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First time. Flier on my door said "All Dishes Cooked Fresh per Order". Ordered luch special Teriyaki Chicken white rice instead of fried rice, dine in. Lunch special is $6.95, soda $1.50.
Steamed rice was OK. Falls apart, more like Uncle Ben's than I would like. Surprisingly very little rice is given.
Huge amount of chicken.
Cooked fresh? I waited about 2-3 minutes for my order to arrive. It was super hot...microwave hot. Places that actually cook fresh don't actually have to say it, it's obvious.
Not a single word from the person handing me the bag which is always a nice touch.
The chicken was well on its way to being jerky. I'm not saying that to be mean, or to exaggerate, I think it's accurate. The outside of each chicken chunk was hard, dry and stringy. The inside of each chunk wasn't stringy but very dry and tasteless. Obviously the meat had been cooked hours before, maybe the day before, could even have been days ago. More of a British-Chinese fusion thing.
Teriyaki Chicken? Not even close. It's old chicken with some kind of brown sweet thin liquid poured over it and microwaved.
I rarely throw out food, a chicken gave its life for this and I shouldn't waste it...but most of this went into the can. Wish I had a dog.
The egg roll was the standard manufactured type which is fine.
The Crab Puffs were interesting. Of course there's no crab in it...or seafood of any kind. It looked and tasted like a cube of cream cheese in a fried wonton. Not exactly what I think of when I think Chinese. Maybe not exactly good, but not bad either. I wouldn't personally eat another one but these were edible.
Phoenix has some truly bad Chinese restaurants and Siu Wok is at the bottom of my list so far.
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