Rice Bowl — Restaurant in Hanford

A cute little place with terrible service, an expansive menu of bad food, and nice ambiance. By far the best thing I ate here was the fortune cookie. Go to Panda Express instead, you'll have a much better time and eat much better food.

The meals are by far the best deal as they come with way more food than ordering a single item, but for the same amount of money. The food was poor: overly sauced, overcooked, and not as described. Let me give a few translations from menu to real life: Pork Chow Mein = a small pile soggy noodles hidden under a mountain of soggy bean sprouts and smothered in gravy with three tiny pieces of pork on top. Egg Roll = hot dog sized fried tube filled with chunks of onion and cabbage plus two tiny pieces of pork. Fried Rice = a burned pile of dry and tasteless brown rice with a few tiny pieces of carrot inside. Wontons = fried empty wonton wrappers with some orange sauce on one end. Orange Chicken Breast = soggy, fatty, overcooked piece of chicken drenched in a watery sauce that was barely flavored of orange (the sauce on the wontons tasted more of orange) Fried Tofu Noodles in Garlicky Sauce = NOT fried tofu that was very soggy with a bunch of soggy vegetable drenched in a flavorless greasy gravy.

The service was bad, no way around it. Our waitress was very disorganized, couldn't remember who ordered what, and even messed up a few items despite only having two tables of people. The food came sporadically with only one or two people having food in front of them at a time (table of 7) until the first person to get their meal was almost done. She even started vacuuming one of the booths WHILE we were eating.

Flies kept landing on my plate while I ate and the overuse of gravy in places where a sauce shouldn't have even been, caused me to leave nauseous and...

This is hands down the worst Chinese food in the country. Being a former Chinese Restaurant owner in South Florida, I like trying other Chinese food whenever I'm traveling. The food portions are horrible and taste is way off. I ordered Sweet & Sour pork and my wife had the orange chicken. Both were tasteless and low protein. The soft noodles only had salt and the fried rice had some sort of dry shredded/shaved pork. My so called roast duck appetizer was deep fried, not as advertised. Worst part about this whole meal was the egg roll. It didn't have the traditional egg roll wrapper. Looks like they dipped the egg roll into flour. I thought it was fried chicken until I broke it in half. I'm not Chinese but my old Taiwanese/Cantonese restaurant is 5 Diamond compared to this slop. The lady that took my order at the door was very rude. I understand Covid19 distancing is required but this restaurant has a shielded barrier which is great but she was taking my order from more than 6 feet which proved to be very difficult to place my order. I couldn't hear anything...

Food was okay, service was TERRIBLE.

Today I want to go eat and I suggested we go to the rice bowl because we had been there before and had a good experience.

We were seated quickly. However, when I was ready to order I asked if I can get chicken chow mein instead of pork and the waitress got mad at me and told me "just dont eat the pork!" She then decided to give me a few more minutes to look over the menu and when it was time to order she asked my friend what I wanted to order, not me. Once got my food and what not and she did come check our table often, however, eveythime she asked how things were she directed it towards my friend, not me. When we were ready to go, we asked for 2 to go boxes. She took my friends plate (but not mine) and then came back with his all packaged up, and then she slammed my to go box on the table and said "here". Not to mention, the box she gave me was much smaller and I had more food to pack. I will not be coming back, I shouldn't have to deal with that as a...