Hua Cheng — Restaurant in Milan

This is the worst Chinese restaurant I have ever had. I am Chinese. I am really serious about what I am saying. Dear my Italian friends, do you like pizza with pineapple, apple, orange, beef stake or whatever on it? Do you like over-boiled (very soft and sticky) pasta cooked with ketchup? This Chinese restaurant is just like that. The owner is Chinese for sure, but they don’t know how to properly cook Chinese cuisine and they don’t have basic manners. The noodles they serve are not noodles, they cut Nian Gao (年糕, you can google it if interested) into noodle shape and call it noodles, for god sake! My Italian friends and I also ordered Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐), but what they gave us was just tofu with some spicy sauce, which was disgusting. There should be Sichuan peper and minced meat and many other ingredients in the real Mapo Tofu. I questioned the owner about the noodles and Mapo Tofu, annoyingly he started to yell at me saying that “when Italian people order Mapo Tofu, we just serve this simple version of Tofu, because this is more in line with their taste”. WTF! how do they know if Italian people like the real Mapo Tofu or the fake one, they just use this reason as an excuse to cut off cost to make more profit, because the real Chinese cuisine is usually more complicated with more materials. Plus, how can he yell at his customer? He was so rude and under-educated. According to my observation, this restaurant is run by a under-educated family from a small Chinese village, probably Wencheng county. Their chef is absolutely not professional. The decoration of this small restaurant is super ugly if you can call it decoration at all. What disgusts me more is that they are ruining the reputation of Chinese people and Chinese food. They should at least have received some education and learned good manners before they went abroad to open a Chinese restaurant. And they should never cheat Italian people with these disgusting fake food.

Based on my own experience, there are several other good Chinese restaurants which serve authentic (at least around 80% authentic) Chinese food in China town, but don’t go...

I REALLY don't understand why this place has great reviews. Honestly, my mind is blown... into millions of tiny little pieces of soup dumplings that ARE NOT actually soup dumplings because that's what they serve at Hua Cheng. I ordered the xiao long bao, roast duck and water. The ONLY authentic thing served was water and they could not have possibly messed that up since it was a bottle of mineral water. The xiao long bao was somewhat (that's me being generous) juicy but there was NO soup on the inside. It was basically just a sub-par dumpling that you could have gotten at a street cart. The roast duck was NOT roasted, but rather deep fried, or perhaps they reheated it so much in the oven that it seemed deep fried. Also, the roast duck was not served with rice. Please tell me what Chinese restaurant has roast duck on the menu and is not served with rice? Major face palm moment. It was the STRANGEST experience since the restaurant was fully packed and there was a line outside as well. I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HYPE. Don't even get me started about the quality of the food- I was looking around at the dishes that others ordered around me and all of the sauces looked watered down and bland. Someone ordered fried rice and it literally looked like white rice gently tossed with canned peas, carrots and spam. The soup noodle portions looked big though-- that's the only plus I can think of. Do yourself a favor and do not go here. I'm a native Chinese New Yorker so without sounding too narcissistic, I know authentic Chinese food, and I can confidently say that Hua Cheng does not serve authentic...

Trattoria cinese angusta, dove i commensali vengono fatti accomodare appiccicati uno all'altro. Con mia moglie chiedo di sedermi in un tavolo da due in fondo al locale in quel momento libero. La gestrice del locale risponde secca con tono spazientito: "Non si può". Ci viene proposta un'unica opzione, un tavolo da due accostato all'ingresso e a un altro tavolo da sei. Il pericolo di ricevere da un altro commensale una sediata involontaria è altissimo e in ogni caso dietro di me c'è fastidioso viavai dalla porta e pochissimo spazio per i nostri zainetti. Il locale da pieno è rumorosissimo. Menu enciclopedico e dunque non promettente sul piano della qualità e del gusto. Io ordino tofu con verdure e mia moglie ravioli di carne, anatra arrosto e spaghetti di patata dolce con verdure. Le verdure ovunque per metà sono germogli di soia facili da gestire in cucina (niente da tagliare o da pelare) e per il resto carota, cipolla o cavolo per lo più grattugiate in minime quantità. Porzioni molto abbondanti (ben otto ravioli) e sapori neutri, poco interessanti, ma per lo meno non si avverte eccesso né di sale né di olio. Assurda l'assenza di posate di portata. Di fatto ognuno deve pescare dai piatti di portata con la sua forchetta. Poco igienico, poco pratico e poco cortese. All'uscita noto che il tavolo che avevo chiesto è ora occupato da due persone venute molto dopo di noi. Chiedo perché è stato accordato ad altri venuti dopo quello che avevamo chiesto noi e non mi viene data, maleducatamente, alcuna risposta. Insisto e allora la gestrice stizzita ribadisce che "Lì non si poteva. La nostra organizzazione è questa". All''obiezione che forse anche i desiderata di clienti dovrebbero essere presi in considerazione non c'è risposta. Un approccio sgradevole, senza attenzione e senza educazione. Di fatto non trovo ragione per tornare in una trattoria dove si viene accolti a broccoli in faccia (non dico pesci per rispetto verso questi animali). Costo per quattro piatti con acqua 35 euro non adeguato all'ambiente scomodo e al...