Mr Holy Gao - S San Diego

Food is not good, way below average. Restaurants put hidden fees on my bill. The servicer told us not to go back ever, we were not planning to anyways?‍

This restaurant is disgusting……There is a mosquito in my soup in the takeout I ordered today.

If there is a way to rank lower tha 1 star, I will do that. It is terrible on Food, service and also atmosphere. We tried the breakfast today as the sunday.1. firstly, i think they violate the laws. We ordered the food based on the menu at the front desk. There are plenty of copies there, white color, on the side of front desk) You can still find that in the google). And we got several copies from the waiters when we were ordering the food. But in the final bill, I felt weird to see the different prices in at least 3 dishes Chinese donut) . I asked the cashier that the prices were different from the menu, she just told me the menu you saw is out of date, insist several times) that you should use the ones shown in the bill. Then I asked if the menus were wrong, why the waiters gave them to us and why the menu was there. Then when we were arguing, another waiter/cashier came to see what happened and took over the waitress. He called the boss and finally updated the bill with the prices in the menu. The bill wasn't changed very much from $53 to $50), but their service is disaster. I do not think if there could be two different prices in any restaurant.2. The food is disaster. We have orderred several dishes, but I can tell all of them were worse than I expected, except the chinese donut). 1) The congee with pork preserved eggs, really just congee 1 tiny pork 1piece preserved egg you can imagine). The congee is not very good. The tiny pork is very hard to find. I spend a while to figure out that there is a very tiny one. The preserved egg is a small piece. I don't think anyone there really taste this popular food in China. 2) salty Chinese style Tofu, not much really taste of Chinese style tofu, it is salty with soy sauce. Taste really weird with soy sauce dominant; 3) sweet chinese style tofu, not much chinese style tofu, like sweet water. 4) original soybean milk, nothing special, I doubt it is got from the super maket. 5) porridge 6 side dish. We tried pickled mustard green too salty, salted duck egg too salted, no special, dried meat floss just so so. The other 3, fermented tofu olive edamame, look very ugly a black lump) and are hard to convince me to give them a try. 6) shanghai Veggie yellow croaker wonton soup. Stinking smell as of rotten fish. I had a bite and almost throw out. We decided not to try at that time and took it home, but after several hours, the smells prevented us to try again. I think they were wasting the food, waste my time!!!3 There were only few visitors and 3 tables near the noon. I tried to complain the food twice, it was ignore first time. And I tried again second time, but I don't think they really heard my comments and no any feedback or response any more. I don't think they really take the suggestions into consideration. The waiters/waitress look not very busy, even so, I did not see much communications between the waiters/waitress and the customers. This is a minor thing. But the food and the services are disaster. I think they probably just want to make money from us one time, try to take out of the money as much as they can!STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED!!

Long wait, mediocre food, and there's a lot of better places to get GOOD Chinese food. Okay if you want Chinese food on a budget though.

Searched for Ma-dasao but come to a link called Mr Holy Gao. The restaurant owner must not want reviews.The rating is more like 2.5Came here because it is close to work. Owner changed and food went south. My friend’s Hainanese chicken rice was too yellow. Was it dyed. Garlic shrimp was too salty. The chef must have a heavy hand on salt. Noodle bowl was ok.When we pay the bill, the waitress won’t let go of the handle electronic device. It was so awkward and inconvenient to input tips and personal information for the receipt. Let go! I won’t take the device home.Probably won’t come here too often.