Tasty Roast House
“Their breakfast dim sums are only served on weekends, but they are delish!”
“Their soy sauce chicken served with Hong Kong style noodles (not in soup) is the best!”
“They do just about everything from noodle soup to clay pot rice, definitely going to come back and try the rest of the menu.”
Tasty Roast House
Take-out: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Is the restaurant spotless? No. But do they have good food? Yes!
The restaurant isn't very large, but can easily fit about 20 or so people total via small 2-4 person tables. No one else was there when we went in on a Thursday night around 7pm. It seems that most people opt for takeout instead. Two servers sat at a table across from ours, and were prepping ingredients (peeling garlic), which was rather distracting.
We ordered a roasted duck noodle soup, salt and pepper ribs, and a beef and duck egg congee. Everything was delicious in flavor, but I wished the roasted duck wasn't so fatty.
Prices were very reasonable. Only change we'd make for the future is that we would do takeout instead of dining in.
Main street in Flushing has a lot of good cantonese places to eat and Tasty Roast House is one of my favorite.
This place is one of our meetup points to have a good hearty chinese meal before we go out early somewhere. For their breakfast menu they have a lot of tasty items like their freshly made steamed crepe rice rolls white and glistening with their slightly translucent skins so you can see the fillings inside. The traditional ones they have are the shrimp roll, the char siu (roast pork) roll, the fried cruller roll and the minced beef one (this one has a slight aftertaste that I can't pinpoint). My favorites being the shrimp roll (because Shrimp duh!) and the fried cruller because of the special sauce they put on it. There are more choices but the fillings are more unusual and have escaped my attrntion. These are only served until 11am so come early.
You can also order congee in the morning as well as soy sauce pan fried noodle (I love grease in the morning) and even sticky rice (not my favorite). They also have tea egg if you must have your eggs each dawn.
But the attention seeking star of the show here are the roasted meats that greet you in the front window as you come in (hello how are you I'd like to get in your belly today). If you have never tried cantonese style chinese bbq then you have been missing out- the roast pig, the roast pork (char siu) and all those soy sauce marinated chickens and the duck of course. Get it over plain white rice to let these meats really shine. You can also order a combo of meat selections over rice if that is your choice. The meat is usually served room temp but they give you a warm bowl of house soup if you eat in. It gets really crowded around lunch time or late afternoon on the weekends. Just squeeze on by the narrow doorway to see where roast pigs go to heaven, in your stomach of course. The crackly skin of the perfectly roasted pig the inside scrubbed with salt and the roast pork bursting with good sweet smoky flavor. But I gotta show some love to our webbed friends the duck with the browned skin and slightly gamey flavor perfect over the rice with a dash of soy. But if noodles are your thing you can usually get it as a bowl of noodle soup with or without the wontons or as a hong kong style brothless noodle framed by sprigs of green choy with a good helping of your meats placed atop. Other noodly dishes that I like are the beef pan fried noodle and beef chow fun if you are craving some beef.
Or skip the noodles and rice they're only fillers anyway getting in your way of the tasty roast meat and get a whole serving of it alone. The best way to share family style.
The meat is usually sold by the pound if you order to go. The butcher cuts a slice off of the roast pig, in chinese it is ordered one bone or two indicating the size of the slab you want but you can order by the pound. Roast pork is hung in thick strips usually averaging about a pound or pound and a half and the chicken and duck is ordered by 1 whole bird or half. So you can easily take all your goodies home to share with your family.
This part of Flushing is less congested than downtown Flushing and it is much easier to find street parking on one of the side streets in this residential neighborhood. Or you can just hop off the chinatown van as it sometimes stops across the street since it is right off the Long Island Expressway.
The decor is just a few rough tables and some bench seats and stools. Not exactly comfortable but its meant for you to just eat and go. It is bad manners to linger too long after your meal in these places as it is a small place and there is usually someone waiting to be seated in your spot but then again I would like to move in here too and enjoy an delicious array of roast meats non-stop. I would become the Jabba the Hut of Chinese Barbecue. Service is average since they are usually helping people at the front counter where there is usually a horde of people waiting to order their meats to bring home or get take out. Don't expect real silverware either expect styrofoam and plastic for easy clean up.
This is a good place to stop if you like cantonese style food and you too can become the Jabba the Hut of chinese barbecue.
My wife and I came here because it's convenient located to where we live. There is street parking, which isn't too hard to find. There are other businesses around, such as a supermarket, so you can perhaps go food shopping right afterwards.
I like that the restaurant is small and it does appear to family owned, so you know that the day to day operations and food should be fairly consistent. We have come here a few times now, and the food is authentic Cantonese style. We do like the food. My wife really likes the chicken here, until our most recent visit. She usually orders a chicken dish and her preference is chicken back. They are usually accommodating, which is great because I'm sure a bigger restaurant would care about your request.
After eating majority of her dish, she then realizes that the chicken meat on the bone is very red. The chicken here is not fully cooked. I understand that it's a consumers responsibility to know what they're eating, but you would think chicken is fully cooked! Isn't it the job of the restaurant to double check that? You usually see food warnings about raw food for beef, fish, etc. But never do they mention chicken because its always fully cooked in all the restaurants you go to! My wife was scared, because as we all know, eating raw chicken might give you food poisoning. Boy, she was scared. There was nothing the restaurant was willing to do and they simply said sorry.
Well, they should be sorry, because I will not come back here anymore. Although the service was on par, the food wasn't. They should be consistent and double check that their foods are up to standard. I suggest standing clear from this restaurant, unless you want to put yourself at risk in getting sick.
If the main eccentric guy in the front isnt there, you might want to take a pass on this place. Food flavor and quality takes a dip in what could be considered a favorite option to a cantonese style breakfast.
Got 3 types of rice crepes with shrimp, roast pork, and Chinese cruller for breakfast to go. They were cheaply priced, but underfilled especially the shrimp and roast pork ones. The one with the Chinese cruller was the best of them. By the time they arrived home all of them were slightly soggy, probably from the steam inside the containers. All were slightly bland, but that's why soy and hot sauce exists.
Fish balls and rice crepes – Just a round styrofoam container combining 2 of everyone's favorites soaked in a hoisin/soy based sauce. Simple and straightforward.
Sticky Rice – Surprisingly good! Not as good as certain dim sum places, but once again you can't complain for the price!
I have to say that comparison of other restaurants that are right next to each other. This is probably the 2nd lowest spots I would come to. I do like the idea how they made everything like as if you we're in Chinatown (Manhattan) But the food is nothing of special. Very classic, smaller portions, with Queens prices. I'm sorry if your going to charge me about $8.00 a dish. Bump the portions up a little. You have 88 canteen and tea shop that charges dirt cheap, big portions and oh yeah… good taste… your in a day of reckon. Also I ordered a ice coffee/tea. Why was it sour!? Smh. You need to teach your waitresses how to make a decent cup. This is my 3rd time coming here. Thinking it'll get better..Sadly, I won't be coming back.
Nothing in this place tastes good. The wonton in the wonton noodles soup tastes bad and the skin is too thick. All the bbq items taste old. If they make Cantonese food the right way, business would be so good in this residential area.
Surprisingly, my husband and I have been coming here more often ever since we moved further away from Flushing. He usually orders the beef chow fun while I'd order a wonton Lo mein or vegetable lo mein. The place is rather small and cramped. The tables are sticky. Let's just say that this restaurant needs a major makeover but for the price paid for the food and the FAST SERVICE.. I don't really mind the interior.