10/19/09

Food that appeals to my palate

by Foodie23

My family simply loves this place. We were recommended by our friends and I can vouch that the food taste like the Indo Chinese you get back in India.

Our kids really like the Lo Mein noodles and the sweet corn soup and it is great to see that they finish their food :) without any hesitation.

I am not sure what issues some of the reviewers had below - I have always found their servers to be courteous, helpful and they give great service. Maybe the bad reviews are written by jealous competitors.

My favorites are Ku Chow Chicken (appetizers), Dry Szechwan Chicken and Mixed burnt garlic fried rice. You have to like spicy food to relish this - I do :)

• Pros: Appetizers, Fried Rice, Ambience
• Cons: Can get noisy

10/06/09

Average Food, Below Average Service

by TinTin

We go there once in two months or so as we like to savor indo chinese food. But everytime we go there, they remind us that service can be much better. Food can be cooked better. Food and service seems to be going down hill since they started.

I hope the franchise takes note of this and revs things up...

• Pros: Only Indo Chinese food in the seattle area
• Cons: Everything Else

07/22/09

Good food. A little too oily. Service can improve

by aarthiasdad

Service was slow the two days we ate here but it is also because there are many tables to be waited by the folks there.The food tastes good and is authentic Indo-Chinese food. I can vouch for that. But the food is a little too oily to savour. Take a tissue with you and absorb the oil before you eat. I liked their lat maai paneer and the fried baby corn. The garlic noodles is good too. Stay away from the veggie coins!

• Pros: Food, Parking
• Cons: Service, Too oily

04/14/08

DON'T GO - POOR SERVICE RUDE BEHAVIOUR LESS THAN AVERAGE FOOD

by 3gumts

No Idea why people throng this place. Poor food which is no close to the indo chinese fair you want to expect. The service is awful and rude as if they are doing a favor in serving you. The wait time was more than 1 hr after I ordered the food and even then they said it will take time. The waitress looked at me as if I committed crime asking where my food is and the attitude was damn care.

Will not go there again unless I have no other choice, even I would go to Mc Donalds before considering it.

The management needs to put in more prefessionalism in their service and should have some people who understands english properly.

ABSOLUTELY A NO GO.

• Pros: NONE
• Cons: SERVICE FOOD BEHAVIOR

03/11/08

A disappointment.

by andreafloy

A really disappointing lunch. I visited with two friends, and we all had different dishes (Crispy Chicken Chili Honey, Diced Chicken Hot Garlic, and Szechwan Chicken) but the same comments: the food is incredibly bland, too saucy (they serve their dishes in bowls - I assume this is what they mean by "Indian style" - so anything that may have been crispy in the kitchen turns to mush by the time it gets to your table), and the service was poor. Our waiter never checked back with us and we had to wave down someone for our check, despite the fact that there were only 4 tables of customers.

• Pros: Plenty of seating.
• Cons: Flavorless dishes, poor service.

02/17/08

Average Indo-Chinese food

by SamVr

Like the title says- its average fare. But then again, there arent many Indo-Chinese places around, so my options are limited! :(

The first time we went there, the food was too spicy and way too oily. The flavor didnt come through at all since it was so hot/spicy!

I swore off of it but returned a few months later and now the food was far less oily and a little less spicer. Still sub-par though. The burnt garlic fried rice is probably the only dish I would suggest.

• Pros: Only Indo-Chinese food in a radius of 100 miles?
• Cons: Oily food, Sub-par service

06/26/07

Great Food, Great Service, Seriously Hot

by panobear

I read a bunch of reviews about Inchin's that I found discouraging, but a bunch of my Indian co-workers recommended it, and they hadn't steered me wrong in the past. Still, I was surprised that all of the reviews seemed to be exactly opposite my experience. Service was "jonny-on-the-spot", portions were good, the food was well prepared and tasty, and the prices weren't unreasonable. Additionally, the atmosphere was very nice.

Two notes that I would tell prospective diners: if you don't like hot food, let them know. When they say their dishes are spicy, they're not kidding. I love hot food, but the Devil's Beef was almost too hot for me. Also, the food was much saucier then I've come to expect in Chinese food, I suppose because of the Indian influence. When we ordered the Manchurian Chicken, the two options were "Dry" and "Saucy", and we chose "Saucy". It came out almost the consistency of an Indian Chicken Curry. It wasn't what I was expecting, but it was still very good.

Perhaps the reviewers who complained about service or portion size went during a lunch rush, but when we went there for dinner neither was an issue. I would definitely recommend giving this little jewel a shot, regardless of what you read in other reviews.

• Pros: Good food, good service, good value, nice atmosphere
• Cons: it's not traditional chinese, be careful what you expect

06/12/07

Greasy, heavy food

by johnneg

We tried several dishes, Vegetarian Coin Manchurian, spicy green beans and peas appetizer, and egg drop and hot and sour soups. Everything was so greasy and heavy. Egg drop soup was too salty. We won't go back. The place is hip with younger Indian Microsoft crowd that know little about food. The food is neither Chinese nor Indian, neither delicious nor healthy.

• Pros: New restaurant
• Cons: Heavy, greasy food

06/07/07

Great chinese food but ...

by foodlover0101

My family loves the food at Bamboo gardens and we eat here often, mostly take out. I have never had a problem with the quality or taste of the food but i have to agree with some of the customers that the portion size is just too small for the price. Even restaurants charging $7 for their entrees have bigger portion. They will loose a lot of customers if they do not change this. We would eat here a lot more if the portion sizes were not so small.

• Pros: Tasty indo chinese food
• Cons: very small portion size

06/02/07

Oily, Undercooked food

by luckyram

We have tried only vegetarian food. All the food - appetizers and entrees tend to be very oily. We like the sweet corn soup, but most times its served cold - so remember to ask for hot soup. The baby corn appetizer is the only one we liked. The other appetizers we tried were very oily. Rice, noodles were oily and undercooked. The sauces are very oily too. Everything tends to be very spicy so remember to ask them to tone it down.

Overall, slow service and below average good.