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Really? I found it hard to believe that people don't like this place. I love T&T! Everything I ever ordered was soooo goood! Come on, you got to give this place credit. It's one of the only authentic Chinese food in the area! Other places within Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace area is just filled with all those baloney Teriyakis and bad Chinese take-outs.
Sometimes when I came in they sat me at one of the tables near the bathroom. Some chemical stuff they used to clean that place smells really strong -- turns down my appetite. That's the only thing I would like to complain about. At other times, I love everything here!
I have been a customer for about five years. Just finished a wonderful dinner of Honey Walnut Scallops, Salt and Pepper squid, Shanghai Chow Mien, house fried rice, and green beans with shredded pork. All were exceptional. Service was rendered very quickly. If there is Chinese Seafood in heaven, then it must be from T and T.
The tastiest Chinese Food Restaurant I have ever had. However, it is your typical Chinese Restaurant. You can expect delicious food but don't expect a trendy setting, good service, extreme cleanliness or fancy china. The salt & pepper seabass was to die for. The pork green beans were very good and much fresher than shown in the menu photo. The scallop with mixed veggies was great but nothing special to brag about. It was great for dinner and they have large round tables if you have a large family. This restaurant also deserves 1/2 a dollar sign. I saw a sign for $3.95 lunch special. OMG I should move to Washington just for that.
I always have high hopes for Chinese restaurants outside of Seattle because I hate fighting for parking in Chinatown when I want good Chinese food. For folks living north of Seattle, lemme say that you'd be better off driving 20 minutes into Seattle and another 15 minutes of circling Chinatown for parking. T&T is just plain bad.
I came here as a guest of a large family gathering (25+ people). My aunt (the host of the party) arrived 15 minutes early to confirm reservations that were made 2 days earlier, but was told "no, we have no record of your reservation." Ok, I know the drill, I'm Chinese too after all. If there's a buck to be made, they're not holding a table for somebody just because they called it in 2 days earlier. It's an inconvenience, but on some level we've come to expect bad service at Chinese restaurants.
Then the food starts to arrive and it was nothing to write home about. Bland taste and questionable freshness. This is a bit more disappointing because, as a Chinese person, I'm usually willing to trade bad service for tasty food. Now we've gone into bad service and bland food territory - 2 strikes.
Near the end of the meal the last dish arrives over 1/2 an hour after the previous dish. Obviously they forgot about it and scrambled to get it out before we nixed it and asked for it to be taken off the bill. At this point we're much too full to even touch it - especially since it was about as appetizing as the rest of the courses.
[side note] The honey walnut prawns were runny and were served on a bed of chopped iceburg lettuce. Also, the fish maw soup was overcooked and had a texture like snot... yes, snot. I was 5 once, I know what snot in my mouth feels like.
Now for the best part. Because this was a party with many elderly folks, my cousins specially ordered a cake big enough for 25 people that was low sugar, and had large Chinese characters on it that say "Happy Birthday Grandpa." I don't know how many other people at that restaurant were expecting a 20" by 20" cake with that phrase written on it, but the wait staff managed to give our cake away to another table. A party of SIX! When we finally asked for the cake, the manager said, "Uh... we gave it away already by accident..." WHAT THE...(part 1)?!? You gave away our huge, specially made cake with Chinese characters that say "Happy Birthday Grandpa" on it to another table?!?
[side note] According to the restaurant manager - the other table ate the cake without question and even took the leftovers home. Either those patrons have no shame whatsoever, or the manager made up some messed up story to cover up for something even more sinister.
My cousins demanded that the restaurant pay for the cake and discount our food for the evening. After some negotiations, the manager offered to buy a new cake and take $50 off our bill. They bring in the new cake (which was purchased at the same bakery located next door), and it's a 13" round cake. WHAT THE... (part 2)?!? Our cake was 20" by 20"!!! You bring in a 13" round cake for our party of 25+ people?!? This is your idea of replacing the cake that you mistakenly gave away? After my aunt points out that the cake is not a sufficient replacement, the manager agrees to buy a 2nd 13" cake for us.
After quickly eating our cake, we all start to leave. All of my aunt's guests start talking about the service and how strange the evening had been. Fortunately, my cousin's grandpa didn't mind so at least that worked out. As a good Chinese boy who loves Chinese food, I'd never come here again unless an elderly family member obliged me to.
My family is really into this place because the food is decent and it's more convenient than driving to the ID. The wait for tables around dinner time on the weekends is usually 15-20 minutes which isn't too bad. We usually order family style and they bring out the food maybe a little bit too quickly because our table is always heaped full of so much that we don't know where to start. I honestly don't get why my parents are so in love with this place, I think there is better Chinese food out there. Like in my kitchen. I do think that their honey walnut shrimp and beef chow fun are great! I could go either way about the other entrees-- they aren't very impressive.
I agree that the service can leave something to be desired, but it's not that bad. I've had much worse at other places. The food is delicious!!!
The honey walnut prawns and green beans with shredded pork are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! I could eat those everyday.
Big, bright, open dining room and a huge menu. Friendly, fast service that's happy to tell you about stuff off the menu and fresh from the live tank.
They do solid versions of all the stuff I've always loved (bbq pork, hot & sour soup, hot pots) and, as the name implies, tons of great seafood dishes. This place is rock solid, and easily my favorite place overall in Lynnwood. Lynnwood, if not for a few great Asian and Pacific places, would really be a dining wasteland.
Everything I've had here at T&T so far has been good, not great, but with one exception. T&T has the best Honey Walnut Prawns. They are good and more addicting than smoking crack (not that I know what that's like). I've also had beef with broccoli here which was a bust, as well as their beef chow-fun. The fried rice is also mediocre. I love their little rice containers though, that amused me for about 2 minutes. As for the service, it's decent and when you walk in, you usually get seated right away.
The food here is pretty cheap (money wise, not quality) for Chinese food, but overall, decent. I also like the fact that they box up my food for me, because after a big meal, I get kind of lazy. Check it out if you're ever in the area and are craving Chinese.
Wow! I've seen a lot of talk complaining about the service here! I don't think it has necessarily "exceptional" service, but I've never really found it lacking, either. The service is decent enough in all the times I've been here. I think the food here is typically very good! I've been happy with a lot of things here on the menu and they have a pretty good selection of not just the stuff you'll find at your "Magic Dragon" or other fast-food Chinese places. Clean? Eh, it was cool. But saying that, I've eaten at some of the diviest dives and some of the swankier digs and can usually get comfortable in either one, depending on the day. I didn't have a problem with the cleanliness of the place.
Haha, somebody wrote something about places next to 99 Ranch stores... I went to this place next to the 99 Ranch at the Great Wall Mall down in Kent that was really not a fave of mine, but this one actually is. I wouldn't travel from far and wide to get here, like if I was out late at night and downtown, I'd probably just go to Honey Court or somewhere down south, but I live in Edmonds and it's always worth the trek for good food here!
God, I really had high hopes for this place and it used to be one of my most favourite places to get Chinese food in Seattle area. Not anymore. Service was nonexistant, and I broke the cardinal rule of going to places like this for lunch. I think what they served us was left over from dinner the night before.
The worse part of this was that I was gushing about the place to an out of town visitor and the look on her face was absolute horror when we left. She was too kind to actually say anything though.
Bright note was that we ended up going to get some groceries at Ranch 99 and made delicious food out of that.
No. It's not all good as some may say it is.
I hate the service. They didn't even refill my water; notice me or anybody I'm there with.
Most of the food is super greasy and extra salty.
I always feel disgusty and woozy after I eat there.
PAH --TOOEY!!!
T&T came highly recommended to me by a Chinese Indonesian coworker, so of course I had to try it. (This is back when it was located in its somewhat dilapidated Shoreline location, not it's new digs at Ranch 99). At the time I thought, "eh, it's okay, but overpriced and kind of bland." That was about five years ago and I dismissed it as my inexperience with this style of Chinese cuisine.
Flash forward to the present. My friend and I visited them again a couple weeks ago for lunch, this time at their new location. I regret to say the only thing better about the experience was cleaner, more modern facilities. On every other count, the experience was significantly worse.
Right off the bat, I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that rice had to be ordered separately from the main course (at lunchtime!) and there was no lunch menu in any event: dinner prices and selections only. The main courses were overpriced to begin with, but the need to order rice over and above that made the gouging all the worse.
Between the two of us, we ordered two main courses, two servings of rice, an appetizer, and tea. One main course came out first, but without rice. The rice came about five minutes later, by which time the main course had grown colder. Then came the second main course. And finally, the appetizer came last. This was all brusquely delivered by an astonishingly unfriendly waitress who never bothered to check on us or refill my glass of water. The food was fine, but nothing remotely worth the prices charged. During all of this, restaurant traffic was light: I'd guess they were seating guests at about 20% capacity.
I don't even know where to begin leveling criticisms based on this incident, so I'll just leave it at this and let you form your own opinions as to what you'd think if you had this kind of experience. For my part, I will not be returning.
Because I dislike giving gratuitously negative reviews, let me say that one item we ordered, the "Crispy Scallop with Honey Walnuts," was very intriguing: the scallops are deep fried in batter and served with candied walnuts and a creamy mustard sauce. (I would recommend not ordering this as a main course for one diner, however; either order it as an appetizer for the table or as a dish to be shared family-style. The mustard sauce is wonderful but is so abundantly rich that you would likely find it difficult to eat a quarter of it before you became overwhelmed by that richness.)
Overall, I cannot recommend this venue. One star.
We go to T&T for birthdays at least once a year, and whenever I get up north to Ranch 99. I like this place, but it suffers from the standard attitude problem you get at the chinese restaurant. I don't want to wait to be seated. I don't want to have to ask for tea and water, and I do want the check in a timely fashion. That's at all restaurants, no matter how big or small. With that said, they have good food. I discovered that they have a sizzling hot plate of black pepper filet mignon for 10 bucks, and boy I'll tell you, it changed my life. I never have bad food here, and I don't mind the plastic tupperware thermos thing of rice that they're gonna give you. It's hot, and it's a little cheesy, but whatever. If this place tightened up their standards of service, they'd get 4 stars, but for now they get a solid 3.
This year's birthday outing was great. We got family style as always, but they let us substitute the Black Pepper Seafood platter for the deep-fried crab. YAY! It was yummy. The steamed seafood thingy I mentioned before also has broccoli in it....but I still don't know the name of it. It's still my #2 favorite dish next to the Honey prawns. Their hot and sour soup is possibly the best I've ever had. So much seafood in it and just the right amount of heat.
I go here once a year for a birthday dinner with friends. We always get the family style with 2… Read more »
There seems to be a lot of complaints about the service here - I can't say that I've ever found the type of customer service that most Americans would probably expect at any Chinese restaurant. So in my book, T & T meets the standard, if not exceeds (as in, my water glass is ALWAYS full... a key measure of service at Chinese family-style restaurants).
A family favorite, we've been going to T&T ever since it was little shack further south on Hwy 99. Since it's moved to the Ranch 99 complex, you can expect crowds during peak hours. Ask for the pre-set family menu, it's a deal and they allow you to make changes if you ask. Note: When it says "serves four" it really means, "serves 6 + leftovers". Sizzling Seafood Plate, Black Bean Cod, Shredded Pork with Green Beans, Honey Walnut Prawns, Szechuan Style Beef (a little crispy, and all delicious) are a few of my favorite dishes.
Actually, I've had some good service at Chinese restaurants. And T & T definitely isn't one of them. First off, it's awfully noisy in there. My dad complains that it sounds like a bus station. Secondly, our waiter was incompetent and didn't give us tea and forks until we asked him. The people who were seated after us got their drinks 10 mins before! It wasn't even that crowded. And thirdly, I actually had to go to the counter to ask for our check since it took so long. We ordered a ridiculous amount of items (10, I know pretty bad but my mom wanted to splurge since I hadn't had Chinese food for ages) for 5 people and should've had better service.
The food is okay, I've had better. The chicken with mushroom hot pot I had was a disappointment, too much ginger, which may be good if you like a whole root of it down your throat. The fried rice was a little greasy. The only thing I really like at T & T is the eggflower soup, hot and sour soup, walnut prawns and the pan fried chicken chow mein which is to die for!! The chow mein has a perfect amount of delicious gooey sauce which complements the noodles and the perfectly cooked meat and veggies.
After eating the chow mein, I was satisfied. Until I went outside and realized my jacket smelled completely of grease! I had to wash it immediately.
One of my family favorites, but minus one star for the service...I love the honey walnut prawns, they do them just right here-- not smothered too much in the mayonnaise. This is a good place for chinese food if you have a big group, we usually do the big pre-packaged dinners so we don't have to pick out what to eat.
So I came here with my dad for lunch. It's really different from when it first opened years ago - I remember it being more lively, more waitstaff, and being mildly surprised and impressed that there could be good chinese food north of Seattle.
Yup, if you venture away from the debatable "chinese" food on their lunch menu (i.e. sweet and sour anything, and deep fried whatever), they have really good cantonese food. My dad and I came here for lunch today, and although service and ambience was lacking, our food was good. We had the steamed fresh fish of the day (forgot what type of fish) - and it WAS AMAZINGLY fresh. It was more expensive at about 15 bucks per pound, but I gobbled up the fish.
I didn't enjoy the little white boy at the next table gawking in disgust (and announcing to his parents loudly) at my diving for the fish cheeks and sucking the last bits of tender fish meat off the bones, but then again, this is Edmonds ... not San Francisco ** sigh ...
We also had their fresh steamed vegetables, and it was incredibly expensive for what it was.
I don't live north, but I guess if I did and I didn't want to drive any further south, I'd come here. Otherwise, I'd probably just stay in Seattle for some chinese food ...
I've been to this place quite a few times, and it's always the same - the food is just alright. Service is just right also, considering there are not many crews waiting at customers at any given time, esp during lunch. They have this $3.99 lunch specials nowadays: beef and broccoli when I stopped by on a Friday. The food is MSG spiked (I know because my face started itching and I was so thirsty for a good while), too average as compared to other Chinese joints, and don't taste fresh at all. For a quick, cheap filler, this is your place to be. Not for me, sorry.
More like 2.5 stars...
I enjoyed the old place in Shoreline more, the staff and service at the new location is lacking and inattentive. Again with the attitude of "we" are doing "you" a favor by taking your order. "May I please have a refill on my water?" (Roll of the eyes and 10 minutes later...)
Food-wise the taste has often been near outstanding, a few times the kitchen has goofed, and produced a major oops! A take-out order of Almond chicken, was neither chicken nor almond. Cold/almost frozen with old gravy! BLAH! Sesame/walnut prawns comes out hot and fresh but it takes another 10 minutes for the rest of our order?
Just went a few weekends ago, the food tasted good, but alas that service with an attitude really makes you want to look else where. Low end of 3 stars only because of parking, flavorful food, sometimes it's better than what you can find in the ID, in Seattle. BUT GADS the "tude" is beyond belief! And brings down the rating...
T&T has consistantly OK Cantonese food. I usually like more spicey Chinese food, but when I am in the mood for blander food, I go here.
Their salt and pepper fish is superb!! Also their Hong Kong fried chicken melts in your mouth, as well as the Honey Garlic Pork.
Also try the seafood hot pot and the green beans with pork.
A great place to take friends that do not like hot Chinese food.
Sadly, I have to agree on the service, stated by most here: The service is REALLY BAD. Once you get your food, usually after a longer than expected wait, you may never see your waitperson again.
Not the best service (friendliness that is!) but food is pretty good! Can't beat their $5.75 lunch specials!! Pretty fast service and a good place to lunch at with friends/co-workers if you don't have much time. ;) For dinner, prices can get steep but me and my husband always get 1-3 items if its just us 2. I also eat here with the family and we all love it. Things to try: Green beans w/ shredded pork, Filet mignon sizzling hot plate, Ginger beef hot pot, Chow mein (pan friend noodle style) ;)
All the 3 stars I give this restaurant comes from the fantastic food. Unfortunately the service and atmosphere is severely lacking, not to mention the very un-hygienic washrooms. Other then that I come here to bring my family and friends who crave good Sechuan/Cantonese dishes when they visit from Vancouver, B.C., where there is a plethora of outstanding Chinese restaurants.
I particularly like their Sechuan crispy prawns, green beans with shredded pork, and their fantastic house special chow mein with crispy noodles. It can take forever to get a waiter/waitress attention and their attitude can be downright rude, but if you can take them with a grain of salt, you're in for a fabulous meal!
What is it with the Ranch 99 Market and all its connecting restaurants being plain horrible?
My friend and I ordered a couple noodle dishes (the server's supposed recommendation) that were so bland I ended up dumping soy sauce over it to give it some kick. The seafood assortment in one of the entrees was rubbery and flavorless. The service was emotionless and unwelcoming (maybe that's their style, but I swear to God everybody in this Ranch 99 complex is this way! It's hilarious!).
I've had better food at Panda Express, to be honest. I'd rather pay $5 a plate, too.
*joy
The hot and sour soup was pretty good.
There are a number of tradeoffs since they opened this place up, as opposed to the place in Shoreline. The Shoreline place was a dive. It looked like you were eating inside a dirty old trailer and it was hot during the summer.
The new place is much cleaner and has a huge parking lot outside. The food is still pretty good, but I agree with everyone else, the service is horrible. Whether it is training the staff or the layout of the place, the staff seem to get lost and forget about the customers. It takes quite awhile to give your order, the staff never comes back to check on you and there is a long wait to get your bill.
However, the food is still pretty good. I guess I am a short ribs guy, but I always like that. The fish is definitely fresh and even though tilapia can taste kind of muddy, at least you know it was swimming around a few minutes ago.
All my experiences have been for dinner, so i can't vouch for any of the lunch action.
For my grandmother's 88th birthday celebration, we gathered the family from near and far (as close as Mill Creek, and as far as New York) for a family reunion. Our large group of 27 took up 3 tables, and we had 9 courses total, which were pre-ordered by my aunt (based on grandma's favorites). It was, of course, rather empty at 5pm, but by the time we left, the place was packed, with people crowding the entrance waiting for tables.
Service was efficient and after the 4th dish, it seemed to come out rather quickly, cramming our lazy susan to the gills. No worries, we gobbled it up! We had sliced BBQ pork, honey-walnut prawns, seafood soup, Peking duck, steamed chicken, clams in black bean sauce, steamed whole fish, ginger scallion crab, and pork short ribs in a sweet and sour sauce. It was all really good, but so much food that we ended up with a fair amount of leftovers. We were good Chinese kids and packed it up to take home.
I'm from SF and NY, so I like to think I know my Cantonese food pretty well, and I'd recommend T&T.
Blatantly overrated. The food is bland and it feels like they didn't add any salt whatsoever. Service is terrible although the food arrives surprisingly fast. The green beans were rotten too.
2 stars because the food is fast
This stands as the epitome of reliable Chinese restaurants. The Fried Almond Shrimp will easily put you ten laps back on the treadmill, but it's well worth it. Located in the Chinese Market Mecca that is Ranch 99, you'll find it spacious enough for a large group as well as accommodating for the less social eater. There it is common sight to see people of all ages and races enjoying Chinese Seafood. The black bean stone cooked bass and the Cantonese style noodles are generous in portion and even more generous in flavor.
I come here for only the garlic crabs. Service is totally lacking and or non existence! Filthy!!! The price is cheap and the location is more convenience for us than ID, so those are the reason for our visit.
Tried to order take out over the phone. Forget about it! Thought they might have black cod so we asked and just got yelled at and belittled. The guy was so rude over the phone that I almost felt like going to the restaurant to kick his ass. If I were chinese I would go over there and beat him up for giving chinese people a bad name.
I love this place! We came here for the wedding rehearsal party. We reserved 4 tables and ordered the family set menu. The food arrived fairly quickly and at the same time for every table. The service was a bit slow, because it was on a Friday night and the whole place was packed. I loved everything that was on the table. There were about 10 dishes in the set menu. It was a well balanced combination of vegetable, seafood, and meat. The jelly fish was excellent. My favorite has to be the lobster and crab fried noodles. This place is great for family gatherings or a quick take-out.
T&T is a pretty typical Cantonese style seafood restaurant. You don't come to a place like this for decor, ambience, or to propose to your girlfriend. No, you come here because you can see the lobster or carp that you are about to eat while it's still swimming. The food is decent, especially for Seattle. They even serve stuff that you may not expect from a Cantonese restaurant, like Peking duck, which is quite good. Although I am not from Beijing, I am of northern Chinese extraction, so I believe I am a fair judge of Peking ducks!
One of the best Chinese Restaurants in the north end without having to dive down to China town.
Atmosphere is boring but the food more then makes up for it.
Fresh fish, crab and shellfish with Crab being there signature dish, I would highly suggest it as well as the Hot and Sour soup. Great for big parties. In addition, it's clean and the price is cheap.
Enjoy...
Native Seattle Diner
I think this place should be called TNT instead of T & T...and their schtick could be that they sell dynamite for you to eat...which would probably taste a lot better than the schlop they're serving up at lunch. Blech. Sure it's cheap...but, so is gunpowder.
There is just way too many good things to choose from in this place. Take a dozen friends with you so there will be a good variety of food. Hell, just grab some folks off the street. They'll be glad you did.
I used to like coming here often since I live so close to the restaurant. But since I discovered that they rounded up the total of the checks, this turned me off so much, I came here only a few times a year, rather than a few times a month. And I don't miss the food there either, since I can eat at other ethnic restaurants in the area. Do you know if your bill is for 10.51, or 23.81, etc, they round up to 10.55, or 23.85? If it's 10.53 or 10.54, and they round up to 10.55, that would not be a problem with me. So T & T, why round up all the time? Why can't you round down too?
the location in shoreline is so much better. the service here is good, but the quality of food for those prices? so not worth it. the decor and fend shui is nice and all, but i'd rather eat at the crammed- however yummier food in shoreline.
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