Jean's Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Halifax

Where to begin? I guess with the worst, the fried "wontons". I put wontons in quotes as wontons, by definition, have a blob or meat or other filling inside their fried wrapper. Jean's doesn't understand this. Their "wontons" were just fried chips of egg roll batter with no dumpling filling to speak of. Just dry, half stale, scummily greasy pieces of egg roll wrapper. Never have I seen a place try to pass off chips as wontons. It was astounding. The "wontons" wouldn't be that bad if they weren't fried in the same mystery oil as everything else in the restaurant. This shared oil imbues everything it touches with a slight but very noticable taste of fish and chicken fat rendering anything that has been placed in it a off-putting, eerily mysterious flavour area. The fried chicken balls were questionable at best and physically revolting at worst. The coating was the same bland, slightly fishy oil and batter combo seen in the "wontons" and the chicken seems to be composed of several malfitting chunks of chicken giving a single chicken ball multiple textures of meat as it's being bitten through this giving the whole experience an anxiety inducing uneasy of never knowing what may be bitten into. The egg roll was your average mince meat paste in a wrapper but, like everything else fried, contained a fishy taste and a strange oil that leaves a slick scum on the inside of the mouth. The chicken fried rice was surprisingly good but I'm not sure if that's just because it's night impossible to get chicken fried rice wrong or if everything else in the meal was of such low quality that it just seemed like a shining beacon of flavour at the end of the arduous journey that was the trek through the rest of the meal. Would not, and will not,...

Pros: Price isnt too bad, ($20 for a decent amount of food), large serving sizes. girl who answered the phone could speak english! very impressed, Cons: food took 1.5 hrs to arrive a few blocks down the road, i called jeans 40 mins in to ask if he was on the way, they said he left 10 minutes before that. food was cold upon arrival, and when the chinese guy got here who delivered it (who could barley speak english) i paid, and his responce was 'you have cash?' i replyed with 'no..' and then he said 'you no going to tip?' i told him that because it took so long and was cold, he wasent getting a tip. 'seriously? not fair man'

i'm all one for tipping the people that deliver food, but when you're in university and don't have much money, and then when you get the food that you can barely afford and it's cold because of the driver... that's not cool with me.

all in all, i might order from them again. but if it takes as long as it did the 2nd time, it will be the last.

UPDATE

have had jeans now 5 times. i've picked it up every other time and have enjoyed it.. placing it in my hot bag to keep it hot until i got home.

last night's delivery though (Since we moved to dartmouth, i'd rather pay the $2 delivery fee, since i'd be spending way more then that in gas and bridge fair...) was horrid... the food was cold (i asked about them using hotbags, their answer was 'no,sorry, we dont' why not?!)

it also POISONED all 4 of us that ate it.. ew. all in all, this will be the last time i will ever...

March 8, 2025. Hubby and I just left Jeans Chinese in the old Kim Fengs location in Woodside. We had placed our order and while waiting for it to come out, we sat at a table. The table was situated right beside the see through glass doors leading to the kitchen. Hubby and I AND another gentleman who was also waiting for his food sat there and watched the cook bare handed placing chicken balls on the take out dishes.

Then he decided there wasn't enough room on one of the dishes, so he wiped his hands on his pants and proceeded to move the chicken balls from one dish to another with his bare hands. It didn't stop there. We continued to watch and all three of us saw the cook drop a chicken ball on the floor, pick it up, look at it and place it back in the take out dish with the rest of the order he was working on, and then wipe his hand again on his pants!

I know this restaurant is a well loved restaurant (they were in Halifax). We've never eaten there when they were in Halifax. I know they have won awards, but after tonight's performance, their quality has obviously gone way down. We got a refund and left. The older gentleman in the kitchen was screaming and denying everything (the guy who took our order had to go tell him why we wanted a refund on our own order that we didn't even receive yet)!

Three of us witnessed this!!!! We...