Anthony Review of Red Ginger China Bistro
Spent 46 bucks for two dishes, 2 kinds of fried ri...
Spent 46 bucks for two dishes, 2 kinds of fried rice, and dumplings. After the sticker shock I expected great flavor and healthy serving size. However I am so disappointed and wishing I had spent half of the money to drive further elsewhere.
The beef lo mein:
$10.50 for noodles basically. Dry bland lacking in flavor. I found 6 pieces of meat and vegetables that didn't even have taste. Onions still firm but yet nothing to give you belief you ate one. What a joke.
Orange chicken:
$10.50 Should be an easy one to knock out for any oriental restaurant. However the lack of seasoning accompanied with out of the box tasting sauce left us with no choice but to drown it in our own sauces to make it more appeasing. Even the kids wouldn't eat more than one if they even ate one to start with. Chewy nasty chicken that we couldn't convince the kids to try again. I too found this dish difficult to keep eating.
Fried dumplings:
(6.50?!) I always judge a place by these. The dumpling sauce is nothing more than a watery sweet and sour not a dumpling sauce at all. Not even close. The dumpling itself was basically a unrecognizeable blob of what I hope and assume is meat. Poor flavor and I can say frozen ones from the grocery store beats these hands down. Sloppily laid on lettuce the outside was cooked hard where the filling had been pinched. Eaten without the sweet sauce is honestly comparable to chicken nuggets without breading.
Pork fried rice:
(9.25 for a large?!) More dry than what's desirable however good sized chunks of meat but like the rest of the food. Boring on your taste buds. However likely the best part of the 46 dollar meal. Expect the fortune cookies.
Shrimp fried rice:
(6.05 for a small) Good sized shrimp and comparable in the lack of seasoning to the pork rice. Nothing to wow you however not much more to gripe about aside from what's been mentioned already. Bland. Unexciting. Dumbed down.
All in all we found the food barely bareable if you have a plethora of sauces to add at your home. However the prices for what you get are absurd I have eaten all over the country and even gas station egg rolls have more flavor than the entire meal put together. The Asian salad at McDonald's blows this place out of the water. Nothing seems to be made by hand or from scratch even; the incredible lack of seasoning and care for tradition combined with poor appearance sums up to a suspicion that the chef does not understand what he's making or the recipes have been heavily altered from what's expected from staple dishes.
TL;DR: save your money if you're expecting Chinese food and flavors, this place is not that it has been watered down to bland dry American with a Chinese cuisine look and disappointing taste and feel.
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