The China Bowl

258 King St N, Waterloo
(519) 954-6477

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Cherie

Horrible food! Very disappointing!
We ordered, chicken balls which had hardly any chicken and all batter. The low mein and fried rice with chicken was greasy and the chicken pieces were so tiny and didn’t taste fresh. The garlic ribs were completely inedible, it had an odd smell which made you wonder if you were eating pork and the pieces were very fatty. The only thing that was ok were the spring rolls.
When I went back to complain, I showed them the ribs which they proceeded to cut each piece on a cutting board in front of me to tell me which pieces were good and the “off smell” was due to garlic powder.
They did give me half of the $85 spent but I had to really prove my point to justify the request.
As well, there was a complete language barrier and had to respectfully repeat my case in several ways to make the point before it was understood.
I will not be returning and advise those to go elsewhere as it’s a complete waste of money!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

Sam Ellenbogen

great food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Andrew Zhou

solid authentic chinese food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

LACH

Parking is available upon front but very tight parking spots.

Restaurant is huge with an vip room for private dining.

Portions are huge. Flavors are intense.

Seafood dry crisp rice 10/10
So good and the crispy rice was done to perfection.

Pork hock rice 9/10
Flavor is good but the pork hock was a bit on dry side.

Dry spicy wok 10/10
Everything mix and gel together. Flavor was phenomenal.

Beef brisket with tomatoes 9/10
You can taste the tomatoes but the Beef brisket could be cooked longer as it was still hard to chew.

Sour potatoe shreds 7/10
Not sour enough.

Spicy cabbage 8/10
Pretty good.

Service was good and staff is friendly.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

MattRobloxYT

I was here for dinner and the food and service here was astonishing.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Matt Deres

Good, authentic Chinese cuisine. Everyone at our party enjoyed their meals. Parking was a little treacherous, but that's not the restaurant's fault. Chop Suey was excellent.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Adler W

Excellent food and service

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Edward Jian

Very good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

song zhou

Very good experience here! For festival.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sarah L

Chewy chicken balls with a tiny piece of chicken inside and mostly batter, the fried rice didn’t taste good and tasted like it wasn’t fresh. The eggroll wrapper tasted oddly like cinnamon. The sesame chicken was good. I wouldn’t order again though.

Food: 2

Conan Gao

Tastes good!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brent Johnston

Mid. Everything tastes the same. Short ribs inedible. Recent output is mediocre at best. Be sure to search for newest reviews.

Food: 2

Alena Luo

Very disappointing. We ordered the shredded chicken in hot spicy sauce (手撕鸡), the boiled fish fillet in chili oil (沸腾水煮鱼) and the sautéed pork and vegetables in sweet and spicy sauce (鱼香肉丝). Everything was incredibly mid except for the pork dish. The shredded chicken was like an 8 year olds attempt to shred chicken (extremely large chunks and two large meatless drumstick bones). Not to mention it oddly tasted like Costco roasted chicken drizzled with some chili oil ?? And then there was the fish which was not spicy nor numbing and just overall lacked flavour. If you’re RLLY craving chinese food this might cut it, but for the price and the taste, you’re honestly better off going to the many other cheaper chinese food options. I wanna give benefit of the doubt and say that we ordered the wrong dishes, bc the pork dish was actually a 4.5/5. But definitely don’t go expecting the tastiest chinese food you’ve ever had.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Xianbang Ran

go o d

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Chao Zhang

Yummy 😋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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