Uncle Jiang

The good and the bad:
The good? General tso and vegetable lo mein.
Bad? Mongolian beef, nothing authentic about it.

Good food lousy dine in experience. Dining room like a sauna. When forks came to table the woman just stood there we had to take our forks from her hand. The owners kids were occupying one table with their games. One of the kids was a total pain hooting and hollering loudly. When we glared at him he grinned real big and shut up for about a minute. Good for carry out only!

This place is SO unprofessional. You can’t tell which ones they are but the girl that works at the front and the older lady in the back are ridiculous. I ordered chicken and rice in a little rice box type thing. Well I got to brought it home I had like four pieces of chicken. Granted I paid 8 dollars for this. I didn’t pay 8 dollars for rice. So I brought I back they said their little Chinese BS in the background then gave me my food. So I called to see who the owner was and she said «ching» I said what’s his last name? She said «fuck me». Well that goes to show you right their they’re not professional if they want to say that. So as I was speaking to her about my good she hung up on me. Great customer service!

This is my go-​to Chinese takeout. The staff is not overly friendly, but they know they are there to fix good Chinese food, quickly, and get it out the door. I often have them add extra spice to my meal, which they do happily. The combo meals have a big portion and are plenty to fill you up a very reasonable price. Plus, the combos all come with an eggroll, so how can you go wrong? Don’t be fooled, this is good food cooked over large metal woks, over a natural gas flame. It’s just good stuff.

Fast and friendly. They remember us every time we go there– including what we order.

Some of the worst Chinese I’ve had in a while. The sweet and sour sauce tastes like koolaid.

Typical Chinese restaurant, prices about average.
Stay away from their Mongolian beef which is supposed to be a Chef’s speciality. Mongolian beef is a great dish it prepared correctly. The beef is marinated and cooked for the proper amount of time and has green onions in it, not just regular onions. This restaurant puts very little green onions in the dish; all regular white onions.
Did have orange chicken, another chef speciality, but it was really good.
I notice that many of the popular Chinese dishes that customers can recite from memory just happened to be chef’s specialities and cost about 15−20% more then a regular dish.

My husband and I have been going to Uncle Jiang’s for a number of years because the food quality is excellent and consistently the best in Pensacola.
While we mainly eat out because of our business constraints, we can always count on Uncle Jiang’s. No other Chinese restaurant even comes close.
Bryan & Val Mullins
Pensacola

I’ve been going to this place for over a decade. You will not find authentic Chinese food for a more reasonable price and in the quantities served to you here at Uncle Jiang’s. Food is cooked fresh to order and is prepared in a timely manner. Try to avoid during the peak of dinner time, as they can get quite bottlenecked with orders coming in.

Ok Chinese takeout restaurant

Uncle Jiang’s is very good and much better than I remember.
I have eaten here for years but it never really stuck out as memorable or something I would ever find myself craving.
This past month I’ve been there four times and keep finding myself impressed with different dishes.
Most of their offerings are standard American/​Chinese items but all cooked well and with good flavor.
The only thing I would complain about is their fried rice isn’t very good.
When it’s done right fried rice is a favorite dish of mine. However here it is yellow rice that is heated in the wok with some veggies and pork added.
It doesn’t have the aroma or flavor of fried rices you would see normally cooked at a hibachi style restaurant.
Maybe it is a regional difference between Japanese and Chinese culture but either way their rice could use some work.
Their eggrolls are very good, their black bean sauce is great. General Tso’s chicken, maybe the best in Pensacola.
Best of all — very fair price.
As pointed out previously there isn’t much going on as far as restaurant ambiance but they do offer seating and a soda fountain.
The staff is all pretty friendly but not going out of there way to make you smile, still never a bad encounter with anyone there.
I would def recommend it and will be back sooner than later.

Great fast chinese food. I’ve eaten here three times on my one week visit in Pensacola. Food tasted good and it was hot. Lady at front could be friendlier but I didn’t eat there so not too much of a problem. I didn’t not particular like their singapore noodles but everything else, honey chicken, shrimp and beef brocoli, sesame chicken, fried rice and chowmein were yummy.

Very good lunch portions for the price. Call ahead and it is ready. Kids love their General’s chicken. Kung Pao Chicken very good too.

When do you have to say goodbye?
Sometimes it has to be done. Tonight the decision was clear for me. I will never see that uncle again.
I could forgive the annoying trangressions that built up over time, things that seemed to heal with a little distance. But it just never got better. I heard it put something like this: Anyone can get survive a crisis; it’s the tiny, everyday ankle biting that will get you in the end.
So while there was nothing fatal with this uncle, tonight was enough, because he tampered with my food.
In the past, it was irritations like when I went hungry because he locked me out of the kitchen after ten p.m. It was «too late» to eat.
I forgave him when he ran up my credit card over what we agreed on, chalking it up to an innocent mistake.
It made me nervous, but I let it pass when his gang barked at me in whatever code they had, mocking me, I’m sure. They would pretend they couldn’t understand me, and stole my money when I tried to pay for food.
All under Uncle Jiang’s direction.
On to tonight: Dinner.
Chicken Chow Mein. Exhibit A: (see photos)
Chicken Chow Mein does not consist of a few spindly shreds from an anemic chicken (? somewhat suspect) smothered in onions. See the two bright orange threads there? Those are purely for medical reasons. They exist only so that the diner can rest assured that she has not suddenly gone color blind from the lack of real green chow mein vegetables.
On the other hand, Uncle Jiang may have been looking out for my best interests, knowing the wicked ways of men, perhaps he filled the chicken chow mein exclusively with onions to keep single men at a kilometer’s distance. Oh Uncle Jiang! Have I completely misread you?
Exhibit B:
(see photo)
Egg Foo Young
Yes, that dark brown ca-​ca on the upper left is the egg. Yes, I was so hungry that I hurried and ate some, lest Uncle Jiang chase me out of the kitchen at ten o’clock. Yes, my stomach is doing some Chinese martial art on itself.
See the brown «gravy» stuff? Egg Foo Young traditionally comes with a light brown gravy, thickened with a bit of cornstarch, and the barest hint of black pepper. Good gravy gives American style gravy a run for its money. This? Is sloppy, lazy bottled hoisin sauce poured into a styrofoam cup. You think I don’t know, Uncle Jiang? You think you can pull the wool over my eyes and finely tuned palate? I have the taste buds of a thousand generations of picky eaters.
I think we’re done here.

As good a Chinese place we’ve found in this area. Always take out, we never eat there. Not much in ambiance.