湘遇东北 Pacific Eatery & Catering — Restaurant in Columbus

Update: 5/30/2023 - Picked up 2 lunches on Memorial Day. General Tso's with white meat chicken, battered and fried instead of dark meat, corn soup (lunch), and Singapore noodles with corn soup (lunch). The Singapore noodles were better than ever. I have no idea who was cooking, might've not been the usual cook or a new cook, but they were stellar! The General's was also good as usual. Great valur, under $19, and not even 10 minute wait, plus hot still when we got home 15 minutes later. Need to blow my diet more often. Original older review: We finally ordered from Pacific Eatery. It has a good location in the midst of my husband's commute, and longer lunch hours than most. We ordered the Singapore Rice Noodles, which were spicier than at the usual place we order from in Marysville, but that's a positive! We also ordered the lunch General Tso's. In both the noodles and the fried rice, I noticed egg, and carrot in the fried rice, that is not normally offered by many other Asian takeouts. We very much appreciated that. The best part was the actual bits of onions and ginger in the General Tso's. It also had a spice blend that I'd never come across before, but was of a higher plane/accord/quality than other places. Very nice! All I can say, if you don't like your fried rice dry, ask for some s&s sauce. We also chose the hot & sour soup as the soup accompaniment that is a special value to lunch dishes, and I extremely appreciated the bamboo shoots being thinner sliced. (I hope I am detecting the ingredient accurately!) There was some tofu, and the soup in general was not very sour, and yet pleasant. I look forward to talking to the kind gentleman that always answers the phone and asking what is on the salad, which is also an option for the lunch. I have called 3 times to ask questions, and today, our day finally lined up, and we are very happy to have tried Pacific Eatery and will order again. I would say, if you live in Columbus proper, there's not a better value, nor a better quality, that I have been able to find. We are usually purveyors of North and Northwest within Columbus. I look forward to trying other dishes. One note... they had the meals done quite fast. I was quoted 10 minutes, and it took us longer than 10 minutes to pick up... just order when you get there and get it...

Pacific Eatery and Catering serves delicious Chinese food. The helpings are large; the food is quite good.

I had eaten there recently with a group of fifteen people. The food had arrived fairly efficiently [understandably spread out over a ten-minute period given the size of our group] except that the final person in our group had been served ten minutes after the immediately-previous person had been served.

The women's bathroom, which had been visible from our table, is the smallest bathroom that I have ever seen in my life [three feet by six feet; the door opens inwards until it contacts the sink at a 45° angle; I assume that that door would be difficult to close with anyone inside].

I have heard an unconfirmed report that this restaurant has a larger women's bathroom elsewhere but had chosen to not confirm...

Here is the story: I ordered five dinners and two appetizers to be delivered. The order came missing one dinner and with two mixed ones. the pad thi chicken came with shrimp, no chicken. The order was for someone who is allergic to shellfish. And my cashew chicken had peanuts and was anything but cashew chicken. I called about the missing item but they were not helpful. I ordered from that restaurant because it had good reviews and not very far from where I live. It was the first and the last. Never again. I wonder why the good reviews. The food was cold and tasteless, the meat was below average quality and there was no presence of any vegetables even when it was stated on the menu that the dish has it. I am not in the habit of writing reviews but this time I...