Pao's Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Aurora

Took the order to go the restaurant looked clean but had no decorations. Some menu items can not be subbed for dark meat but others can. Cash only, was not informed of that over the phone and the online menu had the wrong prices. Was told the oder would be done in 10 mins and it was 30 mins later I got my order. My order was General Chicken with a side of sauce, Rice noodles with chicken, cream cheese ragoons, and chicken dumplings came to $47.95. The food was perfectly cooked and had just the right amount of salt but had zero flavor, calling it bland would be an overstatement. The Medium General Chicken sauce had no spice at all, it was ordered for my husband and I don't like spicy food but I tried a bite and a pinch of pepper has more heat, it tasted like beef bone broth that had been thickened with no seasoning besides salt. The rice noodle dish had no special sauce to speak of and again tasted like it was only seasoned with salt not a hint of onion, ginger, garlic, soy or any other flavor. The chicken dumplings seemed to just be a mixture of chicken a little soy, and a tiny bit of green onion the brown sauce might have been related to the beef broth sauce on the general chicken but had a slightly different color. The cheese ragoons were cream cheese only and likely the best item we got.

This was the second chance we gave this restaurant after trying it maybe 5 or 6 years ago and we will not be giving it...

I use to go here with my great grandma. Cashew chicken was amazing. Perfect sized pieces. Amazing fried rice. And the fried wontons was to DIE for. Due to inflation they have raise there prices quite a bit, but also. Lowered the quality of the food and the time they take to prepare it.

We spent 42$ on two chicken dinners, fried wontons (6) and some just noodle lo mein. His chicken piece are insanely huge now and veiny, the rice used to be my favorite.. it seems like they washed it but didn’t rinse it completely. All we could taste was soap in the rice. Wasn’t able to eat it..Which sucks cause for 10$ you get like 6 pieces of chicken and half a container of rice. So half our meal was bunk. The lo mien is good. The wontons are nice a flakey BUT the meat on the inside I physically spit out. Unfortunately the meat mix tasted dry and like he prepped it 2 weeks ago.. super disappointed. I understand having to change ingredients to accommodate inflation, but wash your rice out all the way 😭 I didn’t wanna pay 10$ for rice we couldn’t stomach cause of dawn...

THEY DON'T TAKE CREDIT/DEBIT!!! There's a tiny sign on the door and one at the cash register. If you order for take out on the phone, then you're in for a surprise. I got there and the man at the register said I could give him a check. A check?!?! Seriously? I can't exactly recommend it based solely on the service. I went out of my way to get cash so I could come back and pay. I didn't get an apology for the inconvenience or a thank you upon my return. Honestly I got the impression that the gentleman at the register didn't care about getting business at all. My food was okay. If you need Chinese food there's not much...