Peace Cuisine — Restaurant in West Sacramento

Yes, the service is excellent. And yes, the restaurant is clean. These are things that should be present in every restaurant, but as we know, aren't always. I already had their food delivered and Peace Cuisine failed my Chinese food test--which consists of rating the wor won ton soup: it shouldn't contain lettuce, but did; and should contain vegetables, but didn't. My son still wanted to go in person because we were that hungry. We went to Peace Cuisine last night. We weren't greeted at the door. We seated ourselves, which is fine. I like being able to choose my own table.

We ordered potstickers, chicken chow mein, and Kung Pao chicken. Oh yes, and hot tea. The tea arrived in a cup, replete with tea bag, which should never happen. The "refills" consisted of hot water over the same tea bag. Right there you should know there's something amiss. Your tea should arrive in a small pot. Never in a cup with a tea bag. Reusing a tea bag is so not cool, I can't begin to tell you!

The potstickers were HUGE. However, I couldn't tell what the ingredients were inside the potstickers besides ground pork. There might have been the usual spices, but I didn't detect any cabbage. My authentic recipe for potstickers calls for 5 cups of shredded cabbage (which amount to a whole head), ginger, scallions, etc. The garnishing sauce wasn't the least bit authentic. I don't know what they did to it, but there was no hot red pepper, no dried shrimp powder, no sesame oil, no finely chopped scallions. I tasted their sauce, but didn't use it. I combined soy sauce and what should have been hot chili oil (but wasn't hot because it wasn't fresh and there were no chili seeds) and that worked. The potstickers themselves were tasty, but lacking because of what wasn't there.

The Kung Pao chicken contained NO peanuts or vegetables other than zucchini. I could taste the sugar, which shouldn't happen because there should normally be so many flavors combined that I don't know it's there. In an authentic Kung Pao chicken, you should see 4 - 5 whole [dried] hot red peppers as well as some green pepper and minced scallions. There should also be minced garlic, ginger, vinegar, and sesame oil in the dish. I couldn't tell whether any of those things were present. The chilis were definitely absent. Even dousing it with the allegedly hot chili oil on the table didn't spice it up much at all. We ordered spicy, but it didn't even come close.

Now, I don't cook chicken chow mein, but there were no vegetables in the dish except bean sprouts and onion. Authentic chow mein involves loads of vegetables. If you're making a batch you want several cups of cabbage alone. You would probably also see carrots (chopped julienne-style) and scallions, and maybe some bok choy. That's the beauty of Chinese food: you can get all your major food groups in one dish.

We also were given some hot and sour soup on the side, which was a nice touch, and very friendly, but the soup wasn't spicy and it didn't contain any veg to speak of, which was a pity. It was a little heavy on the liquid cornstarch, but otherwise had a good taste.

I don't think tastiness is the only thing you need to look for in a dish. The ingredients should all be there and they should be quality ingredients. What you're eating should be better than what you can serve up at home if you have a recipe for the same dish. I don't know if Peace Cuisine's usual clientele are unaware of what should be in a dish or just don't like vegetables. Both are entirely possible. But I have...

Ordered some items to go. The customer service was friendly and warm, the food was okay. I live very close to this restaurant, when I got home it was hot but it looks like these items were made a long time ago and was reheated and given to me. I attached a photo of the Kung pao chicken. The photo was taken within the same hour that I ordered the food.

Egg roll- 3 out of 5 (little soggy on the inside)

Peking pork - 3.5 out of 5 (just alright)

Kung pao chicken - 2 out of 5 (chicken was not good quality it was thin stripes and very watery sauce, it had two pieces of celery and a lot of zucchini no other veggies not peppers or even peanuts) I attached photo of the Kung pao chicken.

Honey walnut shrimp - 5 out of 5 (these bad boys were the perfect amount of sauce from savory to sweet! )

definitely would come here just for the shrimp...... or just go to Eastside Chinese Restaurant up the street in the Nugget parking lot that place is so amazing and the people there...

We could not bring ourselves to eat any more leftovers, so we came to Peace Cuisine on Christmas day. We had to wait about an hour for the food, but they were slammed (as they usually are on Christmas day) and when the food came, IT WAS DELICIOUS. We had the Wor Wonton soup, and that alone would have fed the whole family. It has pork wontons, chicken, beef, shrimp, BBQ pork, and veg. Very filling, and delicious. The General Chicken has a home made sauce, not the canned super sweet stuff you get at Panda. We also had the Mongolian Lamb, very good, lots of onions and really tender. My son ordered the pan fried noodles, which come as this really crispy cake of noodles. Them they bring this amazing, thick, sauce for it which is filled with beef, pork, chicken, and shrimp. The food tastes really fresh and authentic. No hot pink sauces here, guys. Highly recommended, and the staff was very nice and efficient, despite the crowd and phone ringing...