Mai Noodle House — Restaurant in Gettysburg

We spent the weekend in Gettysburg and since we're vegan, Googled local places to eat that had options for us. Mai came up and we planned to dine on a Saturday night after a 2-hour double-decker battlefield bus tour.

Hubby and I were pretty hungry after the tour (I was famished!). We walked over from the tour center and Mai was crowded. We stood in the front waiting to be seated. We did see some empty tables. I couldn't understand why we waited around 10 minutes to eat when there were empty tables.

When we sat, we were given our menus. It took about 20 minutes for someone to come and take our order. We watched a blonde server practically doing everything - from bussing tables, taking orders, taking payments, getting food and drinks. Another woman was working who basically just stood behind the counter ringing up bills.

The place was SEVERELY understaffed. It also seemed like there was no system in place. The staff seemed disorganized.

I was getting so angry at this point that I said to my husband in a pretty loud tone, "I'm about to leave!" It really shouldn't take 20 minutes for someone to come to your table and take your order.

The woman who was playing around on the cash register must have heard me and came right around to take our order.

I will say that from the time that we placed our order to the time that we got food, it was a lot shorter than waiting for someone to take our order.

I will admit that the food was absolutely delicious. We got the General Tso's tofu, a couple of vegetable sushi rolls and spring rolls.

If you happen to go, just know that you will be waiting a while to eat. But, the food was honestly one of the best Asian cuisine...

The sushi is good. The pan fried Dumplings are very good. They seem understaffed, but do a lot with what they have. They love cabbage. I'm not talking bok choy or even Napa here, I mean big round green American cabbage. So the egg rolls are okay, and filled with CABBAGE. The hot and sour soup has a delicious broth, tofu and CABBAGE, no egg, no pork, no wooden ears, no mushrooms, no Sichuan pickled vegetable, just CABBAGE. Now innovation is part of Chinese cuisine, but that recipe is pretty standard, and does not involve cabbage of any kind. I am told the owners are actually Korean. Some nice Korean noodles would be in order. The lo mein is simply meat and flat noodles, without cabbage. The teriyaki is a cutlet with teriyaki sauce and cabbage, not marinated and grilled at all. Then they have some cajun/American dishes on the menu, which seems quite discordant. Stick with the sushi, and you'll be okay. I also ding them one star for the alarm that went off about once per second from behind the counter the entire time we were there, which was longer than it should have been because of the understaffing....

I really didn’t feel this place had good food. Nor was what we got worth the price we were charged. I honestly feel bad about giving a bad food review because the service and staff were beyond amazing and so very nice. I just wish I had enjoyed the food. My dish was strange, I got the Cajun chicken noodle and the noodles were dry, there was no sauce. Literally tasted just like the buttered noodles I make at home just with some Cajun seasoning. The chicken was dry and there was hardly any vegetables. The other dish we had was chicken teriyaki. This dish would have been better had it contained more sauce. It was very dry, the chicken was dry. What you see here costed us $52. WAY OVER PRICED for the quality of the food. I’m sorry but I...