China Bowl Restaurant — Restaurant in Catoosa

The worst Chinese food Ive had in a decade. Ordered: eggdrop soup, hot and sour soup, sweet and sour chicken, fried rice, beef chow mein, dumplings.

-The hot and sour soup was horrible. It tasted weirdly like barbeque hot and sour and had no tofu like most does. -Egg drop soup tasted like dishwater my wife said. It ruined her appetite. -The sweet and sour sauce was watered down, it was extremely thin and didnt coat the chicken. See photo. But at least tasted like sweet and sour. Not good but at least tasted like the expected recipe. sweet and sour chicken was mostly breading, otherwise it was fine. Not good but not awful. -The beef chowmein was awful. The wrong type of noodles and the beef was bland noodles tasted like something sour. -wontons are supposed to be soft these were fried and somehow stale. The sauce was nothing like most places wonton soy based sauce. -The fried rice was probably the most agregious item. See photo. Looked like Knorr or minute rice- no eggs or vegetables. Just yellow rice. Not brown rice like it should be, taste was like knorrs yellow rice. Didnt taste like fried rice at all. The fried strips they give you in a bag as a side item to the soups were bland and stale.

Panda express chow mein and walmart general tsos chicken would have been a FAR better dinner. This was inneble garbage. We did not eat it, wasted 45 dollars on it and it ruined our appetite for the rest of the night as well as leaving a very strange after taste in my mouth.

Genuinely the worst chinese food I can EVER remember eating. At least we know a restauraunt (cant believe it is one) to avoid.

I would call and ask for a refund because of how bad it was but to be fair their menu doesnt say it tastes good. I never expected it to taste that bad though,...

Horrible experience. Allow me to elaborate (gross content warning, but it needs to be shared) I love hot n sour soup. I tried this place before the pandemic for the first time after I moved to the area; said soup taste was okay, but it was full of crunchy, bitter celery pieces. Also, broth was watery. My husband and I tried this again last night (2022) since it is still open and is nearby. Since I do not like celery, I tried to order the hot n sour soup without celery this time but was told not only that they were unwilling to accommodate my request, but that there was a very small amount of celery in the soup. We decided to give it another chance. We ordered 2 large hot n sour soups with crunchy noodles. Huge mistake. The flavor was fine, but I fished a rounded 1/4 cup of crunchy, bitter celery out of my soup alone! My husband can tolerate celery more than me and seemed to enjoy his soup despite its presence. Sorry, but the next part is gross. 🤢🤢 Unfortunately, within 30 minutes of finishing our soups and crunchy noodles, the both of us began experiencing tummy pain/cramps and spent the rest of the night running to the restroom with the most horrible diarrhea. I'll just say, it was disgustingly obvious it was soup related. We were sick all through the night and still sick when we awoke this morning. 🤢🤢 I don't usually leave reviews, but this issue really...

Ordered the chicken Lo Mein, the noodles tasted like old stale oil, stale noodles, stale crispy noodles, stale eggroll, it has to be the oil they used but everything tasted like old stale cooking oil smell. The "fried rice" isnt like any fried rice I've ever had, its nothing more than rice cooked in chicken broth, it had no flavor whatsoever, no peas, no corn, no green onion, no seasoning - NOTHING! Can't get the taste of old oil out of mouth, everything was absolutely disgusting. Also ordered egg drop soup, and as tasteless as that was, at least it didn't taste like stale cooking oil. FURTHERMORE, the eggroll that came with the combination came with no sweet and sour sauce but I'm not sure that would've even made a difference, you just can't mask old cooking oil. I WOULD NEVER EAT HERE AGAIN - OR RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. Go elsewhere! Here's hoping that I don't get sick from this place.

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