I grew up in Bloomington and always astound that this place still exist...I can't think a single dish why I would eat here...
Yes, they serve alcohol...
Yes, they have Karoke night...
Yes, they might even have card games(is it legal?) on some nights...
Yes, they have plenty of 'American' dishes...then why even bother with the crappy Chinse decore? Â Heck I would be impress if I get an Asian hostest/waiter/waitress...
Bottom line, I can't find a single asian person in my life recommends me this place...I would be lucky to find an Asian person eat there. Â Hence we are done talking.
Service was just fine. The food was....gross.
The food is honestly subpar to the Panda Express. I had pork fried rice, chow mein, and egg foo young. I ended up boxing up most of it rather than sending it back because I could tell by the looks of the place that it isn't a place that foodies go to get their fix.I think this is Chinese food before people had sophisticated palates. I don't think I can drag on about the details because the food was so disappointing. I will not be back.
Bad service and bad food. I am still sitting at this restaurant waiting for our server to give me my check to end my suffering. The pan fried pot stickers had no crisp and were bland. The Mongolian beef special was salty and resembled Salisbury steak more than anything gourmet. The orange chicken was edible but bland. They gave us the wrong kind of fried rice but the shrimp and pea pods were OK. Took nearly 30 minutes to receive out food for some reason and whenever our server put food down on our table there was so much force it tended to spill. Yeah, not coming back EVER.
Oh, as a "parting gift" my fortune cookie was empty which is bad luck - a curse?
WORST CHINESE EVER! Please do yourself a favor and skip this dated, bland, gross food. Your stomach and wallet will thank you later. First time in my life that not only did I hate the food but left more for the garbage than I could consume.
I'm pretty sure there was apple sauce in my sweet and sour and my almond chicken was one party chicken and nine part celery. Soup was straight out of can. Apps were dripping in grease out of the fryer. Easily the best part was the fortune cookie.
I'm still not a100% and I didn't want something hard on my digestion. So I was very loose with lent and got the China Town Steak. There are some nice veggies that make it China style. I kind of remembered it at the last minute, the reviews of Adam and Dan, whose opinions I value highly. Of course I liked it, but I still want to try many other things. Basil had seafood delight that he liked a lot. I noticed shrimp toast just in time to order. Of all I've ever had it is the least greasy and just delicious. I swear there was shrimp in every bite of these good sized pieces.
As you drive into the lot, it's totally packed, and it wouldn't surprise me if there's a party downstairs every Saturday night. I think of this as an upscale Chinese place for regular people. The staff are a mix of all sorts of races. We struck pay dirt with LU. So warm and friendly. It was a beautiful night for a drive. A new destination spot.
The best Chinese we've had in a long time. Â We had: Â Pork egg foo young, Chinese vegetables, chicken fried rice, egg rolls, cream cheese wontons. Â I haven't eaten at the restaurant in a few years, but the take out is always hot, & the order correct! Â Awesome, only Chinese we'll eat in the cities.
Review Source:A great place to eat and meet up with friends. Â The food is always good and plentiful - you will not walk away on an empty stomach.
I generally go there for Happy Hour and lunch and would recommend you give them a try. Â Ed Fong runs the place and is a staple of the great Bloomington Community!
This place is a mid-century decor fetishists' dream, it doesn't look a day older from the day it opened. It totally looks like a place where Don Draper would've hung out if he was ever stuck in Bloomington.
Unfortunately, the recipes are equally vintage, including the cocktails (which I suspect they had yet to master a proper girl drink in the post-war times). My mind can appreciate the kitsch, but my stomach can't. Though it's hard to screw up cream cheese puffs, and who cares if it's not authentic Chinese? It's more Americana than Chinese, and it's quite something to see if you keep that in mind. You've got no shortage of decent options for authentic Asian food in the Twin Cities if that's what you want.
Service was good, but the food was just OK Â (we had Mongolian Beef, Fong's Chow Mein, Moo Goo Gai Pan, and another beef disk). Â I was surprised with how full the parking lot and restaurant were based on the disappointing food. Â It's wasn't inexpensive either.
Kitsch level was high, if that's your thing.
My wife and I visited David Fong's last night on a Friday. Â Neither of us had been to this Bloomington institution for a couple of years despite us living in Bloomington for several years, most likely because our experience back then was unimpressive. Â I have changed my general opinion based on last nights experience.
We started with the egg rolls and if that was all we had all night this would have been a 2 star review. Â Just kind of funky tasting. Â Hard to describe. Â Not that great.
My wife had the walnut shrimp. Â It was creamy, fresh and the shrimp was plentiful and not overcooked (like shrimp can often be). Â I had the Kung Bo Chicken. Â I ordered it "spicy" (choices = mild, medium, spicy, extra spicy). Â I generally like spicy food and this spice level was just about right. Â The all white chicken seemed perfectly cooked and the onions, green peppers and pea pods were very fresh and crisp, not overdone. Â
My Dewers on the rocks pre-dinner was "generous", the service was great and the food came out fast.
I am glad we decided to give this place a try again. Â We plan on checking out the chow mien take-out based on our server's description. Â Good chow mien is a rarity in Bloomington. Â We will let you know what we think!
I have eaten here five times now and I am still waiting for the meal that will change my opinion of this place. Â Granted, I visit alongside a large group of shipmates in a group atmosphere where it is more difficult to serve the way it would upstairs in the main dining room. Â
I have tried all 3 options they allow us to choose from: Walleye, Filet, and "Cantonese Combo". Â Missing ingredient in all 3: Â flavor. Â Especially the "Cantonese Combo" gravy.. yes, gravy.. I thought this would be the specialty? Â
I suppose it is time to shake up the old goat locker hell bent on this place..
2 stars (not 1) for putting up with us...... Meeeaarrrrrrr!
This by far was the WORST Chinese food I have ever had in my life. Â NO JOKE.
A friend of mine sold me on this place by telling me it had been there 50 years, and that it was 'killer'. Â Well, let me tell you a few warning signs that should've told me otherwise:
1. Â On the menu they have 'cream cheese puffs'. Â Never have seen that on a Chinese menu, and I told the waitress that. Â She was oblivious.
2. Â Old lady next to me got her entree', and it was a friend cutlet of something, with: COLESLAW, A ROLL with butter, and FRENCH FRIES. Â What Chinese restaurant serves coleslaw!!!!?? Â NONE, that's which one. Â At this point, I should've ran, quickly, out of there. Â But I didn't. Â I stayed. Â
3. Â Finally, my entree came, sweet and sour chicken. Â I was assured before I ordered that it was all white meat. Â WELL, do you know why it was all white meat? Â Because my entree was four deep friend chicken tenders, with a few bits of pineapple, tomato, and green peppers, and then absolutely covered in some strange CLEAR goo of a sauce. Â I was appalled. Â I picked at it, and gave up. Â
Seriously, it was just horrendous. Â Go to LeeAnn Chin if you have to. Â Just don't go here.
I really don't know how this place is still in business. I know when I visited David Fong's several years ago at one of their locations in Minneapolis I probably had the worst Chinese food ever!
This foul bastardisation of Asian food is an affront to those who value good food all the way around! Any self respecting lover of Asian food would go picket this place, yes P-I-C-K-E-T!
When I stopped to eat there we placed our order and the waitress seemed relatively friendly however during the order she completely messed up the order for the person with whom I was with. So needless to say he was going to get an entree he did not want.
The soup arrived which was decent but when the main course arrived my chicken teriyaki had chicken strips which looked like they were taken out of a package and the entire rest of the dish was smothered with a brown gravy-ish like substance. I gave it a try and it tasted just like how it looked-awful! Other guests dining there were also having problems with their dishes too -something related to spiciness. I did not know the exact details because I was in shock with what was before my eyes on the dinner table.
My Coke that I ordered was supposed to be a Cherry Coke instead there was a thick layer of Grenadine on the bottom with the soda itself on the top.
The waitress came back and realized she screwed up the order during the ordering process and that was when she realized she was very incompetent and would much rather had been somewhere else rather than waitressing. We tried to be polite but I covered my dish with the napkin in which she said ' I think it is dead.' We finally received the bill in which my friend was paying and he needed clarification about the payment process. I don't know everything she said but we did hear her say 'I ain't getting no tip anyway!' Mortified we left hoping that we did not get food poisoning which by a miracle we didn't
The food was so bland that a senior's meal would seem like eating a raw jalapeno. Don't get me wrong David Fongs is a great place to eat if you want to poison your date or if you are a giant fly and like to sponge garbage off your plate.
Avoid this one folks at all cost, yes A-V-O-I-D!!
I am usually disappointed in Chinese food here in MN - this place was OK. I had the beef & broccoli (extra spicy please!) and the hubs had Kung Bo Shrimp (hold the water chestnuts).
I was surprised that the food was actually a bit on the spicy side (a rarity for these parts, yes?). The portions were huge and they sent us home with a bunch of sauces (no skimping on the duck sauce).
Overall, I was satisfied.
mediocre for my taste it's better than other chinese food places tho that daily special that i had - honey walnut shrimp was pretty good w/ broccoli/ rice - decor is neat & nice very vintage china style & it's i think the best chinese food u can get in MN - a kool fact it has been a family business for 50 yrs
Review Source:David Fong's is a rare place. It's been open fifty years as of this writing. The decor is totally vintage, without being musty and dusty. The food, while good, is more like time travel. Think of it as eating Chinese food in the US in 1958, and you'll be in heaven, though. They get added points for having really solid tiki (ie tropical) drinks on the menu. Order the Chinatown steak, and you won't come away sad...
Fong's... Catch the Fever!
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