East Lake Chinese Restaurant
248-740-9522
East Lake Chinese Restaurant is located near 18 Mile Rd. This restaurant has 45 tables in a spacious Chinese-themed dining room, and offers a wide variety of Chinese dishes. Special combination plates are available Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Specialties include shark fin soup and braised sea cucumber with abalone sauce.
Dim Sum is available daily, from opening until 3 p.m., and banquet and catering services are available.
- Fax: 248-740-9507
- Hours: Mon - Fri, 11am - 11pm; Sat, 10:30am - midnight; Sun, 10:30am - 11pm
- Handicap Accessible: At street level
- Payments accepted: Cash, Debit Card, MasterCard, Visa
- Food & dining options: Low calorie, Vegetarian
- General services: Catering, Eat-in, Phone orders, Take-out
- Menu link: www.eastlakerestaurant.com/3243.html
- Specialties: Shark fin soup
- Parking: Free lot
- Private events: Yes
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Price level: $$
- Reservations: Accepted
- Features: Banquets, Catering, Dinner, Lunch
- Atmosphere: Quiet
- Dress code: None
We had a party of five and they seated us at a large table with room to spare. The food was below average and what the restaurant did borders on being fraudulent. We ordered fishmaw soup, it came watered down with hardly any fishmaw in it, the cost $17.95, what a rip-off! The other dishes didn't fare any better, Ma Po bean curd had too much starch in the sauce that it tasted like glue, large cheaper ordinary eggplants were used for stuffed eggplant instead of the more delicate expensive variety. When the bill came, we noticed that prices were adjusted upward on several of the dishes ordered, and they tacked on a 15% gratuity. One of the waitresses basically told us that five people is considered a large party, and that's the way they do business. Diners beware!!!