Firecracker Pan Asian Cuisine

Very disappointed with firecrackerThey completely rip off every customer! I purchased the 2 entrees and side and small drink and it came out to $ 11?Also when I got my food I realized that not only had a received about 4 small pieces of meat but I got pork when I ordered both entrees to be orange chicken? Friendly staff but they make a lot of mistakes.
DO NOT SPEND MONEY HERE

All the food places at UW… So bad. But I would give this place along with a few others a 1 star while rating other places a 0.
Overpriced— but that’s all across campus.
Food portions are never consistent.
Chow mein is decent here. Five spice chicken is also decent. Skewers are ok too.
Basically everything else that’s fried tastes awful, aaaannnnddd that’s about everything else. Yikes.

Terrible food that is poorly cooked and way overpriced for what you do get. Anywhere else in the hub is a better option.

This place is pretty gross. I never went before the re-​model, but this joint makes Subway look delectable. The General Tso’s is more like General Tso’s chicken McNuggets. Everything is sort of bland and over fried. American Style-​Chinese food gone terribly wrong. It is sad that this place if off my list of options, as the HUB is so convenient to the building which houses my grad lounge.
Yet, the line is always filled to the brim with people! WTF?!

This place used to be tolerable before the HUB remodel, but I can’t say it’s remained tolerable post-​remodel. They are pretty much serving soggy chicken nuggets covered in some semblance of a sauce. I can safely say that this is the worst meal I’ve ever had.
Don’t make the mistake I did, Firecracker is NOT worth the convenience.

I can only speak for the black bean garlic tofu, but I thought it was reasonably tasty for $ 5.25. It’s nothing that I’d go out of my way to get if I didn’t happen to be on the UW campus, but I didn’t feel tormented or traumatized by it either.
The line situation was pretty bizarre, though. The guy dishing out the food from the aluminum trays was fast, but the cashier wasn’t. So there was a long line of people wrapping around with food in hand waiting to pay. It seems like it’d make more sense to have multiple cashiers since some people are using debit/​credit cards and spooning some slop into a takeout box doesn’t take long.

Getting worst. To the owner, if your staff doesn’t feel like even serving (as in spooning those food like substance into a box with rice) and they don’t even know basic manners, may be, just may be, they shouldn’t work at your place.
Too bad, you have a pseudo-​captive audience. Next time I’ll walk to the Ave.

This is the one place at the HUB I cannot stomach eating. Even getting a side of veggies was getting a box of mushy broccoli and nastysauce. The almond chicken was the only thing I found even remotely close to edible, but it is so overpriced… why not just walk the 10 minutes from the HUB to the Ave to get New China Express, which is a comparable price for a higher quality of food.
What is Firecracker good for? you might ask.
If you bring your own lunch and need some supplementary white rice. If you need sriracha or just want to grab a fortune cookie. Don’t make the mistake of actually spending money here — you will most likely be disappointed.

So…
The food is (in my opinion) overpriced, but filling and generally tolerable.
The one thing I’ve learned to avoid, however, is the sweet & sour. That is my favorite Chinese dish at most places, and they somehow manage to make it taste odd and leave me with a gross feeling each time I’ve given it a chance.
Oh and the fortune cookies have frequently managed to be relevant to things that actually happened to me that day… or week. Pretty freaky…
I’d recommend going elsewhere for food.

The Firecracker restaurant is part of the Husky Den restaurants located in the HUB.
This place gets 1 star (I’d give it –5 if I could) because:
— The servers did not know if any of the meals had fish/​shellfish/​seafood in it.
— The reply I got when I asked if the server can ask the chef about that was: Sorry, I don’t cook the food I don’t know! (yes, word for word this was what she said.)
— The server did not go to the back to ask the chef about this so I just left because I’d rather NOT DIE because some lazy server did not want to spend a measly 30 seconds to find out if the food was seafood-​free or not.
— I wrote to HFS (Housing & Food Services) to complain, because being anaphylactic to certain foods, I really don’t want to drop dead because of situations like this, and this is just one less restaurant I can trust. I did not get a reply from HFS.
Poop on HFS and the lazy, lazy, lazy server with horrid customer service at Firecracker.