Han Dynasty — Restaurant in Philadelphia

Unfortunately I will never be ordering from Han dynasty Manayunk again. This is the FOURTH time they have screwed up a delivery order. Either it’s a missing item or a completely wrong dish that’s delivered. What’s worse, when you order from their site, you’re actually ordering through DoorDash, so not only is the “free delivery” actually just $15+ extra in “additional fees” but what happened to me last night, is when you show up in store to ask for your missing dish and a delivery refund (because now you’re having to go pickup) they’ll tell you they can’t do anything for you because it’s all through DoorDash. And DoorDash won’t refund delivery fees. 0 customer service and feels so scammy. After 4 times of this happening, it’s clear this location purposely messes up delivery orders in hopes you won’t come in to try and correct it so they can pocket the money. Not to mention when I showed up at the restaurant to get the items I paid for, there was a large table with children, one of which was walking around the restaurant in her bare feet and none of the staff intervened. The waiter I spoke to was nice and apologetic and they remade my missing items, but it took an additional 25 minutes of waiting while the other food back home was getting cold and I was losing $15 in delivery fees when I had to go to the restaurant anyways. Save yourself and just don’t order from here unless you’re going to sit down in...

It's a small chain that, according to the server, brings groups of cooks from China to live in communal housing and work as a team. Owner is Taiwanese, decor reflected his roots.

The food is mixed Taiwanese and Sichuan.

I wouldn't call the plates small. Eating partly from the lunch menu, which was supposed to be smaller portions, easily turned family style. The dishes were substantial and well presented. Not a single one caused any disappointment or complaint. Noodles (with sausage), soup (seafood), mapo tofu, eggplant (very nice sweet/hot), twice cooked pork (thin slices, somewhat numbing), and some others. Nothing was painful or unpleasantly hot, despite ordering 'heat scores' of 6-7. Good balanced flavors.

The food is properly restaurant food with the salt content that implies. 'Properly seasoned' for a restaurant.

The servers included both Chinese speakers and non. All were friendly and accomodating. The venue was moderate size, very nice on the historic main street, with a funny flair of tin tile ceiling, Chinese brush work, etc. The servers were suitably talkative and many hip business people were having meetings for 2-4 at lunch. The cold marinated cucumber was recommended but not tried.

Compares very well with many other Sichuan places for authenticity...

Have you ever had some REALLY GOOD, food, and you're like gosh...why don't they have this where I live? Well, let me tell you. You WILL get that here. We wanted a place to go to sit down with our nephew, and he suggested this place because he lives near the area and heard great things.

This was all of our first time here. Carlos made some good suggestions for us to sample for the table. We had pork belly as a starter and a side of shrimp lomein. The Dry Pot with lamb and shrimp fried rice for the main dish. We were going to order Dan Dan soup and a side of the cucumbers, but the portions were so huge that we couldn't fit it into our samples. All of the food was seasoned and bursting with a LOT of flavor! Whatever they put in that sauce needs to be sold in stores.

I am disappointed with myself for not taking pictures of our food. I got too excited by the way he described the suggestions, I guess. When you come to Philadelphia, you have to visit the Manayunk District and make this your first stop. Then, go out to have a cocktail. But guess what, wineos!!??? You can BYOB! Great food, excellent price, awesome and amazing service. WE...