This restaurant got the one star for friendliness but holy cow the food deserved less than a star. I read all the previous Yelp reviews and thought "ok, so one guy had a bad experience" that happens. But Kyle H. had it right ~ it was awful.
My husband and I have spent some considerable time in the Asian countries so we know good Chinese food. However we also understand that we get the Americanized version here and so we go into it with low expectations. We haven't found a good (lot less great) Chinese restaurant here in the valley and after eating at Tao Yuan's restaurant the search will continue.
I ordered take out and it was a little bit of a hassle that the restaurant didn't have a website so we could see their menu and call in our order but I figured I'd just suck it up and wait the first time and then get a menu for the next time (little did I know at the time that I would throw away the menu with the food later). I ordered Kung Pao Chicken. It was flavorless and mushy. The meat was slimy and tasted like it might have been out of a can with no distinguishable difference between the white and dark meat - assuming there was actually white meat in here somewhere.
My husband ordered Shrimp Low Mein and the noodles were overcooked and the dish was fairly bland. I also ordered Vegetable Fried Rice hoping I could have it for lunch the next day. When I couldn't eat the Kung Pao Chicken I started eating the rice only to find it overcooked and mushy. How can you possibly screw up rice for goodness sake? It was inedible. And to finish it all off I had a Spring Role that after taking one bite I spit it into my napkin. We took the whole dinner and threw it in the trash.
See what I'm saying? If you spend your hard earned money to buy food it shouldn't be in your napkin and in your garbage can. This is a disastrous eating establishment. Think twice before eating here.