Dragon Bowl Latin-Asian Cuisine — Restaurant in Texas

This may be San Antonio Puerto Rican food but it's definitely NOT Puerto Rico-Puerto Rican or Nuyorican Chinese food in the least. The service, when we walked up was not as friendly as others have experienced. The glass in front of the warming table was dirty and the chicharrones under the heat lamp looked dry. Fried rice and lo mein are $1.25 extra. At a Chinese takeout. It was insane to pay more for mediocre, HARD fried rice that was absolutely not Puerto Rican-style fried rice. It tasted like it was a day old, it was so hard. If you're selling yourself as Boricua Chinese food then give us the ham, ribs, onion, and lettuce like it should be. That or serve stir-fried rice that's fresh and not old. We ordered the two meat plate; one with pepper steak and ribs, the other with Mongolian beef and chicharron de pollo and the birria eggrolls. The ribs shouldn't be sold. The breading is gummy, not crispy, the meat was dry, and the sauce is over-seasoned with Chinese five spice or some other ungodly spice that overwhelmed the palate. Whatever that anise-five spice situation is needs to be scaled back or eliminated. The amount of spice on the ribs is the complete opposite of PR or NY costillas, spicy instead of sweet and sour. The pepper steak was okay, but you can tell it never touched a wok. The meat lacked that caramelization. I think they should start truly stir frying their meats. The chicharron de pollo was the only menu item that tasted like it was "Puerto Rican," it was well seasoned and the chicken was decent, a little on the dry side. The Mongolian beef was beef with broccoli so that was a wash. They need to ensure they're serving the customers what they ordered or prepare the food the traditional way so there are no surprises. The birria egg rolls were rolled too small, which means the inside of the egg roll was gummy. If they rolled them a little bigger there wouldn't be excess wrapper inside. The consommé it came with has globs of fat floating in it but was decent. I'm bummed because we went hoping to have a new place that would bring a taste of home. Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to go back because it just wasn't...

Update: Wanted to give Dragon Bowl a second chance after having visited over half a year ago as posted below. Party of two. From time order to food ready was less than 10 minutes. Food portions were large enough for two meals and the price continues to be reasonable. This time we decided to add the Crab Rangoon (it is still listed as 'crab meat' even though it is imitation...this needs to be fixed on the menu). All three menu items ordered had more flavor than before, so our experience showed improvement. Kudos to the owener/staff.

Showed up as the only customers at counter. Staff was friendly and helpful. From time of order to food ready was 18 minutes. Beverages not available (not even cup of water) since this is inside a gas station. If you want drinks, you'll have to buy from the station or go home and get your own. Large portions of rice, but nothing extraordinary about the food itself. Chicarron de Pollo had almost no flavor of the advertised garlic and lime. Eggroll was large, but average tasting at best. Dragon tacos were rated as good. Crab Rangoon advertised as crab meat, but it is not real crab, it is imitation...they need to say this on the menu. Nice idea for a place to eat and we will probably try them one more time and I wish them well, but there are much better Asian places...

I’ve been waiting to try this place because the menu looked great. Not sure what happened. But the entire experience was less than desirable. Food was ordered at 4:43. It was estimated to be delivered by 5:05. DoorDash texted me the link to watch the dasher. The store location was not correct and watching the poor driver go to the wrong location twice made me feel terrible.

He finally found the location after about 30 minutes but waited for an additional 20 minutes for the food (indicated by DoorDash).

The food arrived around 5:55. I still was excited to try the food.

I got the orange chicken, the egg rolls and the Latin wontons to sample a bit.

The orange chicken was bland and the rice was hard and in hard clumps. It was warm, but not good.

The eggroll insides tasted fine but the shell tasted stale.

The wontons tasted ok (picadillo) but the shells were soaked from the sweat of the container.

Portions were nice.

I gave up though and made myself a sandwich. For the price I would have expected better.

Here is to trying again in a few months.

Sorry guys. Just wasn’t a...