East Ocean Chinese Restaurant

Friendly servers. Food is pricey, but good. Service time is fairly quick. I definitely recommend.

Not impressed at all and either is my stomach. Slow service (one server for dinner). Kids food and app came out right away (yeah), but my husband and mine did not. So we thought, ok that's nice have toddler foods out first so they can start eating- great. BUT after 20 mins, and the kids both finishing their plates- our entrees were still not on the table! I asked the only server, who said any minute. Another 5 mins went by, both kids are fussy/crying being toddlers and finally the food came out. Shrimp was awful, breading tasted like doughnuts- $14 entree and I hardly touched it. Will not be back.

My family and I are in town for the weekend and were looking for a Chinese restaurant to eat at. There's a difference between take-out "Chinese Food" and authentic, would-eat-at-home Chinese food. We saw that there's mostly only the former in Clarkston, probably due to the small Asian population here. After seeing the very polarized reviews of this restaurant, we thought it'd be best to go try it ourselves.The interior of the restaurant is very nice, adorned with traditional Chinese decor and clean, red seats. There weren't too many people when we first entered, but as we ordered a couple more families came in (Friday, dinnertime). The menu had the basic "Chinese" items as well as some Thai options as well. They all looked okay for the type of Chinese food I was expecting, and while my Chinese parents probably wanted a home cooked meal, this would do for me! The waiter came and brought us waters and then the manager/owner/the-like came out and greeted us in Chinese! She said there aren't many Chinese people who come and that if nothing on the menu was suitable, they happened to be cooking for themselves and offered us some more authentic dishes.We waited a while and saw some other people get their food with what I'm assuming was complimentary rice and soup, and then our dishes came out:Mapo TofuFried Chicken Strips with Special SauceBitter Melon and Sardines (? I think)Chinese Chives and Pork Stomach (? Also unsure of translation haha)White Rice (my fav)Everything was SO GOOD... My mom literally ate half the sardines and bitter melon dish by herself. The Mapo Tofu wasn't that spicy. The owners are GuangDong Ren and still managed to speak Mandarin to my parents. (If you know, you know). Not too pricey in comparison to other authentic Chinese Restaurants.If you are looking for some real, homemade Chinese food -- in addition to typical, delicious "Chinese Food", I urge you to come here. The waiter and owner were so nice, not just to us but to other guests as well. There's also a bar and pick-up/take-out options available!

Terrible tasting food, the meat is boiled and not fried and is bland and tasteless. The pad Thai lacks flavor and sweetness with bland sauce and the egg tasted like it was 2 days old. The spring rolls and pretty much anything that was fried tasted like the oil used was low grade and not changed in a while. All in all the very worst Chinese meal I have ever tasted / never finished. Don't waste your time and money at this low grade excuse for a Chinese / Thai restaurant! Horrible

2stars is maybe a hair generous. 1.75 is more like it. Was hoping for this place to be good. I have lived in Michigan for 27 years and have only found 1 good place in commerce township and it closed 15 years ago lol. But I digress. The good I guessPortion size is definitely plenty. We got our food quick. The pork low mein was actually fairThe pork fried rice was edible. The bad.The pot stickers were strange. The filling I think was like a chicken paste or something. Tasted very odd. Not odd like it was turned or anything just really unusual without having anything hood or interesting about it. I have an adventurous palate but this was just bizarre take on dumplings.. Couldn't eat them.Szechuan chicken was flavorless and the chicken was dry as a boneBroccoli beef had no detectable garlic or ginger flavor and the meat wasn't marinated in sodium bicarbonate, or cornstarch so none of the flavor or velvety mouthful of authentic Chinese.Egg rolls meh. Price was pretty high for 3 entrees a quart of pfr and 2 apps $70 with carry out tip. Oh and the didn't give us a rice with one of the entrees. Nothing overtly bad or unclean but I am baffled as to how such non flavor or mediocre flavor can be put on a plate. I can cook real Chinese. The prep just takes forever and I don't have the time but I am resigned to the fact that there just isn't good Chinese in Michigan. I wish I were raving about this place. Sincerely.

Avoid this place, you can find better options elsewhere. Ordered Moo Shoo and they didn't give me the pancakes and only gave me a tiny container of hoisin, dish was watered down and had little flavor, the other order was pork lo-mein, pork was tough and dry, noodles were thick, like fat spaghetti and the dish was very bland with hunks of green onions that were not chewable. The real kicker was the little egg rolls that were all dough, no flavor. How can a Chinese restaurant mess up egg rolls??? I thought they were pretty standard everywhere, I have never had a problem with buying egg rolls anywhere until this place. Oh, and it was really expensive for the portions. Much better food around town!!!

Food was absolutely delicious. Highly recommend this place service was excellent. Family owned business.

Best Chinese I've had. I suggest Szechuan chicken, almond boneless chicken, orange chicken and wonton soup! Quickly made and good service when you dine in.

I don't usually write reviews, but we love this place and I was sad to see how many negative reviews they had. We've tried almost every Chinese restaurant in the Clarkston area in this one is by far the best. We love their General Tso and Almond Chicken.

Ordered for the first time yesterday. Won't be going back, ever. Ordered at 3pm. Looked like the food was yesterdays left overs. Rice was hard and dry. Chicken chop suey had hardly any chicken in it and had NO sauce on it. Very dry. Ham fried rice had absolutely no taste. Very dry, no green onions or egg. Very disappointed.