Dragon Palace — Restaurant in Portland

This place looks like your standard Chinese restaurant, but its appearance belies how very, very good the food is.

The service is friendly and efficient, and our meals were cooked fresh and delivered promptly. The chef was very happy to consult with us regarding food sensitivities and allergies, and every care was taken to provide meals that could be eaten by every member of our group.

The food was incredible - you don’t expect to find Chinatown quality in regional Victoria, but that’s exactly what we got. The entrees we got were excellent, without exception. The bbq pork, satay sticks and house dim sims deserve special mention as highly recommended.

The dishes we ordered were just divine. Our group ordered a good variety of things from Mongolian and Szechuan sizzle plates to fish with vegetables, and everyone was very impressed with the presentation, preparation and flavour of the dishes. The special fried rice and vegetarian fried rice were both delicious and plentiful, and made the perfect accompaniment to our main dishes.

The prices are very reasonable, and we averaged $50 per person for soft drinks, entrees,...

While visiting Portland we visited this chinese restaurant as the reviews read good!!!!!!! I'm sorry to say it was one of the worse chinese meals we've ever had. Our entrees came our seperately, had to chase our drinks and 1 meal of our mains didn't arrive, when we questioned it, they were a little confused saying do you still want it now - well clearly not being our "dry" fried rice is now cold! To top it off they were charging us for someone else's meals - I mentioned to the young male attendant that our meal was below average with dry fried rice, his response was, "ok"! A big let down when we were looking forward to...

The greeting at the front door was just lovely. Setting was nice. The food….. not so much. Ordered honey peppered beef and there were probably 5 pieces of beef in the whole dish. Very disappointing. We asked for soy sauce and they brought out some form of soy sauce and it was inedible. Thought I’d try the fried ice cream. Cheapest vanilla icecream ever, smallest scoop and a crust on it that resembled (and tasted) like old sponge cake. We gave feedback to the female owner on the way out who did not appreciate the negative feedback. .For $91 it was really poor value for money and I personally would not eat...