Reviews for Dongpo Kitchen in Universal City, CA

Edit: Thanks to the owner for the inauthentic copy and paste response you've been slapping on other reviews. My review clearly... explains what happened and provided feedback. This restaurant is a joke. I am so disappointed in my experience here. I've hadwayyyy better experiences at other locations. Our food came out lukewarm and a little TOO fast. Our fried rice was MUSHY and ourchicken looked like it was boiled yesterday. Our mapotofu was creamy????? And too spicy. Like unbearably spicy. And we LIKEspicy. My dandan noodle was interesting... And by interesting, I mean the flavor was odd, and my noodles were overcooked. Thepork belly was also awful. I sincerely cannot describe how awful it was. And when we let the server know about our lukewarm andflavorless fried rice and dishes, he responded "So what do you want me to do with it?" Granted, I'd hate my job if I had toserve that to people as well. In summary, absolute waste of money. Expensive price for slop. This location is taking advantageof it's tourist trap location. Check out the pictures :) This is the amount we left at the restaurant. We paid over $100 anddidn't take any of it with us. Edit: The owner loves to respond to bad reviews with the excuse of "catching them during a shiftchange and miscommunication". This place has been receiving the same reviews for over 5 months now. There's absolutely NO WAYthat every single bad review is an instance of "miscommunication". Take accountability for your sorry excuse for a restaurant.Do better. Read more

Delicious! A little bit sweet for me but ok. First time to have Beijing duck at LA, and felt satisfied! I heard ??? is... delicious, and I will try next time. Read more

First time here, the food is great. Iced tea is awesome, good thing I didn?t read the bad reviews before we sat down, after... eating here I can say that they must be fake reviews or from the competition. Mc Donald?s and Panda got nothing on them. If yougo anywhere and look at the prices before you see what they got to offer then you can?t afford it. We fly back to Dallastomorrow, we?ll be sure to stop by before then. Read more

This is an excellent Chinese restaurant. I came right before closing and was seated right away. Once we ordered the food was... also very quick to arrive. The chilli eggplant dish was excellent and had the right combination of spices and flavor. I woulddefinitely order it again. Additionally, compared to the prices at universal studios and the other (fast food) places in thecity walk, the prices here are very fair. Read more

Yeah no. Every dish we tried had ZERO flavor. The service has slow and each dish that came out was a disappointment. The fried... rice had no flavor, the fried chicken was overly fried, the bao buns had no bao to them, and the chicken was chewy. But I willsay the string beans were perfectly seared and tasty. Although our food wasn?t great and the service was slow, our server wasvery kind. It?s a convenient restaurant on the city walk just to eat because you don?t have too many options but please don?tseek this place out. Read more

Fried rice was cold, rice was chewy and meat was still cold from the fridge. The szechuan wanton soup was literally hot water... with chili flakes, chopped green onions and wontons. Appaling. The Kung pao chicken was also served cold and congealed andburied under peanuts. I know theres peanuts in there, that's why I order it, but not that many! The only thing that was half wayedible were the vegetable spring rolls. They were hot and crispy on the outside but the filling was completely mushy. Everythingwas quite expensive as well, I understand it's universal and prices are higher but I was expecting at least a warm ediblemeal. Service was extremely disappointing as well. The soup and spring rolls came out last. I asked for some soy sauce and chilioil to attempt to flavor some of the food and they didn't get that to the table until about 10 minutes later. I had to find awaiter to get a refill on water. And they were not busy at all. There was one large party seated outside and 4 other 2 tops inthe interior. Very very disappointing, underwhelming and unsatisfactory. Would definitely not recommend going here. Pleaseclick the ????????if you liked this review and follow me for more reviews! Thank you. Read more

I was shocked to see Dongpo here. Then I realized it's more of the light version compare to the full menu you'll find in... China. We tried the ??? spicy & sour noddle, ??? Dan Dan noodle, ???? wonton soup, ????? duck & bean paste noddle, and ?????duck sliders. The flavors are Americanized so I won't call them authentic. The staffs are little disorganized but very friendly. Read more

Food: 5/5 Staff: 2/5 The food was fantastic and the only reason I was and to give this review 3 stars. Our table was very... disappointed with the staff though. Upon ordering, we asked that our bills be split between our two couples and our waitressverbally acknowledged to this. When it came time to collect the bill, it hasn't been split and there were several errors. Weindicated on the receipt how we intended the bill to be split, hoping to help our waitress I'm dividing the bills. When askedabout correcting the bill she told us this could not be done and rolled her eyes at me. Oh, and if you tend to get thirsty whileyou eat I'd recommend you bring your own water. Getting water was quite the challenge as well. Read more