Lin Cuisine — Restaurant in Sand Springs

I'm from out of town, and normally steer clear of most Chinese restaurants. But something told me this place was going to be good. Maybe the non cliché name, maybe all the cars in the parking lot, maybe all the other good reviews, or maybe it just reminds me of home, who knows. All I can tell you is this place is phenomenal in every way. I was craving some hot and sour soup, maybe that's what brought me here. Was pleasantly surprised when I saw 6 other soups on the menu and hot and sour was marked in red, a special. Asked the very sweet lady about it and she said she thought it was very good in the way of hot n sour soups. She brought me out a bowl of the most yummy full bodied hot n sour soup I have ever had the pleasure of putting in my tummy! I thought, wow this place is good so I decided to try another selection. Typically when I have been to other Chinese restaurants and ask what's good here, I get a generic put off response like "general chicken very good" no not here at Lin Cuisine! She said what do you like? I said I'm feeling something authentic with beef, she said, you like lots of vegetables? I said indeed ma'am. She said you will love the Hunan beef. I said let's do it. She said you like spicy? I said make it as hot as the hot n sour! She looked at me with s smile and said oh you like mild! I said let's go medium, so she wouldn't think I was a little boy who couldn't handle my heat (loved her sass). She then asked if I wanted it as a dinner combo meal or just with rice. I said can I replace the egg roll with a crab Rangoon? She said we use real crab, and due to the cost, could only swap the egg roll with a cream cheese Rangoon. I said you got real crab? Ima need that. She said, oh, what you want to do is the $5 lunch portion and add an order of crab rangoons ($5), same price as the dinner portion with the egg roll basically. I raised my hand up for a hi-five at the table and she gave me a solid hi-five! and 5 minutes later, voilà a heaping plate of real crab rangoons and Hunan beef arrived at my table piping hot, and a heavenly smell so good I could just taste it! When I tasted it, straight to heaven I went! Oh and! She was on my refills of my Sierra Mist like the white on my steamed rice (best steamed rice ever btw) this place is on point! The staff is excellent! The food is beyond excellent! It's the best Chinese I have ever had and I'm so sad I have to leave this town in the morning! I may just have to come back just for this place! It's that good! And when I asked for a to go box because the food was so plentiful, she brought me back a to go Sierra Mist, a lid for my red sweet n sour sauce, and to go plasticware. Where else have you been that does that on the first go around!? She cares about the customers! How refreshing for a change! And to anyone saying this place lacks flavor!!!!!! Let me tell you something, I put my food in the fridge and it never gelled up like at other places. This is authentic food without all the salt and MSG and fat the other places would try to kill you with. It's simply great food that is made piping hot, fresh to order. If you don't think Lin Cuisine has full bodied flavor you probably should just go eat at the the half a million other Chinese buffet type places where you can ladle your plate full of jellied MSG on top of your fried...

We were SO disappointed! The food was nothing like it used to be! It was flavorless. We hardly ate any of it. Crab won tons had next to no crab in them! Disappointed! We got to go containers and threw the food out at a gas station garbage can! One waitress had her kids there. They were well behaved. Place was clean and our waitress was very sweet and took good care of us. Just wish the food was as good as the service. Unfortunately, we'll never go back! We drove 40 miles to eat there because the last time we went, the food was excellent. I've never had such tasteless food like that! Makes me kind of sad because a good Chinese restaurant seems to be hard to find. I got Chicken Lo Mein with fried rice. They didn't use Sesame oil which flavors the food. Sad to say it was horrible, because the staff is so nice and great! They give huge portions. You could easily split a lunch, which we had. Some people get volume of food mixed up with good food. I hear more often that not, it's a great place to eat, you get a lot of food! I'd rather have smaller portions of good food! Also, the menu is huge! They have a great selection of dishes. Oh! There were hardly any vegetables in my Lo Mein! ONE water chestnut! The Lin Cuisine in Drumright saves food that was not eaten and serves it again. They have a plate by where they put the dirty dishes They put the sweet and sour chicken and pork and scrape it onto a plate. When it's full, they take it back to the kitchen to be resold. After reading tons of these reviews, I'm positive they do the same thing here! Why else would you get cold, old tasting wonton and food? Why would you get Gen Tso chicken with orange peels in it, unless you kept uneaten orange chicken and reused it? Years ago the Chinese restaurant we went to for years, got closed down because they were serving CAT in place of chicken! This was on the West Coast but I'm sure they're not the only ones...

I'm leaving a decent star rating because I don't want to injure you but I would like you, the owners, to hear what I have to say in case it matters to you. I went through the drive through last night and what I got was inexplicably bad. I had to wait in a parking spot, which I don't mind, for about 10 minutes. This usually means fresh food but my cheese wontons were dried out and stale on the edges and the moist parts, where the cream cheese is, was chewy and tough to bite in to. They were just old. Too old to be serving as they were mostly inedible. My meal consisted of these tiny cutlets of meat with an insane amount of batter, probably 5 or 6 times in ratio, and everything was overcooked, flavorless and almost painful to eat with how hard everything was. Why would you do that?

The sweet and sour sauce was a translucent liquid that did not stick to anything and tasted similar to a sugarless Kool-Aid. It was just bad and not actually a sauce. Why would you serve this? It had to have been watered down intentionally to make it stretch. But why? It's just sweet and sour sauce.

There was only a small scoopful of rice, I think to make room for the stack of the over battered chucks, and it was crunchy (uncooked) in the middle and no good to eat. Again, why?

I really just wanted to let you know about this because I felt taken advantage of. We all work hard for our money and I gave you mine for a meal I was excited to take home and enjoy. Instead, I was given something that mostly just went in my trash. I won't ever go back there again but, maybe, someone there cares enough to address this. But also, maybe not. In any case,...