Good Neighbor Restaurant — Restaurant in Newark

We came for dinner to check this place that we've heard good things about. The food quality and portions were very good. The service was efficient and the atmosphere was fine. We would certainly come back.

Being at a stand alone building in a shopping certer, there was plenty of parking. The restaurant had plenty of tablrs for big and small groups. The service was efficient.

I would consider this a homestyle restaurant, where besides ordering a la carte you can get 3 dishes (from a separate list) for a set price ($35.99 at this review) with soup (dine-in only). Additional dishes after the 3 are $11.99 each. For this set-up your choices are numerous including such choices as fried flounder, various claypot dises, stir fried vegetables, meat dishes, and noodle dishes. White rice is $2 per order.

For 3 people we had the spicy green beans with ground pork, the seafood tofu claypot, and the taro root chicken claypot. The first that arrives after ordering is the soup. On this day, it is corn and egg flower soup. A nice and light soup to stimulate the appetite. The green beans came out next. Fresh from a very hot wok it had great flavor. It was hard to stop eating it once you start and it's especially good accompaniment with white rice. The claypots took a little bit longer, but worth the little bit of wait. Both had flavorful vegetables (cabbage, carrots, etc) on the bottom. The seafood one had big chunks of cod, shrimp, fish paste, and fried tofu. The taro chicken pot had big slices of chicken, taro, shitaki mushrooms. Both had deep flavor without being too salty.

We had enough leftovers for another meal. The atmosphere is casual and clearly they do a good take out business and many diners are...

My daughter and I ate lunch there for the first time. Asked for Orange Chicken and another two plates. The other two plates were what we asked for but the Orange Chicken was not right. My daughter knows I'm allergic to seafood so she tried the orange chicken. She said, "Mom, I don't think you should have the Orange chicken because I don't think it's chicken" I saw the waitress walk by and asked her if what we ordered was chicken. She was quickly walking by and looked down at the plate and said, "Ya,Ya Chicken" I un-peeled the orange crust from the dish and it turns out it looked like calamari or some form of fish. Once I saw her again, I asked are you sure this is chicken because I am allergic to seafood. She asked me why I'm allergic to seafood :( I told her that was a good question and would be sure to ask the ambulance why I was allergic once they got there. Her eyes opened wide - she did not know that I had not tried the stuff. Thank goodness for my daughters instinct in trying it first.

To make matters worse she went to the back kitchen and what sounded like a scuffle she returned saying she would only charge for the other 2 plates that we did eat from. She knew it was their mistake and was apologetic. Needless to say she overcharged the other two plates. I told her I was not leaving a tip but would pay the price she was charging but showed her the menu with the correct price. She obviously was overcharging me to make up for their mistake. I told her I would never again eat at this restaurant. Be careful what you get. I do not recommend this place at all. There are much better, cleaner places to eat Chinese...

We went here for late lunch. Their dishes are good. Some are not worth the price though. From the beginning the lady server seems rude. We are ordering and she keeps asking us "you're not ready right?" She said it so many times. Of course, its our first time to go there and we need to look at their menu and double check we are ordering what we wanted and since theres 10 of us we're asking everyone else what they like. So yeah thats kinda irritating. Next, we are asking about the party tray pricing, while my other Aunt is asking she" Shush" her while she's talking, it's really rude. We are just asking the price since there is nothing listed on the menu she gave us. And then, when we are about to leave, she stopped us because she wanted us to to choose the amount of tip that they already put in the receipt. We didnt follow their tip suggestion as it isn't mandatory. She stopped us outside and told us to change the tip we put in. And we asked her is it mandatory to follow the suggested tip amount, she said "IT'S OKAY, I WILL REMEMBER YOU". And we're like wow, that's not a good customer service kinda threatening. So we're not going back there. I'm giving stars for the food but for the service...