Sweet Sour Shrimp Sweet Sour Shrimp

Crispy shrimp coated in a tangy sweet and sour sauce, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds for a flavorful dish.

Good Friends Chinese Restaurant

Good Friends Chinese Restaurant

135 Connell Hwy, Newport, RI 02840, 02840-1314, United States

Cafés • Asiatic • Chinese • Fast Food


"I do not know how this restaurant received 3.8 stars. To give this restaurant a fair shot I ordered multiple items off the menu in the span of 3 weeks to make sure it wasn’t just a bad day in the kitchen. Ordered: Pot stickers, beef short ribs, orange chicken, chicken lo mein, and sweet sour pork. The pot stickers were slightly below average as they were not packed with much filling. The orange chicken should’ve been called the orange batter because the chicken was shaved and hammered so thin that I had to verify if it even existed at its core. The chicken was noticeable in some bites because it was jerky-like, screaming to me that it was either old or fried, frozen and refried. The orange sauce was overly sweet with barely any orange or vinegar in the mixture making you feel like everything was covered in pancake syrup instead of orange sauce. The attached picture is of the sweet and sour pork which was the most disappointing of all meals. The sweet and sour sauce was not sweet or sour because it tasted like they cut half the mixture with water. The breading on the pork tasted like it was fried in old oil that was used to fry fish. The pork and batter were so bland that it was hard to eat since the sauce was equally devoid of flavor. The rice….I have never seen rice look so dark yet incredibly flavorless. It really makes me wonder what they used to stain the rice since it seems like soy sauce wasn’t used. Beef short ribs, dry, tough, but decent marinade and flavor than the other items listed before this. The chicken lo mein was the best thing I ate; I could taste the flavor of the dish. My only complaint was that it was SWIMMING in sauce which I drained before eating. This restaurant had extremely fast delivery which typically means that a lot of food is precooked. The lack of seasoning in their food is staggering for a Chinese restaurant and I have never had Chinese that tasted so bland."

Twigs Tavern Grille

Twigs Tavern Grille

401 6th St SW, 55902, Rochester, United States

Beer • Wine • Full • American


"I will start out by saying I made a reservation for 2, a day in advance for Friday evening, as I know they get busy. I had to make an addition to our reservations (1 person and room for a stroller), so I called to make sure that would be okay and to adjust that accordingly. The person who answered my call made sure that could be accommodated and stated it would be no problem and that our table would be indoors and they even changed our table so that it would no longer be a high top table like originally planned so that it could be easier for the stroller. We arrived to our reservation at 6:30 right on time that evening and were brought outside to be seated. I made sure to say something to the wait staff and said we requested an indoor table and being seated outside would not work for us, as we have an infant with us that does not have a jacket, hat or mittens and the sun went down. I was greeted by the manager who told me that they had no spots for us indoors and attempted a pity solution of “we could get a blanket”. You can get me a blanket in a restaurant but not a table for me that I reserved and spoke to someone about being indoors and be accommodated for our stroller? Instead, management would rather have me take my preemie infant outside and sit when the sun is clearly down and it was clearly going to get colder? There was no “I’m sorry, we gave your table away” or “I’m sorry we didn’t plan accordingly and timing isn’t working out the best for our table” or even a “you can take a seat here until we have a table for you”. It gave us a bad taste in our mouth. It was a horrible experience for us. Mind you- I’ve been a restaurant manager before. I’ve been on the other side and I’ve also been a server (8 years of experience). Super disappointed at the lack of care or acknowledgment of the problem."