Toi Shan - Bendigo

Friendly staff, friendly owners. Always accomodating, personal touch.                                                           Quick service unless during 'rush hours ' overburdened with take away orders. The food is simple and delicious.Historically: the oldest Chnese restaurant in Australia! The lanterns should be in a museum.

This restaurant is very iconic to Bendigo and has a nice atmosphere and convenient location. My only qualm is that we waited quite a while for our food to come out- I also work in a hospitality job so I understand food outlet can be slow on busy days and I try to be understanding. Even with that in mind, I was starting to question the length of time it took to receive our meals. It was about 40 minutes. The food was really nice when it did come out. We had two main dishes and some plain rice which was perfect portions for 3 of us. I hovered between 4 and 3 stars for this one.

Ventured off to Bendigo this morning to again thoroughly enjoy one of my favourite lunch meals, Chinese Prawn Omelette for $21.80 at Toi Chan served by Eddy. I was seriously surprised at the sheer number of prawns in this dish and as usual it was cooked perfectly and served steaming hot. I've visited this restaurant about 3 times now over the years and I've always found the service provision excellent, polite and helpful. The eatery is quite large with a capacity of 48 seats.<br/ <br/ The Juror's Verdict: Food 4.5/5, Service Provision 4.75/5, Will I return: Definitely<br/ <br/ Phill Jury (food critic writer)

We have been going to the Toi Shan ever since they came to bendigo. In the good old days you would turn up with your saucepans and they would put the food into them. that was 40 years ago.Now you have a choice of takeaway or sit down, which we do, its quiet and has plenty of room.the choice is varied, if you cant find plenty to suit your taste, you are too fussy.

Good and friendly service, nice tasty food and quite big serving. Good value for money.