The Phenix Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in South Island

This was our second visit. It's probably our fault for not saying anything at the time, the servers did come and ask us how things were going, but they probably came a bit early to check as at that time we had just started to eat the food.

I ordered the chicken and corn soup, and was very disappointed it was very tasteless and I did not find much chicken at all! Next I had the Blackbean beef, and eventhough I ate it all, it was the most salty Blackbean I have ever had! We also ordered a chicken dish sweet and chilli chicken, it was ok nothing special was not a fan on the batter as it got soggy mixed in with the sauce.

I wanted to say something but my wife did not want me to cause any problems. Please add more chicken to the soup and go easy on the salt!

Other than that everyone was very friendly and...

This is our first time here yet we are very very very disappointed. We are a huge fan of Chinese Food/Chinese Restaurant that’s why we decided to give this a try. We ordered what we normally order from a Chinese Restaurant which are fried squid, fried rice, and wonton soup, we also tried their dumplings that are not homemade lol tasted the same as from the supermarket. We are disappointed mainly because the squid doesn’t taste anything and it’s very far from squid/calamari taste. It’s more into flour taste or probably FAKE SQUID.

We spent $70 on food that we didn’t even enjoy. I don’t mind spending money on food but this one just made me upset. Far from what we were expecting and what we had.

We will not gonna come back in here and we will NOT gonna recommend this to anyone.

Poor customer...

I smell a rat with some of the reviews here, several compliment the staff and food, 1 reviewer even said dishes plentiful. Our experience was far from this! The staff were rushed and unfriendly at best and it was a lunch with 3 tables including us. Food was barely average for Chinese and no way plentiful ! One dish of fried bread scored 1 out of 10. They were golden on the outside and raw or stodgy from frozen on the center. There was so little dip it was insulting, there was so little dip that you couldn't even dunk the bread in it. Asked for more dip and received another ramekin with another smear of dip in the bottom. A free lunch wouldn't get...