Zen Asian Diner — Restaurant in Pittsburgh

Good option for quick Asian food. Our online lunch order didn't have far to go and showed up in about 20 minutes, so top marks there. Lunch combos are voluminous for the price, but whether or not that represents value seems to depend on the dish.

For example, the Tso's and garlic chicken combo was maybe 1/3 of the former and 2/3 of the latter, with a reasonable ratio of chicken to vegetables. Makes sense that the portion of the "premium" item is smaller, and the sweetness in the sauce was on point. Main issue here was the lack of flavor in the garlic sauce -- I should taste garlic, but all I got was some red pepper heat.

But then we come to my partner's combo, which had cashew shrimp as the main. There were, like, five shrimps in there, so it was like 85% carrots and celery. I get that some ingredients are harder to source and pricier, too, but if we wanted vegetable stir-fry we'd get that....

This is my first time coming to zen asian diner for dinner and celebrate father's day and my birthday together which we usually do.we brought a cake in to be served after dinner and we had the most unpleasant experience that I have ever had at a Chinese restaurant before the service was poor and we had to chase down the waitress everyone we needed something and when we got our dinner it was terrible the portions were small alot More vegetables than seafood in the seafood combinations that we ordered.not Worth the money you pay for.we finished our dinner and we're getting the cake to be served to My family and I and we were almost finished with our the cake when the hostess came over and asked if we could give up our table for guests coming in and the manager grabbed a table and placed it at the end of our table when we were still there.first and last time...

I’ve ordered pad thai from this place twice and both times they messed up my order. The one time was at least made with the the usual pad thai ingredients but they didn’t put my peanut sauce on either of the ones I ordered just because I said no peanut sauce on ONE of them. The second time they didn’t use fried noodles they used noodles you would see in a pho bowl and there was cabbage and onion and no peanut sauce on that one either despite ordering a normal tofu pad thai for just myself this time. I’ve ordered other things from this place before and they were fine, hence why I gave it two stars, but I don’t understand how they made what I said was “tofu pad thai” completely wrong. I don’t think I’ll be ordering...