Little Beijing Chinese Fast Food — Restaurant in Riverside

I walked into Little Beijing just trying to pick up food for my mom. Simple. I wasn’t expecting anything but decent service. Instead, I was completely ignored. No greeting, no “Can I help you?”—nothing. I stood there like I was invisible.

At first, I thought maybe I was overthinking it. But then another customer, a white woman, turned to me and asked if I was in line because even she noticed how the staff wasn’t acknowledging me. She ended up helping me with my order—while the actual worker, who I believe was the owner, still never spoke to me or made an effort to assist me.

That’s when it hit me: the reason I was being treated that way was because I’m Black. It wasn’t blatant yelling or name-calling, but the undertones were loud. The microaggressions were clear. I didn’t matter to them.

To make it worse, while I was standing at the counter, someone came up to grab a box that was sitting near the cashier. They didn’t say “excuse me.” They didn’t acknowledge that I was standing right there. They just grabbed it, bumped past me, and kept moving—rude and dismissive on top of everything else.

Racism doesn’t always come out screaming. Sometimes it looks like silence, avoidance, and acting like you don’t exist. That’s exactly what I experienced here. And the fact that it took a white customer stepping in for me to be helped says it all.

If you’re a Black customer—or anyone who expects to be treated with basic respect—think twice about giving this place your money. I...

So, my family and I are still fairly new to the area and my husband is always looking for a place with good but quick Chinese food. Typically he likes Tasty Goody, but since there's not one in our area, we did a quick search and found Little Beijing. We've been there a few times(since the end of June) with no REAL problem, up until last week.

My husband and our 7 year old son had a hankering for some Chinese food, so I ran out and got them a combo plate: 2 Meat choices(teriyaki chicken and orange chicken) and a double portion of Chow Mein. My son ate the teriyaki and my husband ate the orange chicken and both ate Chow mein. Later on that day, they BOTH got sick, vomiting and the other thing. I believe 100% that it was the Chow mein, I only tried a piece of the Teriyaki, I did not eat the noodles and I felt fine, but my poor 7yr old threw up several times before it was out of his system. My husband had stomach issues and cramps.

I do not wish to dump on a business that's trying to make it, but I do want to point out the obvious, food handling and storage is so important and can literally keep customers at your register or hurling over a toilet, it's quite simple. My family has experienced the latter, so we won't be back. Things happen, just use caution, especially for food that is open...

After waiting in line for 5 minutes, with no one in front of me, not being acknowledged and not even being told “I’ll be right with you”. A lady finally comes and takes my order. Before she could grab the cartons and begin loading my food into them, a what appears to be a Uber eats worker Or DoorDash worker enters the door, walks up to the counter and asks for the order he was picking up. The man behind the counter turned around and said give me a couple of minutes, it’s finishing up. He says, I also need to place an order for myself. The lady (said nothing and just started taking his order) quickly prepared his food using the last of the rice, rang him up and I ended up waiting an additional 5-10 minutes for more rice to complete my order after he left. Next time I’ll just order Uber eats or go to Mr. You. My time is just as valuable and my money...