Grotto Noodle House - Markham

I come here at least once a week. Their satay pho is delicious !!! Highly recommend. Prices are reasonable as well. If you don't like scallions, it can be replaced with Choy Sum. You don't have to wait for long to have your food served.

This place is decorated like the name says: it's like a grotto, a cave. I came in today with my dad for a bowl of pho. However, we can't finish two bowls, so we got a large assorted meat balls with seaweed pho for $8 and the leek dumplings for $4.25. We wanted to place our order when the lady came over (she speaks Mandarin) and told us that there was a posted sign that said we needed to order 2 bowls of noodles. We were pretty dissapointed because we each HAD an order, and basically were forced to order two bowls of pho. So we got two small bowls of pho, one for $7, the other for $6.50. That's literally $1.25 more than the order we had earlier... We read the sign again (which is in Chinese) and technically it says that we needed to have an order per person..which we did. We literally wanted to walk out of the restaurant cause we can't eat a lot and ended up not finishing half the bowl of one of the pho. Nor did we want to take it home in a container because the pho will turn soggy. Also, we still had another place to go, so in the rare shining sun in the car today of autumn, it won't be as fresh. What a waste. The food though is delicious. The soup is HOT and remained hot the whole time I ate it, hard to find places like this now where the soup is hot. Yes, there was MSG in the soupbase, but it was GOOD. The beefballs, fishballs, squidballs were good. For the food, honestly I'd probably give it a 5 star. However, I'm not sure I would come again because we literally needed to get one bowl of pho per person. I really don't recommend businesses forcing their customers to get a large meal each. I mean, I understand that it would be okay for each person to get something (which we were doing originally), but to force your customers to get a whole main each?! Some people just can't eat that much, and like me, I don't plan to come back cause it's such a waste of food.

This place used to be amazing when they had the original owner from when they first opened. From awesome soup noodles to amazingly priced $12 ayce hotpot, I loved going here. This all changed roughly 3-5 years ago when the ownership was transferred. Speechless now.

This place has been around for ages. I remember coming here twice when they first opened years ago and haven't been back since. The BF and I were looking for something to eat at metro square. He said he hasn't been here in a while so we decided to check it out. It was almost 2 pm and BF wasn't very hungry cause he already ate a small lunch. I hadn't eaten yet. So we thought we would order a noodle and an app to share. We were informed when we were ordering that if 2 people were eating, they each had to order a noodle. The owner I think) said it was cause the cost was too low and they don't make enough money if 2 people don't each order a noodle. I didn't see that written anywhere on the menu. Then I noticed a small piece of paper on the wall written in Chinese. My Chinese skills are probably the level of a 2nd grader, but from the few words I could pick out I figured that was where they mentioned that rule. Well the owner seemed like a nice guy and we had already spent 10 mins starring at the menu so we order 2 noodles. I ended up ordering Fish meat noodle w/ XO sauce $10.75) from the chef recommended section. It was alright. You can taste the fish paste in the noodle. But being one of the more expensive item on the menu, I wish it had a bit more ingredients in it. There was only some veggies and scrambled egg. The BF ordered Sliced marbled beef ho fun $6.75). He said it was good. The broth had good flavour and wasn't too oily. By the time we ordered, we were the only ones left there but it still took them a while to get us the food. I wish the rule about 2 people must order 2 noodles were more obvious and in English as well, cause we might have gone somewhere else right away if we knew. We were so stuffed cause we don't like to waste food. Food was OK. Might return.