East King — Restaurant in Richmond

First of all let me say I love Chinese food. I bought from this place because the chinese restaurant near my house didn’t have a lot of flavor in their food so I came to this location. Unfortunately this Chinese restaurant is the same. I ordered 2 dinner specials,sesame chicken and sweet and sour chicken with fried rice and pork egg rolls. The food was bland and not a lot of flavor in rice or egg rolls. The duck sauce was also bland. Only the chicken had flavor. One plate was for my mom and she agreed. I had high hopes for this restaurant because all the positive reviews and I was contemplating on coming here for weeks and the food was not nasty not delicious just okay. The sweet and sour chicken had a cup of sauce while the sesame chicken was cooked in sauce and had broccoli in it. I mixed my sesame chicken and rice together to flavor rice with chicken and the sauce. They should pour the sesame sauce over the rice to add more flavor instead of serving plain rice with onions. Stop being stingy with the sauce. I caught the bus home and got there almost 2 hours later at almost 8pm on a dark cold night and the food was still very hot. The people here are hard working and nice so i’ll hate to give negative reviews. I feel as if the cooks was rushing thru orders to be done quick. There was only like 2 or 3 cooks and 6 people in line in front of me. The cashier lady taking orders said 30 minutes and it was here at like 15 minutes. I’ll be willing to wait longer for more flavorful food. I’ll give them another try and order something different the next time. The service was good but the food was neutral,so I gave a neutral review. 3...

Way better than expected.

I ordered a general tso's dinner and a sweet and sour shrimp dinner, with 2 of the steak cheese eggrolls (because the reviews recommended them).

What I got was awesome.

Firstly, she gave me two extra shrimp eggrolls and 3 of their very large crab rangoon things. The shrimp inside were huge, the eggrolls themselves were huge, and the crab rangoon were made fresh (and didn't look like standard crappy ones).

Next, I tried the sweet and sour shrimp. THE SHRIMP WERE GIGANTIC. Like, as large as two normal shrimp together. I think I had about 7 or 8 floating in a sweet and sour sauce that contained a good bit of fresh veggies (mushrooms, onion, and more). Came with a huge portion of fried rice. Let's just say that the whole overall portion is enough to split with 2 people unless you're the kind of person that eats two dinners by yourself regularly. I'm a big eater and it was a ton.

Next I tasted the steak cheese eggrolls. Exactly what I thought they'd be: eggrolls with provolone and steakums in the inside. Was it good? Hell yea. But it was definitely missing a cup of wiz for it to remind me of Philly.

Last was the general tsos. The meat flaked off when bitten...these were mostly good cuts of meat. Delicious sauce that wasn't too much. but overall it was great.

Overall, the ingredients are fresh and not crappy, the selection is the same normal one you'd expect with a few extras, the bonus food is awesome, and the food coma is strong.

Go if you're in the area. It's a hidden gem...

I called for a delivery i order bourbon chicken,shrimp fried rice, w/ broccoli& bottle of fruit punch soda.I wanted to pay with my card she was rude saying come in a pay if i need to come in a pay what was the point of me doing delivery. So then she say we dont take cards so i said ill pay cash my total was $12 and before i could confirm my total with her she hung up in my face. I hope my food taste good cause her customer services skills was below poor. Also what kills me is that they have the nerve to expect a tip but not tonight after she handle my order...