5 Tastes Chinese Bistro - Vancouver

Being the only Chinese restaurant on campus, this place has met many mixed reviews and mostly bad ones too. The restaurant is set up very strangely, one side is a help yourself cafeteria style where you can order any three items for a fixed price with rice or noodle and the other side is a site down restaurant where the food served is completely different. Seeing mostly bad reviews, I was prepared for one of the worst meals of my life. There was about seven of us, so we decided to do a sit down and try out their menu for lunch. Let me tell you the food was mediocre but the after taste and the chili oil and grease that sits in your stomach and decides to travel up back to your mouth after the meal, now that was hard to get used to.

This restaurant has a good number of seating inside, and is fully licensed. The food is ok given the prices. It is nothing to 'wow ' you, but it is reasonable. We ordered different dishes to share, and that was ok. Give it a try perhaps, but nothing much. The staff is cordial.

I have been visiting this restaurant for a long time now. Located on UBC campus it is a good option for good quality food. Recently, I went there with my family and ordered noodles. I specified to the girl taking my order that I don't take beef or pork. Out of 4 items that we ordered she brought back beef in one and pork in other. We do not take those due to religious restrictions. When told she just removed the beef pieces from the noodles and got it back, Horrible experience.

When the food eventually arrived with a big gap between our two orders, it was enjoyable but by the time our main dish arrived, our rice was cold.

This restaurant seems to offer more exotic menu items than normally seen outside of Richmond. I had the egg noodle hot and sour seafood soup and it was OK given the choices in very close proximity. Might try them again for something else but some of the items are rather pricey. Service was pleasant on the whole but condescending from one young lady so insisted that I use a fork and spoon rather than chopsticks.