Rice Inn

I have eaten here a few times, and have received a slight headache after. Never thought too much about it until last night. I got a migraine so bad that I was seeing spots. What does that tell me? MSG.
For the over priced food that we receive — I have never seen a mention on the menu that says — «hey we use MSG». Needless to say I will not be eating here again.
Food is ok — nothing to miss ever having again.
Beware this restaurant uses MSG.

Wife and I stopped it. Service was very good. Food was okay. I probably won’t be back though, there are others that are much better.

This is a nice place. Somehow the ambience inside gives a feeling of intimacy. The tables and table settings are a cut above most nice chain-​type restaurants without becoming formal. I had cashew chicken, admittedly a safe choice, and it tasted good and was a good portion. We also got a California roll appetizer, and split it among us. This was real good, I think next time I will order something Japanese.

Five of us (two adults and three teenagers) ordered takeout from the Rice Inn. We ordered four meals and one appetizer, and the portions were enormous! The food was very good, and there were leftovers for the next day. While we didn’t dine in, we were impressed by the interior of the restaurant (very clean and inviting), and think the next time we will dine in and sit at the sushi bar. Service was extremely friendly and fast. I did note that the restaurant is BYOB, with a cork fee, but that’s just an FYI. Overall, we enjoyed the food a lot, and we will eat there again.

Really nice people.
Now the food. I liked what I ate but I didn’t know if I was in a Thai, Chinese, Japanese or whatever restaurant. Totes confused.
Also, it’s BOYB so there’s a cork fee. That’s fine but there were 6 of us. We had three bottles (one was just a beer), and we got THREE CORK fees. Ugh. You should charge one cork fee per table!
I did like the General Tso’s but my friend’s didn’t like the Pad Thai at all.

Rice inn is clean and has good food with good service. There takeout is always prompt.

Favorite Chinese place to go it’s all so delicious. But one of the waitresses has an attitude. I have a picky order and she laughs at it and sighs and groans when I give her my order every single time we get her. Which isn’t professional at all. But other than that it’s a great place to eat at. Amazing food!

Food is good and staff is very nice and inviting. Between Rice Inn and Silk Road, the South Hills is a hotbed for asian cuisine.

The staff is very kind and inviting. Sushi is extremely fresh. Live the seaweed salad and spicy squid salad. If your looking for something healthy they have a nice section where the food is steamed and the sauce is on side which allows to control how much is out on ur food

We had heard that this restaurant was good and their parking lot is always full so today my family tried it.
We were seated quickly because we got there right when it opened. Our waitress brought out drinks and took our orders as the place started to fill up. They had a nice sushi selection but because it was so cold outside we all were looking for warmth, we all ordered entrees.
I ordered Happy Family (16.95) that had lobster, scallops, shrimp, chicken, beef and vegetables in a brown sauce. It was good but seemed a it salty to me. It was a huge portion and I only managed to eat half.
My youngest son ordered Triple Delight (13.95). It had shrimp, chicken, beef, and vegetables. He cleaned his plate. He probably would have licked it had I allowed him.
My husband ordered Hunan Shrimp (12.95). It was spicy but no overly so. He too cleaned his plate.
My oldest son (who currently recovering from a tonsillectomy) had a bowl of egg drop soup and a bowl of rice. It would be kind of hard to mess up those things.
We definitely will be back. I would like to try their sushi and other items on their menu. The most important thing to know is that it’s BYOB.

I had to re-​review. I have been back several times since my first review (and often order delivery). The food was good as usual. The General Tsos is very good, the Hunan chicken was also good, though a by salty. However, I must say that I am not impressed by their new staff. I was very pleased to see that the restaurant was ¾ full (the busiest I’ve seen it). We walked in and the hostess asked if we wanted a table or booth. I requested a booth. We walked to the back (past an empty booth and one that was empty and just needed cleaned) and the hostess turned around and told us that there were no empty booths and we had to sit at a table. I looked to the other side of the restaurant to see at least one more empty booth. She couldn’t have missed them, how could she have said that with a straight face?! Was she just trying to get her friend tips by seating us in her section? I just wanted to eat in peace, so didn’t challenge her. Our waitress was polite, but inattentive. She disappeared and when she was around she was so quiet that neither of us could hear a word that she was saying.
The staff has typically been great, but the new additions don’t do this place justice. Seriously, don’t tell your customers that there are no empty booths when it is very obviously not true. We aren’t stupid.

Love love love this hidden gem. The guy with the glasses who makes the sushi makes it better than Nakama. Dinner portions are enough for two, service is bare able depending on who you get. Well worth every penny, best in town :)

I love the rice inn! It used to be a pizza hut, so picture that type of décor with an Asian flair. The portions are huge! Yummy chicken fried rice! I have eaten in twice and ordered out a few times. Great little place for Chinese and sushi.

Pros: typical suburban Chinese food if that’s what you’re into
Cons: $ 12.95 for a dinner portion of anything… only comes with small white rice

My daughter and I love Rice Inn! I mostly eat lunch there and at times by myself, so it is great that they have the tvs:)
The food is always fresh and the prices are good and portions are hearty. The staff is so friendly and service is always quick. I NEVER have to wait for a drink refill.
And they always come over to the table and say hi when I have my baby grandson with me:)
Takeout ordering is wonderful too! We had a pretty big order for 5 – 6 people and not one thing was missed.
The general tso is my fav meal!!!

I’ve been frequenting this place since they opened a couple years ago with my family. I’ve also brought a few friends here. Sadly, the place has lost quality, quantity, and friendliness… Three attributes that used to make this place my family’s favorite dining spot. We would go three times a week some weeks. They used to give enormous portions of everything. Something must have happened because suddenly we would go and we’d get these tiny plates. I used to enjoy their Triple Delight. Then they got extremely stingy with their portions. I would spend over 20 dollars on my meal and leave still hungry. I would tell myself that I am still getting quality food. Then their chicken became more and more fatty and gummy. Then I would go because my family became close to the wait staff and owners. Now I rarely see the owners and all of the waitresses we liked are either gone already or are leaving soon. The current wait staff doesn’t know the menu and can’t understand English. Plus they have a tendency of being downright rude.
My family has already jumped ship and we’ve started giving other places our business.

I have been here twice now and both times I was very pleased with my meal and the customer service. They have a very nice selection of sushi and sashimi (sea urchin is on the menu for all of you who love it but have a hard time finding it in the area!) along with traditional Chinese take-​out dishes and a few Thai options. I wish they would have some authentic drinks like bubble tea or maybe some more options for hot tea.
Overall though no complaints about the food or customer service! I will be back.

This place better never close. Its my whole family’s favorite place to eat. We’ve tried many items, but my favorite so far is the triple delight. Steak (real steak, slightly rare in the middle), chicken, and shrimp. Perfectly cooked vegetables (pea pods, baby corn, broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, cabbage). And their cheese filled wontons (crab Rangoon).amazing!
The amazing chicken, general tsos, and sesame chicken all blow Sesame Inn out of the water. And its not as pricy.
We used to have to drive all the way out to bean curd in McMurray for decent Chinese. So happy we have rice inn now. (Plus our favorite bean curd waiter works here too!)
They get to know their regulars and anticipate your order. Love their servers!
EDITING TO ADD: the Pad Thai is addictive! I’ve ordered it the past 3 times and keep going back for it. New favorite. :).

This has got to be the friendliest place to eat dinner. I was really impressed by the welcoming smiles and fantastic service.
I am usually a fan of authentic ethnic cuisine, and you can get a little of that here, but what I experienced was great food at a very reasonable price. The portions are very large and the food is cooked fresh.
I ordered the Szechuan Chicken and it tasted great. It was a rather Americanized version of the dish, but still really very good.
In most of the reviews of the Rice Inn, they end by saying they will be back. Now I know why!

«No, that couldn’t be,» I said to myself earlier in the year when I noticed that the Bethel Park Pizza Hut had been converted into… an Asian restaurant? That would mean… sushi in Bethel Park???
2 nights ago on dreaded Black Friday, Kay and I were driving along cozy Library Road aimlessly when I suddenly remembered that relatively recent development and charged forward.
Like Bigfoot, Kay didn’t believe it existed.
«It used to be a Pizza Hut?» she asked with the tone of a skeptical police officer interrogating a UFO eyewitness.
«Yes! Keep going! It’s there! It’s there! I know I saw it! I read reviews on Unilocal,» I replied.
«What’s the name again?» she inquired.
«Rice Inn.»
«Ricin? Eeeeww. That’s a poison!»
«Oh, stop.»
«Well, they at least better be open or else… it’s a date with The Redhead,» Kay coldly promised.
Sure enough at 8PM on a weekend, Rice Inn’s doors were unlocked. The interiors are sparse but tasteful with vibrant, upside down glasses housing the light bulbs. Bourdain’s new CNN program was running on a flatscreen telly near a sushi bar.
A complimentary serving of Edamame was the precursor to our supper. Salted and bulbous, I’d never had these soybeans served to me in this manner before. At first I ate them whole! That is until I realized that I had better tasting results when I popped open each pod to get at the nutty, wholesome beans within.
I officially began my journey into the inexplicable with a pair of Uni or Sushi with Sea Urchin for the novices among thee. The quivering, ornately presented cylinders of seaweed, rice, and a paste-​like roe were bedecked with fanned cucumber. When placed whole in my mouth, what I tasted amidst each opulent morsel’s inherently sensual texture were the faint whispers of caviar, foie gras, oyster, and thus… the ocean. This wasn’t an appetizer; this was a seduction. The glob of wasabi remained untouched, but the flower of shaved, pickled ginger (I’ve a soft spot for it) I ate only after I finished the sushi.
6 swelling, humongous fried pork dumplings came next. Abundant with ground meat filling and golden brown on the outside, had I not shared them with Kay, I could have made them my entrée. The balls of savory minced pig stayed within each potsticker, which required knife, fork, and at least two bites to consume wholly. In all seriousness, Rice Inn’s dumplings are the largest specimen of this perennial Chinese favorite I’ve ever experienced, and they alone make a trek to the far South Hills worthwhile.
Based solely on its fanciful, poetic name, I chose a main dish that fell under the Thai heading. Dancing Seafood Supreme was composed of jumbo shrimp, sea scallops, crabmeat, tomatoes, onion, peppers, carrot, basil, and «chef’s special spicy Thai chili sauce» as stated in the pamphlet I took home. The sauce was only warmly spicy and never overthrew the majesty that was the pleasingly plump and abundant bits of crustacean and mollusk. The tatty and tart tomato pieces were a welcome surprise and fleetingly fooled me into thinking I was eating an Italian stew made with the day’s fresh catch.
After barely finishing each of our big-​hearted portions, we bade our trusty server Celine along with the rest of the buoyant staff farewell and headed back home without having bought a single damn thing on this damnably consumerist holiday other than a wondrous Asian supper at a family-​owned establishment.