We like to give a new restaurant a few chances to appeal to us & waited a week after their opening to do so. Then, because of attending the cinema last night @ Suncoast, decided to try Peng Zu again. How unfortunate we did so. [I'm incl. both visits in this review.]
The Moo Shoo was a disaster, consisting of a pile of ground pork in a way too sweet sauce, lots of crispy rice noodles & dried up white tortillas to fold around this mess, thereby falling apart all over the plate. The chef kindly offered to replace them with hot ones. The Curry Chicken Claypot was not the usual one gets in an Asian restaurant because no heat was under it & the portion was small (though a 3 out of a 5 in taste). The Buddha's Delight was described as "mixed Chinese vegetables" but was merely bok choy (& the biggest piece needing a sharp knife to cut or couldn't be eaten), & 2 snow peas in a canned sauce. I give it an "argh." The chef was generous with ingredients in the Pho but the broth wasn't even the canned variety & instead a lightly colored water. My partner's Kung Pao Chicken was "okay" he said, but had very little sauce & many hot red peppers (you can't specify here like at Thai restr.).
Our experience has been that Chinese restaurants use more oil & salt than the Thai (which none of us need more of), & portions aren't as large.
As to service, the 1st time it was stellar & last night would have been if someone offered to refill our water glasses. Would we return? I see no reason.