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Dobe & Andy wants to change how you think about dining in Chinatown

After four decades of tradition, Montreal's own Hong Kong-style diner is betting that better hospitality can help revive the neighbourhood.

J.P. Karwacki

3 octobre 2025- Read time: 10 min

Co-owner and de facto head chef of Dobe & Andy Webster Galman woks on some 'supremium' fried rice. | Photography by Eva Blue / @evablue

You could say Eric Ku has a problem with the way people think about eating in Chinatown.

Not the food, mind you—the duck hanging in Dobe & Andy's window still gets the two-day char siu treatment, the same labour-intensive air-drying process that his father Andy perfected when he opened the restaurant 42 years ago.

The problem is everything that happens after you walk through the door.

"Chinatown service is not just like, hey, take your order, drop it off, and see you again," Ku says, leaning on a table of his St-Urbain diner that's been his second home since childhood. "I don't like that. I want to change that."

Eric Ku wants to change how people experience service in Chinatown, pushing beyond old-school efficiency toward something more personal.

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