King Chef Chinese Cuisine

Restaurant, Food, Point of Interest9537 Commercial Way, Brooksville, FL 34613, USA

Casual restaurant serving up Chinese specialties such as General Tso's chicken and hot and sour soup.

Closed Now

4.4

Visited on 7/27 for pickup. Our go-to, we drive 20+mins to get our fix as we found this place to be phenomenal when it comes to taste, quality, and quantity so it's well worth the drive. Unfortunately, this past visit was lackluster in every since of the word. If you order soda, you need to inform the people at the counter otherwise they forget or don't bother until you bring it to their attention. Not a huge problem or issue, just pointing out to others that you can not assume they'll remember. On this pickup, we were missing an item, it was replaced with someone else's ordered item. We've had a missing item before, but never has it been replaced with someone else's food. With the bag being stapled close, and our drive back home, we couldn't check ahead of time and never once, since ordering from here, have we needed to worry about it. The food was off, and not up to its usual standard. Our eggrolls were nearly burnt in what tasted like 2 weeks old oil and the insides were basically cabbage-flavored mush. Absolutely nothing inside but a gross inedible, freezer-burnt-tasting mush. One bite and we tossed them all in the trash. The pepper steak was not tender and several pieces were fatty and knobby. The cuts of peppers and onions were all oddly shaped pieces as if someone hacked at the vegetables instead of applying some sense of uniformity. The gravy it came with was basically onion-flavored grease. The fried wontons were stale and tasted as if they had been cooked a couple days prior, left under a heat lamp then quickly refried to pass off as fresh. Did not eat after trying one. Although normally a great experience, this time was a definite miss. It wasn't that it was just one thing, but a culmination of all the food together, the missing items, and the downward quality. Do better. Check your product, check consistency, double check orders for correctness. Change the oil. Do I recommend this place, sure. It's not horrible and maybe we just go an unlucky off day, but it was enough to tarnish the experience and make us question if it really is worth the drive.