China Delight — Restaurant in Delaware Township

We have lived up here for 5 years and have tried pretty much every Chinese restaurant in the area. They start out decent enough but they always wind up disappointing. We have never tried this place because I always forget they are down in Dingmans Ferry but last night my husband Googled Chinese food near us and this place came up so we decided to try it. We did read the reviews so we were not hopeful. How wrong are these reviews! If you are judging this place is food by their appearance you are doing a disservice to yourself and to anyone else that reads the reviews. I went in thinking the worst to pick up my food and looked around to find this place is very clean. Yes it's old and dated but we find that some of the best old and dated places have the best food and this place did not disappoint in that area. We are from Brooklyn New York so we have had some of the worst and the best Chinese food we've ever tasted. And if you are at all familiar with Williamsburg Brooklyn there was a place called Kam-Wah that had the absolute best food in our area. My husband and I would both put this food from China Delight up against kam-wah any day if they were still open. Is it as good as Wo-Hop Manhattan probably not, but their food was absolutely perfect. We ordered a lot of food for the house including the pepper steak, the roast pork fried rice, the vegetable fried rice, the beef fried rice, boneless spare ribs, chicken noodle soup, chicken rice soup, they gave us a dozen of their donuts for free as a thank you and my husband's in order a few things that I cannot even name and he is a cynic when it comes to Chinese food. He is not a fan of Chinese food at all he is a pizza person but he was not feeling good last night and he wanted the soup and he cannot believe how amazing their food was. So please before you write any review on this place I hope you read this and overlook their appearance or anything else judge them solely on their food because it was absolutely delicious. As far as I am concerned it was absolutely nothing wrong with their restaurant. Everything was clean from the floors to the counter and even all the stainless steel from the kitchen that you could see it was all very clean. I spoke with the girl behind the counter while she was begging up out food and she told me they've been there for 17 years and possibly even longer but that is how old she is and she knows they have been there her whole life she was so nice and polite and friendly and so were the other people I wave to behind the counter. All I have to say is I know we have found a new home in China Delight. We will be ordering from them anytime we want Chinese and now that I've tasted their food I could say I hope we order Chinese more often. To me this is the Hidden Gem of Dingmans Ferry and Milford!!!

9/7/24 UPDATE

My mom came to visit for the month & we were craving Chinese food.. I ordered again from China Delight to see what she thought about their food vs Long Island & NY in general & she LOVED IT too! If there was one thing I could do without is the peas in the Roast pork fried rice. They are never cooked until they're soft & in general I just don't like them in my rice. LOVE that they put egg...

This place makes me cringe a bit. I brought the food, tried a bit..but most went in the trash.

Just pulling up and seeing the outside, I knew I would not be eating here more than once. The photos don't really show it as well as when you're there.

I ordered fried dumplings, and sweet and sour chicken, neither were very good. The fried rice had nothing but egg in and and was extremely dry. The chicken was obviously the cheapest fatty cuts you can get, and it was rubbery to chew.

Maybe my taste for the food was biased by the look of the place, but I can't abide by Chinese Americans who own restaurants and go crazy putting up plastic shields, slide draws for transactions, not allowing people into their stores sometimes etc etc, and yet don't give a lick about cleanliness.

Why is cleaning your business so hard to do....who wants to eat in a place that is this unkept??

I really wonder what the heck we have a heath department for....how the heck does it get a Servisafe...

I must say, I was a bit weary to try another Chinese restaurant in the area, new panda is terrible (sorry, not sorry). When I arrived I was early, the young man that helped me was very pleasant to talk to. I was happy to learn they make everything from scratch, from the egg rolls to the cheese wontons all hand wrapped! The dumplings were the best I’ve ever had (I’m from NY, not upstate either) the cheese wontons you could tell were fresh and made with real cream cheese, (yes, they must use frozen at other places) they were very creamy and flavorful. Also, their sweat and sour sauce doesn’t taste like cough syrup! I am so happy to find a good Chinese restaurant in the area! I will def be...