We tried 3 Chefs five times before writing this review. Three times should have been sufficient but I guess we are gluttons for punishment.
The good: they deliver in a fairly fast time frame, under an hour (yes, for Miami, that's fast) and the order delivers mostly as ordered.
The needs improvement: Chinese (American style Chinese food that is), is a staple food throughout this country and it's typically something you'd have a hard time messing up. Oh boy does 3 chefs do a stellar job at messing it up!
To get to the point - the only food we would continue to order from here is the chicken Lo Mein.
We have tried the Orange chicken: it comes out as large, hard as a rock, tasteless (except for copious amounts of sugar) chunks of sticky chicken. And either they've no idea what spicy means or they don't follow orders because it's as bland as Wonder Bread.
The chicken fried rice, again tasteless and large chunks of unseasoned chicken breast that is so dry you actually have to redo it when it arrives by adding your own seasoning.
MuShu pork, dry wraps that fall apart when you try to roll them, watery pork (which isn't so much tasteless as it's just swimming in greasy watery "stuff." It's unappetizing, so you better build that MuShu rolls fast, bc it falls apart fast since the rolls are old and the pork is too watery. The plum sauce. I don't know if it's just that this wasn't the cheapest sauce there is or... . In either case it's way too sweet and has an odd after taste.
Hot and sour soup: Oh my...awful! What in the world did ya'll do the such a simple soup?? It tastes like you used an Italian tomato sauce base. It was so incredibly disgusting we threw it away! We hate wasting food so we did try to save it by adding chili paste and then Sriracha but nothing could take that taste away. I have eaten in Chinese dives joints all over this country and ordered Hot and Sour soup knowing I can count on finding a familiar taste. Never have I tasted such an unpleasant version of this soup. If that doesn't scare you away enough we got to finish our experience with their interpretation of Vietnamese cuisine.
Honestly, there should be a buyer beware sign when your Chinese is mixed with Vietnamese cuisine (but hey in Miami it's the norm, "plus Thai, plus sushi!" It's like a bad infomercial, "wait, there's more!")
So we tried the Vietnamese vermicelli noodles. Honestly we make this at home. You really need to make an effort to mess this up. Waaaaay too much cheap iceberg lettuce (yuck), worst fish sauce I've ever, I mean ever, tasted, soggy, nasty Vietnamese egg rolls. The lemongrass pork was passable and the noodles were cooked appropriately.
So to finish not on a disastrous note, let's go back to the Lo Mein. It's pretty ok and worth it if you desperately don't want to cook that night and you've enough chili paste on hand to add some punch.
Kept hoping it was just an off day for them but after five attempts this what they do. The great news is that they are at least consistent. read more