My Halal Meat

bought that spicy chicken which is kept in the display above those marinated chicken. It stinks, had to throw that :(

Here’s what you need to know: the quality of their meat has gone down, there is possible skimming on the weight you pay for, and majority of what you pay for is bones.
It saddens me to write this because I used to love «My Halal Meat» a few years ago, and would even drive out 20 miles each way to patronize this meat shop. However, things have taken a dramatic turn for the worse over the last few years.
First of all, the meat isn’t as fresh tasting as it used to be; it could be because the turnaround/​sales are not as frequent which leads to vicious circle of having to hold on to meat longer and eventually selling it to the customers days later.
Recently my wife ordered a couple lbs of goat meat, which is pricey at almost $ 10/​lb, but in reality we ended up paying way more. Majority of what she brought home was bones. Yup, I don’t mean 20% or 30% of the weight was bones… I mean about 60% of the weight was bones. Moreover, we weighted the packet at home (with the bones) and it was nowhere close to the 2 lbs we paid for (closer to 1.3 lbs). I am convinced this has become the normal dishonest practice at this business based on other reviewers I’ve recently read on Unilocal.
When my wife did call back and challenged the store on the lesser product we received, she was given some nonsense story about «oh well, we trimmed it (even though that was never discussed with us) so the weight went down». The truth is trimming the fat reduces the weight in an already lean cut by less than 10%, not by dramatic amounts as in our case. Resultantly, we ended up paying about $ 16-​$ 17 for average to below average quality goat meat; That is a travesty.
We will never patronize the business again, which is tragic because we liked the owner, who is charming and engaging. But no value in that if his business is dishonest.

I agree with all of the reviews below.
The owner (ayaz) is a con man. He takes your order very quickly so as to confuse you. Then he quickly cuts and packs the meat and you never get a chance to inspect it.
1) the meat is always under weight (he will say it’s 5 ibs but usually shorts you by a ib or so
2) he ALWAYS overcharges per pound. He charges $ 10 – 12 /​ib for goat. Are you kidding me??? I would rather go to whole
Foods and get fillet for that much.
He is a hypocrite and pretends to be a pious Muslim while he steals from his customers. There are so many other places to shop for good meat in Schaumburg and the surrounding areas.
I would recommend you avoid this place at all costs even if that means you have to drive a few miles more for another spot.
I will never return and will make sure mon of my friends do either.

I just order some meat, a total of 22 dollars. I gave the lady my American express, she said they would charge an additional $ 6. I asked why and she explained it was American Express and the way it was set up. What a bunch of BS. I own 3 businesses, I have never heard of this nonsense. This place wants rip people off. And now the product, my friend had a barbecue at his house we had 3 tray of chicken legs, 3 trays chicken kabab and 2 tray of steak. We had the meat sit out all day as it was hot. We had 2 trays left and this owner bought it back. I wonder what he did with the meat. All of our friends are very surprised.

I got 1 pound goat here yesterday .full of bones. I won’t suggest this place.
Don’t go here

This meat is good quality, real halal, organic meat. I have cooked various different dishes with it and it has always been fresh and great meat. I think this poor business’s rating on Unilocal is low because of fake bad reviews that the competitors are leaving. (Proof — check the reviewers’ profiles — most of them have left only 1 – 2 reviews and they have poor English with American names). The meat does NOT smell bad at all! Anyways, the customer service is great. I sometimes call in to tell them what I want and then pick it up later and they have it ready and packaged for me. They also cut it and package it the way I request. It is on the expensive side but it’s the only place I believe is proper halal meat, the organic and ethical way, so I will continue to be going here. I think you can also order online which is great.

I love halal chicken in general but could never find a clean halal store in the NJ area. Once we moved to IL, we were pleasantly surprised to find «My Halal Meat». The store looks clean, meat is cheap, owner is professional and they also light incense sticks to rid the store of raw meat smells. All good. However, I really didn’t want to but have to give this place one star because I have noticed consistently that 1) the halal chicken does not have the blood properly drained out as it is supposed to be and 2) even if you request for chicken without fat, you have to spend a whole lot of time cleaning it out at home.

This place is a trash. The owner tricks arounds and cheats wherever he can and charges u more Bucks! NOW LETS get to the product… It’s overpriced as compared to anyone in the area by $.050 to $ 1.50 per pounds depending on the kind of meat. Their meat is not good quality it was old and smelly!!! Doesn’t taste and smell like halal meat I would never recommend anyone to shop from here! The owner is a cheater! BEWARE I have never had this awful experience shopping before ever in my life. Spend ur money where u get respect not the attitude of this Stubborn guy (OWNER)
DON’T GO HERE!!!

Purchased ‘Rohu’ fish from here. Unlike other places I have shopped throughout USA you don’t get to choose the fish you buy. You wait and the chopped fish is given to you. Nevertheless I took a leap of faith and bought it. The fish turned out to be a very old stock and had a strange unnatural smell to it. The meat not oily at all and was dry and broke apart while frying. Had a bad taste in my mouth and smell in my nose while eating. Did not eat the whole and decided to get rid of the rest we had. I would definitely not recommend buying fish from here. Not an honest fish seller for sure. I am a Bengali and I know fish. The best fishes I had been from a shop in Bridgeport CT and Sunnyvale CA. Fellow bengalis would know :-)

I stop by this little shop about twice a month on my way home from work. I am greeted with a friendly «hello» by Ayaz every time I come. The selection of what I can eat is limited because I’m a vegetarian, but I absolutely love the veggie samosas and the veggie puffs. One time when they were out, Ayaz offered to take my phone number and called when the fresh batch came in. Just this past week I showed up to get some samosas and they only had a couple left. He ended up giving them to me for free because he was getting a fresh batch later that day. I think he goes above and beyond in terms of customer service!

I was looking for a place that offered meat/​chicken that was cleaned and fat was removed. I went to this place and got 5 lbs. of chicken legs and quarters. When I brought it home I had to still had to spend 20 mins cleaning the chicken but not only that the chicken smelled bad (due to either being not fresh or not Zabiha as they claim). Anyway I pay the same amount of money at Shamiana and their chicken does not smell so I will be going back to them from now on.

The meat smelt fine and it looked good, but it made my dog sick! Bummer.

I placed an order in the last week, and writ down comments «don’t cut viscera never»
they sent me worst baby goat i have seen, the liver & «head» were cut, it was not fresh i return it back
i ordered other one with no cut it at all & they sent me again another also it was not fresh & they charged me extra 19 $ because it had have more 5 lb, thats mean the first one was not complete baby goat, i cooked a part of the goat.
it was very bad it was hard (not smooth) & dark in color after cooking
After that i threw whole goat in the trash.
I will never buy from them again.

Great service, and very friendly and accommodating! However, was very disappointed by the quality of meat. Three times I have tried it and all times it did not taste or smell the way halal meat usually does.