Legin Restaurant

10/28/08

Atrocious Food, Lackluster Service

by RedRiderPDX

The food as Legin is the most atrocious Chinese food I've had in years and years. I grew up in the SF Bay Area and regularly ate from a variety of established Chinese restaurants over the years. At its best, the food should be impeccably fresh, delicately seasoned and light, never greasy. Legin really missed on all marks with a group of 15. Every dish tasted noticably of grease. Old grease. We all left feeling heavy and bloated. There's no excuse for that kind of lazy behavior. There seemed to only be one server on duty for three large groups. I won't be going back. Don't waste your time.

• Pros: Ample parking????
• Cons: Grease, grease, grease

02/16/08

Supervisor is a nosepicker!

by rrichardsonzsd

The food was great, and service was wonderful and helpful UNTIL I HAD SEEN THE MANAGER OR SUPERVISOR PICK HIS NOSE OUT IN THE OPEN!! I paid the bill and left feeling very unsatisfyied.

then i wondered if he touched my food?

• Pros: hot dishes cooked and served at your table very freindly staff.
• Cons: did he wash his hands?

10/29/07

Dim sum is so-so

by emilybtownsend

Maybe it's because we sat in the smaller room, but we kept waiting and waiting for carts to go by, and then, when they did, we had to try hard to flag them down and give us some food. The stuff we did end up with was fine, but not better than fine, and there was very little variety. I asked about a couple of my favorite dim sum treats, and the waitress would say 'oh, that's coming'. An hour later we gave up and left. Not cheap either.

• Pros: No wait on a Sunday
• Cons: Food, variety, cost

10/05/07

Best Dim Sum in Portland, Period

by armo2008

A lot of these reviews will tell you Fong Chong, or Jin Wah, are the best dim sum places and even though they are much closer to my home, the drive out there really is justified when I get my Shrimp Har Gao and Sticky rice. The other places just are not as good. the ingredients are better quality and the cooks know what they are doing extremelly well. In fact I never write reviews for anything but Legin really really merits it.

• Pros: Awesome food.

09/14/06

Dim sum delight

by ktroutsushi

Seems to be some debate on how good this place is amongst citysearch reviewers. In our opinion, the dim sum at Legin rivals that we had in Vancouver-the largest Chinese community on the North American west coast. We think it's delicous. And it's served HOT. Maybe if you expect "Chinese-American" food, whatever the hell that means, you'll be disappointed, but for a more authentic Chinese fare, I'll just say this...the place is usually packed, with at least 75% of its clientele being Chinese. For me, that's that's a pretty good validation of our high opinion of the place.

• Pros: Authentic Chinese food served by Chinese servers to an overwhelmingly Chinese clientele
• Cons: Not "Chinese-American"

This tasty Chinese and dim sum restaurant is a boisterous good time.

by Contributor

In Short
Children screech, dishes clank and waitresses call out their goods as they go from table to table. At peak times, the cavernous restaurant is packed, and a 20-minute wait is not uncommon. But it's worth it--the dim sum is arguably the best in town. Diners can get traditional favorites like perfectly tender shrimp or pork dumplings, sticky and sweet barbecue pork buns, crunchy spring rolls, slippery rice noodles and crisp-skinned roast duck.

02/05/06

Decent

by letseat1

Not great but decent, some of the items i've had there are a little greasy and lifeless. I would not recommend it for a date night, but if your in the area and need to eat then its alright.

12/30/05

Most Overrated Chinese Restaurant In Portland

by b00pi3flak3s

Keep me away from this place as far as possible. The hours are on the only good (and somewhat bad) thing since they are open late night. It forces folks with Chinese food cravings to have to settle for this place. Dim Sum is terrible and the dinner prices are atrocious. Most of the Chinese community would have to frown at this place but admire its spacious interior.

• Pros: Decor, Parking
• Cons: Food, Service, Prices

12/18/05

Worst SERVICE and FOOD EVER!

by yukitakashi

My friends decided to take me out for chinese food as a welcoming dinner two week ago, which turned into a disaster. From an asian that eats chinese food on a somewhat regular basis the food was horrible and not worth the menu price. The waiter there hardly came back to check on our table after we got our food. We had to repeatedly get up to as for assistance. It seemed like that the waiter was preoccupied with talking on the cell phone while the cashier or manager was busy taking care of her kids the whole time so was probably too distracted to remember that they still had customers. The only times that the waiter and cashier seemed to be doing their job was when you first come in and when paying. It brought frustration to us the whole night and we all agreed to never go back!

• Pros: parking, location
• Cons: high price bad food, rude workers, doubleduty-daycare???

10/25/05

Our last Legin dinner

by giorgi

We have gone to Legin for years and alway enjoyed it. Noticed it was not up to par about 3 years ago, but every once in a while we'd go back to see if things were getting better. They never have. Went last week for dinner and it was the worst yet. There were only a couple of other diners besides us in the dining room (which should have been the tip off and we should have left). I guess the server forgot that he had diners - we didn't see him for 45 minutes after he served our food - I had to go find him to get our check. The won ton soup tasted terrible (it used to be great) and the other two entrees we ordered were drowing in some kind of gummy sauce that I don't remember them ever serving.

• Pros: good parking
• Cons: food, service, prices