Ming Chef Asian Cuisine — Restaurant in Elmhurst

I’ll start with the good. Fantastic service. Our waitress made recommendations, helped us get the deal we got and she was great. We also enjoyed ample parking and nice outdoor seating. Inside was fresh and clean. The food came suspiciously quickly, but I am not complaining about that. Just makes me think it may not be as fresh(?) anyhow, it was 5 minutes and we had our food in front of us. Now the not so good: I got the eel beef tomato rice (pictured). For $25, I would have expected a much better quality meat. There is meat, eel and rice in this dish. Really nothing that makes it sophisticated for one’s palette. I had to spit out multiple chewed meat pieces and didn’t feel like I could eat it all. It is mostly boxed to go, we will see if I’ll ever finish it. Very disappointed. For what they are charging, they could have used a good quality filet or something. We got bobba tea and it was a bit too sweet even for my sweet loving tastebuds. The dairy kind was coalescing at the bottom and needed shaking to distribute it. Not something I experienced. Overall their bobba was not bad, but I’ve had much more successful bobba teas before. We got shrimp rice for our toddler and he loved the shrimp in it but we could only fish out 6 pieces of shrimp in there. He was asking for more but not another one in the dish. Could have been better I guess. They don’t skimp on rice at least. We had so much rice left over. Wife wasn’t very impressed with her lomein. We will come again to try other selections, but the food didn’t make the mark for us...

NEVER AGAIN..... Nice looking place, the food was good. The service left us in shock. First of all, as we were seated the waitress handed us each a HUGE menu. Now how can any restaurant specialize in any dish if they have a menu with at least 2 dozen pages. Large pages with lots of pictures but way too many options. Then the waitress came to ask us for our order after not being able to get past the first page! She came back 4 times in 5 minutes, even another waiter came to take our order. By the 5th time we just had enough so we felt pressured into just ordering something, anything so she would leave us alone. Then she brings us our dishes individually so of course we have to wait for them all to arrive. We then ask for a knife to cut the spring rolls. She brings us a rusty dirty steak knife. So we ask for another and have to wait for she and her colleagues to all inspect the knife, each try to clean it and pass it along to each other. We watched this in shock. Finally she brings us a knife, THE SAME ONE!!!!...

Such a sad disappointment. The food is good; fresh with a huge variety. One server was good at helping us figure out what to order, but that's where all the positive ends. Our food came out in 3-5+ minute intervals, actually leaving my Father to be the only one eating 23 minutes after the 1st dish was served & everyone was finished and boxed before he received his dinner and the place was empty until well after we ordered our food. 2 patrons came in, ordered and eat before we received all of our meals. Plus they charged $7 plus tax and tip for 3 tablespoons of sauce. Absurd! Well, maybe bad day, 2nd try, more obnoxious than the 1st. Server was no help when ordering. Got multiple meals wrong. Rushed us by placing the over $100 check and cleaning up plates before we were even done eating and there was NOONE ELSE in the restaurant! Afraid to order out due to some other reviews, but can not give them a 3rd strike because it would be shame on me. True pity was this experience. 100% do NOT order the duck! Beyond...