I do not understand how this place stays in business. My comment has nothing to do with the location and everything to do with the food and the service. I like to think that I am fairly open about assessing a new place, but the is not a Chinese restaurant. The best thing that I can say about the entire experience is that it didn't taste bad -- there was NO flavor in anything . Wow...really? I can only think of the Allegory of the Cave when reading previous reviews and then to feel sorry if this is one of the best Chinese restaurants in Pittsburgh. Really?!?!?
As I was walking here, I saw that their specialty was sichuan/szechuan and hunan styles of cooking. I thought that was awesome since I prefer szechuan style cooking. Don't believe what you read though. The best approximation of the the taste and texture of this food is the cheap Cantonese dishes that I ordered in Hong Kong -- the difference is that I only paid 25 cents for three times as much food. The food we ordered:
Pan fried pork dumplings
Wonton
Egg drop
Combo fried rice (yeung chow)
Kung Pao chicken
Unsweet Tea
Coke
The service was HORRIBLE. The server only had THREE tables and she was running around like Foghorn Leghorn after Colonel Sanders chopped off his head in Family Guy. What made it worse is that the owner/manager was watching the entire time and not interceding to try and make the experience better. For your benefit, I will list the order of how my order arrived:
1. Fried Rice (entree) - after 15 minutes of waiting
2. Egg Drop Soup and Wonton Soup (appetizer) - 10 minutes after the fried rice
3. Coke and Iced Tea (drinks) - 5 minutes after the soup.
4. Kung Pao Chicken (entree) - 20 minutes after our drinks arrived.
5. Dumplings (appetizer) - a good 10 minutes after the Kung Pao chicken.
I am not going to bore you with the poor excuses uttered by the waitress, at least she appeared to be trying in the best way she could. The fact that the manager/owner was just watching the entire situation just pissed me off. I didn't finish eating anything. If you enjoy eating coagulated goop in differing levels of solidity, then this is the place for you. If you don't like Chinese food because it tastes like the food at this place, please try again in a different place -- this is NOT good Chinese food.
The most amazing part was the table of 5 Chinese men that were sitting at the table next to me. They were continually asking for items that they were not recieving. Two of the gentlemen actually went to speak to the manager -- IN CHINESE -- and the manager still did nothing. Horrendous. At $20 per person, this is quite overpriced.
I shall never return.