Foon Ying Chinese Restaurant

We really wanted to like this place :(

We've been twice and have tried several items at this point (egg rolls, chicken fried rice, chicken and broccoli, chicken lo mein, General Tso's, fried biscuits, etc.). The egg rolls are super crunchy and delicious, which lead us to think that maybe all of their deep-fried food was the bomb. This led to the General Tso's, which was super duper grossly soggy. The fried rice was bland and boring, the chicken and broccoli was kind of slimy, and the chicken lo mein was just nothing to write home about.

We don't really care about a restaurant's decor, so while it is bad, it doesn't factor into this (and we got take out both times anyway).

Upsides are that it's super cheap and you get 3 meals out of it. The egg rolls and fried biscuits are definitely yummy. Sadly, we probably won't be back and will continue our hunt for delicious Chinese food :(

Get the egg roll or 2 or 3 and fried rice and general tso's :) I'd give it 5 stars if they delivered :)

(I would otherwise give them a one-star rating, but in their defense, I did not bring the poor quality of the food to their attention and give them a chance to make it right.)

My dinner left a bad feeling in my tummy for several hours after I ate.   I should have left the food uneaten, asked for my money back and just left.   But I hate to rush to judgement.  "It's a popular place, it can't be bad" I thought.

Food:  
1)  First sign of things to come was a stale cooking smell in the parking lot.  The smell of old oil or grease.  Not as if it were coming from a dumpster that needed emptying, but from the range hoods in the kitchen.

2) They used canned mushrooms instead of fresh.  Usually a bad sign.

3) Soggy chicken.  It had been cooked, as in raised to the temperature necessary to kill the bacteria, but the texture of the chicken was under-cooked. Soggy.

4) Fried rice.  Ick.   It was like it had been sitting around too long, and tasted as if fried in bad or old oil. (Ya gotta COMPLETELY change the oil once in a while, not just keep adding new oil to the old oil.)

5) The deep fried egg roll was a greasy gut-bomb.  Tasted like old oil again.  The insides were either not fresh, or else made bad tasting by the oil.  I did not finish it.

Ambience/decor is about 35 years old.  Past time to remodel.  Old, tired, and what appeared to be a dingy film on everything, as if it needs a deep cleaning or repainting/etc.   Cleanliness in the dining area was acceptable, as in table-tops wiped down, and floor was clean, or at least had been vacuumed.  The ordering and waiting area was okay in cleanliness.

Men's room needed remodeled.  Dividing panel between the urinal and toilet was rusted out and kind of disgusting.   The men's room  may have been surface cleaned recently, but needed a thorough deep cleaning.

The soap dispenser wasn't even a cheapy pump type of hand-soap dispenser, it was a bottle of dishwashing liquid , that you had to grab and turn over to get the soap out.   Excuse me, I don't want to touch that.

Hot air hand dryer, no towels.  Take in a napkin, so you don't have to touch the door handle on the way out.

These people have given up,  I don't see how they stay in business.