Red Bowl

YUK. I went there for lunch & had the Pad Thai. YUK. It was gummy & flavorless and not worth the time or money. The shrimp smelled funky, and I was afraid I was going to get sick from it. The waitress was efficient but never once smiled.

Still bad. Next to no tuna in the spicy tuna roll, which consisted of only 5 pieces.

Food is good. Singapore noodle is little lighter than expected. It would taste better if had little more curry.

What has happened to this location? We have been going here for 3yrs now but the past 3x there have been horrible so we will not be going again. The service both dine in and dine out are excellent but the food has been terrible. The chicken egg rolls are not the same ones as they have always used and barely have any chicken at all and instead are stuffed with too much cabbage. The sauce for the chicken with scallions is too thick and like gelatin which makes it almost gag worthy to even try to eat. My husbands dinner was bland, soggy, and nothing like it has been in the past. I don’t know if they are under new ownership or what but this place has severely gone down hill. No more sushi either and the place is usually dead anytime you go there.

There are many «Red Bowl» here and there. As I expected this place as similar to the one in Cary, which is Okay, I got shocked in a bad way. Of course, it was our fault to order a «tuna tataki», because this place wasn’t serving other raw fish stuffs. Still, however, at a glance of the dish, I couldn’t stop laughing. On the plate, there were very thick cut of tuna, cooked fully almost to the center, no char marked, with a heap of pickled ginger on the side. They looked very gray and that made me totally lose my appetite. It didn’t look seared but boiled.
House fried rice tasted just like ones from one of those take out Chinese lunch combo, too much soy sauce + MSG. You guys should realize that many Chinese restaurants serve two totally different fried rices — one is Americanized version, the other is traditional. I drank so much water because of the fried rice, I kept going to bathroom in the middle of night.
Bottom line, some take out places taste way better… And cheaper. If they don’t know how to cook Japanese dishes (or what they really are), they should just drop them from the menu. No one would get angry for that.

I love this place! Great food and great prices! ½ price bottles of wine daily and ½ price appetizers after 7 every day!
The lettuce wraps are great and so are the egg rolls. The best Red Bowl roll!
Bento boxes are so good with such good price!
Best place around.

Make the drive to the one in Rock Hill rather than stopping at this one. You can really tell once you walk in that they aren’t doing to well, customer wise. They have so many lunch specials and other things to draw you in, but it’s just sub-​par overall.
I ordered the cashew chicken (which I get at the rock hill location too) and the presentation was fine, but the food wasn’t even hot. Very lukewarm, which makes you wonder when it comes out so fast. I explained this to my server and she just said «no, it’s hot» and walked away. She then came back moments after delivering my food with my bill and box. Certainly felt rushed with that!
They also don’t serve sushi at this location, which is devastating.
With so many other restaurants in this shopping complex, you’re better off skipping this place completely.

I love the crab roll they have here! I don’t usually even eat sushi, but this one was sooo good. My man loves the sesame chicken and the lo mein. Just don’t go if you want drinks. worst cosmo ever.

The only thing good here is the sushi, and I think they’ve completely stopped serving it. They have a couple good appetizers– Bang Bang Shrimp, spring rolls, egg rolls. The food is kinda where you get screwed. I’ve heard that the lo mien is the only thing that’s edible. I’ve had orange, sweet and sour, and general tso chicken and it’s all gross. Not crunchy, dark meat, dry and chewy, just bad. When they start serving sushi again, I’ll go but until then, I’ll wait.

I love Asian food. I love bad Asian food. I love MSG dumped crap that will probably give me cancer when I’m older. But this place… It’s actually bad-​bad Asian food. The place itself has a nice environment and the prices are average compared to other restaurants similarly decorated to Red Bowl, but man the food was awful. I would never recommend someone to go here because the sauce that went into my pad thai smelled like urine. What the f.

Mediocre food at best. The staff is pretty emotionless. They don’t offer regular sushi anymore, and the fried rolls they do have aren’t that great. There’s plenty of much better places to go to.

I’ve been here twice and have not bee impressed by the food or service. The restaurant is pretty big and the first time we went I got the impression our business wasn’t important to them. Employees all over the place but doing very little that had to do with serving the customers who pay their bills. The food tastes like it was laminated in MSG after it was fried. Frankly I’m surprised they’re still open.

So I have been here a million times, not literally. They used to have the half off sushi after 8pm, but got rid of that recently. The food quality is good, service 8 out of 10 times is completely terrible during, dinner especially even when it’s dead, lunch is usually pretty good. We usually come with friends so we can stand the service while we are waiting, if you come with you significant other only, you will be quite frustrated. Overall, food and service could step it up.

Not the best around, would advise spending your time and money else where. The service sucks… (Food ok)

Our family used to be regulars here until our last experience, which was on August 8, 2014. My son and I decided to have lunch and we ordered our usual appetizers, meals, and drinks. While munching on our apps, my son pointed out a 2.5−3 inch cockroach crawling on a wall behind me. I notified the owner/​manager and he walked over and stomped on in and said I was all set. As you can imagine, our appetites vanished! I will never be back… I have contacted the health department and do hope that they do something about this before someone gets sick.

Ordered takeout which included chicken fried rice. It had a fishy shrimp taste and I called them up to complain. Their response was they can give me a free entrée the next time I order. Well the problem with that response is, I WILL NOT ORDER AGAIN. The correct response would have been a refund of $ 8.25 of the total $ 50.66 charge.

Okay, saying that I love Asian food is darn near the understatement of the century. And I mean I love both the legit stuff I get when in Asia and the western versions sold most everywhere else.
So, after relocating to Charlotte I was excited when I first noticed an Asian restaurant on the way home from my office.
As is my custom when trying any restaurant for the first time I pick something easy, but not simple — in this case it was Chicken Pad Thai. My theory is this; if they can do that well, then everything else should be good. Like getting a plain vanilla ice cream the first time you go to a local (really local) ice cream shop. If that is good it will all be good; or at least some variation of acceptable.
I am sad to report that I could not eat the Pad Thai. After two bites I tossed it in the trash. And you should understand that I was ‘blessed’ with the intestinal fortitude of a billy goat and I don’t believe in wasting food. That is not how I was raised, no ma’am. But I simply couldn’t eat the dish. It was quite unfortunately horrible in so many ways.
I wish I could try this place again, but I won’t. And frankly I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else either. To be honest I was a little concerned when I was exposed to their exceptionally lengthy menu — that is always a warning sign.

I Love the Mongolian beef and the bang bang shrimp !

On Sunday night, it was around 8 when I decided that I didn’t feel like cooking dinner, so we hopped in the car and decided to head over to Red Bowl for a quick bite. Despite the fact that the restaurant was not busy, our service was rather sub-​par. Also, I was not happy when I ordered my dinner with brown rice (as I always do) and was told that there is now a $ 1 up-​charge for brown rice. WTH?
Incidentally, I have some good friends who used to frequent this place who are now boycotting it because Red Bowl has started cheaping-​out on everything including their sushi specials. They are definitely losing some of their loyal customers with some of the changes they have been making.
Before this, Red Bowl was never my favorite spot, but it was cheap & quick. The quality was always hit-​or-​miss, and on this visit, the food was so-​so. My flower chicken was ok (bland but not gross), the brown rice was meh, and the chicken egg roll was downright gross (it tasted like a frozen egg-​roll that was not very fresh or warm). Based on the food & service on this visit, next time I am looking for a quick bite of Asian food close by, I will head over to Jo-​Jo at Stone Crest instead of this place.

I’ve got to admit I was afraid to come here after reading the reviews but I brought my friends because I had been before and I remember it being good. Glad we did because we had a 10 minute wait and a delicious meal for a great price!
$ 5 starting lunch specials. Sushi options, drinks, bento box, and menu options. Lots to choose from! We had (2) $ 5 lunch options, the Spicy Basil Shrimp and (2) $ 6.55 options the «Bang Bang Shrimp» which each came with spring roll or egg roll plus your choice of rice: white, brown, or fried.
The server seemed overwhelmed a bit but he was on our drink refills and the food order was quick to come out. It was hot, delicious, and everyone was happy!
This is definitely your Americanized Chinese food so keep that in mind if you’re wanting something more authentic; not here. Yummy I’ll be back!