Mulan

Reviews 4

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robert hargrove

GREASY, TASTELESS, INEDIBLE Mulan is the kind of Chinese restaurant designed for those who want to pretend they are in China. if so this could be a great stop if your goal is merely to get a warm fuzzy feeling from watching people eat Chinese and speak Chinese in the burbs. However, if your goal is actually eating authentic delicious Chinese food, avoid this place at all costs. The dishes may sound wonderfully authentic from the menu, but its obvious from the first bite, the cooks in the kitchen, dont have a clue as to how to prepare them, or know how to cook in general. No my family and I are not Nubies when it comes to Chinese Food, My wife is Chinese and I have visited China many times but we couldnt get down more than a few bites of three out of the three dishes we ordered. Each dish that arrived at the table seemed to be worse than the last First we had as an appetizer a dish I had had many times in other restaurants. including NYC Flushing China town resembling a crispy scallion pancake which serves as a wrapper for a beef filling cilantro etc Sounds good but the dough was greasy and limp to the touch and the beef and onion filling flavorless. If you want a much better version of this dish go to Sichuan Gourmet, Brookline My son Robby ordered a Pork Chop Noodle Soup, a generally satisfying Shanghai dish especially on a cold day bursting with flavor -- thick noodles, a crispy chopped up pork chop etc.,with spinach on top, At Mulan the soup broth was about as tasty as hot water, from the tap, and instead of a pork chop you got a greasy deep fried piece of pork on a plate that had to be dabbed with a napkin to remove the excess oil. Arrggg! Then there was the pork dish, with cabbage a, brown tasteless 4 inch pile of shredded meat, directly from the meat grinder. We tried to ask the manager to change out this dish, but she flatly refused, which antagonized me "Do you have a version of this that doesnt look like a brown blob? Do you have knives to cut the meat vs. grind it?" She ran off in a huff and started chatting up other customers My wife continued to peck away at the dishes, but my son and I just sat there unable to eat any of the food without seeing the non verbal expression of YUCK! written all over our faces My wife felt very bad and almost burst into tears. We paid the check and left as fast as our feet could carry us, My wife said, today I will never go back to that restaurant again!. Delete review

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Heleni Thayre

A dreadful restaurant! I asked if I could order the eggplant dinner with tofu added to it for extra protein. The waiter said no. I thought he might have a problem with English so I asked him again in various ways. Still no, so I chose the tofu with mixed vegetables. When it arrived the sauce was terrible - tasteless but vaguely sour. I asked if they could bring me a different sauce on the side - maybe one slightly sweet (like the lovely sauce that P.F Chang uses on their eggplant.) The waiter told me that they had no other sauce to offer whatsoever except duck sauce. I took another bite trying to tough it out and realized then that I simply could not eat this meal at all. I called my waiter over and asked him to take my full plate back as it was inedible. The waiter said no, as did the manager when I asked to speak to him. They said I would need to pay for it though I did not eat it and did not suggest I could exchange it for another dish. So I had them pack it all up knowing I could doctor it at home and not waste the food I had just paid for. I watched my companion eat her dinner as we chatted and I ate nothing. I took it home and will cook it up in a sauce that I will make myself of some diluted soy sauce, some sweet chili sauce from Trader Joes and a dash of my favorite Chinese sauce called "Old Spicy Mother" in English from Super 88. It will not be as fresh as it was on the first cooking but I am pretty sure it will taste a whole lot better. My friend ordered the sweet and sour chicken. It came out in a bright orange sauce so sweet it would put a diabetic into a coma. She offered me some but when I tasted it there was a tiny nugget of chicken in the center of a wad of fried dough, most of which she left on her plate. She mentioned to me as we left that the food was of low quality despite the white table cloths that give a false impression of quality. I was embarrassed about being so grumpy at dinner and apologized to her but she he told me that she also was not favorably impressed with this restaurant and would never return.

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Long-Mei Ren

This is not your typical chinese takeout. I ordered 4 dishes for a party of 3 people. Like most asian restaurants the portions are generous. The food here, however, was quite average. This place is great for groups. They have many large round tables that can fit big groups. Pork with Leek dumplings: These seem to be homemade. The dumplings are pretty big in size. They are steamed and served with a side of dipping sauce. I think that the flavoring of the dumplings are pretty good, you can definitely taste the leeks. Shredded Pork with Baby Bamboo: This dish was lacking in flavor. I asked for a side of hot oil to pair with the dish. Chicken Casserole: This dish was pretty good. Flavoring was well done. This is not made with white meat chicken but the other parts of the chicken. You will get alot of tendons and ligaments. Bean Curd with Dry Bean Sauce: This dish came out with tender tofu in the middle and broccoli on the outside. Drizzled on top of the tofu was a dry bean sauce. The sauce was a bit sweet and crunchy. It added a nice texture.

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A Private User

We usually go to Hon Dynasty as I love their crispy rangoons but their meals are just ok (not bad, just good), and decided to try another place. The crab rangoons at this place were soggy and undercooked, for which they supply you with a teaspoon of duck sauce for about 7 rangoons! Unfortunately, the meals were much worse. The crispy orange beef was so doughey that the texture felt like a marshmellow and every bite snapped back like a rubber band. I proceeded to take half a bite out of every piece on my plate in search for beef and a couple of the pieces actually had NO MEAT IN THEM!!! The sesame chicken wasnt much better. I took one bite out of it and found no chicken, and it was so dry I had to spit it out and it was all crumbly like dry bread. I can now feel the dough expanding in my stomach, and feel extremely nauseous. If youre considering going here, why not just put too much salt into a ball of dough, throw it in a microwave for not enough time and eat that instead--you will save yourself some money!