Paul's Asian Affair — Restaurant in Newcastle-Maitland

Have been to Paul's in the past a couple of times. Was lovely then. Went there Saturday ngt for the first time in a few yrs. Sadly have to say..didn't enjoy at all. Was extremely noisy..but u get that in restaurants sometimes. Food was a huge disappointment. Prawn toast very ordinary...dry n no flavour. The beef dish n sweet n sour pork dish weren't good. At all. Not much favour. N big pieces of meat. Too big to eat comfortably, n in both cases..the beef was grissly chewy n the big pork chunks were tough n chewy. That sort of thing makes eating a Chinese meal very unpleasant. Can't remember the last time we had dishes we didn't want to eat after a couple of mouthfuls. To top things off..we were sadly ripped off. Just not sure how it could have happened. We usually get the acc to the table but this time my husband went to pay it as I gathered my things. When in the car he stated that was a lot of $ for terrible food. $165.00 I was amazed. Had I gone up with him I wouldve known that something wasn't right. N questioned it. We ordered the same amt of things we always do at Chinese restaurants..in fact ..1 thing less this time..no soup..n always pay around $120-130 When we added io from a menu the next day..it came to $130. As it should've been. Very annoyed n unhappy about the whole experience sadly. Won't...

I find it difficult to give a bad review but the reputation of Paul's Asian Affair has proved to be so far from reality I have to. We ordered special fried rice and two classic dishes, bbq pork and honey chicken. What we got was something I would expect a school student learning to cook to bring home. The rice had no flavour that resembled fried and there certainly wasn't anything special about it. The chicken was dry and unseasoned, the honey sauce was bland and gluggy. The BBQ pork was quite sweet and watery while also managing to be bland and tasteless. The one star rating is for the lovely friendliness of the staff, perhaps they are the only reason this restaurant has customers, they feel sorry for them. Although we didn't eat in, I noticed a large selection of alcohol, perhaps this also would have improved the flavour of the food, alas we did not partake. 100% would not recommend. Go around the corner to the little take away shop, cheaper and...

The Bad: Honestly Disappointed, Fried Rice is missing something like Soy Sauce was more along the lines of a Mixed Rice(non Fried) rather then a Fried Rice. and almost no chicken in the rice. Lamb with Special sauce was bland and was ment to be spicy but Smith BBQ chips have more spice and for the price 14 small pieces of lamb was pissed. Honey chicken isn't honey chicken it's Deep Fried Battered Chicken with Honey Sauce on the side like umm don't call it honey chicken if it's not. chow mien was not chow mien dunno what u call that dish because it's not Chow Mien.

The Good: Sweet and sour pork was really nice did a good job. In the Fried Rice the Chinese BBQ Pork was really tasty.

my friend who was staying with us ate some spat it out and said this isn't real Chinese and chose to order maccas instead saying it'd...