had was absolutely exceptional. 10 stars out of 5. Def recommend.

The food was really yummy but it is expensive. Also, when I ordered I would have liked to have steamed rice with my meal which was never offered. It was R150 for a portion of special fried rice, which I thought was excessive in price. The pork ribs were delicious . We usually go to a chinese takeaway in Craighall which is much more reasonably priced, but if money isn’t an issue… this was very nice.