East Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Sofia City

Every time I go there it's almost always without customers(maybe good for introverts), nonetheless I enjoy dining here and I find it one of the best value restaurants in Sofia where you spend relatively cheaply(also considering the location) and they serve you very large portions of food. The food is well cooked,although not exceptional. I believe they don't add MSG(as most asian restaurants do) since I am very sensitive to it and all my meals here were pleasant.

It's a chinese restaurant managed by chinese nationals, but it lacks any authentic feeling of being chinese. If the owners would had put more effort in making it more traditional, like putting chinese traditional music(instead of pop or chalga), offering tea by default,offering chopsticks...instead they westernized it too much. They should definitively downsize the menu choices and focus on making it more authentic...

We arrived 1 & ½hr before the advertised closing time, but it seemed like a very quiet night so they looked like they were getting ready to close. We went in & we were able to get a table, although it did feel like we were a bit of an inconvenience to them. Anyway, we had hot & sour soup & pancake rolls to start, followed by salt & pepper ribs & 3 meat noodles, all of which were wonderful. Very tasty...

The good thing is that it's an affordable European-chinese restaurant in the city center. I've tried some in the city and I thing that this one is good one. During the day many locals go there for their lunch and the big portions will treat you well.

The soups are good and the chicken plates tasted better that the pork ones. The lemon chicken was good a bit heavy but after a walk in the center it...