Jade House Chinese Restaurant

Not bad. Must get good deals on chicken. Bout all they have on buffet

Worst food that I ever had. It is 1 am and am still awake because of the half cooked garlic chicken and tasteless fried rice. Spring rolls were greasy and the soup was hot water with some tofu and vinegar. I love Chinese food and there is nothing good in Richmond. The closest is the one in Eaton. Don't even think of this place
for food. The place looks run down with a pair of half broken lions in the front. Service was bad. I try to find good about any place but this one did not give me any.

The only reason I half like this place is that I can order what I want from the menu because even when I order a typical Chinese item like Ma Po To Fu, it doesn't taste like the real thing.

I once talked to the owner, a Taiwanese woman, and asked her why they changed the food and she replied "We have to make it like that or they won't eat it."  I suppose that's true.  Most American people have no idea about real Asian food.

I remember the Thai-Chinese couple who opened a carry out restaurant at South 8th and E Streets (where A&W Root Beer used to be) in the late 1970s.  It was absolutely wonderful and when I took the food back to the Elder-Beerman break room, people complained about the smell of the food.  It was amazingly good.

This place is passable.  The Ma Po To Fu sauce I buy in foil bags is better and is made the way Japanese like it.  The restaurant has a lot of choices, though, but the service is odd.  One woman doesn't seem to speak English and when I was trying some written (by computer) Chinese, she didn't even get that.  They're friendly, but is it enough?  Taste isn't optional.