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    3.3 (23 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    4 months ago

    The food is always good. The service is average. It's a small Chinese restaurant with no indoor or outdoor dining.

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    Great portions and cooked well. What you'd want it take-out Chinese food! A solid choice!

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    7 years ago

    I love this place..best fried rice and crab ragoons..I also love the vegetable egg fooyong

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    7 years ago

    They had great food at one time. My recent experience was a disappointment. Somethings changed there.

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    10 years ago

    I agree about the Crab Rangoon being the best in Inverness. My favorite Chinese restaurant in Citrus County.

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    I tend to be picky about Thai places. I visited the restaurant twice and had very positive…read moreexperiences both times. The service is very good and friendly. The restaurant is very clean and nicely decorated. Definitely a nice place to enjoy a good meal. I tried both a curry dish and the fancy chicken with cashews. Both were excellent. If you go during lunch, your entree comes with a soup and a spring roll. All in all great experience and I'd come again.

    What a shame! We used to love going to this place. We now know why the place was empty at 6pm on…read morea Saturday. There is little to no service. The look of the restaurant has changed. They've removed all the blinds that gave it that nice cozy dark appearance. No welcome, hello, no will be right with you nothing. Roughly 10 minutes after we sat down a 12ish year old child came to get our beverage orders. Thinking it was just their kid bringing our beverages we waited for our server which never came. All four of us were looking around, trying to figure out if somebody was gonna come to the table as this lady kept going by busing tables and not paying any attention to us whatsoever. After roughly 10 more minutes this very nice but very illegal young kid that's roughly 12 maybe 13 years old comes back and says hey do you want some appetizers? Well, we were ready to order by that point so we went ahead and placed our orders. Food wise, some stuff was lukewarm. Some stuff was piping hot and some items were cold and hot Both. My personal dish was off. I don't know exactly what made it off, but it just didn't taste like it used to. I usually always order the same thing. No heat no yummy taste just blah. All the dishes on the table were never taken so we had to shift them to the end of the table as like a hint hey hey, come and get these dirty dishes. Then when it came to the point of paying nobody ever came back I swear we could have walked out of that restaurant and nobody would've cared or even noticed. We asked this very, not friendly female, as she was ignoring us and walking by the table if we could get our check and she says "K" In a snippy tone, but yet still didn't bring our check and went on her way to wait on another table. Behind the counter were kids, but finally one of us got up, went to the counter and very firmly said hey we want our check which finally prompted the nice but very illegal young kid to come back to the table and give us a check. I am not the type to leave negative reviews like this, but what the hell has happened to this place? Being mistreated is an understatement. It's been many many years since I waited tables, but I most certainly could handle more than two tables at one time. The old owners used to bust ass and that place was packed. Now I know why it's so empty. No door dashers. No takeout customers all at 6pm on a Saturday That restaurant may had five different tables in the restaurant. There's no way that even one person could have not handled that but here we are. I'm leaving a review to save somebody else from going through the same thing we went through. So so sad for a place I used to look forward to going to.

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