Good Friends Chinese Restaurant 友谊 — Restaurant in Newport

I do not know how this restaurant received 3.8 stars. To give this restaurant a fair shot I ordered multiple items off the menu in the span of 3 weeks to make sure it wasn’t just a bad day in the kitchen. Ordered: Pot stickers, beef short ribs, orange chicken, chicken lo mein, and sweet / sour pork. The pot stickers were slightly below average as they were not packed with much filling. The orange chicken should’ve been called the orange batter because the chicken was shaved and hammered so thin that I had to verify if it even existed at its core. The chicken was noticeable in some bites because it was jerky-like, screaming to me that it was either old or fried, frozen and refried. The orange sauce was overly sweet with barely any orange or vinegar in the mixture making you feel like everything was covered in pancake syrup instead of orange sauce. The attached picture is of the sweet and sour pork which was the most disappointing of all meals. The sweet and sour sauce was not sweet or sour because it tasted like they cut half the mixture with water. The breading on the pork tasted like it was fried in old oil that was used to fry fish. The pork and batter were so bland that it was hard to eat since the sauce was equally devoid of flavor. The rice….I have never seen rice look so dark yet incredibly flavorless. It really makes me wonder what they used to stain the rice since it seems like soy sauce wasn’t used. Beef short ribs, dry, tough, but decent marinade and flavor than the other items listed before this. The chicken lo mein was the best thing I ate; I could taste the flavor of the dish. My only complaint was that it was SWIMMING in sauce which I drained before eating. This restaurant had extremely fast delivery which typically means that a lot of food is precooked. The lack of seasoning in their food is staggering for a Chinese restaurant and I have never had Chinese that...

The food at Good Friends Chinese Restaurant is very cheap. However, you get what you pay for. I have been staying at a hotel for several weeks and have ordered from Good Friends on three different occasions. Each dish I have received has been incredibly disappointing.

I have tried the General Tso's Chicken, Combination Lo Mein, and Hunan Chicken. For the two chicken dishes, I asked for them to be prepared spicy. Both times there was no spice to be had; each dish was coated in a similarly tasting sweet sauce. The chow mein was also doused in what tasted like a sweet gravy. I would expect General Tso's chicken to be fried with a cornstarch batter, but the chicken game in a breadingless almost baked form.

The restaurant hasn't done the simple things well. On all three orders that I have placed online I have asked for chopsticks to be included with my food. I received chopsticks only one time.

I like the convenience of ordering online and the fair prices, however the quality of the food needs improvement and the staff needs to pay attention to the directions placed on...

Ordered late, ariund 10:30 pm. Food came, it was AWFUL. Had ordered just their Buffalo wings alone before, they were awesome! Fresh, plenty of sauce, etc. Last night got Daily special which is wings and fried rice. DISGUSTING. WINGS dry, burned, hardly any buffalo sauce, fried rice BURNED AND GREASY, LEFT ACTUAL BLACK SLIME IN STYROFOAM CONTAINER, which means OLD OIL AND DIRTY WOK!!! my son got kungbpo chicken, almost entirely just celery, and same VERY NASTY RICE. we couldn't call back cause they were closed already, but we have spent most of day today ON THE TOILET AND TAKING IMMODIUM!!! I was so happy thinking that I, as disabled person finally found place to get GREAT buffalo wings delivered, but NOT if this is what late evening orders look like!!! So DON'T GET THE DAILY...