Cathay Chow Mein, Minneapolis, Minnesota Restaurant Details

Food:

Great Chinese food! Everyone finds their favorite takeout place, this is one of ours! The people at Cathay's are super friendly and willing to add or substitute ingredients. When they're not busy they are willing to deliver. Cathay's had great sweet and sour chicken and beef lo mein.

Cream Cheese Wontons--very good - they seemed to be homemade, vs those wontons that seem like they are made with a cookie cutter. Very crispy and delicious.

Sweet n' Sour Chicken-- Great! - The chicken came in a separate box from the sweet and sour sauce, which was a nice touch! Kept the chicken crispy!

Beef Lo Mein --Fabulous! (Ask for extra beef!) - So much flavor. mmmmmm

Mongolian Beef --Great! (but ask for no/less white onions)

Fried Rice-- very good (It has red bell peppers and mushrooms in it)

Food:

I ordered chicken lo mein. It was so gross and soppy. I almost threw up and threw the rest away. A friend of my mom's talked about this place so much I wanted to try it, but I was truly disappointed. Hard to imagine anyone loving the food. Service was friendly, but that was it.

Food:

Rarely do I write reviews but I wanted to warn others that this place is not good by any stretch of the imagination. Cream cheese wontons has a teaspoon of cream cheese and mostly dry, crumbly crust for a wonton. Ordered the sweet and sour chicken and mostly breading and not little meat. Drowned in a goopy sauce that was soaked into chicken breading. Eggroll was also nasty. Please pass this place by. Not sure how they can stay in business for so long. Just waiting for the stomach to start aching.

Food:

One star for the food, additional star awarded for the nice lady who served me. We ordered beef and broccoli, egg foo yung, and sweet and sour chicken. Nothing approached being good. Microscopic bits passed as beef. Very thick pudding-like goop passes for sauces on every dish we had. Very liberal use of cornstarch. The free cream cheese wontons are a nice touch, but i have to get the other food to get them, so no deal. As i say, very nice people, so maybe that's what keeps them in business. Hard to believe it's the food.

Food:

Threw 90% in the garbage. Pretty sure they used fish oil when I told them I was allergic. Chicken was disgusting. Rice was over cooked and dry. "Spicy" was more like sweet and disgusting. Both the chicken pea pod and sesame chicken we had were the worst things we've possibly ever eaten.