Tong Lai — Restaurant in Gauteng

This could have been 4-5 stars.

But every delivery order we have is beyond a joke.

It's a mess.

They use flimsy containers that spill the food to some extent EVERY single delivery.

This time being the worst.

Pics for reference to what their customers are experiencing and likely not posting.

Their "fried" rice is not fried - it is a goopy soggy barely can be called rice mess.

Vegetables are always over cooked like there is no care in preparing the food.

The sauce on the cashew nut chicken never arrives the same - it is always over cooked to the point of unpleasantness.

Their spring rolls are SO GREASY they literally pour oil out and takes 4 paper towels to sop up the oil.

They do not provide sweet and sour sauce with the spring rolls - they PUT A LEMON on it. So GROSS.

I've had more than enough - sharing publicly now.

I updated this review in Oct 2025 when we gave another chance and it was worse than EVER. ZERO stars not even worthy of ONE...

Tried the Chicken Chow Mein, as not a singel Chinese fast take away can mess it up, well this place proved me wrong!!! The most tasteless chow mein iv ever had, i could taste every single thing in that dish was boiled, no sauce, the noodles didn't even have a tinge of brown to them!!

Tonight we thought we would give them another chance we got Green Thai Chicken n Red Thai Chicken, we have never had such blan tasteless food in our lives, all that happened was our mouths burnt! Once again every single thing in that dish was boiled! The sauce was not even saucy n green rich with smell, nope it was chicken soup with chilli added!! Not even a hint of ginger in thr!! The veg was sloppy like it had been boiled with the rest of thr soup!!

Pay R110 for soup that doesn't even taste like chicken soup!! I would have rather made toast at home n...

Used to love them but on two separate occasions in the last month I’ve ordered from them specifying beef and paid for beef but arriving home to find it subbed out with chicken even after confirming with the lady bringing out my food it’s beef. At the same time I can understand a rush hour mistake or two but this was both me going in the middle of the afternoon being the next to only customer so I can’t see a reason this can be a random accident and overcharging and under delivering. Having said that as a staple restaurant I have been going to for many years I’m sad to say I am out of chances to give and going to have to remove this one from...