Kathe B.
Yelp
I recently ordered a large meal from Chin Chin for my mother-in-law's birthday dinner. We live in Sparks, so it's close-ish to home and seemed to offer a variety of main dishes since MIL doesn't like spicy food, she's more of a sweet & sour, chow mein type of gal.
Anyhoo, I ordered based on their online menu, which shows BBQ spare ribs, but apparently that's just a stock pic, those are not actually on their menu. My initial regret began when I walked into a very nearly empty dining room at 6:30pm on a Tues. My next wave of regret came when I checked out and was charged approx. $13 more (before tax & tip) than their posted prices online.
Everything was packed, stapled & sealed so I wouldn't have the full depth of regret until I got home and unpacked everything.
We ordered sweet & sour pork, chicken fried rice, pork chow mein, app sampler for 2, walnut shrimp, beef skewers and mongolian beef. Their online menu showed these items totaling $83. I was rang up at $96.
The beef skewers were overcooked and tough. The fried shrimp were so overcooked and tough, almost burned. The 8 pieces of walnut shrimp were heavily breaded and in 1/2" of some thick mayo type sauce full of whitish pineapple pieces? and the walnuts had a rancid taste. The chicken fried rice was pale & oily. The chow mein was dark, flavorless in a pool of oil & had only a few green onion pieces, but lacked other veggies. The sweet & sour pork were microscopic pieces of overcooked pork heavily breaded, like a pork donut, and had the same pale whitish pineapple but came with a giant vat of red sauce, easily 4x the amount of sauce needed. The only dish we liked was the Mongolian beef and it's the 1 thing my MIL won't eat. Even teens didn't like the chow mein & fried rice it was so bland & greasy! And my teens usually clean up Chinese food!
We discarded SO MUCH food for such a high bill. My MIL didn't spare her criticism of how disappointing this meal was, and I agree. The staff inside was pleasant, but thats the extent of the 2 stars.