China House — Restaurant in Auburn

I went here awhile back. I decided to take the family to enjoy like a late lunch.. there was a total of four of us. Me, my boyfriend, our daughter, and our grandfather. We ordered our food. They served us. We got our food. I asked for sweet and sour sauce. They gave us a cup of sweet and sour and it had Ants in it. I’m not talking one ant I’m talking like 5-10 ants in that cup. I told my significant other “I ain’t eating our food and dipping my food in that. Do you see that there is ants in this cup.” So my boyfriend tells the server/hostess “there are ants in this sweet and sour sauce.” Server/hostess says “no there isn’t.” We tried to tell him you gave us a cup with ants in this sweet and sour sauce so many times and he really kept denying it. Ok if there was one ant in there he could’ve acted like he didn’t know what it was or how it got in there. But to have multiple ants in the sweet and sour sauce and deny it. You know we left right after that still paid for our food tip them a decent tip. We never went back ever since that day… if you like ants in your food keep going here.. shouldn’t that be a sign to clean up your restaurant more better i don’t know. I wanted to tell the server you eat it then since you didn’t see those ants in the sweet and sour sauce lol. But we didn’t we didn’t react the way we felt we wanted to or maybe should’ve reacted towards this server/hostess that took our food. We didn’t make a scene we just left.. never...

I read a couple of (very rare) reviews on here that give the food a low score. That's CRAZY. We've been coming to China House for YEARS and never had a bad meal. The owner/chef is Chinese, the staff are Chinese, and we've traveled to China ourselves, and the food, while "Americanized," can be made as authentic as you want it. Just ask.

I know the owner buys fresh from local markets, and doesn't compromise on quality.

The chicken and meat in most dishes is "velveted," (a unique tenderizing process prior to cooking) and is always delicious.

The won ton and egg flower soups are very delicate (I always add a little soy sauce), and several other soups are available and I notice very popular with other customers.

The BBQ pork is made in their kitchen, the egg roles are made fresh daily and delicious, and dishes like Snow White Chicken (again with a little soy sauce), Chicken with Black Bean Sauce, Tomato Beef, Sweet and Sour Prawns, and Mo Shu Pork are always big hits.

If you want a good, solid Chinese meal at a very reasonable cost, with some left-overs to take home (the servings are generous), China House is your kind of place.

And the service is always friendly. The place gets packed sometimes and they are on the run, but don't hesitate to wave them down and ask for help....they always...

I have been searching for a good Chinese food restaurant for a while now and have tried a bunch of them in the area that were ok but definitely not as good as I’d hoped. After searching through various chinese food places for the 100th time and being frustrated by all of the mixed reviews I decided to take a gamble on this place and I am so glad that I did! After reading through the mixed reviews of this place I figured it would end up being mediocre like every other place I’ve tried but it ended up being FAR BETTER!!! Normally I end up only liking maybe 2 or 3 things out of the various items that come with the Family Dinners but I ended up liking every single thing that we got from China House. We got the General Tso’s chicken, Chow Mein, Pork fried Rice, Fried Almond Chicken, Potstickers, Mongolian Beef, BBQ pork, Fried prawns and wonton soup (the China House Special Dinner) and all of it was amazing. The employees were so friendly when I picked up my order and they packaged everything really well and had it all laid out in a cardboard box so it was easy to transport everything home. This is definitely going to be where I get our Chinese food from now on. I highly recommend giving this...