Sesame Inn

Nice piece an good food . Like the hot tea,

I'm so conflicted.

We ordered take out for the first time from them yesterday. On the way home, we snuck into the appetizers right out of the box. Potstickers, egg rolls, crab puffs. They were amazing.

I'm not kidding when I say that I fell in love when I took one bite into that egg roll. I declared right there in the car, I had found my new favorite restaurant.

Then we got home and took out the rest of the food (we're talking a 10 min drive.)

It was a disaster area.

The beef and broccoli was soup. The brown sauce was watery. It tasted like the beef had been boiled, not sauteed. The orange chicken was soggy, not crisp. And I gave up before I even tried the sweet and sour pork, but I could tell the breading on the pork was also soggy.

The house fried rice was okay. It got old quickly, but wasn't bad. The white rice was fine too.

But the rest of the food, we literally threw in the trash.

Now, maybe it would have been better on a plate served in their restaurant, but it's not like Chinese places don't know how to do take out. My partner thought maybe they had cooked it in the morning, but I doubt it. It was just bad. Poorly done.

I can't say anything about service or timing. Just the food.

This place has excellent wonton soup. The restaurant is very clean. When you order take out they package for you so nothing spills. We recently found this place and love the soup. The service is very good, nice people.

Decor inside was very appealing. Restaurant was clean and well presented. Our server was a bit slow and forgot simple things like napkins and utensils we had to ask for, but was nice about it just the same. The food was on the salty side, but my wife who is Chinese and picky gave it a thumbs up for "an American Chinese restaurant." Not quite authentic Chinese food, but it satisfied our cravings just the same. Try the hot and sour soup and well made spring rolls!

I'm being generous giving this restaurant 3 stars. The reason I'm giving three stars is that the service was great, the atmosphere is not too bad, the place was clean and parking is easy and available. This should really be a 2.5 star place but I have rounded up.
So ... the reason for a mediocre review is that the food was horrible. Not in the sense where I was sick, but just tasted horrible. The sauce was way too sweet and I did not like any of the food. Also, the food is expensive ... this restaurant is not in downtown Scottsdale or in a fancy place in Phoenix ... I need cheap and cheerful Chinese Food, which is apparently impossible to get around here.
With that being said, I will not be returning to this restaurant and it's a shame because there are no good chinese food restaurants in the area.