Bland. How can hot and sour soup and hot garlic chicken be BLAND?! I have never had such bland…read moreChinese food in my life. It was nursing home bland. I didn't even save my leftovers.

Very good food. I ordered the twice cooked pork and the beef and scallops. Both were delicious!read more

We went on Valentine's Day evening. This establishment only…read morehad one waitress for the entire restaurant!! On a special day!! No one was manning the entrance so we proceeded to walk into the dining room and talked with the lone waitress. The entire dining room was full! We waited almost 30 minutes for our water and oolong tea to be served. Seated by the windows was a bit too chilly for me. However the food was delicious!!! Fresh chicken and veggies!! It will be interesting to try them in a less busy night.

Wow! This place is our new favorite restaurant in Collinsville!…read more Let's start with the food. I really enjoyed the sweet and sour pork, shrimp, and chicken. The meal was filling and delicious! I loved every bite! The crab Rangoons were perfect! My wife ordered chicken and mushrooms. I had a bite and may get that on the next visit. Their extensive menu offers so many different options for a great meal. The service was excellent! Our waitress was very friendly and attentive! This place is awesome! We will be back soon!

Vin Hoa has been a staple in Granite City for as long as I can remember. I've been ordering the…read moresame thing for the past 25+ years and that's the Combination B plate - sweet & sour chicken with veggies, fried rice, and your choice of egg roll, crab rangoon, or fried wontons. Everyone I know that goes here has their go-to order. My dad's is the Combo C (pork egg food young) and my mom's is the special fried rice. Some of the best crab rangoon around! Since covid they have gone to take-out only so you can either call ahead or order and wait. Give it a try if you've never had it!

Fast and great food. In a hurry, call ahead. They get busy all the time. Always giving you plenty…read moreof sauce packs and red pepper.

Such a unique and fun concept for hot pot! You pick out all your own ingredients, they weigh…read moreeverything, take it to the back, cook it up, and bring it out to you. It's a great place for friends or family or alone too. They to takeout as well or order delivery. The ingredient selection is really impressive and very vegetarian friendly. Everything looked fresh and they refill often. There are also lots of soup base options to choose from plus a stir fry option if you want to mix it up. The make your own sauce station is a great touch too. The staff works incredibly fast at turning tables and keeping everything clean. They only have one bathroom (it's clean) so just be aware for wait times. They also give you one free rice bowl which is a small but good bonus. There's a good amount of seating though I've heard the line goes out the door on weekends. Overall I really loved this place and I am already looking forward to coming back.

This was my first experience at a hot pot by the pound restaurant. I've only been to all you can…read moreeat hot pot restaurants, so I was excited to try this place out. Apparently, I wasn't the only one because this place got packed by 6p on a weekday! The line was out the door. It can be a little confusing for a first time goer as you enter the place and grab a bowl to select the ingredients you want to eat. The minimum weight that you have to buy is 0.9 lbs, but you really won't know how much your bowl weighs until you get up to the cashier and put it on the scale. My bowl was underweight my first time through, so I went back to grab more ingredients. If I had to guess the minimum cost for a 0.9 lb bowl, it's probably about $16, which is a pretty good price for a hot pot. My bowl weighed about 0.97 and it was way more than I could comfortably eat. The next decision you have to make after you have selected your ingredients is the base and spicy level. I went with #1 Oil splash spicy soup at medium spice level. Now, I enjoy spicy foods, but this was at the upper limit of enjoyability. Although tasty, I think the oil in the broth got to be too much and I will want to try a different base next time. After you pay for your food, you get a number which you take to a table of your choosing and wait for your bowl to come out (they cook it for you). There is a drinking water station next to the free rice station, which was around the corner from the complimentary pickled vegetable station. Overall, positive experience and I would return for more. .|\---/| | @_@ | ..\_^_/..2026

Finding good Chinese food is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Lam's doesn't disappoint…read more Except for answering the phone. We tried one evening and the phone was full of messages (?) Anyway, we order special fried rice (no shrimp) and wontons. The wontons are huge and so good that I eat them in the car ride home

The food here is a little odd. It's like the first few bites tasted pretty good, but then the more…read moreI ate the less I liked it, and by the end I was not a fan. The Hunan chicken was fine, the egg roll was pretty tasteless, but the Hot & Sour Soup was where it got weird. The soup tasted like sweet & sour sauce mixed with chunks of hard boiled eggs. I've eaten a ton of different types of hot & sour soup; none of them have looked/tasted like this one. I think there was tiny shrimps in it, but honestly there was a bunch of unidentifiable things in the super gelatinous bright yellow broth. At first the surprising flavor was intriguing, but it seemed to turn a bit funky after a few bites. Overall it wasn't terrible, but I would recommend skipping the hot & sour soup.

One of the best fried rice restaurants in the Illinois area, front counter help always friendly,…read moreplace is usually packed so I would advise you to call ahead. Chicken fried rice is a hit, tried the sweet and sour chicken with fried rice it was ok could use more flavor, crab rangoon is my favorite.

Gotta taste for Chinese food... The place was packed and screaming!! The appears to clean &…read morespacious. I requested spring rolls but the man said they don't sell them. I was disappointed and suggested that they fixe the menu. "That's false advertisement". The services was good no complaints. I ordered vegetable fried rice with 3 spring rolls. They're fresh, hot and moist. I'm glad that came. They are very busy. It's better that you call ahead.

Very plain fried rice. Had it twice and it only had rice and chicken. No veggies or egg…read more Crab Rangoon is very good.

Good: Crab ragoon was good, hot and fresh. The steamed shrimp with vegetables was good. Shrimp…read morewere nice sized and cooked well. Bad: Egg roll was cold but tasted ok. Fried rice was yellow rice with some onions, very sad rice with no flavor at all. Hardly traditional fried rice. Was given a 25 minute estimate. Got there at 20 minutes and waited almost 30 more for my order. The huge tub of brown gravy they give you is ridiculously large for the amount needed for the entree and scalding hot temperature. The container it comes in has a lid that is impossible to remove without spilling the full sauce all over. There are no sauce packets out for you to grab like most Chinese take out places have and when the bag was handed to me all sealed up I assumed (wrongly) that they had thrown some sauces in. My bad for assuming. They did throw fortune cookies in. Ugly: The General Tso chicken was inedible. The unrecognizable chunks of "chicken" were so stringy and tough and full of cartridge more than half of them could not be eaten and had to be spit out. The sauce also had no heat (menu shows a spicy symbol) and really no flavor like traditional General Chicken you would expect. Our total order exceeded the amount ($21 before tax) listed on the menu for 3 free crab rangoon which I asked for when I ordered. When I got there they charged me for the rangoon but I didn't notice that until I got home. This is our 3rd disappointing visit in a row. I realize it's the only Chinese in town and everyone in Bethalto loves it but it's really sad that it doesn't live up to the hype.

We tried this place over 20 years ago when we moved to the area and we were underwhelmed. Over the…read moreyears we tried the pho and spring rolls and they were good! We get them on a regular basis. Finally, we were craving Chinese/Vietnamese food and we decided to try it again. We had the green beans, the veggie fried rice, crab Rangoon, hot braised chicken, and Mi Xao Dun. All were a delight. The food was plentiful and of a higher quality than I have been able to find for a long time! The food was hot, fresh, a great amount for the price and course the proprietor, Kelly, is awesome. I see much more Chinese food in our future.

Food is always fresh. We do carry out and especially love the green beans. Just ordered our dinner…read morefor tonight.

It's about as middle of the road of an American Chinese buffet as you can get. A tad overpriced for…read morewhat you get, IMO. The food is fine. Not amazing and not bad. Everything was fresh and fine. Wouldn't be in a rush to go back unless someone else wanted to go or there was a really good coupon.

It used to be good, but the chicken is dry and not flavorful. The service.is mediocre and they seem…read moreangry all the time