Ming Sing | Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Lodi

To start off I will tell you I got my food to go (the online ordering service for this place works surprisingly well), and so I can't comment on the service aspect of this restaurant. The restaurant itself is in an ambiguously older building right along the street. Were I to describe the look of the interior as 'par for the course' in terms of the typical chinese restaurant, you would know immediately what you would be walking into.

I did come in the evening, right around when the sun was setting, so most of the blinds were closed and it felt a bit dark and dingy, but I imagine with mare natural light during the day it has a very chill vibe. But I digress: we aren't here on an interior design tour.

The food was good and prepared quickly. I was particularly impressed with the vegetable fried rice and the vegetable delight. The rice was slightly sticky, but didn't clump and had a definite, 'just so' amount of soy sauce and/or salt.

Usually I find most places can get the look of the rice correct but deliver a slightly soggy and bland product. This place nails the presentation, flavor, and texture (slight chew, but not mushy in any sense; well cooked). To my taste it was lightly salted, but I also prefer a fair amount of salt, and I imagine the rice would please most people.

The vegetable delight was also seasoned just right. Enough garlic to ensure it is more than a whisper, but still coy enough so that no one else can be alerted to its presence before seeing or tasting it. I don't need to wax poetic about the maladies of garlic abuse as we all probably have a memorable instance of such things. The texture, too, was delightful: vegetables that are cooked (maybe steamed) but not wilted and limp. Still a bit of a crispness when being bitten into, but not falling apart either.

In terms of meat, I ordered the General's chicken and Sweet and Sour pork, and they were good as well. Sauces weren't too sweet and there was a definite and distinct difference in flavor without either having to be aggressively bold. They seemed to inhabit vastly different places in the kaleidoscope of flavor, and that seems to be about right in terms of where they should be.

I don't think you can go wrong here with the food. Each plate is about $12-14 per, but you're getting large portions that are prepared well enough to withstand the arduous journey to being next days left overs, and more importantly, cooked well enough to retain all the best qualities...

VERY VERY VERY rude phone lady. Started ordering garlic chicken, egg rolls and a drink for the first order and she started yelling that it is $25 minimum for delivery when I was ording each meal seperate. I never leave reviews but this really rubbed me the wrong way, I ended up spending $64. They ended up putting shrimp in one of the fried rices and did not give us the second order of eggrolls, refused to drive back out because they insisted it was in the bag. Food is great but make sure you are ready to deal with horrible...

Little hole in the wall place with good food and a super nice woman running the front. Our mains were very flavorful, meats were tender, and the veg still had some crunch. We ordered 1 app, 2 mains, 3 combos, and tea for under $90 and we all had enough leftovers to make another meal. Not everything was great, pork fried rice and chow main lacked flavor and the garlic chicken had no garlic, but it was a fantastically fried piece of very tender chicken. We will...