Restaurant China Bowl — Restaurant in Winterthur

I ordered the lunch menu which comes with appetizer, fried rice (+3CHF) and a main dish. I ordered the chef recommended black pepper pork ribs (22CHF). For drinks it’s house specialty iced tea.

Service was really fast, about 5-10 minutes after order.

Fried pork ribs were really soft, dry, tasted bland and rancid. I think they boiled it the days before to make soup and the leftover meat being served to customers in a set menu.

Fried spring rolls were still crispy although not freshly fried.

Fried rice has nicely separated rice grains but some of the rice are hard due to leaving them too long in a rice warmer.

The house specialty iced tea was surprisingly good. It’s very different from common iced tea in that it uses Chinese liquorice for the sweet flavor and other herbs which I could not tell. It also has lemon juice and mint added. There is no sign of common black tea. Very good indeed

Summary: in Swiss standard, the spring rolls, fried rice and iced tea are considered good but the pork ribs are unacceptable. Imagine being served leftover meat, being fried up and salted to cover the unpleasant...

Latest update, ordered lunch here as we enjoyed it so much the last time, only a month ago, and it seems like 2 different places, night and day. We didn't enjoy any of it, the taste and flavours were a far from what we had last time. Maybe the chef left? Or maybe This must be Swiss standard, only in service, nothing exceptional.

Last month. Recently returned from Hong Kong and felt like some Chinese food, this place newly opened, thought we try it. We went for lunch and we were pleasantly surprised. Authentic Chinese flavours, and they don't hold back. We ordered mix vegetable chop suey, Mongolian beef, garlic pepper prawns, hong kong style duck and noodles and plain rice. Everything was so fresh, tasty and flavoursome, transported us for a little while...

I am gluten intolerant, the menu appeared to have options, but the indications were inconsistent, so I wanted to make sure with the service. I asked the waitress for indications. She indicated many dishes that are almost never glutenfree at chinese restaurants, so I asked her what glutenfree means: She had literally no clue. I asked her to find out in the kitchen which dishes I could eat. She tells me that's not possible because the cooks (chinese) and she do not speak the same language and can't communicate. That's a very bad baseline for a restaurant! Finally, she tells me off for not just choosing any dish... So, we left and went to another restaurant, as I could not know what I would be eating and I...