Chef's MessageWelcome to Lai Lai Chinese Restaurant. We specialize in Szechuan, Shanghai, Cantonese, Taiwanese and Singapore. Vegetable Delight is also on our menu. All our food is freshly prepared and individually cooked to your preference from start to finish. Come in and enjoy your meal with us!
...not anymore. Ordered as usual for NYE, at noon for 8 PM delivery. Food arrived at 6, and cold. They were sold out of their famous dumplings by noon. The Chinese Broccoli in my Beef & Broccoli was not a change for the better. The lemon Chicken sauce was coloured water (The chicken itself was separate, and quite acceptable) All of the dishes seemed to be missing something; the food has gone from one of the best in K-W to barely average.
Disappointing.
I ordered the sesame chicken, fried rice lunch combo for 7 bucks. It came with soup on the side and an eggroll.
Service was quick, restaurant was very clean and smelled nice. Their sesame chicken is probably one of the best I've tried so far. But the stir fried bean-sprout that came with my plate was very tasteless and soggy. I did not enjoy it much.
Other than that, I'm coming back in the future for lunch.
Well, the Lai Lai was sold and new owners have taken over. We didn't know that when we ordered and so we stayed away from the disappointing dishes of our last visit and went with fried dumplings, their wonderful spicy beef noodle soup, and the Moo Shu pork which has always been great here. Everything was delicious!
The owner was intrroduced, and we were told of the change and the retirement of the previous chef. The service was impeccable, the food delicious and well prepared and we are now very optimistic and eager to go back and try our favorite dishes again.
We've come here to enjoy the dumplings and Sesame Chicken since the mid 1980's. See my revue below. Well, the last visit a few weeks ago, we were quite disappointed. We spoke to the owner's daughter about it and were told that the chef (her father) had been ill and so there was a new chef in the kitchen who wanted to do things his way. We've been told he will be relaced and that the original chef will return, but in the meantime... diner beware. Nothing tasted like the dishes we normally have. The sauce, the texture, everything was off. Worst of all for some unknown reason they are substituting white chicken breast in the dishes. I can't even describe how nasty that is, texture and flavor wise, when its used in these dishes. The orange flavored chicken totaly lacked oranges and was in some strange brown gravy... Hopefully they will get this problem fixed, but when people want to retire it can mean a whole different ballgame at a restaurant. I hope for Lily's sake things get straightened out. Oh, and they did not offer to change any of the dishes, or refund our money. Lily would have, but Lily was not there.
