Restaurant Review - China House

 Chinese sounded good last night, so we decided to order take out. After a bit of debate, as it was raining and we didn't want to leave the house if possible, we decided to order from China House, 9505 Burnet Road.

 Calling in the order was fun, the person who answered the phone had a very heavy accent which made it hard to understand her. I had to ask her to repeat herself after almost every sentence. Worse was that she didn't understand me all that well either, and I had to repeat everything as well. It took her 6 or 7 trys to get the street name down. She didn't give me a total before she hung up either.

 So then we wait, hoping that they got the right address. After about 25 minutes, the food came. With tip, the total was $28. When we unpacked the bag, we saw first off that the free wings (with orders over $20) were missing. OK, maybe they no longer do that due to the economy. Opening our entree containers, we were surprised at the amount of food. The containers were completely filled with the entree, the rice being in a seperate container. We had an order of pan fried dumplings, sesame beef and sweet and sour pork. The food all looked good, so we dug in. The dumplings were good, the sauce sweet and tangy. The entrees, however, not so much The sesame beef had so much egg in the coating (It shouldn't have had any) that it tasted like an omelet, and not even a particularly beefy one. The beef itself was slightly gelatinous in texture, not the crispness I had been expecting. The only other taste I could detect was bland. It was like chewing bland fat and fried eggs. The sweet and sour pork did not fair much better, the pork was a bit tough, the coating was meh and bland. The sauce didn't have any sweet/sour flavor at all, and we would have done better to dump it and use some LaChoy. The fried rice was more of the same, except that it tasted like the cook (I refuse to call this person a chef!) dumped Liquid Smoke in it. I found one rubbery little piece of egg, and nothing else.

 All in all, a total waste of $28. I wouldn't feed this kind of slop to my dog, if he would even eat it. Unless you have some medical issue that keeps you from tasting, stay away from China House. Go to McDonald's, you'll get a better tasting meal.