Fulin's Asian Cuisine — Restaurant in Hendersonville

The staff are very kind. And very sweet. I came because I had been recommended this place due to having allergies and the food being fresh made. My order was simple, tempura veg with sweet and sour chicken. With hot tea to drink. When the tea arrived it was warm and lovely, but no surger or a plate for the bags, or a coaster for under the pot, so it stick to the table several times. I asked for no onions and no peppers in my meal explaining my allergy. My tempura arrived with spicy mayo. I asked for soy sauce or something, blindly I was brought lite soy sauce. My server was very nice but I felt a bit embarrassed to tell him that wasn't right. So I got up to get my own from the shelf. Taste wise the tempura was very good though a few pieces were a bit charred. It was salted, which was nice, because it gave it some flavor, and with no standard dipping sauce the salt was a nice flavor. When the chicken arrived it was bare. It was meant to be served with pineapple (as I'd asked for no bell peppers and onions) When I asked where the rest was I was brought a bowl of cold, out of the can, pineapple... it felt a bit annoyed... as if I had inconvenienced then by asking for the rest of my meal. I asked if that was how it was normally served? I was told it was not... normally it was mixed in and warm... I asked for it to be served as it normally would just without the peppers and onions... I was told it was just without the peppers and onions If I was difficult to understand I don't know how to be clearer.. I couldn't seem to get across why I was disappointed Thinking I just wanted veggies, the manager brought me steamed veg mix. I fear I was not communicating properly, though my server did understand what my issue was but was unsure how to fix it. I did try to eat the chicken but it was the exact same box tempura chicken you get from other places... the veg tasted bagged or frozen, the mushrooms were just... mush When my check came, the price was different than the menu, apparently the menu hadn't been updated with the new system. The manager and servers are very lively and kind...

Service was excellent! My cohort wanted to eat some Thai, but most places did not open until 4 p.m. and it was 3:10. We decided to try Fulin's. (I had eaten at the one on Providence years ago)

We both wanted curry. He got curry chicken & I got curry tofu. The server suggested the lunch special which came with rice and eggroll. He said it was delicious and the sauce was spicy, in a good way. His lunch portion was smaller, he ate it all. He also had sweet tea..they kept his glass filled.

I had the curry tofu. Plenty of green beans and tofu, also pepper and pineapple. Wasn't crazy about the pineapple, but it was part of the dish. Wasn't off-putting, just could have done without it and they probably would have left it out if I'd requested. Server also offer me the lunch special but I didn't care anything about eggroll or springroll.

Wasn't spicy enough for me and I like my sauce a lot wetter! I know this isn't a purely Thai restaurant, but they didn't ask how spicy I wanted it...guess their dish has one level? Was good, just not what I like...

Table was sticky. Not dirty, & I'm sure it had been wiped clean, just sticky by nature I guess?

A plus was cloth napkins! You know how I am if you follow me? Also, in the napkins were chop sticks, another plus! A potential 5 star, but A solid 4...

I don't typically leave reviews, but this place and their service was so atrocious that I just couldn't leave this be. The server we had was nice, she did what she could to help us but it seemed management didn't care about our issue. The big issue we ran into was not only the cleanliness of everything, we had dirty napkins, sticky table and not long after we sat down we saw an ant on the table. We didn't think too much of it and discussed possibly leaving, but we already ordered food and drinks. Not long after receiving our food while eating I felt a bite on my ankle and looked down to see another ant, this made us stop eating and call the server over and upon further inspection our area was absolutely infested with ants. The managers way of dealing with this was to move us to another table (which also had ants and fruit flies) while she swept up the area.....which does absolutely nothing. We decided not to finish our meal after this and while we didn't want to outright have our meals comped we asked to have something done to rectify this disgusting situation.....they gave us a whole $4 off our $50 check. Absolutely unacceptable. Do not recommend...