Let's talk about dreadfully bad Chinese food. Did your mind immediately think of Panda Express? Because that's the first thing I would have thought of until my unfortunate visit to Famous Wok today. Famous for what? Being the worst of its kind? I don't even think Mao Zedong would have liked this restaurant associated with him. This restaurant will make you forever curse the day you were born. My parents ate food from here once and now they would rather go to McDonald's than this place. This isn't just the bottom of the bottom. This is below the bottom of the bottom.
I came here for the Chinese food and--I'll admit it--out of curiosity as well. The mall's food court only has five restaurants, and none of them are appealing. Picking one for lunch was like playing Russian roulette, except I clearly lost. I was really hungry and could have eaten a lot, so I picked their largest combo with fried rice, mixed vegetables, sesame chicken, and bourbon chicken. Out of those four items, at least one of them had to be good, right?
Except it was Russian roulette again, and I lost. AGAIN. Everything inside this tacky styrofoam box was a complete disaster. First of all, the fried rice was greasy yet tasteless. The mixed vegetables were horrible, and the chicken was some of the most disgusting I've seen in my life. I don't even know how it's possible to mess up chicken. Go to any supermarket and buy the chicken there. Even without any alterations, that chicken is probably delicious in its original form.
So it's a mystery to me why and how this chicken came to be in such a soggy state. The bourbon chicken was already torture for my taste buds, but the sesame chicken was virtually inedible. It fell apart when I picked at it. I'm not even sure it was chicken, but I am sure that it will look the same when I see it again in the toilet. This whole combo was so repulsive that I had to throw it away before finishing everything, which I almost never do. I feel cheated.
To make things even more absurd, this combo was $12.99 when swallowing just a single bite of it proved to be a challenge. I really do not appreciate the store's dishonesty. They proclaim that their food is authentic and imply that it's good; both could not be further from the truth. And they accept Canadian currency but at 80% of its value in American dollars when one Canadian dollar is worth 92 U.S. cents. Disrespecting and lying to your customers is one thing, but stealing from them is outright immoral. Close this place down and let children run a lemonade stand here instead. It would be an improvement. read more