Teriyaki Monster — Restaurant in New York

The roast pork fried rice has steadily gotten worse over the past year. It has gone from succulent to tasting like bland saw dust cooked with dry spices. The vegetables were the closest to tasting "normal"... but more accurately, cheap bland vegetables. But the texture of a mouthful of the pork fried rice was too strange to describe... it quickly falls apart into feeling like chewing pills: you bite down into this form, it begins to fall apart, then becomes a powdery consistency, then the taste hits you much harder than expected making you wince at the shock. It truly leaves you wondering what you just ate because it didn't feel natural.... it truly felt like eating a botched attempt at synthetic food. Since it has steadily gotten worse... the last time I also ordered their boneless ribs in the hopes that it would be decent enough to overcome the steady downhill taste of the pork fried rice, but unfortunately it wasn't that good... having a similar taste/texture of the pork fried rice. Their chicken noodle soup has remained consistently pretty good, that is if you're okay with their chicken appearing to be processed chicken cutlets. The same processed chicken cutlets in their chicken fried rice. Kind of like processed Perdue/Weaver white meat chicken cutlets. That kind of chicken might be okay for a quick easy bite at home once in a blue moon... it's not okay to be serving at a restaurant. But tonight's pork fried rice was just too much "what the F am I eating?" ...that I...

My favorite teriyaki place ever!!! :-) I used to only order from here through Doordash (because I discovered Teriyaki Monster during the pandemic) and was always sad I could never tip in person. I recently visited and it's a delightful little place (emphasize: little) in a nice area with a coffee shop down the road I wanna try out sometime. I always order teriyaki chicken with plain egg fried rice + extra teriyaki sauce. It never fails to disappoint or miss the mark. I've also tried their taro bubble tea and it's good (nothing too remarkable or special compared to other bubble tea places like Kung Fu tea or Vivi's, just your typical generic bubble tea). The people here are very hardworking and polite, they give great service. I can't recommend this place enough. Please support them....

Ordered a bunch of different dishes to have for lunch throughout the week because of how reasonable I felt the prices were. None of them were great but were really what I would expect from an informal Chinese takeout restaurant. It feels like each was a lot of food but the bulk is very rice-heavy. All of them were fairly bland and definitely needed both more seasoning and more sauce. It was worth a try but I really don't feel the need to get takeout...