China Bistro Restaurante — Restaurant in Cuenca

It’s chinese-style food, NOT AUTHENTIC CHINESE FOOD from any of the regional cuisines of a great culinary culture 🫤🫤🫤.

This might be however a step up from the typical Chifa.

The eatery is a typical large eating establishment with limited interior designing yet pleasant enough atmosphere…

BUT it does NOT EXUDE THE AMBIENCE OF A REAL BISTRO.

• A bistro, by definition, is a modern-design/concept eatery serving new and/or uplifted re-creations / re-interpretations of familiar dishes.

Indeed, the MENU is a tedious, rather UNIMAGINATIVE repetitive listing of mostly the same basic “supposedly” stir fry🫤🫤🫤.

The difference in the listed foods is in the protein (either pork or chicken or fish), with or without noodles.

There’s the usual Chifa dish, the chaulafans and some soups.

A few dishes are battered or breaded and deep fried, which are not Chinese cooking methods l.

There’s a list of Dumplings and Baos (buns) that is ERRONEOUSLY LABELED AS DIMSUM🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤.

*DIMSUM IS NOT A TYPE OF DISH/FOOD. It is a style of serving small portions of Cantonese food. It’s the Cantonese equivalent of the Castellano Tapas.

Dumplings is a very minor part of true DimSum.

DimSum Cantonese dining can last for several hours.

NONE OF THE FOOD HERE IS CANTONESE, nor do they have Cantonese flavors.

🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤 The Ja Kao (shrimp dumplings) and Siu Mai (mixed shrimp-pork-veggie) are eatable BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE TEXTURE AND FRESHNESS of newly prepared dumplings.

They rather lukewarm and very compact fillings and quite chewy dough 👎👎👎 indicates these are previously frozen, likely factory-made products.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 The Salteado Camarones con Brócoli y Hongos is NOT SAUTÉED BUT BOILED OR BLANCHED INGREDIENTS THEN A BROWN SAUCE IS POURED OVER.

This so-called stir fry (NOT REALLY) completely lacks the Umami flavor of true Chinese cooking.

😑😑😑 Pato Medio (roasted half duck) is the small glimmer of bright spot.

Seasoned and good tasting moist duck… BUT AGAIN LACKS THE FLAVORS OF CHINESE SEASONINGS.

Cuenca has a select authentic Chinese eateries, THIS PLACE IS NOT...

No acostumbro estos comentarios negativos, prefiero comentar directo a los propietarios de los negocios, pero es necesario cuando se ignora la voz del cliente. Hemos comprado muchas veces comida aquí porque es buena, pese a ellos, tuvimos una mala experiencia y una peor respuesta. En una orden de wantan, varias personas que estábamos comiendo, sentimos que posiblemente por el aceite o la masa, se sentía un sabor rancio, pedimos al mesero que lleve a cocina para que revisen, la respuesta fue “el chef dice que están regular y por lo tanto tengo que proceder a devolverles”, le pedí nuevamente que se lleve porque no íbamos a comer eso, luego al momento de cancelar, nos quisieron cobrar, a lo cual indique que no íbamos a pagar porque no estaban buenos y si es que quieren que nos cobren por los que comimos pero no por toda la orden, la respuesta fue que “el jefe” con quien pedí hablar pero no quiso salir, dijo que no. El mesero dijo que si no queremos pagar, que está bien pero que luego le van a cobrar a él.

Esto me parece absurdo, nosotros pagamos por que la comida esté bien, no “regular” y al levantar este malestar recibir una respuesta así, fue muy incómodo, además de inadecuado. Dejo a...

If you haven’t tried China Bistro Restaurante in Cuenca Ecuador you should soon. Several of us have and everything looked great, taste great and the table next to us had the Duck family style meal and they said it was awesome. The owner is Andres Wu Lin, staff and service excellent, prices very reasonable. Address: Av. Remigio Crespo Toral y...