Sheng Yuan Restaurant — Restaurant in San Gabriel

I had a terrible experience at Sheng Yuan Restaurant. After dining there yesterday, I ended up with severe food poisoning—vomiting three times and having diarrhea. The food was incredibly disappointing. The Guo Bao Rou (sweet and sour pork) was overwhelmingly sour, and the Salted Egg Yolk Fried Chicken Wings had an extremely fishy taste. I had to literally wash the Guo Bao Rou in the salty sauce of the Tomato Egg Drop Noodles just to make it somewhat edible. My friend only took one bite of the pork and chicken wings before refusing to eat any more. They ended up ordering noodles from another restaurant. The only dish that was somewhat tolerable was the Tomato Egg Drop Noodles, but even that wasn’t great—it was just edible, nothing more. When we complained to the staff, they just brushed it off, claiming it was impossible. It was an awful experience, and I will definitely not...

東北人 have a negative stereotype that whatever they do, it's without care for quality, and things just come out looking janky. Not the case here with these folks! The food is pretty good, and you can tell the clientele here have good relations with the owners. My party and I kept calling back to make changes to the reservations, and they didn't say a word. Did their best to accommodate. Plus, compared to other regional Chinese cuisines, Northeastern Chinese food tends to be the best bang for the buck. Last but not least, if there is a positive stereotype 東北人 are known for, it's being 爽快. Not pretentious at all, and to the point. Gotta' love...

We ordered 2 cold dish and 1 hot stir fried dish. It took forever for the hot dish to come out that we finished both cold dishes by the time. Food was mediocre at best. The fried eggplant and meat was very hard and overcooked. The only good dish was the glass noodle and would not recommend the lemon chicken or lemon shrimp(way too sweet).There was no service at all. Our water cup was empty for the entire time and there’s no refill or whatsoever and there’s was only 2 tables of customers at the time. Will...