Man Li — Restaurant in Florida

Since learning of Man Li being under a new owner, thought would give it a try for dinner. Entered and found I was the only person in the entire place but was greeted warmly, given a seat at first table and provided a menu. Server took my drink order and left. I Noted everything was very pleasant, clean, and tidy. While deciding, a bowl of fried wonton noodles and small serving of duck sauce provided for dipping. I placed my order and proceeded to eat some of the fried noodles. Immediately noted an unpleasant, bitter after taste to the noodle this soon changed to the now recognizable taste of rancid oil. Thinking perhaps it was maybe just one or two, I soon realized all the fried noodles were bad. Next came my hot and sour soup. It was a generous serving, consisting of a thickened broth, several pieces of tofu, few slices of wood ear mushrooms and a couple slices of roast pork. A typical, albeit ordinary, hot and sour soup. About half-way through the soup, server brought order of the pan fried dumplings. This consisted of 4 good sized, hand shaped dumplings, fried a golden brown and was accompanied by a small dish of dipping sauce. Cutting one dumpling in half revealed a small, hand formed meat (most likely pork) filling encased in a very thick (1/4 inch) dumpling. Dipped one half into the sauce and ate it. Expecting the sauce to taste of soy sauce, rice wine, and ginger was a let down - tasted just like soy sauce. However, I couldn't get past gumminess of the dumpling it was just very unpleasant. I proceeed to only eat the meat filling. Next came the entree - chicken with garlic sauce - or more precisely been sprouts & mushrooms with garlic sauce. Expecting the garlic sauce to be dark brown and coating the entree, it was instead watery and set at the bottom of mound of bean sprouts. There were exactly 5 thin slices of white meat chicken. There was a slight taste of garlic, but again I was met with the taste of rancid oil. At this point I was starting to feel unwell - slight nausea - and decided to end my experience and asked for the check. Obviously a very disappointing meal and would not recommend...

Update Since the ownership Changed, wow what a difference!!! Amazing food and the quality is always great!! Prices are reasonable too!!

Old review old owners Horrible is a way to describe it. First off, the owner was rude over the phone. After waiting for a while for him to pick up, he finally answers while having a conversation and I'm saying, "hello,hello,helloooo" and finally he answers. So I order a general tso chicken. He told me 20 minutes!!! My gosh, I thought were they plucking the chicken. So I go and grab it and after I get home and took the first bite and ughhh!!! Nasty! They went downhill big time, the sauce on the chicken was watery, like they watered down the sauce to make it last longer. Then I saw the chicken and I thought wow, that's a lot of chicken until I took my first bite. The chicken if you call it that was all breading so really not much chicken and was like a sponge covered in grease. Then the crab ragoons used to be great and this time it was all shell and the filling was like taking a bite of wet curry powder. What the heck happened to this place. I will...

If i could give this "restaurant" a negative rating I would have. First off, I walked in to place a takeout order and stood at the host stand for 7 minutes before I was eventually greeted. I placed my order and was told it would be up shortly. Shortly to me is not 35 minutes for an appetizer and a noodle entree. Secondly, this was the worst food I've ever tried to eat, not just Chinese food, food in general. A lump of dog crap on a piece of cardboard would have easily beaten the taste profile in their food. I ordered pork lo mein, first off, and the pork was overcooked and extremely chewy, absolutely disgusting. I threw out the food four bites in after I noticed a long strand of black hair. I didn't even attempt to eat the boneless spare ribs, fearing the same fate would occur. Save your time and your gas money on this place. You're better off going to Publix across the street and paying half the price for a frozen bag of PF Changs. The owner and chef should be ashamed and embarrassed at the product they are presenting to their patrons, especially...