Tian Xin Place

Award-winning Huaiyang, Shanghai & Nanjing cuisine, served with quiet care in Thornhill, Ontario.

Tian Xin Place is an authentic Chinese restaurant in Thornhill, hand-making xiaolongbao soup dumplings, dim sum, Nanjing salted duck and Longjing tea shrimp since 2015.

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A bamboo steamer of hand-folded Shanghai xiaolongbao soup dumplings at Tian Xin Place an authentic Chinese restaurant in Thornhill, Ontario. Pleats visible; steam rising softly over a warm off-white surface.
Xiaolongbao · Shanghai soup dumplings
About Tian Xin Place

Authentic regional Chinese cooking, made the old way every day in Thornhill.

Tian Xin Place is an authentic Chinese restaurant in Thornhill, Ontario, bringing the refined kitchens of Jiangsu, Shanghai and Nanjing to the Greater Toronto Area. Our chefs specialise in Huaiyang cuisine one of China’s four great regional traditions famous for its delicate knife-work, subtle broths, and reverence for the ingredient. Every soup dumpling is folded to order. Every duck is cured, brined and rested in-house.

The kitchen also runs a full menu of Cantonese dim sum classics, Szechuan house favourites (Mapo tofu, Kung Pao chicken, twice-cooked pork), fresh seafood, hand-pulled noodles, and steamed rice dishes over two hundred plates in total. Nothing is pre-frozen. Everything is finished by hand on the day it’s cooked.

Several of our signature dishes have been recognised by New Tang Dynasty TV’s Global Chinese Culinary Competition and featured in the Epoch Times, placing Tian Xin Place among the best regional Chinese restaurants in Ontario. We serve dine-in guests, takeout orders, and delivery across Thornhill, Markham, Richmond Hill and Vaughan, from noon to ten every day of the week.

Signature Dishes

A short list our guests come back for.

Each dish is rooted in a specific region of China, each finished by hand. These are the plates our regulars order twice the ones that make Tian Xin Place a destination for authentic Chinese food in the Greater Toronto Area.

  1. Shanghai · 01
    Xiaolongbao Shanghai soup dumplings

    Pleated and steamed to order. A rich pork broth held inside a thin, pliant wrapper, served in the bamboo it was cooked in the dish that made Shanghai famous.

  2. Shanghai · 02
    Sheng jian bao pan-fried pork buns

    Crisp-bottomed, juicy in the middle, finished with sesame and scallion. A Shanghai street-food classic, best eaten within the minute they arrive at the table.

  3. Nanjing · 03
    Nanjing salted duck

    Gently cured and poached in a spiced brine, then rested for a full day. Clean, savoury, quietly complex, and sliced to the bone the pride of Nanjing’s Six Dynasties kitchen.

  4. Hangzhou · 04
    Longjing tea shrimp

    River shrimp stir-fried with Dragon Well tea leaves. A classic of the Southern Song court, restrained and green in the glass one of the finest expressions of Zhejiang cuisine.

  5. Yangzhou · 05
    Da zhu gan si pressed bean curd, Yangzhou style

    Bean curd cut into hundreds of hair-fine strands, simmered in a delicate chicken broth with ham and greens. A test of any Huaiyang chef’s knife.

Award-winning Chinese cuisine
Recognition

Named among the best regional Chinese restaurants in Ontario.

Several signature dishes at Tian Xin Place carry recognition from New Tang Dynasty TV’s Global Chinese Culinary Competition and features in the Epoch Times. It’s work we’re proud of but we keep the seal quiet on the plate. What arrives at your table is the point.

Come for the xiaolongbao. Stay for the tea shrimp, the salted duck, and a table that doesn’t rush you.

Cuisine Huaiyang · Shanghai · Nanjing · Dim Sum · Szechuan
Recognition NTD TV · Epoch Times
Serving Thornhill since 2015
A round family table set with several small plates of authentic Chinese food at Tian Xin Place in Thornhill, warmly lit, viewed from above.
The Family Table

Room for the whole family and a kitchen built for the round-table way of eating.

Thornhill locals bring us their gatherings: birthdays, extended family lunches, festival meals, small groups from the office. The dining room seats groups comfortably, and the kitchen is built for the round-table way of eating many dishes, shared slowly, brought out in a considered order. Reservations recommended for groups of six or more.

  • Groups of 6–20 welcome; reservations recommended
  • Set menus & banquets for celebrations, festivals, weddings and business dinners
  • Takeout & delivery packed to travel soup dumplings arrive intact
  • Vegetarian & dietary a full section of the menu, plus dishes we adapt to order
Festivals & Seasons

A calendar of tables.

The Chinese year turns on food. We build set menus for the moments that matter and serve them through the season so a family table can carry the meaning without any of the planning.

  • Chinese New Year Reunion-dinner menus, whole fish, sweet rice cake. Reservations open six weeks ahead; the room books quickly.
  • Lantern Festival Sesame rice balls in osmanthus rice wine (item 237), served through the fifteenth day.
  • Dragon Boat Festival Handmade zongzi glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaf pre-order only, first come first served.
  • Mid-Autumn Festival A moon-cake week and a table menu built for the autumn crab. Ask about the Longjing tea shrimp; it’s at its best.
  • Winter Solstice Sticky-rice balls and warming casseroles fresh-and-salted pork with bamboo shoots is the season’s dish.

For festival tables of eight or more, please call the restaurant a week ahead so the kitchen can source what it needs. Set-menu pricing is on request.

Call to plan a festival table Dinner Combo · 4
Visit Tian Xin Place

Five Glen Cameron Road, Thornhill.

Tucked into the plaza at Yonge and Glen Cameron, a short walk from the Thornhill Community Centre. Free on-site parking. We’re a five-minute drive from most of Thornhill and Richmond Hill, twelve from Markham Centre, and about thirty from downtown Toronto.

Address 5 Glen Cameron Rd, Unit 23b
Thornhill, ON L3T 5W2, Canada
Hours Open daily · 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Phone (905) 707‑7990
Parking Free on-site
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Last order 9:30 pm. Larger parties please call ahead so we can bring the tea when you arrive.

The warm dining room at Tian Xin Place, Thornhill quiet lighting, simple wooden tables, seating for family gatherings.
Tian Xin Place Yonge & Glen Cameron, Thornhill, ON
Questions guests often ask

Good to know before you visit.

  • What kind of Chinese restaurant is Tian Xin Place? Tian Xin Place is an authentic regional Chinese restaurant in Thornhill, Ontario, specialising in Huaiyang, Shanghai and Nanjing cuisine. We also serve Cantonese dim sum classics and Szechuan house favourites.
  • Where are you located, and how do I get there? We’re at 5 Glen Cameron Road, Unit 23b, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 5W2 in the plaza at Yonge and Glen Cameron, with free on-site parking. About five minutes from central Thornhill and Richmond Hill, twelve from Markham Centre, and thirty from downtown Toronto.
  • What are your opening hours? Open every day of the week from 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm, with last orders at 9:30 pm. Dinner combos and lunch specials are available daily.
  • Do you take reservations? Yes. Reservations are recommended for parties of six or more, and are essential for Chinese New Year and other major festivals. Please call (905) 707-7990 to book the room fills quickly in season.
  • Do you offer takeout and delivery? Yes takeout and delivery are available every day. Order online for pickup, or call the restaurant. Our packaging is built so that soup dumplings and dim sum arrive intact.
  • What are your signature dishes? Our regulars come back for hand-folded xiaolongbao (Shanghai soup dumplings), Nanjing salted duck, Longjing tea shrimp, sheng jian bao pan-fried pork buns, and pressed bean curd in the Yangzhou style. Several of these have been recognised by NTD TV’s Global Chinese Culinary Competition.
  • Is your menu vegetarian-friendly? Do you handle allergies? A full section of the menu is vegetarian, and many other dishes can be adapted to order. For allergies, please tell your server when you arrive the kitchen will work with you.
  • What’s the best time of year to visit? Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival are when the kitchen is at full stretch set menus, whole fish, autumn crab, moon-cake week. Winter Solstice brings the sticky-rice balls and warming casseroles.
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