Foliage Restaurant

I’m surprised at the couple of recent bad reviews of this place. We get delivery take out from here on a somewhat regular basis and have never come across an item we thought was not good. The delivery staff is also very pleasant when they arrive with our order as well, and portion sizes are great.
The only issue we have found is that they tend to put the California rolls in the same bag as with the hot food … I still cannot figure out the logic on this one. However, we like this restaurant and will continue using their service.

This place has flat out hands down the worst chinese food I’ve ever had by far and it’s not close.
The beef… disgusting. After the first bite i just assumed it was a bad piece and the next one would be better since I didnt know it was possible to make it that bad. Turns out it all tastes like slimy fatty nast. I fed it to my poor dog who has been kicked out of the house until the runs it caused pass.
Crab Rangoon… below average
Ribs…below average
Egg rolls… bad
Fried rice… bad
The kids sesame chicken was the only thing that wasn’t terrible but it was nothing to write home about. If by some horrible twist of fate you have to eat here, go with that.

It’s american chinese with poor descriptions as expected from a chinese food delivery place. Expect random ingredients but feel secure in the fact that they tried to Kentucky it up, your salad will come with ranch dressing and only ranch. Trying Shanghai Bistro next based on it’s reviews.
The mei fun was typical with a chicken broth and thin rice noodles while the shrimp were not over cooked or spoiled. This one was salty enough that adding soy sauce to part of it was a big mistake.

I LOVE their Singapore noodles! They are definitely the best ever! I don’t even know of another place that has this. Perfectly spicy and meat is very tender… kids love chicken noodle soup and lo mein. Also egg rolls are good and they deliver fast!

Three people agree that the food seems to have changed for the worse. It tastes… generic. The potstickers had practically no filling. The sushi came packaged like one of the little take-​out sushi meals from Kroger, but for a third more of the price, and tasted rubbery with a strong fishy odor. We won’t be ordering take-​out from here again.

Not bad, but not my favorite. We used to get this delivered a lot and they were very fast. The sweet & sour chicken or pork is very good as well as the pork fried rice. General tso’s chicken is my favorite chineese dish though, and I find theirs to be chewy and bland.

Let me preface this review with two caveats: I only had one entrée on my visit, and I’m typing this on a Droid. It may be curt.
That said, I’d prefer to give three and a half stars and give a cautious recommendation to Foliage, as I visited it on the worst terms possible (not the restaurant’s fault). First, I was desperately seeking anything but fast-​food chain cuisine that has become the plight of my work week. Second, I was looking for food on the way to the gym, and not finding anything suitable on Man O’ War from the office, I resorted to whatever was in the same shopping plaza. So, hasty, tired of looking, and the third issue: nostalgic. A Tampa native, I was used to having as many Thai restaurants as there were McDonald’s. But Foliage is Chinese, you say!
Well, precisely the point. In the window is an advertisement for, what else, pad thai. Having passed an actual Thai restaurant on the way (Pad Thai, in fact), I suppose the regret of not stopping got to me and I went in for the new special.
Foliage looks like the standard Chinese fast food place, but in fact, it is a dine-​in and carry-​out joint. Sneakily, around the corner and the pictures of such Chinese fast food specials like Happy Family were waiting chairs and rows of booths. Foliage is small, but not crowded; the narrow space of the strip mall parcel is at least well-​utilized, and the booth I was sat at was comfy. The hostess and to-​go order cashier served as my waitress as well, but being a Sunday night (with the Jets-​Chargers game on no less), there was no need for someone else. Service was attentive and quick.
Now, I admit that I had no high hopes coming in, and was kicking myself for my capriciousness. Chinese pad thai. And when the dish came out, I had to hold back my shock. It… it wasn’t ORANGE! Sure, it looked like pad thai noodles. It had all the elements of pad thai (egg, peanut pieces, beef, chicken, shrimp, green onion), but not the color! And the meat itself had an unnatural sheen to it. Sigh. Well, one must suffer their folly.
And yet, after the first tentative bite, I had another. It wasn’t that bad! In fact, it was pretty good. Despite the lack of color, it wasn’t lacking in flavor (though those who like pad thai with kick will not want to ask them to tone it down, and I am a coward about heat). And furthermore, it had plenty of God’s good creatures stirred in it, keeping me from feeling the regret that one gets after they order the house special anything and get a little bit of everything — but not enough to feel «special.»
Perhaps why the meat looked so dubious is because for a stir-​fried dish, it was not very greasy — something I tend to find even otherwise great-​tasting pad thais fall victim to. Not undercooked, but not browned and dry, I ended up happily cleaning my plate with a lack of an pool of orange death staring back up at me, no drowning noodles left behind to accuse me of gluttony.
And the fortune cookie was pretty good too! So I’m going back to Foliage, with a lot more faith…