Louisiana Fried Chicken Chinese Food provides a wide selection of dishes for a fast food restaurant. There’s only one problem – none of it is very good.

Joined by several companions were headed to the restaurant, located at 1301 Union avenue, Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken has two locations in Bakersfield with the other being on Ming.

The menu delivered what the name had advertised. From fried chicken and seafood gumbo to orange chicken and egg rolls, the restaurant’s menu had a good amount of variety, even offering horchata, rice milk most often served in Mexican restaurants.

My meal consisted of fried chicken with a side of fried rice, beef and broccoli and a dinner roll with an Orange Bang as my drink for under $7. There was however an additional $.50 charge added to me as I used a debit card to pay for my meal.

The food was pretty cheap but in this case I got what I paid for.

The chicken was good. The skin was crisp and the meat tender and moist. It was well seasoned with just the right amount of spices and salt.

Everything else was greasy yet somehow incredibly dry at the same time.

The combination of blandness, greasy, dryness and mouth-tiring chewiness made for one of the least pleasurable meals I’ve had in recent times.

The fried rice, beef and brocoli and roll were all incredibly bland.

The common factors among these were how they all shimmered from their layers of grease and how much chewing was required making the meal feel more like chewing bubblegum than eating actual food.

One of my companions ordered orange chicken and chow mein with a cup of horchata to wash it down.

The orange chicken sauce had formed into a gravy of gelatin-like consistency and some of the pieces of chicken were more skin than meat, making the dish extremely chewy.

The chow mein, while greasy, was described as “OK” and he said, “The horchata’s actually really good. But they got it from a machine.”

The atmosphere was that of a hole in the wall. While the restaurant received an A from the health inspector, the tables felt sticky with some of them having visible food debris.

While dining around 15 other people walked in to buy meals. They ranged from shirtless men with rough looking tattoos to working mothers who appeared to have just gotten off of work from the nearby FoodMaxx to working women of another kind who were dressed in short-shorts and mini-skirts.

Service was quick but unfriendly.

I couldn’t help but notice that a worker occasionally wiped his forehead before handling food and that no one who worked there ate the food prepared on site during their break.

Overall the experience wasn’t very pleasant.

At the end of the meal the stomachs of my companions and I were upset, and the feeling of disgust after a large, salty, greasy meal had overcome my companions and I.

I wouldn’t recommend Lousiana Fried Chicken Chinese Food to anyone. As far as fast food style fried chicken goes, the place is nothing special, the Chinese food was bad and everything else looked unappetizing.

While the prices were low and the scenery interesting, the lack of flavor and feeling of disgust aren’t worth it.