I honestly don't know where to start. We ordered delivery from Dragon House East for the first time tonight, thinking we should try something other than Cheng's Garden, which we normally get, and which is just barely alright, and definitely not anywhere near fantastic (which...is to say, our standards for Chinese food delivery are not high). But this? This was beyond inedible.
We ordered chicken satay, crab rangoon, and Mu Shu chicken (which came with egg drop soup and rice). The chicken satay was dry, chewy, and lacked any flavor beyond the salt and the lettuce leaf it laid on. The Mu Shu wraps immediately turned hard upon coming into contact with, you know, air. The dipping sauce slid jelly-like down the side of the container. I picked at the crab rangoon, which hey, is hard to mess up, but the sauce? It was pink and...not good. The egg drop soup was an alarming consistency. The rice left a very bizarre aftertaste. And the clincher, which told us that we were definitely not crazy for thinking this entire order was an inedible mess? The fortune cookies. THE FORTUNE COOKIES WERE STALE. I have never, in my entire life, been able to bend a fortune cookie until it was completely open.
It was at this point we threw everything in the trash. This was the first time we actually contemplated calling a restaurant and demanding our money back. Including the tip and delivery fees, we wasted $28.75, and have nothing to show for it other than empty stomachs. Maybe our anger is supposed to sustain us in place of the food.
All I can say is that I am beyond disturbed. Normally I would give any restaurant a second chance--everyone has off days, right? But this is beyond anything I have ever experienced. I could only recommend this restaurant to someone on a diet with money to waste.More