China Islamic Restaurant 清真马家馆 — Restaurant in Rosemead

Ordered three flavor chow mein which included shrimp and pan fried lamb dumplings 6/29/2022 @7:50pm. The lamb dumplings were under cooked and the shrimp was SPOILED! I would usually let this roll off my back because this is a Halal restaurant, but the chef not only endangered my wife and I. This chef endangered my SON! I will no longer patronize this establishment. I was going to call and complain, but I figured instead of being upset and giving off any negative energy to the other person on the phone; I will just leave a review in case the manager wonders why I don't come there anymore. I was a regular that ordered crispy duck and the pan fried lamb dumplings that always left a tip even if it was takeout. It is a shame because I have been coming here since 2009 if I remember correctly and 13 years of patronage has ended because of a careless chef. The quickest way to lose business is to endanger a man's family. Writing this review probably hurts me more than it hurts them and it...

I used to come on a regular basis with the old ownership back in the 90s and 2000s when it was real halal with more staff. It had since changed owners over time, and expect that things are different now.

I tried lunching here with family last weekend and they had some of the good dishes that we're still noteworthy. Bread/ onion/sesame n beef onion are fantastic and I'd say same or better than the past. The hot pot soup with cabbage is exactly the way I remember it tastes and my family loves it.

The cold noodles are completely different from the old management but not in a bad way, just a different style and flavoring.

The only bad thing is, the service is super slow, one waitress n one cook, so speed is not like it was before. The waitress is nice but the wait time needs to be vastly improved for serving food. Patrons we're starting conversations with each other about the wait time of food.... So I think Ill come back here on an off time or...

Good food as in any Chinese restaurant, but this place was the epitome of a thrifty chinese islamic culture in LA... i.e. Server would not take back a lamb dish 'Cumin Lamb' (that we did not eat and only touched it with the utensil it came with to show the server that it does not look eatable) since it had 5% actual meat and 95% Fat. We were still charged the full price without any exchange (which we paid since we are not confrontational) As it is, Lamb is expensive for it's tender Meat, not for it's Fat, So you cannot expect someone to pay $15 for a pound of fat with 10 grams of meat. And that's just one of the many issues...**Overall what this place had in decent food, contrasted horribly with their customer service and lack of integrity! Not going to recommend if anyone is looking for an honest use of...