Peter's Kitchen China Bistro — Restaurant in Orlando

I went here with my family to try some dimsum and expected authentic Cantonese Dim Sum, like they advertised, and I was greatly dissapointed. The moment we walked in the atmosphere of the place was uncomfortable, we heard that the place had a renovation but it seems it was a bad one.

The energy of the place is very rushed and not very warm like a restaurant is supposed to be. The servers were very rude and seemed to serve a couple other customers first before serving certain customers. Regardless of order of arrival, as if the servers had some sort of personal bias. The manager of the place kept silently staring everyone down and making the dining experience worse.

Normally places like this would ask if we wanted tea or anything to drink the moment we sit down. However, the table of two who came in after us were asked for their drink order and served Coke-Cola before my family were even offered a pot of tea. The service was already off to a bad start, but maybe the food will be redeeming. False. We ordered a myriad of dim sum dishes expecting good quality for the high price we were paying. (Compared to other dim sum restaurants in the area).

At first, we were served both the Shrimp Rice Paste and the Beef Rice Paste. My family sampled the Shrimp Rice Paste first and to our surprise, IT WAS ICE COLD! This is a first for me, having ice cold dim sum. As if the food was precooked and taken out of the fridge! If the food was fresh and it had just been sitting on the table for a while, the center would still be hot at least. But it wasn't the entire dish was ice cold. We ended up asking the server to bring one of the dishes back inside to heat them up. When our server brought them back out, there was not much of a difference in temperature. We ordered Shrimp dumplings which came with four servings, 3 out of the 4 dumplings had leftover shrimp tails in them. Kudos to them, now I know they use real shrimp in their dumplings. On the other hand, this is just bad business practice. How am I supposed to know you prepared and cleaned the shrimp properly when you can't even be bothered to get rid of the tails. I have read a couple of other reviews where some customers have gotten sick from the food. How scary. Never in my experience in eating authentic cantonese dim sum have the shrimp dumplings (har gow) had shrimp tails in them. This is a first for me, especially when they mess up a classic dim sum dish.

The crispy mixed dumplings were a fan-favorite of my daughter and we were also dissapointed by those. They were super oily and not crispy, usually crispy mixed dumplings are the perfect mix of golden brown fried sweet rice paste and savory meat filling. These were just a warm piece of under cooked pale rice paste with very little tasteless meat filling. We also got baked roast pork pie where there was no sign of roast pork and the pie part wasn't crispy and flaky. Nothing like a proper roast pork pie. The only redeeming thing they served to me was the Beef Ball on top of a bed of bean curd skin. The beef itself was very good and tender with good mouth feel, but the bean curd skin was chewy and overall inedible. The two don't match up at all. I really don't understand why the chef and staff would be so proud to serve these kinds of dishes, nor understand why they would advertise it so vehemently on their front door and fliers.

1/10 Experience. If you value your health and well-being don't come here. Save yourself some money and go find...

My original review was from 11 months ago. Since then, Peter’s Kitchen has gone significantly downhill and I really feel bad for them.

We went there yesterday with my family from out of town RAVING about this place and their food. As stated in my previous review below, my husband and I were regulars here. But yesterday was something I never experienced here and quite frankly, I’m disgusted.

First off, our server, an older Asian man with glasses was so incredibly rude I was taken aback. We really should have left at our first interaction with him. He acted as if we were an inconvenience and that he was so busy. He wasn’t. We went for lunch on a weekday.

When we asked for what we wanted he kept asking, is that all? Is that all? What else?

We always order the salted pepper chicken wings with pork fried rice. When we asked if we could order that, he grabbed my menu, flipped it over and slammed it down in front of me. “Lunch special” is all he said. As if we were forced to order the lunch special if we weren’t ordering dim sum (which we did).

The lunch specials were DISGUSTING. Looked and tasted like old, mushy fried rice. Chicken wings looked reheated and had no flavor.

The dim sum was not fresh. I agree with another reviewer that said the dumplings were stuck to the papers. My sister ordered the chicken feet and they were not good.

At this point we spoke to a manager and my husband explained the situation politely. She apologized on the server’s behalf and ended up comping the lunch specials we ordered and told us we would have another server finish us out. When she went to tell the server, he started YELLING at her in front of the whole restaurant. They went back and forth until he walked back into the kitchen.

If the food doesn’t shut Peter’s Kitchen down, that server will single handedly put them out of business. He should not be working in ANY hospitality position.

Review from 11 months ago Consistency is key and Peter’s Kitchen nails it every time we visit! The food is always on point, hot, fresh and delicious. My husband found Peter’s Kitchen when we were searching for a really good Chinese restaurant. We haven’t looked back since and will continue to make the trek to Peter’s Kitchen. Their salted pepper wings are incredible and pairs really well with their fried rice and HOMEMADE duck sauce. I always order from the dim sum menu and never regret anything I choose. So...

I saw on Yelp a reviewer commented "Good news! Peters Kitchen was sold and is under new management!". I do not at all share the excitement or joy of this revelation. We have eaten here hundreds of times since we moved back to Orlando and shortly after, Peters Kitchen was originally opened by the Leung family after parting ways with Ming Bistro. It was hands down a reliable and delicious affair every time and even if they were extremely busy the food made it worth the wait.

Today, we ordered chicken pan-fried noodles, our favorite pork fried rice, and half a dozen of our favorite dim sum dishes. To be blunt, the quality and the taste are a significant downgrade from before. Our chicken pan-fried noodles came out with a notably thinner sauce that didn't stick to the crunchy noodles at all and to top it off the sauce tasted mostly of ginger and little else. The chicken portion was a little lacking, as well.

The pork steam buns filling did not have as much flavor and they remind me a lot of the cheap buns that come frozen and reheated. The pan-fried dumplings were much larger than usual and had a generous amount of filling. Even the legendary pork fried rice was not as good as usual, though I will say it was one of the better things we ate today. The pork pieces in the fried rice were very dry but they had more flavor than anything else we ate.

The custard tarts used to be the highlight of our visit with their delightfully flakey crusts and perfectly tart custard filling made by hand. Now they taste reheated and flavorless.

Overall the food was just....okay. It seems to be a watered-down version of what Peters Kitchen once was. I'm 100% willing to give them another chance as I didn't discover the ownership changed until after we left. Hopefully, they make improvements to their menu.

The upside to our visit was that we had two friendly and attentive servers take care of us today and were pleasant and accommodating. Please make sure they know they were...