New Red Lantern Inn Restaurant

Amazing flavour in all the dishes we ordered, lean pork, chicken chow-mein, egg rolls, vegetable-shrimp fried rice and drop fried shrimp, a definite hidden gem within Saskatoons old northern neighborhoods. Basically like Ming’s but with actual seasoning and flavour!!!

Szechuan vegetables & chicken: 5/5 starsLemon Chicken: 5/5 starsPadthai noodles: 3/5 stars (didn't taste like padthai. It was just like any other rice noodle dish)Delivery: 5/5 stars (via skipthedish, it arrived in 25 mins)

In last 6 months, quantity served went down a LOT. We've ordered from New Red Lantern for 2-3 years as our main Chinese food restaurant. Very good egg foo young, main staple chinese food that isn't done well at many of the Thai/Vietnamese restaurants in Saskatoon.Had to down-rate due to the portion sizes now. The restaurant pulled its 10% off pick-up orders over $$ discount during covid which is completely understandable (despite it still being promoted on their menu/receipts still two years later).For the portion sizes, this isn't a one-off situation, as I waited until we ordered 3 times over the last ~3-4 months now.For many of the dishes that are strictly like meat dishes or meat + veggie dishes, now they seem to be coming in the same take-out container but being barely enough to have a full single layer in the dish. This is probably 40% less than you'd get before. Generally every container would have the sauce on the top of the lid from the contents. Now there was not a one container that really had any sauce built on the top of the lid.The egg foo young seemed normal, the deep fried stuff seemed the same, but pretty much everything else felt like it was consistently halved.If inflation and everything else is having the ingredients cost more, then you'd raise prices. Simply doing the 'shrinkflation' doesn't work when a 'Dinner for 6 is going to struggle feeding 4 people at a cost of $90 tax-in.The picture might be tough to see the food levels, but literally the sweet and sour pork barely had enough in the container to make a single layer of food. This picture would generally feed 5-6 people comfortably, at a cost of ~$90 tax-in. This time around we were struggling to have 3-5 little pieces of the meat to feed two adults and two kids <8.If I am ordering $90 and 7 dishes, I would expect I would be able to comfortably feed 2 adults and 2 kids and have leftovers. Not having to ration out any meat-stuffs and non-noodle/rice dishes.Again, the food is still good and consistent, but prepare to have to order near 25-50% more than you'd think (and it isn't really 'cheap' even as it is) to make sure there is enough food.

Very Yummy!Tasted like a small town Chinese restaurant so many of us grew up eating!Ordered Chicken Chow Mien, Chicken Balls, chicken fried rice and ginger beef.All was very very tasty! Exactly how we wanted every dish to taste. And the amount of food we got was perfect. Lots for supper and left overs.

We order dinner for 5 last night. Lot of food and tasty!

My kids and I ordered from there last night. It tasted great, but then about 3 hours later we all started to get sick.( except for my daughter that didn't eat any.)We won't ever be ordering from there again.

Really bad and tasteless food. Ordered beef and brocolli and the sauce was so watery it was running off the food. The fish sauce tasted like if was cut with water. We also ended up with mild food poisoning after eating it. Horrible experience. Never ordering again

We have ordered from here quite often, and been generally satisfied. Lots of food in the containers, sometimes a little bland, but generally tasty. Price has gone up, as it has in every other place.Something has changed with the fried rice, it is very pale and doesnt seem fried at all. Very little flavour.

I met my mom here to take her out to eat, we were so excited as we haven't been in so long. We walked in and the tables are all pushed out of the way, no one was in front of house and we weren't even greeted. No sign on the door or any indications online that they are dine-in only. Truly disappointed.

PLEASE READ RIGHT TO THE END! This was the worst Chinese food I have ever had. Do not order from here! There was a long hair rolled into my fresh rolls. There was a hair in the other container. The ginger beef had zero sauce and was hard and old. The almond chicken was hard. There was no sauce for the deep fried shrimp and the deep fried shims was hard. We called and spoke to the owner for 20 mins who told us that they did not have to wear hairnets. That hairnets are not mandatory, so they do not wear them. This statement was repeated many times while being incredibly rude to us. Please spread the word. If I could give zero stars I would, but I cannot. I will be calling the health authority though. This was and $83.00 meal that was not eaten!