China Taste — Restaurant in Town of Amherst

My friends avoid going there after trying once. But since I read raving reviews, I thought I should try. What a mistake! but I read that it is It was (shrimp cabbage hot pot) too greasy to enjoy that I only 1/4 of it. No dishes came with rice so you have to pay an extra dollar for a bowl of rice. I paid $14 for both main dish and rice. My daughter ordered vegetarian dish, and specified that she didn't want any oyster sauce, but it taste like oyster sauce with full of MSG in it that she stopped eating which made her thirsty endlessly. There were only another table was occupied besides us, but the wait staff was no where in sight that we had to get the water by our selves. Getting the check was an endless waiting process too.

Roasted peanuts and fake kimchi were served as a snack. Kimchi also had a lot of msg that I didn't want to touch after the first bite. I wouldn't mind paying more if it were quality food and service, but even the rice they served was the cheapest kind. I am not going back there even if...

Not sure how the food is, but the customer service is lacking. I’m a vegan and ordered the vegetable fried rice... assuming wrongly that if it had egg in it it would be listed. After sitting down I realized I should double check and asked the waiter, who said there was, and would try to stop the order. Five minutes later a second man came out and said they already started the order so they couldn’t fix it. I explained that I had only ordered it because there was no egg listed on the menu item and when I realized that was just an assumption of mine, I did ask to change the order. He told me that if I wanted something else I could order and pay for something else but he wouldn’t fix the order by making something else. If I hadn’t asked them to change it before the food came out I would understand, but for them to not be willing to do anything to make things right was quite disappointing to see in a business.

I recommend going somewhere with higher customer...

Went out of my way to get my sick wife wonton soup from here, but after unwrapping multiple layers of plastic the first thing she sees is a maggot right on top. I guess it happens, but never to me in years of eating at restaurants. I ate the rest of my order: dumplings and the tofu with preserved egg appetizer…they were tasty, but I found it difficult to enjoy.

Like quite a few Chinese restaurants that went to take-out only last year: the entrance was boarded up, a sliding window installed & the closed dining room area was a complete mess. If the owners think that low a level of cleanliness is okay to be put on display to the customer, it makes we wonder how dirty the kitchen is…and how many more maggots were in that soup (edit: i went through the soup as I was throwing it out…three maggots total). Won’t be...