Cathay Inn

The food was fresh and great quality. I personally did not love it, but I can recognize it is because I am used to different Chinese food. I have learned that west coast Chinese food is different than the Chinese food you get more inland. Cathay serves an older style of Chinese food. But the quality was great! The spring rolls are amazing!

If I could give them zero stars for the food I would. If you like general tsaos chicken then you may want to look at my picture. It is chicken smothered with KETCHUP and soy sauce in place of what is supposed to be generals chicken. The fried rice is white rice covered in soy sauce and never fried and there's nothing else in it and no egg, no vegetables no seasoning and no garlic. The special chow mein was never fried, it looked like it was dumped on my plate from a package and mixed with cold vegetables. Everything was inedible except for the barbecue pork. To be fair I don't think that their food was always like this. I actually think perhaps they hired someone who said they could cook and didn't know how. The fried prawns seeped grease out of them when I broke them in half. Nothing could be eaten. As for the table next to us;, we could overhear them loudly saying the same things. The great thing here and the right thing was that our waitress did not charge us for anything as we did offer to pay for our barbecue pork and our tea that we drank.

This place has the worst Chinese food that I’ve ever had in Spokane wa. Me and my mom both didn’t feel good after we ate dinner here. The egg rolls tasted freezer burnt and same with the rice. I paid $22 and it wasn’t even worth it. And my mom paid for a $19 special that wasn’t even a special. If I could I would give this place no stars. I definitely don’t recommend

I will start by saying I have always loved this place, and have been coming since I was a little kid. This has been a place, for many great memories and life events for myself and family. However I don’t think I will be back for Dine In or Take Out. Back story; We came for a family dinner of 10 ppl in October, for my birthday. The service was terrible, multiple meals were wrong and by the time they had re made them, half the table was done eating. Drinks had not come tell maybe 25 min. prior to us getting the bill, even though they were requested initially when we sat down, and asked for multiple times. When we got the bill and saw the mandatory tip I left our waitress know I was not paying ANY tip. We had 3 separate bills and all 3 had this big tip. ( I will also state I’m the same person who will leave a $50.00 tip when the service and food are good. Fast Forward to last night we came for my mom’s 56th birthday. Called ahead a few days ago, and was told this request I had would be easily accommodated, I needed a separate table then my mom and sister due to my son coming with me and has severe special needs. It was requested when we arrived, upon waiting my mom and sister were discussing the mandatory tip on everyone’s bills when a party of 10 or more is sat down, ( this was a discussion across the board, because MANY dining places do it.) A minor miscommunication came, because I think the servers thought that is why we wanted two tables. ( If that had been the case as well, I don’t see why they wouldn’t sit ppl separately either. You don’t know he circumstances of those coming in and not all could afford that possibly..) LOL ANYWAYS, I politely interrupted the pointless banter about mandatory tips and explained that I would still pay their mandatory tip I didn’t care, but we simply needed two tables by each other due to my son and hi special needs, at this point I got nothing but eye rolls, and bad attitudes from the employees. The manager, was not much nicer.. We all eventually got sat down, and my mom’s table had a server there quickly ready to get drinks and appetizers. We waited about 10 minutes and asked if we could get some drinks and appetizers as well since no one had come over, we were told she would go get our waitress, my son is grunting, and getting frustrated, just part of his delay. At what point “our waitress” refuses to serve our table THE ONLY REASON I CAN THINK OF IS BECAUSE OF MY SON. It’s obvious when we come in that we may be a harder table, ( I usually tip well for that alone LOL). Anyways, my son ended up having 2 minor episodes.. The entire staff did nothing but stare, whisper, and make faces. As if it effected them in any way. The glares, eye rolls, attitude etc was so ridiculous. I think all your employees should take a class on not discriminating against those with special needs, (its literally AGAINST the LAW). Don’t be another negative impact on a child who does NOT deserve it, He did not ask to be the way he is, period.