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    May Palace

    4.0 (137 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Closed 11:30 am - 8:00 pm

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    Egg Foo Young lunch special with a side of Chile oil.
    Michelle J.

    I arrived in time to get the lunch special. So many items on the lunch menu but I wanted egg foo young. So I had the lunch special with pork egg foo young, egg drop soup and white rice. The soup was slightly warm and had an odd after taste. Couldn't quite figure it out. I think it tasted a little like freezer burnt peas and carrots. The egg foo young was missing bean sprouts. Just had carrots and peas and maybe some onions. Really missed the bean sprouts. I didn't really care for the large pieces of pork. I thought It was going to be thinly sliced pork strips. I should have asked more questions. Overall, staff was super friendly and service was quick. If I'm in town again I'd come back to try something else.

    Orange Chicken spicy level 3
    Trish H.

    This place is an awesome place to enjoy some delicious authentic Chinese food. Portions & prices are great. They have a great lunch special, too! The owner is friendly & fun to chat with. My family loves to visit May's every time we go to Durango to run errands.

    Cashew Chicken It was delicious.
    Jacky V.

    May Palace will now be my go to for Chinese food here in Durango. Really enjoyed my Cashew Chicken with white rice for lunch. The sauce they made it with was delicious on its own. This is my second time here and again enjoyed my meals. The chili they made was really good. When the waiter brought it to me he said he believed it was a really good batch, and he was not wrong. The Cashew Chicken was great on its own but for those who enjoy their food with a little kick, you can't go wrong with the chili. Really great place to come for meals , the staff is friendly and welcoming and overall both my times coming here have been great!

    Wor Wonton Soup
    Valeria S.

    We're locals and ordered takeout - General Tso's, chicken lo mein, and a large container of wonton soup. The two chicken dishes were just ok but the soup fell short. There was too much cornstarch in it making it was super thick and opaque. Had a very peppery taste. I liked all the meat and veggies in it but the veggies were cooked to an almost mush-like consistency. We've eaten here before pre pandemic and liked it but don't know what happened with our recent experience. We'll probably try once more in the future but not for a while.

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    Love this restaurant, and have been eating there for 20 years. Portions are large, value is great. Service is excellent.

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    Great local restaurant with huge portions. Loved the flavors and service. Very friendly.

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    Delicious food and good fast service! Very friendly. We were starving when we arrived and the food was just what we needed!

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    Shang Hai Chinese Restaurant - White rice

    Shang Hai Chinese Restaurant

    4.2(127 reviews)
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    Outstanding food and service! This place was slammed last night do to power outages in Pagosa and…read morethey had every table full and pushing out takeout like crazy and each and every team member was calm, friendly and genuinely asked about our meal and satisfaction. We will definitely be back!

    The pictures do the food justice. The pictures are rather unappetizing and if were just me and my…read morewife, we wouldn't have eaten here, but we had friends who wanted Chinese. Like most Chinese restaurants, it is mediocre at best. I haven't eaten at many Chinese restaurants over the past 25 year because of the lack of flavor and ingenuity. San Francisco has a couple of good Chinese restaurants and there is Tommy Wok's in Sausalito (at least, as of 2010), but other than that, I am continually disappointed. Shang Hai has very good reviews like many of the restaurants in Pagosa Springs, but the food is not worth the 4.2 rating. We had the Beef and Black Pepper, the Happy Family (Shrimp) and the Sweet and Sour Pork. The restaurant's menu forgot to mention that The Beef and Black Pepper was about 50% meat and 50% green peppers (by weight). In fact, there was no mention of green peppers. On top of having an inordinate amount of green peppers, the peppers were flavorless. The shrimp was okay. There was nothing special about it. The Sweet and Sour Pork was okay. It had too much sugar and not enough sour. Again, the dish was bland. Except for the person seating us (I believe it was one of the owners) we had a good experience with the two servers we had. They had good attitudes and were professional. If you are craving Chinese, I believe this is the only one in town. I cannot recommend Shang Hai Chinese Restaurant.

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