Hua Mei Restaurant

We were spending an evening in Dayton and this came up in the app with good Chinese food. We were very happy with everything, delicious! We ordered Chicken Lo Mein and Orange Chicken. Ordered ahead of time for pickup and we were in and out in 2 minutes.

I was excited to try this Chinese spot but it was a little disappointing. It's in the middle of nowhere near a factory and for how large the restaurant is, we were the only people dining there for dinner on a Saturday. The service was good and the staff were attentive but the food quality varied from dish to dish. The spicy chicken was crispy and tasty along with the tofu, and the beans were as expected. However, the twice cooked pork was very salty and the beef stew was not tender. The portions were great though!

It was ok.... Maybe because it was a holiday but they sat us in a corner and didn't bring us napkins and also got our order wrong. They fixed it.The hot and sour soup wasn't hot or sour. It was actually sweet. I didn't eat most of it.The spicy chicken was fine. Too much breading and not enough chicken. Also, it was over fried, probably due to it being reheated in the fryer.Gyoza was good and looked handmade. Chicken and broccoli was good. They didn't have two of their spinach dishes (normal spinach and water spinach). Overall... eh. I would go again if I'm in the area but wouldn't make a special trip for it. It was clean.

I had wanted to try their food for a while, but it's a bit of a drive from my house. I just happened to be going to a place south of here for work, so I took it as an opportunity to grab some take-out on the way back to the office. Located next to a factory, it was a little odd, and I expected the interior to be drab. It was not! It is really nice inside, a good setting for a date night. I wanted something spicy, as always, so I ordered saliva chicken. It had a little kick to it, but it wasn't super spicy--to me. I also wanted to try something new, so I ordered the pepper pig trotters. The waitrss asked, "are you sure?" but she wasn't rude about it. They are so good. I absolutely loved the texture. I dream about them now. I will definitely be back! I actually texted my husband immediately and told him we need to go there for a date.

Hua Mei, in the former location of Taste of the World, at the front gate of Fuyao (old Delco plant). FULL MENU is provided in the pics.We'd all gone before ton this location before it closed due to covid, but now it's a new place and a new name. Me and foodie gang decided we needed to go!Today was the day! The menu is smaller than before, but then they had two menus one americanized fare and one extremely authentic one in mostly Chinese in the old place. Its certainly far less intimidating now. There's mostly authentic Chinese (some kinda weird even to the most adventurous of us, loofah? Pork blood cubes? Snails? And WTF is Saliva chicken?). But there's also the page of more familiar American Chinese fare. But we stayed away from that. We weren't there for ordinary!We decided to go authentic and do it family style. We each ordered a few appitizers in round one, and a entree each in round two and filled the middle of the table and we all dug in to everything.Everything was really good, I'm the most squidgy on food textures so I didn't care for a couple, that's me, the others liked them. First round, appetizers: gyoza (ordinary steamed dumplings, I should have asked for fried. I miss the old places dumplings with the crispy starch frills. But these were good, just steamed. I judge Chinese by gyoza/jaozi) We also got fried oysters, (they looked good, but one of my NoNo foods so I didn't try), the oddly named Saliva chicken which was cold so that was nice change, and was the hit of the table (Turns out they meant mouthwatering, and it was) that covered in a delicious garlic soy dumpling sauce. As well as the homestyle fried eel was really nice and different and very nicely seasoned.Round two: razor clams with chives, pan fried egg noodle with seafood, pork ribs with pineapple and the pine nut fish. All were very good, but we didn't seem to see pinenuts on the fish like the menu pic. The razor clams were chewy I didn't care for them, the pork ribs are fiddly, you need to gnaw around each bone on each to pull off the fried meat, it was rather liked a Chinese version of chicharons in a sweet sauce. Service was good even translated the specials on the board by the door to us which were entirely in Chinese.We all left with leftovers (or ordered more for later) and intend to go back Try even more of the traditional offerings.Hours are 11-2 and 4-9, Mon thru Sat.400 Fuyao Avenue, Moraine

1st time there and will be my last. Was seated and I asked for water to drink. After more than 10 minutes later, no water so I left. Was hoping I may have found a new restaurant but no.

Ordered takeout for our big Surgery crew at Kettering Hospital. Everyone was raving about the good food. Thank you so much. We will definitely be ordering again.

Sad to say that I will not be able to review this restaurant. We went in at 1:30 PM for lunch on Thursday afternoon. We were told immediately that the restaurant closes from 2 to 4. The two ladies there were not willing to seat us, they asked us to order takeout. This is not posted on the door or the website, and I will not go back. If somebody walks in at 1:30, there's plenty of time to bring the food out by two or, please post your correct hours on the website before people drive a distance to eat at your restaurant. Unfortunate customer service because I'm sure your food is delicious.