Meng's Pan-Asian

This was a very surprising dining experience for me. The restaurant was very quiet and all the guests were quiet. Unlike other chaotic Chinese restaurants, the environment here was very good. The waitress is not good at English, but she is very warm and Oriental. Especially the food, really let us surprise, large portions, good taste, low price, high cost performance. Their honey chicken is absolutely delicious. We'll drive again

We drove more than 3 hours to this small town north Adams..it’s raining outside,and we easily found this restaurant,the food was amazing,especially the shrimp with lobster sauce..and my daughter like the chicken on the stick very much. There was one waitress, she was very busy ,a kind and gentle lady..we will come here again next spring..

Wow. Two days after the incident and I am still reeling from the experience of having attempted to eat here. I feel obligated to write this as a public service to anyone who may be thinking of visiting this place. In short, don't. It was awful, absolutely disgusting. That's all you really need to know. The vibe was maybe what you'd expect on a Sunday afternoon In North Adams--empty, quiet, with a hint of dingy. Which was actually fine, because I have eaten at places with that vibe that were really good restaurants. The waitress was kind of adorable, but had very, very weak English, which is fine, but don't try to communicate with her or complain about anything. We ordered the Scallion pancakes, Moo Shu chicken, Chicken with ginger and green beans, and the salmon entrée. The scallion pancakes were EXTERMELY oily and tasted burned--like they had been fried at too low a temp and had not filtered the oil in a long, long time. Do they use this oil as an ash tray? That wouldn't surprise me. When the Ginger chicken came out I knew instantly that it was going to be bad, because the beans were a dark green/brown color. They were cold-to-lukewarm, and their flavor (if you can call it that) had an edge of burnt bitterness that was deeply disturbing and bloomed in your mouth after swallowing. My Moo Shu chicken looked...wrong--it was colorless, gooey--slimy, almost--and tasted like it was many days old. The alleged chicken in it had a texture difficult to describe--like kneaded eraser, maybe? The dish overall had no life, structure, color--nothing suggesting that "this is food" at all. The pancakes they gave me to wrap it in were obviously microwaved, and were impossible to peel apart from one another, and hardened to a sort of "bread leather" within minutes. Yum. Both aforementioned dishes were presented as large, glistening lumps of drabness that looked entirely unappetizing. It was hard to convince ourselves that we should at least try them. The salmon was the only dish that looked palatable--the veg had color, as did the fish. I did not taste that, though, reportedly it was "ok." However the miso soup that came with it was a complete fail. It looked like mud, or gravy, and the tofu had obviously been previously frozen (if you have frozen and thawed tofu, you know the look and texture of it, and I have.) How does a Chinese restaurant mess up miso soup? It's a staple, ferchrissakes! Look, TL;DR or whatever, but I just want you to know that I had nothing against these folks going into this--we just wanted a decent meal after an afternoon spent at Mass MoCA. But these meals were objectively and categorially awful. We were given SO MUCH FOOD, ate 10 obligatory bites and left them with at least 2 pounds each to throw away, because there was no way in hell we were going to cart that garbage home with us and ruin our compost with it. We also left them with 60 dollars that I wish I still had. I am eternally grateful that none of us got sick, which I fully expected. Please, please, I beg you--do not eat here. I am not being dramatic when I say they should probably be shut down, or at least investigated.

I remember coming here years ago and loving it, reading these reviews I’m seeing that it was under different ownership at the time. Came here after a visit at the mass moca and walked in to a legitimately cold restaurant we asked the waitress to turn on the heat and she did but it wasn’t warm in there until we left. We ordered vegetable dumplings and were brought pork they replace them and the dumplings we also legitimately cold. The tofu dish and pad fun we ordered were both off tasting and very low quality. To top it off literally every dish we received was dirty, just a overall bad experience.

The sushi was genuinely disgusting. My girlfriend was so repulsed she immediately threw up. Plus I had to wait like 20 min without any acknowledgement before they gave me my order which was supposed to already have been ready. If you insist upon eating here, make sure you only order well cooked food.