Dim Sum Ii

I always enjoy Dim Sum II in Cranford whenever we ate at the restaurant pre-COVID. they are pricier than the other Chinese restaurants in town and it’s usually worth it. I ordered Lo mein, General tso’s, and wonton soup a few months ago and it was fine. Today I ordered pad thai and oh my! The Regular Pad Thai and is so very bad and I don’t ever remember anything this bad from Dim Sum II. It’s over, over-cooked noodles that are so soft they’re almost mushed together and dry, the sauce taste like sweetened ketchup, the shrimp tastes frozen, and the chicken is bland but their is some oil added for flavor? I am nauseous and grossed out after trying a few bites. I picked out the chicken for my Capt. Jack (Jack-Chi) then I threw the rest away. It’s inedible. I also got a shrimp eggroll which again I can’t believe how bad the egg roll is. It’s literally an undercooked egg roll wrapper (not fried enough) with raw undercooked cabbage andwith 3 little shrimp. It’s gross and I can’t eat it. Now I’m really nauseous. I also got short ribs (rib tips) with black bean sauce for $8.95 and it’s 1/2 of a small (pint) soup container with little chopped up pieces of rib tips, green peppers, red peppers and a brown gravy that is not black bean sauce. It’s hard to eat because you have to pick out the cartilage and bone and all your taste is green peppers. I know rib tips have cartilage and bone but I hoped for the bigger pieces so you don’t have to worry about the tiny pieces of bone. I took a few bites but it’s not at all black bean sauce and all I taste is peppers. What happened DIM SUM II Cranford? I don’t understand why it’s so bad. I will try DIM SUM II again maybe…. But only if I eat at the restaurant. I’ll never order Pad Thai, shrimp rolls or rib tips here again.

Okay... This 1 is hard because of the pandemic. We've been coming here for years. I called on Saturday 5pm for a pickup and I could tell they were crushed. I gave my simple 3 item order. It was repeated back to me. My phone number was taken, twice. Told 30 minutes. Get there and see about 6 bags for pickup. Give my number. Multiple looks and no order. Was asked when I ordered and said I got off the phone with you 30 minutes ago. I was asked if I wanted to reorder. I declined. I'll try again if and when there's more help in the front end. I'm sure they are understaffed and swamped because of the orders on the table to go.

Ordered several combination platters last night for dinner. 2 of the meals were general tsaos and it was absolutely disgusting. As you stabbed at the chicken with your fork to take a piece the batter would literally come off of the chicken and stay stuck to the piece in the container. The chicken was super underdone. Also got fried wontons that seem to have been fried hours prior. There was absolutely no crunch - it was like biting into styrofoam. Very disappointed.