Au Vieux Pékin — Restaurant in Toulouse

Meh. 😕 I was hoping for a wonderful, authentic Chinese dinner, instead everything we tried was simply mediocre.

Main complaints: * only one choice of soup (egg drop, the most basic) on a chilly November evening? * smallest dumplings 🥟 I've ever eaten, and I've had Chinese dumplings on four continents. * mapo tofu was bland and uninteresting, no numbing Szechuan peppercorn flavor or heat; the cook used firm tofu instead of soft silky tofu; frankly, I make better mapo tofu, and I'm a dumb...

I love chinese food, but I cannot for the life of me understand how this place got such high ratings. I never have eaten worse chinese food. I had the wok chicken curry - I didn’t taste anything like curry. Oversalted, no nuanced flavors. I also had the pak choi 🥬- weird flavors, overcooked. Not even the rice was nice and sticky … And the dumplings lacked flavor, too. Just hard to identify what was even in there. Nothing like good dumplings.

As a final gripe, the atmosphere is sterile &...

The food is fine, not exactly that completely authentic, adapted to the local stomaches, but still ok Chinese food. (I am chinese, born and bread in china, by the way. ) However, the attitude of the service differs totally during the several stops we went to over the years. Sometimes you feel like the boss doesn't want you to be there at all, don't ask me the reason, but we indeed felt it... well, it's sad. Fyi, 30-40 euros per head is based on ordering 2 drinks per head after having...