Liang's Chinese — Restaurant in Tyler

Ok so first I want to say I appreciate a place being open on Christmas and I never want to belittle the fact that they are missing time with their families. I’ve personally worked in several restaurants in my life and understand what it is like to work during a holiday. Now, I ordered food at 4:30pm and fully expected the food to take way longer than on a normal day... but this was terrible. I called 30 min after the order was supposed to be delivered to just check and see what time I could expect it to be here as my son was ready to go to bed and hadn’t gotten to eat. When they answered the phone I began to ask if I could check on my order and I was interrupted told “we are busy” and then hung up on. This started a long process of just trying to figure out if our $63 dollar order was even going to be made or if we needed to find food from somewhere else. I was laughed at at one point when I asked if we could just have a prediction of some sort of when we could expect food and finally I just had to put my son to bed after eating a corn dog because his food never showed up. 3 hours after I ordered we finally got our food and it was all incorrect. I don’t normally write reviews but I hope no family has to go through this treatment. My husband caught Covid because he has had to work during this pandemic so we didn’t get to see any family or friends on Christmas and then this was just the terrible cherry on top. If there would of been communication I would not be here writing a review but the hatefulness needs to be...

Liang’s Chinese restaurant currently boasts 4.1 stars out of 5 based on 420 reviews. I don’t understand it. Literally everything that we ordered was so disgusting that we couldn’t eat even more than 1 bite of each dish.

The wonton soup was revolting. Clearly, it is not homemade and a cheap approximation of what wonton soup is supposed to be. The broth was sweet — you could taste the high fructose corn syrup in it. The dumplings must have sat in the soup for so long that the noodles were total mush, and the pork filling was disgusting. You wouldn’t serve it to prisoners.

The egg roll is purported to be “made in-house,” which is probably true since it was the only edible thing we ordered. However, there was almost no shrimp in it and it was small - the size of a spring roll.

I had General Tsao’s chicken. General Tsao’s is supposed to be crispy and the sauce is spicy with a hint of sweet. The chicken breading was slimy, the sauce was exceedingly sweet, and the chicken was low quality and unpalatable. This is the kind of food quality that you’d see on Kitchen Nightmares on the Eve of the restaurant going out of business.

My wife got the moo shoo chicken. She likened the protein to that of “human flesh,” which is deeply troubling considering the overall quality of the meal.

Clearly, Liang’s relies on serving a community that has no idea what good Chinese food is. If you have any experience eating authentically good Chinese food, I’d recommend even Panda Express. It’s really that bad.

If I could give zero...

My wife and I have a tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Eve. It is very difficult to find a traditional Chinese authentic restaurant. As you know most are buffets. This is very nicely decorated restaurant. Very clean from the floor to the seating areas and into the bathroom. The dress of the waiters is casual. The atmosphere is relaxing.

We were allowed in 10 minutes early because we were in Tyler doing some last minute Christmas shopping.

We ordered hot and sour soup, Gen. Tso chicken and had my traditional dish for Christmas Eve, Pork Egg Fu Yung. The hot and sour was smooth, chunky and flavorful.

The dishes were served family style with enough to take extra home, very generous portions. My wife normally comments on her plate when it is exceptionally good. On a scale of 10 her plate was a 7. I didn't taste it.

Now my traditional Christmas Eve plate of Egg Fu Yung, I give a 5 to. The sauce was very dark and thick. But that was not necessarily a bad thing. The pork was in chunks rather than in the traditional servi g style of strips, small strips. What made the dish difficult to eat was the amount of salt taste. I don't know where that much sodium taste came from. Was it soy sauce, or what I have no idea.

This was a disappointment for me, because I love Chinese food and in particular Egg Fu Yung. We drove an hour from our home in Alba Tx. to Tyler to continue our Christmas Eve tradition of...