Kirin Chinese Restaurant, Berkeley

food is just OK, but for the fancy setting, they charge you 50% more. Just drive a few more blocks to the Pacific East mall and get your Chinese food at Daimo or something.

This restaurant is over rated. I stopped going because of the poor quality of food and ever increasing prices. The last time I went I ordered the Lemon Grass Prawns and was struck by the fact that the prawns were small and of low quality. Also, the oil that was used that day was stale. This had happened more than once. The previous week I had ordered the Chicken Chow Mein and the noodles were mushy, the chicken was fatty thigh meat and the oil was stale. Several times before, I had similar experiences. I decided that I had enough of the fancy looking dishes and high prices and decided not too come back. Yes, the dishes look supreme. On the night I ordered the Lemon Grass Prawns I had seen some other people order it and the appearance was so attractive, I couldn't help but order it myself. So if you want to order beautiful looking dishes that are low quality and taste horrible, plus throw your money out the door, this is the restaurant to do it at. Chow.