I ordered the beef & broccoli and feel compelled to talk about it.

The broccoli was very good.  Fresh, green, not overcooked or over-saturated with sauce.

However, the beef was inedible.  There wasn’t a single piece that I put in my mouth which wasn’t an intolerable mushy/chewy/fatty/rubbery texture.  Geee-rrrosss!!

I would never order the beef & broccoli again.  I would however, order something else with BROCCOLI.

The pork fried rice is ok, a little buttery tasting and actually there’s too MUCH pork for me, but it’s otay.

I’m about to eat the egg roll too because I’m hungry still, since I had zero beef.  I think I swallowed one piece, and that was one piece too many.

Delivery time was super fast, they did follow my note regarding “include chopsticks but no sauces please!” since I hate accumulating duck & soy sauce, there’s no fortune cookie, and I wish I’d had the option to get a wonton soup instead of egg roll.

*Bit into eggroll*  Soft & warm, fresh, not a nasty eggroll with too much red stuff.  It’s not bad.  Never really been a fan of that bitter cabbage taste in Chinese food egg rolls, I prefer Korean mandu.  I ended up scooping out the insides and eating just the fried wonton skin.

In conclusion, Xing Wong = Ok, 2.5 out of 5

Broccoli=Good

Beef=bad.

Well, here you have it… a photograph of genuine Roe Dyland quahogs driven down to Brooklyn by my father.

These are some baked quahogs.  The texture is about what you’d expect from the picture, sort of a seafood stuffing but a little pasty, these had a little bit of spice but went down pretty easy.  I’m not sold on why these are so “popular” in RI or RI culture, I much prefer our clamcakes ‘n chowda or good ol’ fish ‘n chips.

This was my first GrubHub order.  I found the GrubHub service to be very easy to use, pretty awesome.  I love that certain menu items which need customization (for example, “soda” – you obviously need to specify what kind) have pop-up options when clicking, ensuring correct order taking.

I ordered from Xing Wong on July 14, 2011 @ 5:46pm.  I ordered the Boneless Spareribs Combination Special($7.50) w/ the note “pepsi instead of egg roll please,” since I hardly ever eat the egg roll (unless I’m famished) and a side order of french fries($1.75), plus an additional can of Pepsi ($1.00) because one’s never enuf.

I also added “Special Instructions” chopsticks pls, but no sauces needed!

I was surprised & thrilled to see Paypal as a payment option, since I use Paypal often and used this to pay for my order.

I received an email from GrubHub within 2 minutes with an updated delivery time of 6:09p (20mins) I didn’t look at my clock exactly when it got here, though I did look a couple times and it was after 6:09 but damn close enough.

Ok, now the important part…the food:

Fries – cold and old tasting/looking, like they had re-fried some old fries (and that’s probably exactly what they did)  They were much better in the morning, reheated in the toaster oven and with a lot of salt & ketchup.

Boneless Spare Ribs – Not great.  The sauce was ok-tasting, but the spare rib pieces were cut WAY too thick and there were a lot of fatty (gross) pieces.  The sauce was a bit too sweet also, and way too similar to the color of sweet & sour chicken sauce.  Would not order this again.

Pork Fried Rice – pretty gross.  bland. tasteless.  and very yellow.  I just think chinese (fast) food rice should be more brown than yellow, which reminds me of Spanish rice except this is much less flavorful.

Order accuracy – This, along with delivery time, were the only impressive things.  They gave me chopsticks and no sauces, exactly as I’d requested.   If only this held true for the next time I ordered from them, two days later…

Additional Note – They included a free pudding thing, it was either vanilla or lemon, lol, sorta tasted like both.  This wins bonus points for me.

Conclusion:

Food: Below Average, I know it’s a Chinese place, but how do you eff up fries??
Service: Good
Price: Overpriced for the quality/taste. $1.75 for those fries?? Gross. $7.50, I threw away half of it.