Fat Yin Restaurant

This place is a major dump. Whoever is cooking has no pride. The food ingredients are second hand and tasteless. To give you a picture, Imagine a Chinese restaurant inside a Presidente Supermarket. This food makes you feel awful. I wish i can go back in time and not have chosen this place for a meal. The worst part is that when you walk in, they have a bunch of their slave kids preparing dough on a Cafeteria table. So let me get this straight? elementary kids prepare my food and some guy that looks like he came out of a swamp from a sewer line in the Chineese wall is cooking my food. Don’t put this Prisoner of War food into your mouth. You will regret every second of chewing.

Goes by the name of Beijing Garden now. Very, very dive-​y. With that said, this is fairly decent Chinese take-​out. The general tso’s is about average. The boneless pork is ok, but I wish it was cut into the smaller strips and glazed. These are some fairly large pork pieces. The fried rice is average. Prices are good. I would put this place squarely in the average category in terms of how it ranks compared to other takeout Chinese places in the area.

Now called «Beijing Garden»…Went there and won’t go back… don’t get me wrong… the food was good, lots of food served and cheap prices… grease smell overwhelms your senses… their main business is takeout and delivery… now I know… call for great food but get it delivered.

Some lowly and cheap places are just hard to review — because their existence is a meager one. But let me start of by saying I found out about this place because they distributed their restaurant menus in my building.
And instead of ordering out, I decided to get a real life experience by sitting in. And boy, let me tell you — no right-​minded diner would feel comfortable eating here at night unless if you were a bozo, thug or a bum. But that’s at night, and from what I’ve seen, I’m not too keen on trying out what it is like during the day.
On top of that, this restaurant may be what I typify as «Old Miami» — it is unglamorous, cheap, Spanish-​speaking, bars on windows, general sense of low expectations and with no intention of ever changing despite the massive amount of new construction nearby that would certainly bring a classier group of people (or people with better means) into the city.
I came upon this conclusion because an smelly and unruly beggar asking for a cig and money just walked into the restaurant and bugged customers about it to the point of harrassment, in front of management (which is just one mobster-​looking guy with greased up hair) and in front of the lone woman with an attitude of indifference in charge of serving and taking orders. Did they do anything about it?
Well… they did NOTHING at all. They just shrugged it off as if it was just a rare, but expected, occurrence. But the fact that they did nothing at all really struck me — the standards they have set up for the restaurant is definitely one that won’t be welcomed by the people of the «New Miami.»
That being said, and just for that, I cannot really get the courage to give anything more than one-​star (the lowest ranking I can give) despite their food being cheap (less than $ 6 for a dinner combo) and alright. I’ve had their decent fried rice (rice was probably cheap, but I always get excited when I see hand-​cut chunks of ham instead of the presliced type), and okay deep-​fried shrimp (it was a bit too bready for my taste). Plus, they ran out of lemon and lime.