China Cafe, Greensboro, North Carolina Restaurant Details

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I paid 1.50 extra for some greasy "fried rice" nope hated it. And the hibachi was worse! Chicken didn't taste like anything. A good 30 dollars in the trash. Had to get something elsewhere

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Another owner/management change gets this place back on the map! With the first management/owner change (a couple years ago maybe), this place went from our favorite to pretty awful. With the most recent change, China Cafe is back to its glory. Good food, good prices, larger portions than with the first management change, better service. Although I like the newest people I still miss my original lady and hope she is well.

Food:

This restaurant used to make some of the best Chinese food in town, but once the new management took over, the recipes were changed to unpalatable dishes for the most part. Something as simple as fried rice now tastes like American rice with french onion soup added. I question if these dishes were even created by someone who knows how to cook Chinese. It's sad the new owners didn't follow the motto, "if it's not broke, don't fix it", because this family who used to order China Cafe delivery once a week finally gave up on this restaurant after one too many bad tasting meals that ended up in the trashcan.

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We are always looking for very good Americanized Chinese food - you know, decent egg roll, fried rice, egg foo young, hot & sour soup, chicken wings, Szechuan Beef or Chicken, and so forth. There just are not many places in Greensboro that CONSISTENTLY serve up good versions of these kinds of dishes. Golden Dragon is usually pretty good but the service aspects keep me from going there. Golden Wok is solid but it is a hassel getting in and out of that location.

This place offered some nice food for a while, but then the place changed hands, and the food and service suffered badly, to say the least. We were encouraged to try it again now that there is new ownership (since June) that seems on the right track. But alas, we cannot join those who praise the culinary efforts here. This food is ordinary at best, with the majority of the dishes split between the rather unusual, and the just not good.

The appetizers were the best of breed, well mostly -the Chicken Wings were excellent, everything you'd want in Chinese wing; the Shrimp Egg Roll was equally nice, and contained shrimp that could be recognized as such; the Pork Dumplings were not at all to our liking, with an herb or spice that simply overpowered everything, awful stuff; and the Hot & Sour Soup was very good, loaded with flavor & an enjoyable amount of heat.

After the apps, everything kinda went to hell. The Black Pepper Chicken was a bizarre version - heavily breaded, no sauce, no onion, no pepper, no flavor, no re-order. The Szechuan Beef would not have been bad had we ordered Pepper Steak, but we didn't order Pepper Steak - no spice, no heat, and there was broccoli in it, MEH! Re-order not an option.

The Orange Beef was equally unimpressive - doughy, with no spice or heat. The Pork Egg Foo Young, itself, was not bad, but the "gravy" was too sweet, smothered the taste of everything else. The Shrimp Chow Mein was not at all bad in taste, but had few shrimp, and was mostly cabbage - the noodles were nice though. The Fried Rice was the first we've encountered that was just rice - no vegetables, no meat, no egg, no flavor.

The menu here is very broad, maybe too broad. The offer a full array of the usual Chinese dishes, as well as a small number of Japanese ones, including Miso Soup, Tempura, Gyoza, and a few Hibachi choices.

The folks here are friendly, and the prices are reasonable, but there's just not nearly enough good, or even ordinary, to make a revisit likely.

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Food was good but a new employee as of 9/21/2014 got confused about my order and I got half of what I wanted. He than proceeded to yell at me and you could see the saliva flying in my direction. But the food is as good as usual. I will not have my order taken my him again.

* Update:
I have been apologized to and was offered compensation.