Bill V.
Yelp
The first time I got take-out from this place was maybe 25 years ago. It was called Chiam (CHInese AMerican) and was in a building that is no longer there. I ordered wonton soup and was puzzled by the ground meat in the soup, rather than the traditional BBQ pork. It was kind of like hamburger meat, and was something I'd never seen before since I came here from the east coast. It was weird, but I figured maybe it was a west coast thing. When the building they were in was demolished, the business moved into the old Tillamook restaurant around the corner on Cornell Rd. in Cedar Mill. Despite my better judgement, I tried it again. Had some OK meals, but there was always something wrong with the food. I stopped ordering from them after I got a Mongolian beef dish with onions that were so old the dish was rank. Over the years, I said to myself, "Maybe I should try them again," and "Maybe if I order the right thing it'll be OK," and randomly had some meals from them, but there were always dishes that were just off somehow. Some time in the last few years, they changed the business to Hometown Taste, and I tried it again. Same result. Some dishes were OK, but there was always something that was like "WTF?!?" Once again, against my better judgement I ordered some food from them just last week. It was terrible. The orange chicken tasted like it was made with old chicken. The BBQ pork was totally inedible, old, greasy and translucent looking, like it had been sitting around forever. It went straight into the trash. The fried rice smelled fishy, and I didn't order anything with seafood in it. So, to make a long story short, I tried and tried and tried to like this place, but last week's bad food was truly the last straw. Bye-bye, Chiam/Hometown Taste.