UPDATE*****CLOSED FOR BUSINESS

Z’s Chinese Cuisine recently opened in Glendale AZ. This is not a fancy place and is very casual. This also is not your average American/Chinese Restaurant. Yes they do serve the American Favorite Beef and Broccoli. Actually they push Beef and Broccoli to people who are not Asian.( At least that was my experience.) Z’s Chinese Cuisine also offers a Cantonese Menu with some hard to find menu items like Chicken, Tiger Lily and Fungus Hot Pot, Beef with Bitter Melon and Pork Blood with Leeks.

I ordered the Chicken with Tiger Lily and Fungus Hot Pot. Our server who might be the co-owner says to me, “You won’t like.”

I say, “Why won’t I like?”

Server says, Only “Chinese People eat that.”

Yada yada it goes back and forth a little bit. I try to find out why I don’t want it and don’t get any answers. Then she runs to the kitchen and says the Chicken with Tiger Lily and Fungus has been ordered before she even took my husband’s order.

Server looks at my husband and suggest him getting the Beef and Broccoli….

He says, “I didn’t drive here to get beef and broccoli and wanted the Chinese Pork Belly.

Server says, “you know that’s fatty?”

Well any who……..

In a little while my Chicken with Tiger Lily and Fungus come out with a big bowl of white rice.

We wait and wait for my husband’s order. We figure it might not be coming so we share this dish. About 20 minutes latter my husband’s order arrives. He declines the dish because we wanted to eat together.

The Chicken is mostly sliced legs with skin and bone. I do peel the chicken off the bone and remove the rubbery skin. Inside is very flavorful tender delicious chicken. The broth is also very developed with good chicken flavor. As for vegetables I have mostly celery, snow peas, scallions and wood ear mushrooms. If I have Tiger Lily is must be cut up very small and is not noticeable. It’s really just a very good bowl of chicken soup with vegetables. The chicken is some work to dig out but it is certainly a very tasty dish.

Z’s Chinese Cuisine is only one of two restaurants that I am aware of in Glendale that offer Cantonese Cuisine and I can tell you that this one dish is many levels better than what the other restaurant is currently serving this year. (2017)

The Forking Truth is that this WAS NOT a perfect dining experience. We had problems with service here.

Is it possible that I was the first non-Asian person that enjoyed Cantonese Food this server?????

I don’t know what the future holds for this new restaurant.

UPDATE*****Z’s has CLOSED FOR BUSINESS but a New Szechwan Restaurant opened in the same spot

As far as I know this restaurant doesn’t have a website or Facebook page.

You will just have to visit them at 5158 W Olive Ave in Glendale AZ

EVERY FORKING THING is subject to change and YOUR FORKING experience may or may not differ.