China East Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Piqua

I placed a delivery order for dinner tonight. The delivery time was relatively quick for a Friday evening. Since this was my first experience ordering here, I went with a broad selection of foods I enjoy from most other restaurants just in case one or more dishes weren't my style. I ordered a pu pu platter, general tso's chicken, shrimp fried rice, and beef lo mein. The good: the general tso's wasn't the best I've had, but it was good. The pu pu platter consisted of two spring rolls filled with what looked like beef paste (not tasty,) two eggrolls (heavy on the ginger and almost no filling,) two skewers of grilled teriyaki chicken thigh meat (really tasty. Probably the best thing in the box,) two mediocre crab rangoon, two pieces of sugary fried bread, two deep fried veggie balls, two deep fried chicken wings, and two very dry slices of roast pork in hoisin bbq sauce. Not bad, but wouldn't order again. The bad: the fried rice is bright yellow and greasy with very little flavor. On the plus side, the shrimp were deveined very well. The beef lo mein is nothing to write home about, a little sweet for my taste. Maybe it will be better...

I should have just walked out…. Everything was old…. Not an hour old… like all day, hard, gross. They are clearly violating health codes. They piled newly cooked food on top of very old stuck to the pan, been sitting all day food. We had a bite to try things and put our full plates up to be collected and left. We paid…. We left. Hungry. We are not the kind of family to ask for a refund…. But I’ve never wanted to more. We will just never go back. We are making a report with the health department as well and I just wanna express this isn’t a matter of opinion, The food and the way it was being handled was unsafe. We all tasted a detergent or something…. The plates were dirty, the lettuce looked days old, and shrimp was in slightly cool water…. I’m worried we even gave it a shot but my family had been wanting Chinese buffet and I regret that’s the one we chose. The noodles and rice were the only things that seemed safe and the noodles were…. The worst I’ve ever had. Like raw dough? The rice was mushy and they said it was fried rice but there were no veggies or anything… just mushy yellow rice. I’m so disappointed and...

Slightly weird thing to complain about but they are often not great about bringing your bill. I live in Piqua and work mainly in Troy. If I was on a work lunch there are times that I would definitely be having to get attention so my employer wouldn't wonder if I was actually coming back. Today was the worst I have experienced and I am glad I have the day off. I finish eating, go to the bathroom, and it is like I disappeared. There are two people here, one or maybe both I think are the owners. They were somewhat attentive once, getting another water when I was still eating. But after that bathroom trip I might as well have just left. The woman goes outside doing landscaping or do something. The man is eating. The woman comes back in and it doesn't dawn on either one to bring a bill, check if I am okay on water. It's like if you don't want my money, thanks for the meal.

Good quality is generally fine. Chinese buffet food is not wonderful or horrible generally speaking. There cheesy mashed potatoes are pretty good and their hot and sour soup is better than Golden Bowl in Troy, which is...