Bamboo Cafe — Restaurant in Bakersfield

Well well well. I was in the area for a Dr. Appointment and was craving some Chinese and was starving considering I had not eaten all day. I walked in and the staff was quite friendly. Being unsure of what I wanted, I was recommended an item which I requested to try just be sure I would actually like it before I bought it and I was quickly met with " We don't give samples" okay I'll buy it...so I purchase my food and walked 15 ft out to my car. I took a bite from each item that I ordered, so let's go down the list.

Orange chicken: Tasted old, soggy, definitely in the food danger zone (legitimately cold).

BBQ Pork: Probably the most edible ( not saying much) pork meat used was mostly fat, flavor was heavy on some pieces and negligible on others, some were moist and tender but most were dry.

Egg Rolls: I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure the wrapper on egg rolls isn't supposed to have the consistency of soggy baby diapers with hints of vegetable flavors.

Worst part, I didn't even get a fortune cookie.

Overall I wouldn't give this place half a star. The only good thing was the price, but if you're in the area...save yourself the heartache, diarrhea, and vomiting, and just go across the parking lot...

Jan 4 2014 ~3 PM. Ordered the 3 Item combo... Chow mein, mushroom chicken, broccoli beef, and the battered fish. Here's the breakdown.

Chow mein- Bland and quite unexpectedly no chicken with the noodles. Not many places I know of that do noodles and veggies without adding a little protein. 3/5 facepalms.

Mushroom chicken- This is officially the first place I have EVER been to that has ruined this dish. Bland tasteless crap. Seriously fire the cook for this one. 5/5 facepalms.

Broccoli beef- Holy crap a dish with flavor! It wasn't bad... but even Panda Express makes it better. 1/5 Thumbs up.

The "Pollock"- Soggy, excessively greasy... the only thing spicy about it was when a pepper flake went up my nasal passage and I needed to drink some soda. 4/5 facepalms.

Over all the place needs to get it's act together and make some decent food if the fortune cookies are the best thing they are serving. Not to mention I think they owe me my $7 back for what turned into over...

Walk in here for the 1st time. Gave the lady my order and she said ok. Then she proceeded to put it together wrong. When I advised her of the error, she then started placing the food back in the bulk container's it is kept in originally, after it had been on the plate touching each other. Now they have stemmed rice with some chow mien mixed back in their main serving container and chow mien with stemmed rice on it back in the chow mien serving container. Completely disgusting. Needless to say I can't imagine what they do when no one is looking.

Walked out without buying any food will never eat here in my life. What kind of professional food service company puts food back in their main serving containers after they have been on a plate touching other foods.

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