East China — Restaurant in Waterloo

Lots of hair in the food!! I literally never write reviews so that’s how strong I feel about what has happened

Based on how extremely aggressive they were when confronted in person, I guarantee that they will probably comment that we are lying.

There was something like 20 hairs in the food. There were so many in there that I justified to my parents that it had to maybe be vegetable roots or something like that instead of actual hair. Like I actually have no clue how that much hair gets in a dish.

My parents took it back once we came to the conclusion that even if it wasn’t hair, atleast one of them looked like a real hair and we didn’t feel comfortable eating anymore. When we brought the food back, the owners agreed that it look hair but started yelling that we put the hair in there. They were cursing and screaming at my parents. Here’s my evidence that we weren’t lying:

We hadn’t really eaten much of it at all. It was only in the meat part and I normally save the rice for last so I had maybe only eaten like 4 or so bites of the meat and none of the rice. Why would we try to pass off that much hair in a dish if we were trying to get a free meal We only asked for them to refund the one meal out of the 3 or 4 things that we had bought. Not the whole order.

I’m pissed that they yelled at my sweet little Christian missionary parents and would recommend that no one else goes there as much as I can. They are also overpriced and charged 5 bucks for using...

Have a family member that recommended we go here for lunch. She said that this location was much better than the Cedar Falls one. Hmmm....

Large fans were running when we walked in. Not sure why because it was in the mid 70s outside.

Friend got the shrimp in lobster sauce (which I thought was brave). I got the orange chicken. We both ordered white rice but it came out with fried rice. We didn't send it back but I think the white rice would have been just as well. Fried rice needed a LOT of soy sauce and there were some bits of mystery meat in it.

My orange chicken was OK. I didn't try the shrimp in lobster sauce but it should have been served in a bowl, not on a serving platter. The egg rolls were just weird and were pink inside. There was a bit of cabbage with whatever the pink stuff was.

Service was good though. Order at counter and food is delivered to table. We forgot to pick up silverware and the server grabbed that and some duck sauce for us.

Fortune cookies delivered to table after we ate.

A couple of large work group next to us raved about their meals so you might give it a go. The lo mein noodles that were delivered to them looked great. I will probably suggest another spot if we're back...

It's ok. Got take out. Tried the pu pu platter. It comes with two wings, two beef eggrolls, two crab rangoon, two pork? wontons, two butterflied fried shrimp, two chicken skewers, two beef skewers, and shrimp toast, but I requested the veg eggrolls instead. The chicken wings were big, decently seasoned. The beef eggrolls are old school but kinda dry. Maybe too much cabbage. The crab rangoon were ordinary. The fried wonton had an aftertaste. The shrimp was good, with a decent shrimp to breading ratio. The chicken skewer was overcooked. The beef skewer was flavorful but overcooked. The veg eggrolls were spring rolls, standard white sauce mushy filling. I also tried the potstickers. They are not Japanese gyoza. They have a nice, chewy wrapper. They seemed homemade. The meat could use more seasoning. Not sure if...