UPDATE: No sit down service - carryout only. Call & order ahead and go on inside to pickup your order. Don't forget to choose your condiment & soup crunchies of choice available on the side. Same great food, car service is over. Their Wonton soup is MAGIC! China Express & Concierge Service We've been searching for the best (and closest) Chinese food to be had around here and I think we've found it!
We had a wonderful meal from China Express last week and the pickup experience felt like a concierge! Call ahead, order your meal from the friendly & solicitous staff (asked about green onions and veggie preferences - we said we like them ALL) describe your vehicle, drive up to the restaurant - park - no need to even get out because they will hand deliver the order to your passenger side window, running your credit card right there curbside! Magic!
The food was yummy! We really enjoyed the sesame shrimp, chicken with cashews, cold sesame noodle, Szechuan wontons, pot stickers and of course - wonton soup. All packaged beautifully with all the expected accoutrements (or as my Dad calls them - cooter-mints) from the hot muster and duck sauces, chopsticks, fried crunchy wontons, to the fortune cookies - everything was delicious and top notch. The vegetables were especially well prepared - crunchy & tender crisp!
Some people swear by matzo ball soup for when you're not feeling 100% and I bow in respect - but my go-to is Wonton soup. Nothing quite like it! Yum. Well done, China Express you have a new...
Read moreWe as a family of 8 ordered over $130+ of various dinners and special items of appetizers etc. And let's start with easiest egg roll. Was burnt ( dry out and oil must not have changed in a few months, saturated thru. Dumplings same issue. Dried put and zero taste. Then, hot sour soup neither hot or sour, and had zero flavor, it was a tub of corn starch gravy but also nothing in comparison to any other soup I have had on Chinatown or Philadelphia area Asian restaurants. Slop left overs put in a container. Unfortunately we ordered 2 large ones. Down the drain. Veggie friend Rice. Over cooked veggies but no flavor either. And what ever cooked in oil used tasted rancid. Beef veggies dinner. No veggies because we asked for no sprouts in it. But no veggies at all. Wonton soup was the wonton like they bought these from a frozen bag and plopped into chicken broth. Spare ribs tasted like pork chops cut up. But not a spare rib or ribbless. Maybe 3 meals were ok. So, the family was celebrating our fathers 79th birthday and this dinner was supposed to be a treat. He was upset and sad for the kids not having a meal. This place needs to...
Read moreToday Z and his staff (a woman who was very foreign with broken English, but definitely not Asian) blew it big time. Not only would they not seat us (myself and my 4 children) at 5:45pm on a Wednesday evening with 4 of their 7 tables OPEN (they said that the 4 tables were Reserved come back at 7:45!!!).....they also did not even offer to make us something for Take Out!
I guess Z has way too much business now and can turn away Customers! It was truly disappointing as we really prefer their Chinese food to the other Chinese in the area that we have tried. Now I have to decide if I will even give China Express another try after they ruined our dinner plans for the evening! My children were happy though as they got to have pasta and meatballs that Mom cooked instead.
Reservations with such a small restaurant are ridiculous - what if the people don't show up and then you lost your Customer sales that were standing there right in front of you!!!
I had to give them at least One Star, but they...
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