Pekin Cafe and Lounge Inc. — Restaurant in Butte

The Good: The place is of historical significance. This place, back in the turn of the 20th Century used to be a brothel and an Opium den for the copper miners.

The BAD: Everything else! Read on....

I always wanted to visit this place. One of my family members ranted and raved about this place that she had visited about 15 years back.

The food was absolutely atrocious! This place gives shame to Chinese food! Nothing you order is fresh here. Honestly it seems that everything you order here is sourced from the 'expired canned food racks' from the Salvation Army. The meat you get also had the look and taste from canned meat and 'Lunchables' Packages! I ordered #2 on the menu with pork spare ribs. My wife ordered a chicken combo meal. The pork tasted like it came from a can. My wife's chicken was clearly deli chicken meat sliced on to the dish (from a lunchables package maybe?). Soup tasted like dish water. The mushroom fried rice was made with canned mushrooms and drenched in soy sauce to mask old rice and then fried. ONLY fresh thing on the plate is the chopped green onion as garnish (as a previous reviewer pointed out)! It tasted so horrible that we picked what was edible (which wasn't much), put it aside, waited for the check, paid it, and went to the nearest Mac Donald's in a mad dash to wash the tastes out of our mouths!!

This place has such great potential of being probably the BEST Chinese restaurant in the West. The owners have no idea what they are sitting on (a gold mine!). Those reviewers that are ranting and raving about the food obviously have no idea what good Chinese food is like (they need to get out of Montana to taste real Chinese food!) -- or they are friends of the owners!! The service too was awful! We waited 20 minutes for a menu and another 10 minutes for the server to come and take our order. Ultimately another 20 for the food to arrive. Horrible experience!

I absolutely cannot recommend this place! No...

Today my son, wife and I experienced a meal at the Peking Noodle Parlor! We were not from Butte, so this was our first time eating there and will never return after that even if they were giving food away! We were the first diners in the parlor after it opened and the service started out good. We were seated in the individual small seating area, I guess they call a parlor with a curtain which was drawn after you placed your order and stayed closed except when the waitress took your order and brought your food. I would say the egg drop soup and wanton soup was very good but when the main meals were brought and we began to eat them the taste and the contents of the meals were the worst Chinese food we had ever eaten in our entire lives! I think the only way they get patrons is because of the reputation of the restaurant has with being the first but if they rated the restaurant on the food, decor and cleanliness it would be the last. I think the reason they keep the individual curtains closed on each parlor is so that patrons next to you can’t see your expressions after eating the food and possibly the sickness that you about to have! As we were waiting for our check the waitress just barely opened the curtain, stuck her hand it with to go boxes with the check stuck in the boxes. We thought this must be a joke. What you couldn’t gag down why would you need a take home box to take the remainder of crap they serve! I wouldn’t even take it home to feed my dog and there’s nothing he won’t eat! But vet bills to have his stomach pumped would be expensive! After you look at the reviews that have been previously shown don’t bother to waste your time going here! There are other Chinese restaurants in Butte that rate far better! Buy a TV Chinese dinner and you will pleased far better than eating at this...

Food wasn't good, like...at all.

Bathrooms were tiny even for a friend who's 4'7" and skinnier than a lightpole.

The egg drop soup tasted metallic. The tea of someone at the table tasted like dirt, so we had to flag someone else down to replace it with a can of diet Pepsi because our waitress was AWOL for most of our dinner. The "jumbo shrimp" were about as big as a child's pinky and you only got two with your expensive dinner order. The sweet and sour ribs were half the size of a chicken nugget and mostly bones swimming in sauce. The chicken fried rice tastes like salt fried rice.

We had a large party of people and we left with most of the food uneaten because after the first bite, no one wanted to take another. Not one person left filled nor satisfied which was disappointing as we came from out of town to enjoy the food we heard boasted about. The check was well over $100 though.... so that's what $100 will get you.

The wait staff doesn't even know what sodas they carry. They genuinely seem like they dont know anything about the menu at all. Our waitress continuously looked at the menu while handing out plates because she didnt know what she was giving or what went with what order. She even at one point when we were missing a plate stated "it comes with that???" We spent over an hour at this location where over 45 minutes of it was waiting for our waitress to come take our order and take our money.

The best part of the meal was the cookie, and that's so sad because no one showed up looking to be impressed. We just showed up wanting to eat food that was worth what we paid for.

This place prides itself on being the oldest Chinese restraunt in Butte when it needs to work on having a staff and menu it can be proud of instead. Will not return (which I know they don't care about,...