Five Happiness Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in New Orleans

My boyfriend brought me to this place he adores, but was quickly displeased whenever we recieved our food. The wanton soup was edible, but not the best tasting, to say the least. He ordered the Mandarian Beef Lunch Special (which he got all these years) but was so disappointed with the food that he couldn’t even manage to get a second bite in. After I had tasted my food, which was the Chicken with snow peas and black mushrooms, he ate a mushroom and quickly spat it out not even 2 seconds of having it in his mouth. Not to mention that rice was whiter than estonians. Had no taste-very bland. After our complaint, we were charged $13 for two drink and two soups, not to mention I didn’t even eat my soup and my boyfriend barely drank any of the drink. The only time he did drink his tea was to wash out the taste in his mouth. After recieving the check for $13, we decided to just walk out, because honestly, two small soups and two drinks should not cost that much. I could get a whole feast at McDonald’s for that price and it would’ve been better than the food that was there. However, the service was decent. Very nice and polite women which understood our unhappiness with the food. Nice people, poor...

Oh my favorite childhood Chinese restaurant. What can I say about what I can assure you is going to be my last experience at Five Happiness. I wanted to treat my family to a nice Sunday dinner. We didn't look our best but you know I figured we had pants, shirts, shoes, our hair was pulled back , figured we'd be treated nicely no matter what. When I find a bug....more specific, a roach in my food, I expect the manager to make things right. Instead I got questioned as to "where did this bug comes from?" And "well when I checked it back there it was still alive." SO what it made me feel, was that they were trying to say that I brought the bug just to get a free meal? And ontop of that you take off the item that was cheapest off the bill, charged me gratuity, which I would have happily given our waitress a tip bc it wasn't her fault, but a family of five gets charged gratuity automatically? Never again. You did not make it right and you made me feel as if you were blaming me. I'll make sure to tell folks not to bother eating at your restaurant. Add to that the flies that kept flying over and landing on our food that ALL FIVE of us had to keep swatting at....

I placed my first order at Five Happiness 18 years ago. As a student, I ordered from them obsessively. We now order as a family on a regular basis, even when we lived further away and it wasn't as convenient. More than anything, their pork dumplings were phenomenal, they were a great consistency, packed with meaty gingery goodness. A craving for those could lead to a full-blown order. Today, I ordered 2 orders of the dumplings and was shocked to find what could only have been mass-produced dumplings from the frozen foods section. I called the restaurant and they told me that they changed the recipe because people had complained about them. I asked in disbelief if they were telling me these dumplings were still made by hand, and they said yes. After I hung up, I drove back to show them - there was no way anyone could look at these bland, hard-edged excuses for dumplings and say it to me with a straight face. Well, they did. I don't appreciate the lie, and I will no longer...