Mountain City Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Holladay

The service is great here, the prices are decent, but the food just isn’t great.

Recently moved to the Holladay area and needed to find some good Chinese food. We chose Mountain City because of the 4.7 star rating. Our first impressions were great: the place is clean, the setup and decor are pleasant, and the service was great. We were helped by two women, both of whom were very friendly and attentive. We even got our food very quickly, all of which predisposed us to like the place.

Then the food arrived. It was underwhelming, to say the least. We ordered the pepper steak and General Tso’s Chicken. My husband reported that his chicken was “okay,” but my steak had an unpleasant flavor, and everything seemed incredibly greasy. I ended up eating very little of my meal, and we both agreed after leaving that we feel no need to ever return. I’m not a Chinese food snob by any means, but I do expect more from such a well-reviewed restaurant.

At the end of the day, it’s in a good location with great service, but the food is sub par. If you just want Chinese food quickly, then by all means, go here. But if you’re looking for Chinese food you’ll wolf down and still want more of, then you might want to try...

I’m kind of surprised at the number of 5 stars on here.

What I will say - service is fast. Customer service is on point and they have their carry out service on lock in respect to COVID. I just wish the food translated over with everything else.

I’ll say this - if you like extra saucy (like so saucy the dish is almost a soup) then maybe this is for you. I also found it to be lacking in spice and flavor and every dish kind of just takes on the same sugary/ salty vibe.

The general tso chicken is more breading and batter than chicken. It’s extremely mild so if you like it spicy ask for more heat.

The Szechuan veggies were cooked to death and swimming in a mild thick sauce. This really was like a soup with mostly cabbage. Not spicy at all although the menu lists it with a chili pepper.

You can pass on the egg rolls. They’re so-so.

The beef with broccoli was maybe the best thing we ordered but the beef is filled with tendons and hard to chew up into anything more. Think rubbery.

The best thing we ordered that was on point was the pork fried rice. I would say this is worth getting here 100%.

The food is good...but it’s not great. I don’t know if I’ll be coming back here or on the hunt for...

I also got sick eating the orange chicken, just finished throwing up.

I have no idea how this place has such a high rating. Not only did I get sick, but it wasn't even very good going down.

I could make better ham fried rice than this place, and that's saying something because I'm the opposite of an expert. The rice has no veggies, no peas, no carrots, no no nothin', barely any egg, barely any sesame flavor. It's genuinely closer to regular rice, with some flecks of ham sprinkled in it. This is the most confusing part to me because you literally make ham fried rice with leftovers. A Chinese restaurant should have buckets of these ingredients lying around.

After only about an hour in my fridge, the sauce at the bottom of the Orange Chicken container had coagulated into this really disgusting jiggly gelatin stuff. Like flubber. So that when you would pick up a piece of the chicken, strips of the flubber would peel up with it and jiggle around. I get that not all sauces keep well, but the food was still warm. And whatever state of matter that sauce had taken on... it wasn't natural...

Sorry guys, but that was gross. I don't have a weak stomach, anything that makes me puke is...