Asia Grille

I grew up in a large city and would get Chinese food weekly and at numerous different places. My relatives would routinely make traditional Chinese dishes. So I have had my fair share of traditional Chinese food and American Chinese, throughout my life so far. I've heard great things about Asia Grille from the locals of Rhode Island. I believe I've ordered take out from Asia Grille numerous times and dined in once. My wife, an RI native, has been ordering from here for the past many years. I can honestly say that I disagree with all the hype from here. I've had 6 dollar lunch specials from small Chinese food places that are better than this place. I recently ordered beef with oyster sauce. I saw it on the menu and it gave me a nostalgic feeling. My eyes lit up and I just remembered the times my brother and I were excitedly waiting for my father to come home on a Friday night with our beef with broccoli/beef with oyster sauce that came with white rice. And remembering how tasty it was. It was 14$ and did not come with rice. What kind of place claims to be a traditional Chinese restaurant and does not include white rice with their dish? Jasmine rice that is traditionally paired with every entree. The rice was a side add-on that wasn't expensive. The sauce had no flavor in it and tasted like it was watered down. I know what oyster sauce is. My mother cooks with it all the time. I use it to make fried rice every once in a while. I was extremely disappointed. The boneless spare ribs are always large cuts and almost as hard as a stale pizza crust. The fried rice always tasted plain. The Asia style wings are normally over cooked and hard, but this recent order they were decent. The crab Rangoons, and fried dumplings are decent. We only order from here if we received gift cards, otherwise we feel like our money is wasted. I feel like Asia Grille is gentrified and just pumps out large quantities of food for profit. My wife tells me she believes Asia Grille is going down in quality. I'm sad to say the traditional food here is not good and I never thought it was good from the moment I was introduced to it in 2017.

I ordered Food from here for the first time yesterday, I heard great reviews about this place. When I got my food it was off. I had gotten a sesame chicken plate, the chicken was cold and tasted stale. The rice was extremely dry and hard, and cold. I had also gotten Crab Rangoons they were cold and soggy. I was honestly kind of sad that it didn't live up to my expectations. Probably the last time I order here

This used to be my favorite place but honestly I will not be back. I ordered takeout last night and inside of my lo mein I found so far 2 hairs and the container is still half full. There was a bone inside my chicken and broccoli. The food truly wasn’t even good like it used to be. Very dry. So disappointed. Spent all that money and it’s going to the trash. The thought of eating it makes me sick.

Food is great.. I enjoy coming here but unfortunately after today, I have now changed my mind. I simply asked for the steak to be separated from veggies for my young son and the “boss” declined my request due to them being busy. It’s not that busy honestly. This changed my mindset. He was pretty rude and I’m not happy. Very unfortunate because I really liked it there.