Supreme Dragon

Overall it was fair. I’d suggest finding another place. Sort of bland, not much flavor at all. Server seemed very sad.

This is a good Chinese Restaurant in the Palm Springs Area. I recommend the Kung Pao Fish, Chicken Soft Noodles, Chicken Fried Rice, Wonton Soup, etc. This is Hong Kong Style Cusine. Ming, the owner is a very nice and humble man. I highly recommend Supreme Dragon!

Great hot n sour soup. Fried rice is more like brown rice, so bland, and the Mongolian Beef is WAY Too Salty, ugh. Disappointed.

Best Asian food in all of Coachella valley — don’t miss it if you love fresh, perfectly seasoned,
great variety of that cuisine — been many times and never disappointed!

We went on Christmas Eve and it was great. The place looks a little «odd», but the food is fantastic. I highly recommend the beef and broccoli and chicken lo mien.

A fan, first time eating there. I have to say whoever uploaded photos of this place doesn’t have a future in photography. The place is actually more attractive looking, especially in the evening.
I had the house special lo mein dinner (add $ 4.50), comes with your choice of soup (egg flower, wanton, etc). I really liked the fish tank. Great for groups, a nice intimate setting.

I was mortified after having lunch here today with my parents. The restaurant has signs up and on the menus about a $ 1.99 convenience fee for credit card transactions because of the new chip technology. That, in and of itself, is shady at best.
Toward the end of our meal, an older gentleman came in and was seated near us. I overheard him ask the owner/​server about this charge stating that he’d never heard of it elsewhere. The owner/​server was so incredibly rude in his reply and then he walked away from the customer and refused to acknowledge or serve the poor guy. He even had cash in his hand, so clearly he was still interested in staying for lunch. He was nothing but polite, but the owner/​server was beyond rude. I have never witnessed such poor treatment of a customer and I hope that man tells everyone he knows the same and this place loses customers. Just awful.

We have been coming here on and off for a year and a half. At first, we thought that all the Chinese restaurants were ‘westernized’ and couldn’t get a decent authentic meal in the valley. We had tried both New Asian and China King, and while New Asian was okay, I would never go back to China King again (ugh). At Supreme Dragon, their lunch menu/​special selections are quite good. We almost always order the Salt & Pepper Prawns (#39), sauteed string bean (#25), and pork chop with peking sauce (basically sweet and sour pork chop cut up into manageable pieces #40). We ask the dishes to be served a la carte rather than a dish per person, basically family style. Lunch items come with egg rolls and your choice of steamed rice or fried rice. All three are good and fresh. Food always arrive hot, as ordered. Consistently tasty. Service is friendly and approachable. Great value for lunch. Gather a few friends and try it for lunch. You won’t be disappointed.
We came here for dinner one time and the evening menu dishes are larger then their lunch counterparts, as expected; as is the difference in prices. No complaints. Still better than PF Changs (lol).

We saw a sign for «Hong Kong» style dim sum and figured dim sum is always worth a shot.
Pleasantly surprised.
As previous reviewers noted it is a kinda weird funky space — and it does have a strange (fishy) odor — but the food was quite decent. The servers were both really nice and accommodating. I wouldn’t hesitate to go back.

This restaurant is just really bad. The service was non existent. The food was horrible, especially the shrimp with lobster sauce. Very tiny shrimp which have a cost of no more than 10 cents in a grotesque white eggy sauce not resembling nor tasting anything close to lobster for $ 17.50. The wonton soup was warm water with cabbage. We went on a Saturday and was virtually empty. No surprise.

THE WORST TREATMENT. I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED… from the owner. MING in all my years of dining and being on the other end of CUSTOMER SERVICE. After this experience tonight with the six of us. purposely choosing this restaurant as a place to go for good Chinese Food. several of us had had their food via take out or dining in. The host of our group had ordered a «recommended» Ginger Cocktail. It was not at all to her liking… so she did not drink it. No service was brought to the table for some 10+ minutes to take the orders from the 4 newest arriving guests. The place was 20% filled at best. It was mentioned that this one cocktail was not to her liking, and could she get something different. MING the «owner» grabbed her cocktail. still full… in disgust and literally refused to take an alternative request. I asked after he skipped over her wish if she might order a wine or something different and he said NO, so the waitress offered hot tea. Mind you this was a business dinner, and we were entertaining guests from our Hotel in Palm Springs that had been with us a month. I was a gasp… as it was 6pm and our first cocktail of the evening. It was embarrassing and inexcusable!
We proceeded with dinner although service was way less than par, the food as we had expected was very good.
At the end of the meal I privately asked Ming the «owner» to talk to me please outside. I asked why he would have been so rude as to note offer this customer a chance to order something different, to her liking. He said I am too busy. I said do you realize these are returning customers of yours. I DO NOT CARE… So I asked you do not care?.. that we recommend and send guests from our Hotel. I DO NOT CARE… he literally replied to me 10+ times that HE DOES NOT CARE! I have had the Mayor eat here he says…
WELL Folks… We build our Palm Springs business on customer service, and WE DO CARE… and if you choose to cross the door step of this establishment after reading this… you will have been fore-​warned.
One wish… some restaurant that DOES CARE… consider hiring this cook in the kitchen away from here. unless the poor soul is a family member of MING. that has already been damaged from this mans bad attitude.
MING… stay in the kitchen or stay home. or make yourself handy and clean your dirty rest rooms. don’t visit the customers. to whom YOU DON’T CARE!

The best take out Chinese in Palm Springs, first experience was a hit. Super friendly service. Had the Lemon Chicken and Szechuan Beef which were awesome!
Two thumbs up!

Family owned business with GREAT lunch specials and time warp décor. Cute little family owned place with excellent food for the price point. It’s a locals’ hangout. Let the food snobs hate, leaves more for us locals.

I love this place! Haven’t tried many things as I’ve just discovered it. But the scallop with vegetables is beautiful. It’s a shame more folks don’t show up for lunch. Their menu is larger than most places I’ve been and prices are reasonable. (Ok I know abalone is out of sight, but with such a rare delicacy what would you expect? Amazing they offer it at all.) sheesh.

As many of the reviewers here have noted, this place is a bit odd: The restaurant itself is usually empty, the décor is quite «retro», and the menu goes on and on and on and on some more! But the food makes it worth the trip, so long as you know what to order and what to avoid.
This restaurant seems to be one of those «love it or hate it» kind of places. For myself, I LOVE it. The Chinese food at this place reminds me of the kind of Chinese food I used to get back in New York decades ago: The sort of old-​fashioned Cantonese-​style food rather than the lighter spicier Szechuan and Hunan style food that seems to be more popular today.
Try the Pressed Duck with Almond Sauce — it’s to die for!!! Seriously. Also, the Tangerine Beef is excellent, as are all the noodle dishes EXCEPT for the Pad Thai (which is not very good in my opinion). The Dim Sum is not the best in the world, but it’s good. .. and better than no Dim Sum at all! The Char Su Bao is about as good as I’ve had, as is the BBQ Pork.
However, I recommend you avoid the Sushi. The restaurant DOES have a lot of seafood dishes, and most of them are really excellent. But I had bad luck with sushi the last few times I went there. I’ll go again and give them another try, but no time soon.
in any event, DO NOT BE SCARED AWAY by the empty dining room or the huge menu. Even though Supreme Dragon is on the other side of the desert from where I live, I call them for take-​away food on a regular basis.
Once again: Try the Pressed Duck with Almond Sauce. It makes me giddy just to think about how wonderful it is!

Literally one of my favorite restaurants in the area! On top of that it’s always my #1 Chinese restaurant to go to!
First off I must address the «weirdness» of this place that so many people mention. No matter what time or day you go I guarantee you’ll probably always be the only person in here, at max I’ve seen two other parties dinning here when I’ve gone, every other time we’ve been alone. Its very obviously strange looking inside, a large bar to the left that looks like none of the bottles have ever been touched, huge fish tanks in the front, a peeling, tattered painting/​mural to the right, and directly to the back are huge water tanks flowing with nothing in them… after saying all this I’m shocked anyone is still reading hahaha.
To sum up everything said about this place above, it screams that it’s a «front» for some other illegitimate business being run here (you may laugh but I’m dead serious).
Regardless I look past all of this because the food is beyond amazing! To die for amazing!!! Everything tastes like home cooking, flavorful, fresh, and super saucy just as all good Chinese food should be…
I’d recommend the
*shrimp egg foo young
*lemon chicken
*shrimp with black bean sauce
*beef and broccoli
*fried rices
*soups
***only negative note: stay away from their sushi!!!
Enjoy!

Supreme Dragon is one of the most bizarre restaurants ever. I’ve lived near it and eaten there many times over the past 13 years.
There is never anyone in there. Even on a Saturday night in the height of the tourist season it’s completely dead.
The previous reviewers are right. The place is old and a time warp. There’s a large mural on wall that’s peeling paper taped up as repairs. There is a closed sushi bar, a huge bar and fish tanks and big lobster and crab tanks that usually have only a few crabs or lobsters in them.
If you can tolerate a dead, dirty, tired empty huge dining room the food isn’t bad. Reminder the desert only has a few decent Chinese restaurants. So… the Kung pao Chicken is decent with chicken, peppers, onions and peanuts. They also have a sesame beef dish that’s like small pieces of beef deep fried them tossed in a brown sauce and topped with sesame seeds.
It’s not the best Chinese and its not the worst. If the place freaks you out get it to go.
One more thing… I think the family that owns it lives there. The very last booth looks like someone’s living there. You can sometimes hear computer games or something that I believe one of the owners kid is playing. Like I said, a freakshow but fairly decent food.

Very pricey for not very good value. Ate there today, only after the other two closest Chinese places were closed, got take out. Four egg rolls were $ 7, and the whole first and last bites were just crispy greasy roll, no filling. Chicken fried rice looked like mostly fried rice with a pea or a carrot here and there and every once in a while a very small piece of chicken meat. And we only got 4 items and were charged over $ 41, definitely not eating there again.

My mother used to have a very busy Chinese restaurant here, during the mid-​to-​late 1980s. The owners of Supreme Dragon initially spent a small fortune; offering live Seafood, Dim Sum, Sushi, a full service bar and cuisines from Szechuan, Canton to Hunan. The interior is a mish-​mash of badly-​peeling wallpaper, a gigantic, Golden Buddha, smelly fish tanks and a thin layer of airbound grease permeates nearly every surface inside. The waitstaff is your basic robotic, Asian food server, completely devoid of friendly expression and charm.
One peek at the Dim Sum menu immediately told me it was NOT going to be a screaming success. Four shrimp dumplings for $ 6.95 will never sell… especially when many Chinatown (LA, Monterey Park) establishments offer larger, fresh-​made Dim Sum selections for well under $ 2.99/each. If you do decide to order the Dim Sum — expect it to be frozen and steamed, prior to serving. It appears their venture with Sushi was met with failure — as the Sushi Bar looks to be closed indefinitely… NOT a good sign!
I ordered the Lunch combo plate of Curry Chicken. The dish was served with a ladle-​sized portion of rice. The «curry sauce» had nearly no curry content, was salty and full of MSG. The amount of chicken was a bit on the stingy side and the only veggies that came with it were frozen peas/​carrots and chopped onions. The accompanying egg roll that was included was SOAKED in brown, week-​old fryer grease. I took one bite and it squirted a spray of hot oil all over my shirt.
Well, that wraps-​up my review of this restaurant. I came inside expecting to be slightly wowed — but it turned out more to be a supreme drag…

Walking inside, you’d think you’re on a nostalgia trip, watching a VHS of your life in the 90s, elaborating some fictitious scene involving meeting an Asian mob boss in a crusty laundromat of a restaurant. He’s going to kill your daughter if you don’t follow his orders and carry out a hit on his business partner after a deal went bad. He slides the keys to a clean Kawasaki bike across the table, throws down a soiled napkin, and demands you vacate his presence.
The fantasy ends. The film grain dissolves, the grime does not. It’s a time warp into faded, dirty prints on the walls, aching to wilt completely onto the floor.
Before the peeling walls catch your eye, you’re greeted by a good sized fish tank with dingy glass that must have the poor cichlids crying. The odor accompanying the walk inside, you would think is coming from this dingy fish tank. That is until you see the real culprit along the rear wall– dirty, homemade-​looking tank contraptions with overflowing water designed to house the fish awaiting slaughter. It’s a seafood place– I get that. But the nastiest fish market I’ve stepped foot in wouldn’t have stood a chance in odor competition.
I’m seated quickly, and it isn’t much of a surprise. I’m all alone. It’s lunch time and this place is deserted. The silverwear, the dishes, with scratches and chips, provide a startling reminder of the looming artwork on the wall. If I would’ve had access to a bottle of windex… well, lets just say I’d need 50 more before the urge would die.
The waitress is friendly and prompt, carefully took the order, carefully served the food.
And now the food. To put it very simply, the food wasn’t good. I wanted to enjoy it and give this place a bit more credit, but I just couldn’t get past the 3 inches of oil in which every dish was soaked. Panda Express, with all of its processed and frozen disgustingness, would have been a better choice.
The kungpao chicken was mostly fat. Water chestnuts are cleverly cut in the same sized pieces as the chicken to trick you into think you didn’t just get ripped off. One bite though, and you realize about an ounce of chicken is present in the entire dish. If I had wanted any more water chestnuts, I could’ve gone straight to a can.
Where are you left, then, when you cringe at the thought of the last thorough cleaning this place had, the food tastes wrong, and you’ve been teleported into the 90s? This isn’t Iowa or Oregon. We’re left with a single star. Too bad.