Hua Mei Café — Restaurant in San Diego

Do NOT order anything here, for the food here is not only pricey but also tastes horrible. We visited a few days ago and ordered 3 meals: an orange chicken bowl, a chicken nugget & fries, and a teriyaki chicken bowl (kids meal). Total cost was over $40. We thought despite the high price tag we could satisfy our craving for some Chinese food. Only a few bites revealed how wrong we were. The orange chicken was too sweet and too sour, the teriyaki chicken was too salty, the chicken nuggets were so dry and salty, even the rice wasn't cooked right because it's way too mushy. We're not picky eaters, but no adult or child in our family liked any food there at all. After trying a few bites, my wife almost puked. Had to throw most of the expensive meals into the garbage. We have been cooking and eating Chinese food for 5 decades. This restaurant offers the worst we've...

Sorry to say but reaalllyy bad food. You can see most of my reviews are 5 stars. I am not a picky eater and generally find that most things are tasty. The teriyaki chicken and (canned green beans??) were pretty gross. Like I actually took one bite and wanted to return it but at that point it tasted so bad I wouldn’t want to eat anything they made and would just want my money back. Decided to just eat the chicken and a few bites of the rice. The “vegetables” literally looked and tasted like canned green beans with a few mushy broccoli thrown in. Who adds canned green beans to chicken teriyaki?? I felt sick after eating. The worst zoo food I have eaten. I know lots of the zoo food rated pretty poorly. But I actually have rated most the other places 4 or 5 stars. This place is like a 1 star which is saying how bad it was for me. See pics. For $18 just...

A very dysfunctional establishment. From 5 ordering windows only two are open. The manager, Tim, is walking around with their hands in their pockets when the line goes around the corner. Cashiers serving drinks heavily slow everything down, as you will give me a pager for my food, serve the drinks along with the food as I need to wait anyways! The person handing out the food can take care of the drinks. That way the queue goes fast, everyone goes to sit down, there are no delays and we get everything together in one go. I've been in this queue for 40 minutes now!

UPDATE: I finally got my food. 3 sad chicken strips on the kids meal which are as dry as they come. The chicken teriyaki is very salty, fatty and has massive chunks of veggies. The orange chicken is ok. I would not...