Secret Kitchen 粤精彩

Decent food, nothing to write home about other than it being more expensive than other Cantonese places with similar/better quality. I also suggest double checking you bill before paying.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

The food is good and price is reasonable. They have the typical Chinese food dishes and some that are not as common at other restaurants. The only thing is they're not always consistent but when it's good, it's good.

My favorite dishes:
Olive with string beans, salty egg pumpkin (must get this), fried intestine (sometimes they over fry this), fish two ways (made in soup with tofu and veggies and then a separate dish where the meat is filet and there is no bone... delicious. This dish is $80), walnut shrimp (typical dish), Peking pork (typical dish).

Parking: They have a small parking lot in the back with a few assigned spaces.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Better in restaurant. Sometimes they skimp on the takeout. Food is amazing though. Wonton Soup is our family fave when sick. Great atmosphere. authentic and gooooood.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: House Special Walnut Shrimp, Singapore Noodles

Came here with the family for Lunar New Year dinner. We seated and placed the order with the waitress at 6pm. It is currently 7:15pm and we have just been served peanuts as appetizers. The kids are getting cranky and the other diners are also complaining to the wait staff. One table said they have only been served 2 dishes over the two hours they have been here. The kitchen must be a secret because no food seems to be coming out.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

Ordered a 京都骨 and my stomach got sick for a week. Not sure if it was the contaminated oil or meat. UGH.

3.5/5 stars rounded up. The food was on the saltier side for me, but all the flavors were good (simple, but good). We tried the chicken and eggplant, mapo tofu, shrimp and eggs, and water spinach.
- Eggplant, chicken, and salted fish: This turned out to just be eggplant and chicken. I think there was some miscommunication because we ordered the lunch special version of this dish, not the full casserole. Instead of tofu, chicken, and salted fish, we opted for eggplant, chicken, and salted fish. This turned out to just be a basic Chinese takeout-like stir-fry. The chicken pieces were not dry, but they were pretty salty. The eggplant pieces were cooked well though, and they weren't overly salty at all.
- Shrimp and eggs: The eggs in this dish were pretty salty, but I liked the ratio of shrimp to egg. The shrimp itself was very juicy.
- Water spinach: This was my favorite. The flavor was simple but great, and it wasn't too salty.

Overall, this place has decent Cantonese food. The wait staff is friendly. Portions are good, particularly for their lunch special, which is a pretty good deal.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

I ordered General tso chicken, and I got something that resembled soup. I would highly NOT recommend this place.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

The three of us spent the Mid-Autumn Festival here. The fried glutinous rice with lobster tasted good, the service was good, and the business here was pretty good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Too much oil in food

The dishes are diverse and taste is good.The waiters are very friendly.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: special crispy squab whole 红烧乳鸽 一只

Secret Kitchen is a solid Cantonese restaurant located in Fresh Meadows and it's such a convenient location on Horace Harding with so many other stores nearby. There is a small parking lot around the corner, but street parking is also available. I've been coming here for a few years now and their food has always been consistent. Their Gold & Silver Egg Fried Rice is probably one of my favorite dishes from them. It's full of flavor and they load it with something super crispy that gives the fried rice that extra texture. I wish I knew what the English name is for this dish, but the one with stir fried veggies with seafood and fried silky tofu with shrimp on top is another one of my favorites. I haven't tried their lunch specials, but apparently it is worth it and delicious. There's so many other dishes that they do really well, but honestly anything you order from them will be good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very tasty dishes with reasonable prices, at the end free dessert and fruit

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

TLDR: A solid find in Fresh Meadows. Classic Cantonese dishes but done really really well. Salted egg prawns, black pepper steak cubes and mushrooms, the fried sticky rice!

Popped in randomly on a weeknight with the family and so presently surprised. We got a bunch of things to share and everything was exceptionally good.

The salt and pepper anchovies were chunky, flaky but crispy on the outside. The stir-fried specialties is a mix of jicama, garlic chives, dried squid and fried anchovies. Savory, so much texture, beautiful colors and amazing with some rice.

The black pepper beef cubes with mushroom I was really shocked. Tender chunks of beef, a wonderfully rich mouthfeel with bouncy mushrooms. For such a classic dish - this was definitely the best version I've ever had.

Salted egg yolk prawns. Fried, massively jumbo shrimps tossed in the salted egg yolk. It's hard to find a place that makes this and even harder to find one that gets it right.

The fried sticky rice though was the star for me. The dice on the ingredients is so fine, everything just mixes together perfectly. The fried taro, salami-like bites of chinese sausage, there was significant wok hei in this. We just got it plain but I can imagine with some seafoood - wow.

Haven't been back since but I may need to pay another visit soon.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tasty Cantonese place!

This place has become one of my go to dining spots. The dishes are always fresh and well made. And they are very friendly which translates to top notch service which is a huge plus. I highly recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5