Vickie's Swansea Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Swansea

I’ll start off by saying this was my absolute favorite Chinese restaurant. I have never been disappointed with the food here and last night I was. I recently found out it was sold (is this wrong info?) and this explains what I will say next. I have ordered the same thing from here for the past 10 years and it has always been the same great quality, except for last night. I get home and open my containers and instantly know something is wrong. The general tsao’s chicken was not fresh. It was dry and hard. The rice had an odd taste to it and the “crab” rangoons had NO crab meat at all. In fact, there was barely any filling in the whatsoever. Probably a nickels worth of filling. How do you take over an award winning business and change everything that was good about the food? If it was not bought out, then what happened? I’ll probably give it one more chance because maybe it was just an off night?? We will see. Hopefully it was and the next time will be better....

Really sad that it seems like Vickie is no longer a part of this business. She absolutely is what made it great. I used to work at the Pricerite that was across the street years ago, and Vickie would stop in often. I had always raved about this place for years since then. I noticed over the last several months that I no longer recognized anyone in the restaurant and had not seen Vickie in ages. (Albeit I stopped coming as much since I no longer work next to it). But I was giving them the benefit of the doubt and continued to order, but the food quality got progressively worse each time I ordered to a point where I am done. I would love to know what happened to Vickie, if she opens a new restaurant I would make the drive, although I doubt that’s the case. (The new people are nice and very friendly and everything, but if the food isn’t edible, none of that...

The food was so good, I started speaking Chinese! 😭 I was very happy that they were open late (they closed at 10:30 on this Friday). I had General Tsao's Chicken and I can vouch for it. It is certainly the good kind. I went in 10 minutes before closing and they prepared the order no problem. I study Mandarin in my spare time so I figured it was a good time to test out my chops. They understood what I said. A miracle. And they said my Mandarin was pretty good and it upped my confidence in my speaking ability, so I had to give them a honest review: 太好吃了 😊 Too good!

And very friendly staff not upset at all at my late ordering, but happy I ordered. I appreciate you for being open this late. I hadn't eaten all day.

Should also mention the atmosphere. Very nice with plenty of tables for a sit-in meal with your family and friends. Colorful. Comfortable....