China Moon — Restaurant in Birmingham

We love our local Chinese takeout haunt. It’s not the fanciest Chinese around but they are super fast with your order and the portions are generous. Can’t beat it when we don’t feel like cooking and we can pick it up down the road in 10 minutes. The food is an excellent value for what you get. My husband and I particularly love the eggplant. I love their cheese wontons. Hot and sour soup is amazing. Their combos are great because you get rice and an eggroll or soup. The sauces are pretty generic and some dishes have been a little meh, and their fried rice isn’t really fried rice (more like yellow rice lacking any veggies or egg bits) but for the price you can’t beat it. If you want something spicy, make sure you ask because just because you see something is spicy on the menu doesn’t mean it will be. I ordered Hunan chicken and it looked nothing like Hunan, no chilies. The eggplant which wasn’t supposed to be spicy was spicier than my chicken. Pretty sure they just make up their own version of sauces for some dishes. I do like that they serve broccoli, carrot, onion etc with almost every stir fry. Next time I will ask for chilis if I...

PRO'S: Consistent, top quality eats! Closed on Sunday.

CON'S: #1. Sometimes their English doesn't work, either in, or out. For me, I'd prefer, AND have asked many times for them to cook the vegetables in my order of Cashew Chicken longer so it's a little softer to chew, but so far, we've had a failure to communicate.

#2. BEWARE of the BUMS that hang out at this strip mall on the CVS / Piggly Wiggly and China Moon end of the mall. No one seems to understand the connection between my having to fend off aggressive requests for money from the bums at this location and my choice to grab food from Mr. Chens, Publix or Walgreens INSTEAD because they're only a couple of blocks this or that direction away, AND THEY DON'T HAVE BUMS! And the Police don't seem to want to enforce the laws on panhandling, vagrants and begging either, but that's...

This place is bad i ordered my food. Took it out when i looked at the soup it was nothing like i expected neither was the main dish. The soup smelled like roasted with rotting human flesh. I went back in and left the soup on the counter. Told them it wasnt what i wanted. Same as the main course. They insisted THE main course was good, and what i ordered. With apprehension, wanting tp leave all contents behind, i ended up trying the main course. I ate some of the dish probably a feIw choice pieces, and threw the rest away. The next day i woke up felt like someone split my head open with a 2x4. I think it might be...