China Wok — Restaurant in Jacksonville

Went here on a trip through Arkansas, big mistake. Food was sitting out to serve Panda express style. Before I could even look at the menu to think about ordering something freshly made, I was forced into ordering. Noticed they had a sign for orange chicken and none was sitting out. Said I was looking for some and the lady said "you want orange chicken, we have. Is spicy, you like spicy?" I said yes (and I do), but ultimately I am not sure why she warned me. What I received was certainly bright orange, but black pepper would be spicier. It really tasted like orange juice and honey: all sweet not a hint of spice, and was covered in seasme seeds for some reason.

The fried rice was dry and flavorless, and heaped into a take out container with reckless abandon that bordered in the insane, despite the fact that we were dining in.

I am not certain in what world a 2 meals (if you could call them that) that are 6.99 total out to 29.99, but here we are.

Plastic forks that were tiny as hell for the dine in experience made me laugh, and a super stale fortune cookie to round it out.

While eating, they were cleaning the counter out for the night, banging around the serving pots while staring daggers at our table as if we were unwelcome house guests even though we arrived nearly an hour before they were listed as closing.

Tried, but definitely couldn't even come close to finishing the food, and my stomach was upset for several hours afterwards. My friend's is still touchy 2 days later.

I would avoid...

So upon first glance the restaurant really doesn't look like much just kind of in the middle just doing its thing but looks are deceiving. The food here is absolutely phenomenal I ordered coconut shrimp, beef and broccoli with the side of lo mein, the beef was immaculately tender just melted in my mouth, the coconut shrimp was not too sweet it wasn't overly hard or overly cooked the shrimp was tender and it was delicious. The lo mein noodles were wonderfully tasty I am genuinely ashamed I had not tried it earlier because of how it looked. This place is some of the best Chinese food I've had in Arkansas so far and I happen to really like all sorts of American Chinese food and...

If I could give this place a negative 1 I would. I was so excited to eat from here. I pay $30 for my food and it was not worth it. It's taste old and cold and they had just open. I could tell they hadn't just cooked that food. My honey chicken was half done with some kind of wet sauce thrown on top of it. The rice was dark yellow, it was supposed to be fried rice, I don't know what that was. But I do know it was horrible. I couldn't even eat it all and the little bit I did eat made my stomach hurt. I should have went to New China, like I usually do. Next time I see a place looking like a ghost town, I will not overlook that fact and neither should you. I will...