Meemah — Restaurant in Edison

First time here and it was actually recommended by a sweet old lady I was speaking to on a train ride back from NYC. I bookmarked it and made sure that I would visit since it’s not far from where I live and where I usually hang out.

Walked in on a Thursday night and while the dining room wasn’t busy, there were quite a few people waiting for their takeout orders. Dining room was clean and and well-kept and since it only had a couple of occupied tables, it was quiet. I’d imagine this place gets packed with patrons during lunch considering Metropark is within a half mile and is probably busy Friday nights too.

I grabbed a takeout menu and briefly looked it over. I noticed there were no dinner combo specials and decided to double-check with the host and see if there was an incremental charge to make the lunch combo a dinner combo. Host said they do not offer dinner combos and I would have to order a quart of what I wanted. No biggie.

Since I haven’t had Chinese food in a while, I was craving some chicken and broccoli with white rice (I usually go with the brown but wanted some Jasmine rice), and fried/steamed chicken dumplings, which they had.

Man what a great dinner! The chicken and broccoli was cooked perfectly and was still hot by the time I got home. I laid it on top of the steamed rice and enjoyed every bite. I finished the entire quart in one sitting including the steamed chicken dumplings. The chicken and broccoli was TOTALLY worth it but to be honest, I was hoping the dumplings were going to be the bigger versions stuffed with chicken. The cost of those dumplings didn’t really add up and I felt like they were the wholesale club version.

All-in-all I will definitely return...

I work at the hospital nearby and my department orders food from there. Yesterday was the worst experience ever. The older Asian lady was extremely rude over the phone, yelling at us saying that we weren't telling her the numbers of the food items.. Now, if you look at the menu, there are Chinese symbols next to the items, not numbers. So she continued to get flustered and scream at my coworker who was placing the order and ended up hanging up on my coworker. So we finally go pick up the food. I ordered steamed chicken and zucchini .. All I received was vegetables, no meat. I called her back to let her know that I had asked for chicken and she started screaming at me saying "YOU DID NOT ORDER THAT!!!! IF YOU ORDERED THAT I WOULD HAVE CHARGED YOU 13$ not $10!!!! YOU NO ORDER IT WITH CHICKEN. I ASK THE GIRL IF SHE WANT A NUMBER 2 AND SHE SAY YES". I said no ma'am she did not order just vegetables , I was right there when she told you, chicken was written on the paper she was reading from. She continued to scream at me and told me that if I wanted chicken I had to go there and order chicken and pay for it.. I was tired of being screamed out so I just hung up the phone. Then my other coworker was looking for her meal, and it was not there. So we're not sure if she charged us for it or not because the receipt just has the amount on it, not what was ordered. So overall, we got screamed at for no reason, was missing a meal and received a wrong meal. Surely, we will never go back there. Never have I ever been treated so poorly by restaurant management. You just lost a big order meemahs, hope you're happy. Our department will never order...

Officially, the food has changed ! I loved this place for so many years and it is just not the same . They don’t use true wontons in their soup , they instead use very mushy steamed pork dumplings off their menu . Also the Generals Chicken has no sauce in it and hard vegetables barely cooked . Fried rice had a strong amonia smell . The sweet and sour chicken was now very basic and it isn’t offered in pint size , only dinner size for $16.00 ? Really ?... If you eat in the place they are under-staffed with young kid waitresses who have no clue how to wait on customers . Tables were left with food on them while guests were standing waiting . Also , really , you can’t deliver food yet ? Don’t you make enough money after all these years to hire a delivery person and also update the place inside , it looks like 1980s ? Though they were the best at one time I have come to realize , it’s time to search for a better place now ! The prices have gotten higher but the quality of the food preparation and services have...