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| - I really wasn't sure about coming here to begin with, but my grandpa swears by it. So I figured why not? Well, I'll tell you why not.
To start, the price isn't that awful, it's pretty average. The food was off as far as taste. I don't know what palette the chef is using but maybe they're getting on up in age and have to have pungent flavors to taste anything. I ordered the house lo mein with no vegetables and an order of steamed pork dumplings, my mom ordered garlic chicken.
The dumplings weren't thick, y'know like real Chinese dumplings. They were made with thin wonton wrappers. Inside the thin "dumplings" the real problem awaited, however. The pork of the pork "dumplings" was 98% cabbage, 2% spice. I've never had dumplings that tasted like an unfried spring roll before. The dipping sauce tasted like a nail salon and again, had cabbage in it. Did they have some cabbage about to expire, or something?
Anyway, onto the main courses. I suppose my moms garlic chicken was supposed to be very hot and spicy. My lo mein, wasn't. I can only assume they cooked my chicken with hers, as my chicken tasted like Lucifer himself cooked it! I picked the chicken out and ate a Popsicle to cool my mouth down, and decided to give it another try. Nope. The whole. Freaking. Plate. Was spicy. It really depressed me that I paid $29 for food that I couldn't eat without having a Popsicle between every bite.
If you're just thinking I'm really sensitive to hot and spicy food, well, I am. But! I had another person try my food to verify. Someone who likes spicy food. They verified that it was pretty friggin spicy.
I'm on the lookout for good, genuine Chinese food in this area. Sadly, Peking Garden doesn't make the cut.
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