Kwang Chow Restaurant

04/11/08

Worst food ever

by als704 at Citysearch

This is the some of the worst food I have ever had, and not just at a Chinese restaurant. My boyfriend and I tried it because it is just down the street from his apartment and got several good reviews. We normally love asian food, but this was awful. The food was greasy and tasteless. The sesame chicken was essentially chicken nuggets with sesame seeds in the batter. The lo mein was in a bland sauce. We went for take out and had to wait in the restaurant for about 25 minutes. They also don't take credit or debit, so we had to use the ATM, adding about $3 in fees to our bill. The food was average in price, but for the quality of food was way overpriced.

• Pros: It's close to home
• Cons: The food

03/31/08

SIMPLY AWFUL

by EPICUREBILL at Citysearch

I love Chinese food and the various ways to prepare Chinese cuisines. I am also adventurous and keen to try new and different restaurants ranging from Mom & Pop working class eateries to elegant dining rooms.

KWANG CHOW RESTAURANT is the worse Chinese venue I have ever visited.

I visited this restaurant on a Sunday night at 845PM. It closes at 11PM. I was "jonesing" for basic Chinese fare.

The waitress was pleasant. She greeted me cordially (I was the only diner) and sat me at a booth and quickly served me hot tea. I must mention that this restaurant is in dire need of redecoration. I literally sat "in" the orange vinyl booth. The seats sunk into the frame. The table was covered with vinyl cloth and a hard plastic cover over it.

I placed the BBQ Pork order first. I always order one thing at a time because my experience in Chinese restaurants has shown me that if I order my entire meal all at once, it is served all at once.

The BBQ Pork came very quickly and it was a cold heaping mass served on a tiny tea-cup plate. I sent it back and it returned heated in the microwave ... dried out, grey, and unappetizing, The typical red rind along the sides of the sliced pork was brown.

I was going to leave but my stomach decided to give an entree a chance. I ordered the Almond Chicken Chow Mein.

It was served within 5 minutes on a small platter. It was a tasteless mass of celery, green peas!, carrots and diced water chestnuts with very few pieces of dark-meat chicken served over hard noodles. Seriously, this dish had absolutely no taste at all. Dreadful. I tried to doctor it with a little soy sauce. Didn't work.

The total for both items with hot tea was $14.30. Rather pricey.

I would NOT recommend this restaurant.

P.S. I should have paid attention to the previous reviewer who called his experience "GROSS".

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• Pros: I can not seriously think of any highlights.
• Cons: Awful Food, Dreadful Ambience

01/13/08

GROSS!!

by cp503 at Citysearch

This restaurant is old and the food is terrible. The prices were expensive and the food was so gross. I ordered four dishes for two people and we barely touched any of it. The restaurant needs some serious updating, I think its still stuck in the sixties.

• Pros: Non
• Cons: bad food, super bad ambience

06/24/07

Are you crazy people???!!

by chiz at Citysearch

I read the reviews and many people seem satisfied with this restaurant. I called in an order for take out. I picked up my food but the food was not what I had ordered. I guess they didn't understand me or something!! The food was not good at all. The fried rice had no flavor and they sprinkled cut up pieces of bbq pork on top of the fried rice; basically it was rice fried with soy sauce, the sweet and sour shrimp had sauce that tasted basically like ketchup but sweetened, and the pork that I ordered was all fatty and gross. Come on people!! This is not a good restaurant. You must not have ever tried real chinese food!

• Cons: everything