Mhan Chung Malaysian Asian Cuisine

Just FYI this place is closed!!! Boarded up nobody home out of business.

Place sucks, terrible service. dont go or waste your money

Don’t waste your money or appetite. We did read reviews and wanted to give it a chance, but now should have listened to what we read. Were there at lunch time and only 1 person was in the place. We ordered 2 appetizers and left, which took about an hour. I almost tripped over the fire extinguisher they had sitting in front of the door inside the ladies room.

Not that good.

Since I had arrived in Puerto Rico, we stayed at the Holiday Inn in the Condado neighborhood. I read some of the good and bad reviews from tourists that had eaten at the Mhan Chung Restaurant. My husband and I are from the San Francisco Bay Area in California and of course, we grew up eating Chinese food in our Chinatown so naturally the first thing we craved was Chinese food. We found Mhan Chung Restaurant. We read the Menu on the outside which listed 3 columns: Chinese, Japanese and Malaysian food. We went in and tried it. The food was good, fresh and it came out «steaming hot». We went there almost every other day.
First of all, there is NO SUCH THING as a «PURE» CHINESE restaurant in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a MIXED CULTURE due to the invasion «foreigner» over the past 300 years. Most of the Chinese people that are living in Puerto Rico came from the Canton area of China because they speak the old Cantonese «Toilson» village dialect, the ancient dialect of my parents. Chinese food is going to be EXPENSIVE in Puerto Rico because Puerto Rico is SPANISH INFLUENCE… not Chinese influence/​Thre are NO CHINATOWNS in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Hispanic restaurants can readily get their shipment of supplies from neighboring Hispanic countries like Mexico, Latin and South America. Of course items like Chinese produce, Chinese products and Chinese ingredients used to make Chinese food will have to be imported from Far East trading companies = pricey.

No Chinese dishes are going to TASTE EXACTLY the same. Dim Sum isn’t going to taste the same as the Dim Sum served in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago or Hong Kong. Mhan Chung is NOT a Chinese restaurant specializing in Chinese food. It’s an ASIAN restaurant in PUERTO RICO serving Asian mixed fusion food as with most of the so called Chinese, Japanese, or Malaysian restaurants in Puerto Rico. It has Puerto Rican influence.

As a group of 6, we went to this restaurant with a sense of giving it a chance. Even though the other reviews were low, we thought we’d still try it out. We sat down and they gave us 2 different menus. Mind you, they gave us 2 menus only for the 6 of us. We asked for more menus and the waitress gave us one more menu and even gave it to us with an attitude.
I’m not one to get angry easily but this was just unacceptable. We walked out. We were in the restaurant for 3 minutes, 3 minutes too long.
The restaurant was very quiet and the ambiance was not friendly. Don’t go here for Chinese food. Walk down the block and go to the other Chinese place.
Do not go to this retaurant.

The food is mediocre for Asian food if you are accustomed to stateside asian food. There is another place down the street that is better.
I give it one star for the three following reasons:
1 — service is les than acceptable. the only thing I didn’t have to keep asking for was a refill on my water. Which is abnormal for this island.
2 — They effing serve sharkfin soup!!! Sharkfin soup is a cultural food item for Chinese. I found it completely distasteful that they served it when it is such a horrid practice. You thought veal was bad? Sharks are pulled out of the water, their fins cut off and then their bodies (ALIVE MIND YOU) are thrown back into the water where they die because they cannot swim.
3 — This last reason is an annoyance for many restaurants in this city. They charge 15% gratuity 7 days a week no matter your group size. While I am ok with this practice at higher end restaurants and with large groups — the service and food quality made the practice extremely unacceptable.

It’s difficult to find good Asian food on the island, so I’ll give this place 2 stars. I honestly like Great taste better (a couple blocks away).
We ordered the salt and pepper shrimp and the tofu delight, both dishes were just okay… nothing spectacular. Also note that everything needs to be imported for Asian food, thus the expensive price.

I’m torn on the rating for this restaurant… On one hand, it’s the most amount of food I’ve gotten for the least amount of money in San Juan…
On the other hand, while the szechuan dumplings were good — the beef chow fun was lacking. The szechuan dumplings were not what I expected, they were handmade dumplings in a peanuty sauce that was kind of like a soup. I did really like them. The beef chow fun had an overall lack of beef — and the beef could have been much better prepared. It was pretty tough… not tender like it should be. Flavoring was good on the overall dish. Anyways, the thing that kind of pushed it to a 3 was that my diet coke was never refilled. It costs a restaurant very little to refill soda drinks, so I expect that waiters should be attentive to something like that. Unfortunately, I finished it off after my appetizer and it sat empty for the rest of the meal. Anyways, if you’re on a budget — it has a large menu and is definitely worth a shot.

Yes there is Dim Sum in Puerto Rico! I wouldn’t recommend it to visitors though because it is pretty pricey. Chinese food in general is pretty expensive in PR. The dishes are $ 4.50-$ 6.00 each and that is pretty much double the prices of most places DC or NYC. Plus, some of the dishes are smaller. For example, the pineapple buns were mini versions but still delicious! Also, The rice rolls with shrimp had 2 shrimps instead of the usual 3. The size wasn’t a huge issue for me since I was just happy that there was dim sum available. Just don’t get the egg tarts (the crust was stale) or the rice roll with beef (it was too processed).
Service was super! The waiter/​waitress spoke Chinese, English, and Spanish! Now that’s talent. I’m envious. They gave us what we wanted and when we needed it. They also accidentally brought us the steamed pork bun instead of the chicken bun, but they had no problems taking the pork bun back and later brought us the chicken bun.
I definitely got my dim sum fix here. If you’re here on the island and are desperate for some dim sum, then go try this place out!

Having been born in Singapore I consider myself a good judge of Malaysian style food — and this wasn’t it.
Terrible quality meal — definitely tourist crap.
We ordered a Chicken Sate appetizer which was a little under cooked and the peanut sauce was the consistency of soda…
I ordered my Malaysian favorite — Beef Rendang which should come out as chunky cubed, tender beef with a slightly spicy, powdery sauce with a hint of coconut.
What I got was thin strips of the type of steak of the type they use for cheesesteaks, full of fat and gristle and covered in a nondescript sauce that you could have mistaken for chipotle! — truly disgusting attempt at Rendang.
My buddy ordered a chicken mei fun which is the chicken with the flat noodles. Utterly tasteless.
The soups were the only things they didn’t manage to screw up.
It turned out to be pretty pricey too for such a low grade meal. Almost Manhattan prices.
Do yourselves a favor and give this place a miss.

Nice clean restaurant with friendly service. Malaysian and Chinese is their specialty. We were told that Great Taste had the best dim sum, but we were not impressed by their food or the surly service. Mhan Chung’s dim sum was better, but a little bit pricier. It’s order from menu, but they have pictures. They also have a parking lot.