The service was excellent. The food, while edible, felt like Chinese food made by someone who had only ever had Chinese food described to them. read more

So sad how bad this restaurant has gotten. Ordered the combo meal. The egg roll was burnt and dried right out. I purchased the shrimp and vegetables. There were four shrimp and vegetables. The shrimp fried rice was disgusting. This restaurant used to be a place for a good meal. Now it is really gross. So sad read more

Got lunch at the office. Ordered sesame chicken. Chicken was dried out underneath flavorless excessive breading. Sauce was sticky and flavorless. Way too sweet. Fried rice tasted like dirty oil. Hey, prices are cheap as can be, but food was inedible. One and done. read more

I ordered shrimp with lobster sauce and I chose not to get the rice that automatically comes with it. It was take out....when I got home I discovered 4 ( that's right, only 4 small shrimp). I called them and asked what's up, only 4 small shrimp, is this a mistake ? I was told that is the norm. Over $10 for 4 shrimp. NEVER GOING BACK!!!!! I would give them "0" stars if available. L read more

Food tasted reheated. Nasty. The place smelled and was dirty. Yucky. Waitress was good.

Me and a couple friends went in for dinner and the food wasn't the best but that's besides the point. After we got up and tried to pay for the dinner the person who cashed us out they decided to charge us for almost 4 meals that we didn't order. Me and my friend's order combined was a total of $14.87 and I paid $11.91 and my other friend paid $18 for the bill of $14.87 so we payed $29.81 instead of the original price of $14.87 read more

Less is the best Chinese restaurant around. Great service, and superb food. The atmosphere is very nice.

I ordered Pad Thai here yesterday because I love Pad Thai and have eaten it hundreds of times at just as many Thai restaurants and I was very disappointed with what I got. I should have taken a pic of it. This dish was horrible and tasteless it was a brown gloppy mess, I have no idea what is going through the owners mind? Thai food is about freshness and super fresh flavors what I had was absolutely horrible! I'm guessing the ingredients in this dish were just soy sauce and sugar, disgusting I almost threw it away but I was starving and only ate half because it's really bad. I also ordered the fried rice which was tasteless and it had the same consistency of dark brown that the Pad Thai had, NASTY!!! The cooks here need to be taught what real Thai food is and not the hideous concoction that I received. The cook which is the owner I guess needs to relearn how to make Chinese and Thai food. I haven't eaten here in years because the food is gross and I was hoping this would have changed. BTW, wanton soup has some type of filling in the wantons not just wanton dough. I had to go to west branch today and ended up eating at Kue's Thai restaurant which is owned by a Thai family and their food is awesome! I suggest the owner of Lee's go eat there and aske the owners to teach her how to cook. Here is a pic of what my dish of Pad Thai looked like today, fresh, flavorful, and delicious I would recommend the owner of Lee's take their Thai food off the menu because she has no idea what she's doing. read more

Lee's Kitchen - Real Pad Thai not some Chinese soy sauce brown disgusting version. Get a clue and you'll do better business - Chinese Near Me - Prudenville, Michigan

We waited at the counter to be helped for over 10 minutes. It said to "ring bell" and we did that a few times. It was strange coming in and not seeing a single worker or person at the restaurant. The lady was kind when she showed up but it was just an odd experience and one we wouldn't choose again. read more

My wife and a friend they both worked for Michigan works they frequently ate there good food and polite employees. read more

Very polite staff, great food, decent waiting time. The only thing I have to say that is "bad" is they need to put more meat in there entrees. I'll order a princess chicken and only get like 7-8 prices of chicken; Overall a good restaurant though. read more

Lee's Kitchen - two plates of food on a table - Chinese Near Me - Prudenville, Michigan

I visited this place for the first time April 2021. I have taken into consideration the challenges the industry is facing and the effects of the pandemic in my area. Around here Chinese cuisine is few and far between and compared to the Chinese place in grayling this place is so much better based on my personal criteria however it isn't necessarily better than the buffet in houghton lake. Business seems to be mainly to-go orders and the phone never stops ringing. When we visited the poor pregnant waitress was obviously overworked and seemed to be near to tears at how busy it was with only her and the cook holding down the house. The interior is quite dated and honestly smells musty. Not the cleanest environment as far as dust and such. Lots of potential but seems they don't have dine in guests often. The egg drop soup and oolong hot tea was delicious. I'm used to egg drop soup that is rich in flavor and thick in consistency... not many places up here do it that way. We ordered two appetizers and 1 was to be expected.. crab rangoons. Simple and good. The other appetizer was terrible... it was called fried wontons and we assumed it would be like a fried filled dumpling because most places offer steamed or fried... it was empty! Just fried wrapper. Not good. Boring. No point in ordering. I got almond boneless chicken which was fantastic. Good portion on the lunch size and my mom decided to try a Thai dish... which was okay. Not a lot of flavor... come here for basic Chinese and get it to go! Not impressed but satisfied enough to get take out in the future. I must have deleted the food pics!!! I'll add in next time read more

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This was my first time visiting the establishment though I've lived up here for a couple years now. I've gotta say, those portions are real nice for what you're paying for. I had the general chicken and though it's got spice, it's not at all overwhelming and you could really taste the mixture of sweet and savory with a slight tang and kick for an extra thrill. I'll definitely be coming back for more very soon! Works great for a hangover too haha read more

worst chinese meal i have ever had, years ago it was great but has been going down hill for several years and has reached the bottom. ordered a shrimp dish, had 5 chewey shrimp in abrown sauce of unknown origin. the hot and sour soup was not inspiring made with bamboo shoots no tofu or any thing else. spring roll was days old and quite hard. ragoos were the same hard and tasteless. i will never go there again, and i recomend you don't either. Larry fron merdith read more

Pop was good, soup was great, Crab ragoons were amazing, but once i got my main dish i was very disappointed, it smelt unbearably bad, sewer smell on not only my plate but my partners plate and she ordered a different, dish tried eating as much as could but i just could not... told the waitress this and got told we still had pay even though we ate maybe 4 bites... very dissapointing. read more

Lee's Kitchen - "beef chopsewer" - Chinese Near Me - Prudenville, Michigan

Egg drop soup is good Fried rice is okay Breading was thick,tough and soggy, hardly any chicken inside the breading Couldn't cut the breading with a fork read more

Saddly I can't rate 0 stars. The only good things about this resturant would be the soup and the wait staff. Well the egg drop soup is good, that is if you can get the right order, their wontons? Just soggy noodles in overly salty chicken broth. The chicken is always so dry that it feels like your mouth is full of saw dust. I made the mistake of getting the generals chiken and fries rice combo with egg drop soup and an egg roll. After it took them an hour to bring us our soup, not mine because I had to send back the hot and sour soup they brought instead because they totally look the same, right? NO! They look nothing alike, so how they made that mistake beats me! The egg roll was so hard I had a terrible time trying to bite through it and was surprised to find it SUPER GREASY! The fried rice was inedible, I've had more palatable sand in my mouth and it was warmer but that happens when they bring you the wrong food AGAIN! Twice in one dinner! The chicken, if you can call it that, had nos2 breading left because it was soggy and fell into the sauce. The 6 pieces of chiken chunks would have been better off being day old McDonald's chiken nuggets, need I say more? Yes, my mother got the shrimp with lobster sauce and her food was so old and nasty that it not only looked like brown slime it smelled and tasted of rotten pork. There is no pork in that dish. There were 4 shrimps she pushed around and bounced off the table because they werel so old and rubery. She sent her food back and asked for something that wasn't disgusting as a REPLACEMENT. My father's food was suppose to be a spicy curry blend but was sweet and other than the overly dry shrimp fried rice with 5 micro rubber shrimp that tasted freeze dried. When all is said and done and I go to pay my bill was $50 because they charged me full price for an item that was sent back for being gross. You would think that they would take it off the bill, but they insisted that it was "fine". That's right, they wanted to argue with us on weather or not the food was edible so bad that the booth next to us left when the manager raised her voice. After waiting almost 2 hours and returning 3 different dishes and I would have to tell you that going into this establishment is not worth anyone's time. read more

Perhaps the worst Chinese we have ever had, and definitely the worst Thai ever. THE FOOD In desperation we ate in Houghton Lake one night of our trip. We drove around for nearly and hour and settled on this place for take out. The Chicken and Broccoli was the heavily breaded and sauced slop you'd find in any shopping mall food court. But the Thai dishes took the cake....I have never seen the use of corn starch based sauce in Thai food. They have taken bad Thai to a new low. THE SERVICE Very friendly, mostly worked by the children of the owners. THE ATMOSPHERE Set in an old misshapen house...it was quaint, but also very unkept. I really feel sorry for those who have to eat out in Houghton Lake. There are no real choices it seems. read more

I was here on vacation with my family and took a chance. Very glad we did. Excellent service and the food and portions were very good. Most food is mild. If you want it hot be sure to ask. It's Houghton Lake so temper your expectations. read more

Lee's Kitchen - And it works! - Chinese Near Me - Prudenville, Michigan

Ever since the For Sale sign went up on Lee's, the food and service has gone downhill steadily....ate there last night, and that will be my last visit to the establishment. They were dead on a Saturday night, and the service was awful....and SLOW!!!!@ read more

Not bad. Not the best Chinese or Thai menu on earth, but not the worst either. Over the years I have had most of the items on this little establishment's extensive menu. For the most part everything is edible, and if you know what you like, and how they tend to cook, you can get a very good meal here. Everything if ordered without comment tends to be bland and overly sweet. Their brown sauce though is very good, and you can get decent Thai food from this place if you ask for less sweet, more chili. Skip the egg rolls ( taste like they spent the night in the fridge) and the egg drop soup ( gloppy mess) and order something with brown sauce / extra spicy, and you will be happy. Also, do not come here on a schedule, everything takes about 45 minutes to serve whether it is busy or not. read more

I've always eaten at Lee's and left town for a couple years. Upon returning I couldn't wait to go back. They must have a new cook. I ordered Almond chicken which I loved. The chicken was over cooked and dry and my husband ordered a beef dish that didn't have hardly any meat in it. It also looked like slop pored on the plate. Don't think we will be returning. Very sad! read more

I go to lees on a regular basis. never had a bad meal ,very affordable. Great cabbage egg rolls. great service. Saturdays can get busy at dinner time when church next door gets out read more

Get the soup and the crab Rangoons. Save your stomach and don't try anything else. Egg rolls had promise on the inside, but the grease hadn't been changed since 1985... Ugh. Rest of food was "sub-food court" and only good if you are really desperate. Learn from my mistakes.. read more

Terrible food. Long wait for carry out. Dry chicken. Dry rice. Inedible egg roll. Egg roll must have been under a warming light for s week.

Great Chinese food! We go there all the time. Egg rolls are very good. We generally get the same few things but they are always great! Egg foo young, almond chicken and sweet n sour chicken are always great! read more

My husband and I went here last week when restaurants just reopened from virus. The food was delicious from the soup to the entree. Going back today so I hope it's as good! read more

Quite disappointing. I ordered orange chicken and could taste the freezer burn. The egg rolls tasted as though they were cooked in old oil. I took just a few bites and threw the whole meal out. read more

Been going there for years but tonight after an hour wait, I wasn't impressed. The food was so over done and terrible I was shocked. I am still belching 4 hours later the poor excuse for almond boneless chicken that I have ever had. MSG maybe but I for sure will not be back. The wait staff did their best to keep it together but there was absolutely no excuse for this performance. After years and years of dining there I'm done. On top of that they charged a covid service fee. Bring back the old owners please. read more

This place is terrible. The orange chicken was disgusting. You could taste the freezer burn. The Gong bo chicken is a "NO GO". No flavor here and the chicken was non-existant. The whole order had 4 paper thin slices of chicken. The egg rolls were cooked in burnt dirty oil. The whole order was a complete waste of time and money. This place should be in a courtroom with a defense attorney for robbery. read more

DO NOT COME HERE. I'm serious. Long story short, my grandmother tried a piece of chicken, and got her mouth cut open by a piece of wire (sharp and about the thickness of a paper clip) that was STILL INSIDE THE CHICKEN. As if that wasn't bad enough, we asked the manager to take it off the bill, and she refused. The most she would offer is 25% off of that single meal. In fact, when my cousin insisted that the meal should be free, the manager actually LAUGHED in her face. We ended up just paying the bill and leaving because it wasn't worth the absolute disrespect from the manager. Maybe their food is good, maybe it's not, but my family and I couldn't eat what we had after what happened to us there. My grandmother had a difficult time eating for days afterwards because of the mouth pain she felt. I understand a mistake (though this was a big one), but the way the manager behaved was absolutely inexcusable. I strongly, strongly discourage giving your business to such a disrespectful person. read more

THIS PLACE IS AWFUL!!!!!! I will keep this as short and to the point as i can... I moved to the area one year ago from the city and having this as literally the only chinese place in houghton lake is awful. The food is absolutely disgusting, the owners daughter and waitresses DON'T NOT give two shits about you if your a carry out customer (they will tend to the dine in's before you as you stand there waiting 20+ min for your order) and customer service is TERRIBLE. I have tried to place a carry out 3 times and was told each time it'd be ready in 20 minutes. Id wait 20 minutes than leave to get my food and they rudely dis-acknowledged me and i ended up waiting a total of 1 hour and 10 minutes. Needless to say i walked out on my carryout order everytime. I tried to give these idiots one last chance, ordered beef w veg. and got home and opened my carryout and got maybe 3 pieces of pork with mounds of celery and mushrooms in a white sauce. i was irate and called back and the daughter put her mother / owner on the phone... HAHAHA THIS WOMAN KEPT SAYING " EIS WHITE WITH RED" AS IF SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANY ENGLISH and hung up on me. So disrespectful, so unprofessional and a waste of $12. i will NEVER EVER go to this SHITHOLE again with its disrespectful employees, disgusting food and unprofessional demeanor. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE AND LET THIS PLACE GET CLOSED read more

Lee's Kitchen - This is beef with vegatables NOT they decided to ignore my substitutes and gave me pork w rotten vegatables. DISGUSTING - Chinese Near Me - Prudenville, Michigan

Today was my first time eating at Lee's Kitchen, and I was pleasantly surprised. The egg rolls are amazing, and the egg drop soup was the best I've ever had. The waitress was very pleasant and knowledgeable. I had the sesame chicken; it was fresh and delicious. If I had any criticism at all, I thought the sauce was a bit sweet, but it was still very good. I will definitely be back again. read more

If you are expecting authentic Chinese and Thai restaurant, keep on going. BUT, for the area, they do have pretty good selection and they tasted pretty good. It's a family owned business, and service was friendly. Their beef lomein was good, wonton soup pretty decent. They have good hot chili oil, to spike the food a bit. All in all, good food for the area but do not come expecting really authentic. read more

We tried this place about a year ago and it was very good. Went back this evening and were not disappointed. Food was hot and delicious. Service was excellent and price wasn't bad at all. Fresh ingredients. The wonton soup was wonderful. I had gai kow. Fresh veggies and tender chicken. Generous portions. My husband had chicken lomein and egg drop soup. We both loved it and we will be back!! read more

Love it far above the Chinese buffet down the road. Love the Mongolian beef, pepper steak, egg rolls, sweet and sour chicken, all soups, and their service has always been pleasant. Go there several times a year to have lunch with my sister. Never a bad meal. read more

Do NOT even go here. EVER. The place was dirty when we walked in which should have been a clue to immediately leave. We ordered and waited for drinks. Three tables left before we had arrived and all still had their dirty plates and drinks left to sit. Our food arrived. My 13 year old son took one bite of his sesame chicken and IMMEDIATELY spit it out he couldn't help it, it was so disgusting. He didn't touch the plate again. The rest of us ate some of our food, but the only thing good was the soup. I informed the waitress that my son couldn't eat his meal, there was something wrong with it. The waitress apologized and said it was her second day working she would get the owners. The owners came out and said "I"m sorry he doesn't like it, but you are still paying for it or I am calling the cops." Excuse me?? What happened to customer service?? At least she could have offered him something else. I said I will gladly pay for the other 4 meals but was not paying for the one not edible or for human consumption. SHE CALLED THE COPS. I paid the bill(minus the one meal which the waitress said she would have to pay for out of her tips because that's how the owners are) and sat and waited for the cops in my car. The cops came. He spoke to me, then went in and spoke to them. The cop came back out laughing and said "you're free to go, no crime has been committed here." HORRIBLE FOOD. HORRIBLE OWNERS. Wouldn't recommend to anyone, ever. read more

What ever happened to REAL fried rice? We thought we would give this place another chance. Poor decision. Bland Egg Foo Young, BAD attempt at fried rice. Will say the egg roll was good. On a scale of YUCK to YUM, it was a MEAH. read more

I have eaten at Lee's for many years. The food is made fresh for me. It is spicy and really good. Not being from China, I don't know what authentic is, but this is flavorful and goes down easy. Priced appropriately. The service is better than other restaurants in the area. Thanks Mrs. Lee. read more

Good food but every time we call in our orders for take out we are told it will be ready in 20 - 25 minutes and it always takes 40 minutes or longer. Tonight it has been 1 hour and we are still waiting. It ended up taking 1 1/2 hours to get our take out order. The waitress was very nice and apologetic. They only had 2 servers working on a Friday night and they were extremely busy and short handed. read more