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| - Just skip this place. I kinda knew I'd be getting mediocrity, because the reviews reflect that it's just "okay," but I didn't expect our experience to be just flat out BAD.
I ordered a sweet and sour chicken combination plate, my husband ordered a chicken chow mein combination plate, and we got our son a small bowl of chicken and broccoli. We also ordered fried cheese wontons and egg rolls. To their credit, the sweet and sour chicken was actually pretty good. When I go to a Chinese place I've never been before I usually go for something that's pretty fool-proof and my method paid off this time. The fried rice was terrible; it contained no egg and not ONE piece of pork, which the menu claimed it would. Pork fried rice should include pork.
We're new Pittsburghers from California and back home, chow mein means a plate of noodles. My husband got an extremely pale plate of... onions and zucchini, I think? The chicken looked cooked but the whole meal, overall, looked fairly pale and unappetizing. It came with "crispy fried" noodles to mix into it but they tasted stale and didn't do much for it. We threw that entire meal away.
Pros:
-sweet and sour chicken was good
-fried cheese wontons were good
Cons:
-food didn't seem entirely fresh, even though it's supposed to be made-to-order
-menu confusion resulted in a kind of "too bad" shrug from the staff
-overall disappointing for the amount of money paid
We really wanted some fast, affordable, Chinese food but I think from now on we'll just stick to the short drive to Squirrel Hill for the good stuff. We left feeling like we wasted a lot of money and time on this place.
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