Quan’s Kitchen Chinese Food

I want to give 0 star for them! I’ve been there before going to gym, and the food is gross.

We used to rely on Quan’s for good Chinese food, but after a hiatus tried them again. Do not eat here. The food was really terrible. The pan fired Peking ravioli were like eating dried paste– heavy, doughy and tasteless. The Ma Pa Tofu was glutinous and sweet. The green beans were slimy with oil, but the worst was the roasted crispy duck. The duck had clearly been a around for days and the skin was beige and old and what the restaurant did was slap on some brown sauce to cover it up. Really disgusting over all and the food went into the trash.

Great service! The girl with glasses in the front is very friendly and great customer service. I love their spicy salted chicken wings. After working out at the gym for two hours, the eight delight seafood chow Mein filled up my tummy. They are missing one star because it was really cold in the restaurant. No heat in 30 degrees. I like that they use new utensils and you don’t have to pay for tips.

Holy fucking shit this place has the worst fucking crab rangoon in the world how do you fuck up crab rangoons I don’t understand they taste like some weird funky mushroom radish shit the rest of the food is meh edible

Just ordered here for the first time today. I got my go to order for Chinese food, which is chicken fingers and beef with broccoli. In addition I got a hot and sour soup because it came with the 2 person dinner special on Grubhub. The portions were pretty decent and affordable, but all of the dishes fell short. I’m not super picky but these are all pretty basic and just weren’t very good. The beef and broccoli didn’t have a great flavor and the texture of the beef was hard to chew. The chicken fingers were oily and not as crispy as I’d like and the hot and sour soup just didn’t taste like hot and sour soups I’ve had before. It was just a disappointment considering it’s nearby and has good prices and portions.

Ordered delivery from this place and it was over 1 hr late. They also got my order wrong. I ordered a char siu pork and roast duck combo over rice and they gave me chicken instead of duck. The pork was also overly fatty (¾ of a piece = fat? no thanks.) and had none of the sweet flavor that char siu is supposed to have. The preserved egg and pork congee was bland as well — seems like they just make regular congee and added pieces of preserved egg as an afterthought. I can do that myself.
Not coming back here again, not when there are so many better places around Allston.

Absolutely disgusting. Meat was not fresh; it tasted like it was laden with chemical cleaning products!
Beef Satay Chow Foon: Sauce was sickeningly sweet. And really – canned pineapples? Wtf? The noodles were clumped together. Oh, thick, fat clumps of starchy blandness… How delightful! Beef tasted very foul, like it had been sitting out at room temp all day.
Pork Chop over Rice: I had high expectations, given it’s popularity among frequent diners and the fact that this dish was one of my favorites growing up. Gee was this GROSS! Pork reeked of chlorine bleach plus fatty, almost spoiled tasting carcass. Sorry if you’re reading this as you eat. Didn’t intend on making you vomit.
No frills delivery. The delivery man was sort of rude on the phone, but he softened up once he saw me. I think it was because I’m asian.
I thought HK Café was bad, but I’ll have to say that even they are better than Quan’s!

I find the bad reviews of this place baffling, and I can only come to one conclusion. Everyone who wrote a bad review was expecting food court chinese food. I think places that excel at actual chinese food (like ma po tofu and sezchuan spicy dry green beans) tend not to make the greatest crappy american-​chinese dishes like Orange Chicken or General Gaos. To be fair their lo mein (my one food court chinese vice) is not my favorite, but why order that when you can get the dry beef chow fun!
I think if Quans was located further away from Victoria Seafood, then people craving more authentic chinese food would have balanced out the poor ratings. The food is certainly not as authentic as Victorias, but it is a cheap, friendly, reliable close second if you need delivery at 1 am, or don’t want to be sketched out by a dirty restaurant with terrible service (I don’t mind, but many westerners might be horrified). The people at Quans have always been friendly and attentive. The restaurant is clean. Their Ma Po Tofu does not have Sezchuan Peppercorns in it =(but is still delicious and filled with pork and veggies. Also, their wonton soup has actual chinatown quality dumplings in it chocked full of shrimp and pork. All in all we order from there once every few weeks, and have yet to be disappointed.

SPLENDID. I hadn’t been back since recently reentering therapy. (I’m schizo affective). Lets say I had previously had such a strong distaste for Quan’s tht the police were involved on more than one occasion. I hate my mother. I ordered the sesame chicken and moogoo gai pan and it tasted like my mothers home cooking, god rest her soul.
The rice was moist and perfect and the dumplings were wet and sour and soggy and delicious. I usually get a few extra orders to share with my neighbors. I used to pee on cookie sheets and slide it under their doors, now I slide food and other pleasantries such as the New Bedford whaling industry was once of such prominence that New Bedford was the wealthiest city in the country.
Desert was phenomenal. The fortune cookies were crunchy and well made with deep concentration and precision. See, now here is where I previously took issue with Quan’s. they would package little microscopic Native American men in the cookies to watch me at night and take notes and to one day kill me. NOW, QUAN HAS DONE SOMETHING WONDERFUL. HE SENDS THE BEATLES IN MY COOKIES AND I GET A FULL CONCERT AS I EAT. QUAN? You didn’t have to do that. Sometimes ringo doesn’t show up because his ghonorrea bothers him so greatly.

We were driving by looking for another restaurant we’d found on Unilocal.Having no luck and with our appetites growing with each tenth of a mile we happened upon Quan’s Kitchen.
It is a beautifully designed and decorated exterior and interior. It is likely the most attractive Chinese Restaurant I have ever visited. We were greeted and seated quickly. The interior is decorated with tasteful black and white photography. Which my wife discovered the artist was the Restaurant Owner. The menu offers a huge variety from Sushi, freshly made to order to Seafood and just about every dish you can imagine.
My wife and I order luncheon specials which were modestly priced and extremely tasty. Certainly plenty to satisfy our hunger. Each item was flavorful and yummy.
The owner stopped by our table and chatted with us. I found him an extremely bright and pleasant gentleman.
Both my wife and I will return the Quan’s Kitchen and will recommend it highly to friends and family.

Ordered from Quan’s Kitchen a few more times since my last review, the trick is to know what to order. Everything on the rice plate menu will be a decent experience, with the exception of General Gau Chicken /​Orange Flavor Chicken. Out of the viable rice plates, Beef ribs, satay beef, pork chop with salt & pepper are all excellent. But if you decide to order their Americanized Chinese food, you’re going to have a bad time.

It’s 1 a.m., I’m done performing at the Cantab open mike,
and I’m hungry.
Happily, Quan’s lies between the Cantab & home.
After scarfing down a plate of General Gau’s, I can head home sated, not needing to eat ’til noon.
I love this place. It’s not a culinary delight, but it’s plenty good enough.
(And I’ve eaten at a lot of C-​town places that aren’t, so I feel qualified to opine.)

This was so bad. Two of us got Sesame Chicken. I’m not joking. We both, threw it out after three bites, and we were starving. THANKFULLY we had Peanut Butter Cheerios, and bananas in the kitchen, to wash the taste of this out of our mouths.
After the follow up with the restaurant, to let them know how bad our order was. THEY TOLD US TO BASICALLY… GO)(*& OURSELVES.

If you want to eat at Quans, you have to obey one cardinal rule, which is to never complain about Quans. Luckily for me, I’ve developed a severe allergy to gross food so I can’t eat there anyway.
This review is based on my single delivery experience, which ended in a massacre of several taste-​bud citizens of my mouth.
I ordered brown rice with something else (I forgot what the other thing was because the rancid rice induced a semi-​state of coma and I blacked out during my meal). I opened the box of rice and the smell literally hit me like a ton of bricks (the bricks that come out during a toilet escapade). That smell, my Lord, that smell, went straight to my nostrils and penetrated it in a way that it is now sexually violated.
I called Quans and told them about my problem and they told me that all their brown rice smells the same. So I asked to replace it with white rice. They told me they would do that, but I would need to hold on to the brown rice and not eat any of it. I wasn’t planning on eating any of it, believe me.
30 minutes later, my white rice came. By then, my main dish was cold, but hopefully, with the power of rice-​cooker-​fresh rice, I could blend the two and make a luke-​warm, semi-​enjoyable meal.
The deliver guy, who I think is the owner or manager, stepped out, and asked to see my rice. I gave it to him, and he smelled it. Then he started screaming at me and telling me how I don’t know what rice smells like, and how all brown rice smells this way. I didn’t respond, but he really didn’t make me feel good about myself.
But I won’t lie, the brown rice smelled like some humanoid gym socks went running for a few hours, took off its own gym socks, and threw those over what would be the brown rice in my hands.
I’m not saying Quan’s is all terrible, all I’m saying is the boss is mean and loves to shout at customers and make them feel very bad about themselves right before a meal that they ordered at his restaurant. And he feels good telling us that we don’t know what brown rice smells like. Meanie.
The end.

Minus the hair we found in our fried rice, the food was pretty decent.
The vegetable dumplings were delicious.
The chicken fingers were average.
The duck sauce was general orange sauce.
The beef with mixed vegetables was pretty good, but the baby corn tasted a little off.
I would suggest forgoing Quan’s and instead going right across the street to Victoria’s Seafood! We got all the same items and they were much better!

I found this place on Unilocal,and unfortunately Unilocal disappointed.
Saturday night around 7 PM I ordered delivery with my boyfriend. I ordered Moo Shoo Vegetable no mushroom, and he ordered General Gao’s Chicken. Well, the Moo Shoo vegetable was 93% dark black mushroom that looked like seaweed, and 7% a vegetable I have no idea what it was, and I only eat vegetables! Then a tiny container of Hoisin sauce.
My boyfriend said his meal was just okay.
Blah, I hadn’t ordered Chinese food in so long and I was so excited to enjoy it again. Sigh. A

It’s really a luxury to have late night delicious Chinese food available for pick up or delivery during your college years. I did not go to BU but there were so many nights that I was down there that I had great food from here.
BU students and Allston residents, take advantage. :-)

Quan’s has it’s pros and cons like any other business. Unfortunately the pros cannot be found in the food.
Lemme start by saying that they are one of few Chinese restaurants in the area open late AND delivers. Prices aren’t bad (i’m used to «hood» New York Chinese food thats really cheap & deliciously greasy: D) but that’s about where the good things end.
My delivery guy was surprisingly rude & the food was disappointing & a little cold. I ordered beef w/​broccoli, scallion pancakes & crab rangoon. The rangoon was the best of the meal. My broccoli was seriously overcooked & pretty much inedible. Scallion pancakes were fine but I can’t stand a cheap dipping sauce which is exactly what I got. It was basically salted brown water.
Despite my disappointments, I do hear good things about this restaurant so maybe I just ordered on a bad day or ordered the wrong thing. I hear their chicken lo mein is great so I just may give them one more shot if my regular place is closed.

Had their fried salt & pepper squid. Squid was decent but had way too much salt. Restaurant was clean and the only thing open at 11:30p at night. The girl at the counter was very friendly, but she wouldn’t take my AmEx.
Why two stars? Not a good value at $ 10.50.

The only reason I really even go to this place is because it is right on my way home. It’s nothing special. Basically, you can get a mediocre pile of Chinese food for a fairly standard price.
Bottom line: It hasn’t yet made me sick; so I’d call it a safe bet when you don’t have too many other options.