Pearl River Chinese Restaurant

Came with my friend as this is the only Chinese restaurant he likes.
He order the tomato beef chow mein HK style.
I ordered the Mongolian beef.
Spicy and delicious.

I selected this restaurant because it had 3.9 stars, but it is completely and utterly not recommended. Ordered take-out online, website said will be ready in 20 minutes.
Then got notification that order will be ready in one hour. Tried to call to cancel the order, but no reply and voice message was full.
called again - same result.
wish I could give 0 stars for "service". So, we paid already so had to wait ...
the wait did not prove worth it. We ordered 3 "meals" - one with chicken salad and Mongolian beef, one chicken cashew and chow mien, and one beef cashew with chow mien. all were very disappointing - again I wish I could leave less than one star. salad had no dressing and the chicken pieces were dry.
Mongolian beef tasted mostly like soy and oil, very little hot spice.
beef was stringy and not really good. Both chicken cashew and beef cashew had very little meat, both was mostly zucchini - beef had onions, chicken had celery - but very precious little meat.
And they both had, unfortunately, the same bland no-flavor of generic nothingness. You will do better with getting any other Chinese food - even from a generic restaurant like panda or the such, or even from Safeway.

For those who know me, you know that I hate, hate, hate giving bad reviews.
there is enough negativity out there that I do not have to add to it.
Plus, previous reviewers have done a good job of warning folks. But .
.
. Okay, so the first thing is that when I walked in, there were fries and ketchup on one of the tables.
Cool, cool, cool.
This could be one of those Chinese places that serves everything from breakfast to late-night grub.
Mmmmm.
Not really. Okay, so I ordered mushu chicken and sauteed broccoli.
Both were just fine, but not all that flavorful.
Food seems like "Chinese food for non-Chinese folks, which in this area seems unnecessary and a missed opportunity because there is not much in the way of Chinese food out this way.
I was disappointed, to say the least. I think the worst part was that the place seemed genuinely and visibly dirty.
Heading back to the bathroom may have been a mistake.
Now, don't get me wrong, I do love a good hole-in-the-wall place, and I have been in my share of Chinese restaurant back areas, so the fact that this place gave me pause should tell you something. To give a single start for me means "never ever again," but in a pinch, I might come by for takeout something, but ONLY in a pinch, and I won't be going to the bathroom.