Review Northern Palace - Prince George

I have been coming here for years and love it every time! Delicious food, very clean inside and cozy atmosphere, and staff and owners are so friendly and kind. My personal favourite is the hot and sour soup and spicy salt prawns. The hart is lucky to have this lovely restaurant. :)

Fresh vegetables, perfect chicken chow mein, deep fried shrimp were perfection, and the sweet'n'sour pork was yummy! I enjoyed a Cranberry Spritzer....reasonably priced...great service. Loved this restaurant, a gem of a find!!!!

Food was pretty good but the price was very high for a dinner for two. I probably won't come back due to the price alone.

The staff are so friendly! Veggies were done perfectly. Enjoyed combo #10 as always 👌

Always ordered from here in the past..seemed like it was going downhill lately. Then tonight, Just found a long black hair embedded in my chicken ball! 🤢 Clearly no hair nets being used here. So grossed out right now. Will take a long time to get over that hair, ugh obviously will never order from here again! Blah!!!

Everyone always raves about this place but I am disappointed everytime , will not accommodate Beef and Broccoli in the combo for one ... possibly other items , so weird to me ... I also feel like they don't care about the small customers, food is much better quality when you place a big order . My combo for 1 is always old crusty scrapes , overpriced. I support the Hart wheel in . I can have my combo anyway I like hot and fresh for half the price

Take out food is not good value, very little food for a very large price, perhaps they could put more food in the take out containers, we had 8 items, most containers were only half filled...

Small portion... not really afan of the massive chunks of bell pepper, as I'm allergic, but it was a first time. Ordered a 3A and the pork was nice and soft but honestly the price is so high for so little food. Paid 53.10 and tip added on, but not sure if its worth the portions. This looks like the portions for a dinner for 2 rather than a family of 3.

Just ordered another 90.00 order. I love this place. We live in the same area and actually our next door neighbour's daughter works there! Always nice and clean atmosphere, quiet and unassuming. We either go in to eat, or as today, order. Am so thankful we have this wonderful restaurant up here in the Hart!

This place is terrible. I’ve been to hundreds of Chinese food restaurant and this is the only place that will charge you for hot sauce and tea. When we got the bill I thought it was a joke, but it wasn’t. They’ll probably charge you too for extra napkins and for using their washroom. Avoid at all cost, you’ve been warned!

Best Chinese restaurant in town!

One of the best places in p.g<br/>For Chinese<br/>We drive across town 25 mins to get better dinner & good atmosphere<br/>If they take good pride of front if the house, they must also care about back of the house!<br/>Almost always have great food.<br/>Twice have been disappointed<br/>Please, keep up fresh good food & clean restaurant & you will be sucessful!

Horrible!!! My combo arrived COLD and there was dry mostly celery chop suey and the chicken balls didint come with sweet & sour sauce! So I had a dry cold gross dinner that I paid $24 for! Not to mention she charged me a $3 delivery fee when I live 2 min drive away because my order came to under $20, never again fortune palace.. Never again ! Cheap "&&$*+=?!"!

Ordered sweet n sour pork, chow mein, prawns....pork was cold told the waitress she apologized and told us we would get fresh stuff it came back mircowaved good service but the food was obviously leftovers. so if you want old chinese food this is the place to go !

Not happy. Came here for dinner and it was upgraded and very nice but it had dinner and lunch prices on the menu that were about 3 dollars apart which isn't what i want to see but this was the first problem on my visit here, when we got our bill they charged 2 drinks because i want a refill on a different type of fountain pop even though it says refillable on the menu!!!!!! The owner explained since its a different "flavor" its considered another expense so i got charged 2.85 2 times the waitress will not inform you because the owner most likley tells them not to!!!! Also our waitress explained to us were allowed to subsitute 1 item from the combination dinner but once we got our bill we were charged 1.85 for adding "beef" to the vegtable chop suey its another money grab they didnt have beef or chicken shop suey on ANY of thier combinations simply because they know people don't want plain shop suey and to grab an extra 1.85 out of you, the sweet and sour sauce added to the chicken balls we were charged also 1.75 for....if you plan on visiting here be careful they will trick you into paying more than you bargain for!!! i dont recommend this place at all!!!

Prince Gastronome. I've been orbiting around the inevitable for several months. <br/><br/>"Orbiting" is the appropriate word. Through this tireless exercise, I've sampled Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese, the latter two I've consumed twice already. And despite having taken in every other Asian alternative, I've failed to dip a toe in the waters of China. The reasons are obvious, as Chinese food has an unfortunate reputation of monotony. You could almost call it homogeneous, as nearly every Chinese restaurant you could walk into in North America offers the same same mélange of nontraditional westernized Chinese dishes. <br/><br/>I am biased. Under full disclosure, I visited China several years ago, and it remains one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. Two weeks long, and nearly every moment remains burned into my long-term memory. One aspect of the trip still clear in my mind was that I never ate a single morsel relatable to the Chinese cuisine we are accustomed to. Most of where I ate was dim sum, relatively easy to find in Vancouver but nonexistent in a northern town like Prince George (and no, I don't count the pre-frozen crap at Fortune Palace). Here, we have more Chinese restaurants than all other Asian-themed restaurants combined. In fact, you could throw in all the McDonalds and it still wouldn't surpass that number. You'd swear they were all members of a franchise offering the same variations of combination platters. It's my fervent hope that with the influx of Asians moving from the south, reflective in the aforementioned Vietnamese, Thai, and Malaysian restaurants, that we'll see proper dim sum or more traditional Chinese restaurants in town. <br/><br/>Someone may mention that, like Thailand, an opinion of Chinese food is reflective of where you live, and I may not be aware of how many people in China eat exactly the same food as we do in the west. That may be correct, but I still feel it's no excuse given the amazing varieties of food I had over there. Has anyone heard of Dong Bei food? If not, you're missing out. <br/><br/>I need to start eating Chinese now, else I'm stuck visiting one every week for the next three months at the end of the first stage of this blog. However, I won't make it easy on myself. To start, I've traveled clear across town, from limit to limit. This involves driving down into the plateau of the main city and then up the other side to find a well built, easily located place called Northern Palace. I know that's Chinese as it contains one of the four compulsory words all Chinese restaurants apparently must have ("Great", "Palace", "China", and "Asian"). The restaurant is well made but lacks any real markings of heritage. The chairs, tables and general décor make it look like any nonspecific eatery built in the foundation of a Sandman...only without the Sandman. If you think I'm exaggerating, I notice that there are no chopsticks on any of the tables. I order a lunch platter and add pot stickers for additional variety. The combination is your typical assortment of chicken chow mein, sweet & sour pork and the standard egg roll accompaniment. The chow mein is dry and tasteless. The egg roll is crunchy and uninspired. The pot stickers are good and...well, it's Chinese food. It tastes exactly as one would expect it to taste. If it achieves the standard flavor without any surprises, how could I complain? <br/><br/>Well I do because how could one stand above the others if they taste all the same. With Northern Palace, they've the distinction of being one of the ONLY Chinese restaurants this side of town...assuming you forget that the Hart Wheel, a kilometer down the road, also offers Chinese. <br/><br/>Northern Palace has one big compliment coming to them, and it's a big one, one that may encourage you to eat there if hungry, if you're driving by, if you live in the area, AND if you're desperate for immediate food. Northern Palace is cheap. It's real cheap. The combination platter I order comes to only $7.50, and with the pork pot stickers, still barely breaks $13. I won't lie, all these dishes taste like the frozen counterparts you could buy from the Save On across the street. This is in antitheses to Mai Thai where the food is a shocking collection of flavorful traditional dishes unfiltered from the homeland. Northern Palace is as Chinese as Boston Pizza is Italian, but if you know that and want something without any revelations, it may be worth the momentary distraction.<br/><br/>Hey, at least they still offer the fortune cookie. <br/><br/>Mine says, "You are incredibly clever. Others often come to you for advice." <br/><br/>Not bad. Not much of a fortune, but it sure helps with confidence. <br/><br/>Food: 2/5<br/>Service: 4/5<br/>Presentation: 3/5<br/>Value: 4/5<br/>Recommendation: 3/5<br/><br/>Northern Palace Restaurant Ltd <br/>3788 Austin Rd W, Prince George, BC V2K 2H6<br/>250-962-6838

Good stuff. One of the PG triplets. PG is spoiled with good chinese food. Almond chicken is my favorite dish.

In past years this place was great. Then the prices started to climb, the portions went down along with the quality. I for one have never liked sweet and sour sauce that comes in a 5 gallon bucket.