Dong Ting Spring

Over expectations, under performance. Service was less than inattentive. Had to ask to order, ask for takeaway boxes, never got water refill, or an interim "how's everything?". Nothing.
The food ranged from poor to passable. The kung pao chicken was lots of onions, bell peppers, and dark meat filled with joint cartilage and tendons. The taste was mainly vinegar. The mapo tofu was ok seasoned with hua jiao, but not much else (no minced pork). The wild chili beef was the best (although my wife didn't care for the flavor). The server asked if I wanted it hot (which I do), but everything was fairly bland.
Prices were on the high side, but the portions were large. That's great for leftovers, unless you don't want to eat it again.

I think this is the best Chinese food around the Ventura county that is close to what I can get in NYC. Xiao long bao (soup dumplings) are decent but not amazing but I mean I have had the best of the best in Asia. So decent ranks high in this county since Irvine is too far away for me. Chef English isn't good but I'm used to that in NYC and usually those restaurants are pretty good.

Being here few times and we love the food here.

Unfortunately, we have unpleasant experience here recently.

We always bring our baby dinning with us.

There’s a lady, a waitress, she touches my baby’s face few times with her hand. and I just saw she cleaned other table and took someone else’s credit card to check out.

I don’t even have a chance to tell her DO NOT TOUCH MY BABY. She just said “ oh baby so cute”, then touched and went away we don’t even have time to take action.

When we check out, she touched my baby’s hand again. OMG I don’t know if she washed her hand or not. I said please don’t touch my baby but seems like she didn’t hear anything.

I was so mad! The waitress, the lady is nice & friendly, but I think you always need to ask parents’ permission before you do something.

Anyway the food is food. I’ll definitely come back as usually.

Dong Ting Spring in Thousands Oaks is very clean and provides a great service. The chef special Hunan dish named Fish & Shrimp is so delicious. Eating the tender fish, shredded mushroom and tender tofu along with the soup sauce together is enjoyable.

Very sweet server but English not good so hard to clarify menu items. Had blossom fish sweet and sour, huge portion for one. I don't normally eat the batter but as it was perfectly cooked the doggy bag was good later.

Prices seem cheap especially for sides where the rice was $1.50 and bottled water must cost them more than the $1 they charge.

Good quality food at a reasonable price