Great Taste Chinese Cuisine 鄭家莊海鲜酒家

We went at 1:30 pm on a Sunday and the restaurant was packed. We were seated immediately and left with the menu. Since this was our first time to an authentic Chinese restaurant, we reviewed the menue, made a few selections and really had no idea what lunch would look like. I had to ask a waitress to take our order which she grabbed and walked away as I was trying to ask her about it.on the upside the food was good and hot.

Pros - massive plates of food, interesting dishes and seemed really fresh. Tons of left overs for tomorrow.

Cons - service was lacking at times and help for a new customer would have been nice.

I just found this new branch this week. Food is good same with the downtown location. We arrived with few diners at 6pm but was getting full in the next few minutes. I loved the salted egg tofu and the pork dumpling soup. Braised pork was really good as well. Big servings also. They also have good size parking lot. Service is not as good as the downtown location. They seem to be not smiling much specially if you aren’t Chinese :) i hope that more smiles will be seen here on our next visits. Overall, experience was great!

Seating is cramped. You are literally packed like sardines. There’s a table in the center of all the tables. I don’t even know how they get in and out of there. Seems like a fire hazard to me but what do I know.

There service isn’t very good. But for a Chinese restaurant it’s actually very good. Let’s just say Chinese restaurants aren’t known for service. But they weren’t mean or anything. But don’t expect them to be anything but not mean. All things considered, for a Chinese restaurant it’s a compliment.

The food here is not bad actually but the food comes out terribly slowly. So be prepared to be here for a very very long time. We got our first two dishes then we ended up having to wait over half an hour for the rest of the food to show up.

Food alone is probably 3.5 to 4 out of 5 when considering all the dishes. It’s being dragged down by service and the slow speed of the kitchen. Overall, I think 3/5 is fair.