Mr. Chen’s Authentic Chinese Cooking — Restaurant in Homewood

This food is absolutely disgusting. This is an honest review, the others have to be fake! Where do I start on how terrible this food was. So I dined in with my 3 Y.O. Son the waitress was so nice to him and even apologized when he told her his food was nasty! We ordered chicken and broccoli made in brown sauce, crab Rangoon, egg rolls and a kids sesame chicken with egg fried rice.

Chicken and broccoli (7/10)- While we were at the restaurant it tasted decent. Had a good amount of veggies in it. Had this on top of egg fried rice and it was just OK. Took this home and warmed it up it tasted awful. Like the chicken had a completely different taste and texture.

Crab Rangoon (-3/10) - This was just awful. The fake crab didn’t taste fresh and the red sauce had a strong ginger and oyster taste. This dish and other restaurants usually have a hint of sweet. This was more so fishy and wrong

Egg roll (7/10)- strong on the ginger taste which I didn’t mind because overall it was decent.

Kids sesame chicken & fried egg rice (0/10)- Again I’m use to sesame having a hint of sweetness to them. This has almost a bbq sauce taste. I noticed this sauce was served with the crab Rangoon. The small portion of chicken was heavily coated in a fried batter. And drenched in this terrible sauce served alongside the dry egg fried rice.

To sum up this experience 3/10 I wouldn’t tell my friends or family to go here. I wouldn’t recommend going there ever. I notified the waitress of the terrible food and nothing was done. So I’d suggest t stay away and spend you dollars somewhere that’s worth it. On all this food it was about $50 including sodas. In all honesty even those were flat! They give you a lot of food but it’s not about the portions, I’d take small portions of it was actually good! This was not good so a lot of food...

This used to be the best Chinese restaurant around and it's def not. The quality has gone down, the price has gone up. We came in last night and had dinner around 6/7.

The Mapo Tofu was it's normal-okay. It seemed thinner than it's usual thick sauce tofu was cooked perfectly, but my friends fried rice was bland while also having very undercooked onions which created a very pungant overbearing onion taste in bland rice.

The server was nice but needed to calm a bit with giving us time to read and taking no we don't want appetizers at least the second time lol. Not offensive but maybe new?

The thing that ruined it was the fact that the servers started cleaning the tables directly around us with Windex which unfortunately IMMEDIATELY wofted to us and all we could smell was Windex and I could taste it. Wasn't worth complaining over we decided to just go home and cook the rice up some more and I'd eat the rest after I didnt taste Windex in the air lol.

We got home and unfortunately we could smell it on the food too, at no point do I think the server did it on purpose or actively violently spraying just something that happens with sprays but people are eating and even if they don't taste it, smelling Windex being sprayed RIGHT NEXT TO YOU just ruins the taste of food.

For the money there was regret and we...

Just like any other Chinese restaurant that I have visited. The thing I dont like is that they have no hot and sour soup for one. They only have a bowl for two which is almost $6. I did have the General Tso Chicken. They do give you a generous portion and I like spicy food. I asked for it to be super spicy and while it was not as spicy as I liked it, they did add some spice and it was hotter than most places will make it. The rice portion was smaller than I usually see and the egg rolls were half the size of most other places and the flavor was lacking for sure. The have nothing on the table except soy in a bottle, the hot mustard and duck sauce is the standard clear, single serve packs that you get from any take out place... what a disappointment. The last review is of the staff. There were three servers in the restaurant and only myself and one other table. All thy did was joke about and discuss things around the register. I did not see anyone once my food was brought until the bill was delivered. All in all it was a meal that was so so. If I am in the area again, I would look for another...