Peking Restaurant — Restaurant in Muscatine

!!!NEW OWNER (Chad) PLEASE READ!!!

Please take this seriously from someone who worked with the original owners Shanu, Ming, and Jerry (amazing cook) for Many years and have been a regular customer for over 30 years.

Let’s start with the sauces - They have been the same until now - even between the previous 2 changes in ownership - Do Not Change the ingredients!! Bring back the old soy sauce that they had because this one is Way too salty. Pot sticker sauce: Idk what you did but it tastes like INCREDIBLY salty soy sauce. Nothing like pot sticker sauce. You 100% are NOT making it right. You have to figure this one out, it was the best pot sticker sauce around.

The soups - Your cooks don’t know how to make them. Literally, I had to cancel my order for the vegetable soup and spicy sour soup because no one there knew how to make them. Vegetable soup - this is how you make it - rough chop Broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, pea pods, carrots, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots - boil for about a minute and then put the juice on top with a few drops of sesame oil and green onions. There you go. Spicy sour soup - take the Egg drop soup - add one big shrimp and a few small ones, ham, a few big mushrooms, tofu, finely chopped water chestnuts and cook with vinegar, pepper and a splash of the brown sauce. Done.

I did get a sizzling rice soup and there was a pound of oil on top. Way too much oil. Just need a few drops, no one likes to drink oil.

One small box of rice for two dinners? Absolutely not. Don’t cheap out like that, you will only upset literally everyone who orders out. That’s a ridiculously small amount of rice. The original owners gave one BIG box of rice PER DINNER MEAL and they packed it in there too. The second owners changed it to one small box of rice per dinner meal and that wasn’t even enough. But One small box of rice (that wasn’t even full) for two big dinners is insane. We didn’t even have enough to pass around to 3 people and ate less half of both meals. This needs to be addressed immediately.

Lastly, the meals were decent but you need to tenderize the beef more and make thinner slices. Had too many hard chunks in my Mongolian beef. The dishes are also too oily. Need to use more cornstarch slurry.

I will be back and I will update my review as the kinks get worked out. Please fix the sauces. You don’t understand how important they are to the Peking name. Everyone likes sauces with their appetizers. Please...

Awful! Truly awful! No flavor. If you hate Chinese food and think recipes out of a 1970’s cookbook written by a white lady who didn’t really know how to cook Chinese food is authentic or good Chinese food, this is the place for you!!! If you like Chinese food and you enjoy flavors this is NOT the place for you. My Chicken and mushrooms was mostly an unmentionable soup and the carrots in it were carrot coins right from the frozen section of a grocery store - not cut correctly. I can promise if you asked to tour the kitchen, they are not cooking in a wok. So the cook on the food is off. Sauce is not made correctly. Way too much big the sauce (which again wasn’t good). The pork fried rice was not made correctly. It might “look similar” to a fried rice, but fried rice it is not!!! Whoever is cooking could go to YouTube or TikTok and get better recipes. The methods and ingredients are WRONG!!! Now, let’s talk about the prices. WOW!!!! I paid $13 for that small box of chicken and mushrooms (which was a soupy mess). All together between the entrée, pork fried rice, and fried Wonton, I spent $34!!! All that money on food I could barely choke down because it was just NOT GOOD! More embarrassed at the idea I paid that much money on a meal I didn’t enjoy at all… bottom line … don’t eat...

Peking is a restaurant I've thoroughly enjoyed in years past. It had been the same owners throughout the majority of that time. Any time there is a change in ownership one expects changes to the menu, price, etc. One expects a few kinks to be worked out as the new owners find their feet, that's all expected. However, I have eaten here a handful of times since new ownership and can say it is not what it once was. Prices have gone up significantly and portion sizes have gotten smaller. The egg rolls that the town once rallied together to bring back when previous owners had changed them are now a distant memory. Mongolian beef is lacking in any real flavor, the sweet and sour sauce is more of a sweet and sour gel/jelly. The only redemption and item that has stayed constant is their sizzling rice soup but even that, the last time I had it it was not as tasty as it once was. I enjoy supporting local businesses which is why I've given them multiple tries since new ownership but I can't see myself going again...