Peaceful Restaurant seeks to retain the distinctive character and the charm of unique features in Northern China. Owner and Master Chef, Charlie Huang, imbuing his personal touch, incorporates fresh new ideas into the menu offerings. His signature dishes emphasized the seven basic flavours that give Northern Chinese food that distinct boldness, namely - sour, pungent, hot, sweet, bitter, aromatic, and salty.
Peaceful Restaurant offers diners with impressive choices of classic Northern Chinese dishes and hand-crafted dim sum and noodles that stand the test of time. We committ to giving our customers with high quality services, fresh ingredients, tasty foods, and having new and exciting dishes and specials.
Peaceful Restaurant offers diners with impressive choices of classic Northern Chinese dishes and hand-crafted dim sum and noodles that stand the test of time. We committ to giving our customers with high quality services, fresh ingredients, tasty foods, and having new and exciting dishes and specials.
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Ted Ayles
Jan 30, 2022
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Eunice Marie Lazarro
Jan 16, 2022
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Lily Lee
Dec 29, 2021
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~ 2:00 pm of Dec 12, 2021, we went to the restaurant on Broadway, Vancouver. The waitress is impolite. The food does not tasteful.
The Peaceful Restaurant used to be one of my favorite restaurants - I sometime ordered lunch or went there with my colleagues/friends/family. However, today's experience is really unexpectedly uncomfortable. I understand COVID-19 pandemic makes everyone unhappy. Still, the restaurant's owner should hire a waitress with basic customer service skills, therefore, the restaurant's reputation will not be ruined unnecessarily. I miss the nice smiles, tasteful food and peaceful
The Peaceful Restaurant used to be one of my favorite restaurants - I sometime ordered lunch or went there with my colleagues/friends/family. However, today's experience is really unexpectedly uncomfortable. I understand COVID-19 pandemic makes everyone unhappy. Still, the restaurant's owner should hire a waitress with basic customer service skills, therefore, the restaurant's reputation will not be ruined unnecessarily. I miss the nice smiles, tasteful food and peaceful
Jason Cho
Dec 17, 2021
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Mary Speed
Nov 15, 2021
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@@@ update: my friend got diarrhea for two days afterwards!! Feel so bad and won’t recommend this restaurant.
@Went to this Chinese restaurant used to be my favorite in Broadway and Cambie area on Friday night.
No lineups, the waitress waved us to a small table by the window. Later on we realized it’s a mistake, I was freezing every time people in and out from the door. Had to cover myself with my coat.
It’s full of customers and there were only two waitresses working. The service was poor and one waitress was extremely rude and unpleasant.
On the flip side, the food was good enough to
@Went to this Chinese restaurant used to be my favorite in Broadway and Cambie area on Friday night.
No lineups, the waitress waved us to a small table by the window. Later on we realized it’s a mistake, I was freezing every time people in and out from the door. Had to cover myself with my coat.
It’s full of customers and there were only two waitresses working. The service was poor and one waitress was extremely rude and unpleasant.
On the flip side, the food was good enough to
Lily Tan
Sep 01, 2021
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Ordered the chicken & corn soup and Sichuan green beans. They're fast just like any other chinese restaurants but I have to say their soup had the right taste - corn & chicken, what bothers me is the black little things floating in my soup, it's like pieces of the bottom of a scrape pot. The green beans were not spicy, no peppercorn or sichuan there but it tasted more of ginger rather than shallots - like other chinese recipe of the staple green beans. The pork slices were barely there and mostly fat. Perhaps I should try their beef rolls which is the only thing people tell me to try there.
Bunnybuy Ca
Aug 14, 2021
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Scott M.
Jul 29, 2021
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This was one of my favorites in the lmd, but they are clearly mailing it in as the place is empty. Food was ok but used to be awesome. Served in to go containers on plastic plates with plastic utensils.
Was not as clean as it used to be a couple years ago.....to bad. Guy Fiery is not coming back to this place?!
Was not as clean as it used to be a couple years ago.....to bad. Guy Fiery is not coming back to this place?!
Makala Chapman
Jul 13, 2021
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I don't often give a full five stars...but these soup dumplings alone made it worth it. The broth is so savoury and hot. The dumpling itself isn't too thick and doughy. The pork inside is soft and the perfect ratio to dumpling. The dumplings aren't huge in size, rather they are bite sized which makes enjoying more of them even better! Added bonus, you can get them for takeout...which I wasn't sure how that was supposed to work since there's soup inside. Happy to say they transport fine. I got over 8 in one order and that cost under $10. I like the added bonus of the fact that Guy Fieri's given
Barry W.
Jun 29, 2021
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(Finishing some half-written reviews from a while back.)
We went to this place with friends from my workplace. We ordered:
Xiao long bao
Kung Pao chicken
Spicy Ginger beef (one over rice, one over noodles)
Green onion beef
Green onion pancake
Everything was... average. I wish it were otherwise. We were looking forward to this place because it was reputed to be the better of the two Peaceful restaurants, but the difference was not noticeable for the items we ordered, possibly because a couple of those items seemed to have a LOT of sauce (kinda soupy).
On the positive side, the service was excellent
We went to this place with friends from my workplace. We ordered:
Xiao long bao
Kung Pao chicken
Spicy Ginger beef (one over rice, one over noodles)
Green onion beef
Green onion pancake
Everything was... average. I wish it were otherwise. We were looking forward to this place because it was reputed to be the better of the two Peaceful restaurants, but the difference was not noticeable for the items we ordered, possibly because a couple of those items seemed to have a LOT of sauce (kinda soupy).
On the positive side, the service was excellent
Ken Ip
Jun 16, 2021
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Restaurants are reopened again during this pandemic as of 1st week of June 2021. Arrived early at 5:15pm so as to avoid the possible crowd. As expected there were only 2 other tables total of 3 customers dining in. Hand sanitizer at entrance everywhere looked clean. I ordered steamed dumpling, fried long beans and chilli chicken pot. The Shanghai steamed dumpling scored 7/10 - fresh and hot, taste is good, however not juicer enough, the wrap was a bit too thick and dumpling should be better if the size were made a bit larger and the vinegar went with it should have some added fine shredded fresh
R. W.
Aug 07, 2020
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Pancho C.
Jun 27, 2020
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Used to be one of our favourites. We've been going here over 7 years and were always really happy with our meals and service.
But the last handful of times it's been really inconsistent. Sometimes great, other times disappointing. Noodles over cooked, sauces oily, spice levels all over the place. Some dishes lacking flavour. No blade shear noodles for the Dan Dan. but something resembling spaghetti.
Not sure what the problem is but we'll wait before we go back until we start seeing a turnaround with better reviews from others.
But the last handful of times it's been really inconsistent. Sometimes great, other times disappointing. Noodles over cooked, sauces oily, spice levels all over the place. Some dishes lacking flavour. No blade shear noodles for the Dan Dan. but something resembling spaghetti.
Not sure what the problem is but we'll wait before we go back until we start seeing a turnaround with better reviews from others.
Doug
Jun 14, 2020
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I seen this place on Triple D and I said if I ever visit Vancouver I am going to this place, and I did. It's a dive but had great food. The pan fried pork dumplings were good but the Dan Dan hand pulled noodles and Beef Roll were fantastic. The prices were decent and the service good. I would eat here again.
Kathy Y.
May 20, 2020
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Have now done two pick ups since things got interesting ! So hot, fresh and delicious , staff are so pleased to see you. Our favourites remain hot and sour soup, dumplings , crispy ginger beef, spicy green beans and of course the beef roll!
It might seem a little pricey but the portions are great and we often get two meals out of it with some soup to freeze!
So on this take out day please try them you can also get delivery if you don't want to pick up.
When things do open up it will be our first spot as place is large and spaced already
It might seem a little pricey but the portions are great and we often get two meals out of it with some soup to freeze!
So on this take out day please try them you can also get delivery if you don't want to pick up.
When things do open up it will be our first spot as place is large and spaced already
Gabi G.
Jan 06, 2020
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Jennifer H.
Oct 16, 2019
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Day trip to Vancouver and my friend wanted to checked this place out after he saw it on a show. The ratings online weren't great but since Guy Fieri went, we decided to go check it out and form our own opinion. We got 4 different dishes at Peaceful Restaurant and only was impressed by one dish - the Peaceful Beef Rolls.
Do not get the Xiao-Long Bao Steamed Buns. It was so disappointing. It didn't have any structure and as soon as you picked it up with chopsticks, the little buns broke. The flavor was bland and not even the ginger vinegar soy sauce could save it.
The Seafood Soup Noodles
Do not get the Xiao-Long Bao Steamed Buns. It was so disappointing. It didn't have any structure and as soon as you picked it up with chopsticks, the little buns broke. The flavor was bland and not even the ginger vinegar soy sauce could save it.
The Seafood Soup Noodles
Candace H.
Sep 14, 2019
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Don't let the exterior of the restaurant fools you - it may be easy to glaze over this restaurant if you're walking past, but it's definitely worth a try especially if you like hand shaved noodles and REAL SPICY food! Its easy and quick to seat and their service is fast too.
Between the two of us, we got the spicy lamb hand shaved noodles - their noodles had a good chew and you can tell it's not packed shaved noodles, they shave it themselves! Highly recommend this dish! We also got their spicy A-Choy. They don't hold back on the spice ya'll, so make sure you let
Between the two of us, we got the spicy lamb hand shaved noodles - their noodles had a good chew and you can tell it's not packed shaved noodles, they shave it themselves! Highly recommend this dish! We also got their spicy A-Choy. They don't hold back on the spice ya'll, so make sure you let
Keith R.
Aug 10, 2019
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Evan B.
Jul 23, 2019
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Was driving along 4th, in a rush (as usual), trying to figure out the most efficient way to complete my growing list of errands, one of which was to pick up some spicy Chinese food for the bf, when as if by destiny the sign for Peaceful Restaurant enters my vision. I had eaten at another location of this chain once ages ago, when it was new to Vancouver, and remembered finding the food discomfortingly salty. But maybe that was a fluke! Maybe the proliferation of Peaceful Restaurants around the city was evidence that the recipes had since been tweaked to perfection. Maybe I was meant to pull over
Kirsten H.
Jul 13, 2019
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Pity D.
Mar 21, 2019
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Not sure why anyone complains about the service. You don't go to a place like this for the service. You overlook the cheap decor and hit or miss service and go here for phenomenal, authentic Chinese food. Regardless, our servers were friendly and attentive.
I'm no expert on Chinese food, but my friends from China and Taiwan are and they love the food here. I'm on the same page- it's the best Chinese food I've ever had in the Americas.
We ordered a ton of food- vegan dishes, cumin lamb with hand-cut noodles, beef roll sandwiches, long bao, green onion beef, etc. etc. Everything
I'm no expert on Chinese food, but my friends from China and Taiwan are and they love the food here. I'm on the same page- it's the best Chinese food I've ever had in the Americas.
We ordered a ton of food- vegan dishes, cumin lamb with hand-cut noodles, beef roll sandwiches, long bao, green onion beef, etc. etc. Everything
Teresa V.
Mar 25, 2018
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Where do I even begin?
I was really looking forward to trying this place since it was featured on Diners, drive-ins, and dives and I used to watch it religiously! However, after reading some reviews, I had no expectations and was coming here with an open mind because I didn't want to be sway by the negative reviews. With that said, I'm super disappointed by the quality of the food and the service
Service was subpar and it wasn't even busy - I had ordered Dan Dan noodles with round noodles instead of thick ones and they brought it out knowing very well that they had my order wrong
I was really looking forward to trying this place since it was featured on Diners, drive-ins, and dives and I used to watch it religiously! However, after reading some reviews, I had no expectations and was coming here with an open mind because I didn't want to be sway by the negative reviews. With that said, I'm super disappointed by the quality of the food and the service
Service was subpar and it wasn't even busy - I had ordered Dan Dan noodles with round noodles instead of thick ones and they brought it out knowing very well that they had my order wrong
Matthew T.
Jul 16, 2017
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Just came for some dumplings.
The soup dumplings are really good. A great flavor, the "soup" is yummy and nice. Also tried the "spicy and sour" dumplings. These were pretty interesting and a bit different than things I've had before, so I love that. Pork dumplings with serviced in a hot vat of dilute vinegar and chili oil. The "sour" and "spicy" part. Tons of toasted sesame seeds are floating on this as well. Make for an interesting and different flavor combination. Worth trying if you need something new and different.
The soup dumplings are really good. A great flavor, the "soup" is yummy and nice. Also tried the "spicy and sour" dumplings. These were pretty interesting and a bit different than things I've had before, so I love that. Pork dumplings with serviced in a hot vat of dilute vinegar and chili oil. The "sour" and "spicy" part. Tons of toasted sesame seeds are floating on this as well. Make for an interesting and different flavor combination. Worth trying if you need something new and different.
Sara A.
Jun 16, 2017
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Carolyn L.
Dec 12, 2016
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It was not too crowded when we were here, and so managed to keep our reservations despite being late (due to snow and traffic conditions). We were seated fairly quickly and the service was decent. They came round often to refill our tea. The food came much later, probably because they had a lot of take-out/delivery order to fill.
I had the beef roll which was a signature. The hoisin sauce and green onions/leeks in it reminded me of a peking duck wrap. It was a bit too greasy for my liking though.
I also tried the chicken noodle (we changed to rice vermicelli) soup which was very light tasting
I had the beef roll which was a signature. The hoisin sauce and green onions/leeks in it reminded me of a peking duck wrap. It was a bit too greasy for my liking though.
I also tried the chicken noodle (we changed to rice vermicelli) soup which was very light tasting
Edward L.
Jul 08, 2016
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Looks like they've opened up a place in this part of town. Even though the sandwich board advertises Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives) as being here, technically he was at their original Broadway and Cambie location.
Parking is available on the side streets.
The interior looked pretty new and clean. Looking at the other reviews, the place must've opened up recently. Seating was comfortable.
Staff were friendly. Our food took a while (some 30 minutes) to show up though. When ordering food, they asked how spicy we wanted. Good to know that it's adjustable.
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Parking is available on the side streets.
The interior looked pretty new and clean. Looking at the other reviews, the place must've opened up recently. Seating was comfortable.
Staff were friendly. Our food took a while (some 30 minutes) to show up though. When ordering food, they asked how spicy we wanted. Good to know that it's adjustable.
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Denise W.
Jun 06, 2016
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Food is not bad. It is on the pricier side for Chinese Shanghainese Dim Sum. But I guess they factored in the location and the advertisement from Guy, they can charge more. But their food is not bad. If I had to compare to their Broadway location (which is the location that Guy visited), the Broadway location definitely taste better. Portion is ok size. Not like big or anything. However like I said I do like their food.
We did find it ironic why they gave us the same vinegar and told us its for this and then bought it again and said its for that and told us its different. When its almost all
We did find it ironic why they gave us the same vinegar and told us its for this and then bought it again and said its for that and told us its different. When its almost all
Herman E.
Jan 06, 2016
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