Suzi's Chinese — Restaurant in Austin

This is what we ordered:

Krab Rangoon x2 Veggie Rolls x1 (2 pieces in the order) Wings Szechuan Noodles with chicken Fried sesame tofu Garlic beef Green beans

Group of 4 hungry adults.

I will preface this that due to the extreme hype, we were very excited to try this place, and all of us agree that it was within our top 5 worst meals we’ve ever had.

Krab Rangoon - if you want Krab, don’t get this. It’s 100% cream cheese. Yellow mustard is horrific.

Wings - we were told they were salt & pepper. They were so fried, getting to the meat was like excavating a fossil. It did not even look like a chicken wing. No sauce or pepper in sight.

Veggie rolls - 2 micro sized spring rolls. Sort of edible, no sauce. Cannot determine what veggies were actually inside. Mushy interior.

“Sesame” tofu - eating this dish is like eating an old hard piece of tofu tossed in sugary sauce. So much sugar. Thick syrup sauce.

Chicken Noodles - the worst thing we had. Nobody could stomach eating it. Covered in pure brown liquid salt. Horrific. Salty, vinegar, sour aftertaste, cannot describe how bad this sauce is.

Garlic beef - More like onions with side of beef. No flavor. 3 oz of beef maybe. No garlic flavor. The sauce is made to make you a diabetic.

Green beans - super bland but the only thing we could stomach.

We are all 4 Asian Americans who love supporting new and small businesses but this is the worst $33 pp we have ever spent. We had to go to Mary Monarch Ice Cream and order 2 scoops each to salvage our taste buds. Now we are going to P-Terrys to get chicken nuggets so we don’t go home starving. All good reviews are due to people being nostalgic about the old seems better restaurant. Our server was nice but he did the best he could, very limited knowledge of menu and Chinese food. Photos of the amount of food we sadly left due to it...

Unlike so many of the reviews here I have never been to one of Suzi’s restaurants before. That being said, for a first experience I was pleased.

We ordered beef lo mein, orange chicken and hot and sour soup and split everything between two people. They were all good! And we had some leftovers too.

The orange chicken was lightly breaded, which was a really nice change from the orange chicken I’ve had other places that’s basically all breading with no chicken. The sauce was so good. Just the right amount of sweet + salty.

I should preface this part with the following: I have a very high salt tolerance! So I did end up adding some soy sauce to my lo mein.

Also, as someone with a decently high spice tolerance, I found the hot and sour soup to be quite mild, but in a great way. My less spice tolerant partner had a bite and went back in for more 😝

I gave Suzi’s a 5 star rating because I’ll 100% be going back whenever I want reliably good Chinese food and reliably good service.

If I’m really splitting hairs, the only two things I could even consider marking this place down for are: 1) price and 2) atmosphere.

The price was just a tad high for my taste. It was low enough that I’ll definitely come back, but I’ll be more thrifty about how I order. I think it would be a little hard to justify bringing a family here given the price.

That being said, we were here for dinner on a Monday and the lights were a little high and I don’t know if there was any music playing. If so it wasn’t audible to me. So although the price was a little high for a family spot, the atmosphere didn’t feel quite “date...

A beautiful well taken care of restaurant with Asian cuisine.

I had the pepper steak, my go to for the first time at Asian American restaurants. It was very good, a bit on the heavy savory side. A little lighter on the sauce to allow the vegetables to shine through I feel would be a good change. The tomatoes were a great, their acidicy lended well to break up the dark savory sauce. The beef itself was of high quality, trimmed well, and tender. Again the sauce overpowered the natural flavor or any seasoning it may have had. Pepper steak itself should be very peppered, coarser fresh ground pepper might help here.

The default seems to be fried rice, I would opt for steamed rice on my next visit and my feedback here is the rice portion ratio to the protein is very low. It seems to be a large scoop size but I would expect something closer to a rice bowl size.

Their hot oil is very good, I believe there is peanut in it which tends to a very robust flavour profile, though i wish it was a bit more wet and more spicy.

An odd note but as a former fine dining worker I feel the need to note this. Their napkins are both beautiful and very good quality that are on par or even better than cloth napkins. I feel compelled to source these for my home 😆

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