China King — Restaurant in Cary

I've been really busy lately and have been relying on takeout and delivery. I've tried The Pearl Restaurant, Golden Dragon (Raleigh), Lucky 7 (Raleigh, and Hong Kong Café (Raleigh). Then I tried China King in Cary. They are hands down better than the rest. Their food is staple Chinese American fare, but they do a great job with it.

My two greatest complaints about Chinese takeout is that the meat is often rubbery and the food is fatty/greasy. Not so with China King! Their food is always appealing and appetizing. Plenty of meat in with the veggies, and it is cooked perfectly every time. Seasoning is light, which I like.

Service is always fast, or at least reasonable, not matter when I phone in a delivery order. Usually 30 minutes. Once on a Friday at 6:00 it was 45 minutes, even when traffic was at a standstill out on 440. The food was still hot. I have never gotten cold food from them.

On their online order menu, they provide a box where you can type in special instructions. I use this to ask for the broccoli to be cooked until it is firm and no longer crunchy, and for the pepper and onion dishes to be more onion and less peppers. They always do as I ask.

Their food prices are less expensive than Golden Dragon and comparable with all the other restaurants I have tried, and for the convenience and the amount of food they deliver in each meal, I think their pricing is absolutely fair and reasonable. I think they are the best Chinese takeout/delivery in...

Hot fresh food, cook to order. We ordered combination General Tso with fried rice, combination Sesame Chicken with pork fried rice and a quart House fried.

All items were placed in the same sized container. Upon the receipt of our food, I acknowledged that the ordered quart sized rice was not correct. She said they didnt have any other kind of containers. That can happen, but there's a way to make those accommodations since charges are being made for the size. We understand that shortages have happened. Nevertheless, professional customer service, would've been to express that while ordering or measure it and add the additional portion in a smaller container. Instead of trying to correct it she was defensive.

We were going to eat in, but the tables were not clean. She pointed to show me where to get the cleaning supplies, so that I the customer could clean it. I have helped in places where people were short of staff and the person was doing 3 jobs as 1 person, I volunteered and did it looking for nothing. Her response and tone maybe from frustration of the day or personal life cares. Today, at my visit, was not the best.

We may return another time. we...

The dining area had someone's personal hygiene bottles on display in the front window. I'm talking body wash, shampoo and more. I'm sorry, but people dining don't want to know what the workers there use to clean themselves.

My son, who loves almost all soups, whispered to me, that he didn't like the broth. "It tasted funny". He's 8 years old, with a very forgiving palette, so if you can't impress him with a simple chicken broth, I don't know what you're doing wrong. The only thing I tasted was the lemonade. And not to my surprise it was gross. It tasted like generic lemonade mix with some kind of synthetic sweetener.

FINALLY, as others noted the front cashier woman is rude with darker toned customers than she is with lighter ones. We observed her behavior as we dined. She was notably cold and non responsive to a dark skinned customer who was very pleasant and thankful. She didn't respond to the woman thanking her, she simply walked away. While a middle age white customer walked away with her very happily smiling and saying "ok you're welcome" several times.

Really bummed we came here. No...