China House — Restaurant in Lykens

I used to love this place. I've been visiting for a long time and at one point it was just the best chinese food. It was my go to spot in the area and it wasn't common for me me order weekly. Over the years the food quality slowly started to decline, but it was still good. Since the pandemic though, it's gone so far down hill. At one point the food became bad. Super bland and sometimes even inedible. They also had upped the prices at least three times. I stopped ordering for a while.

I tried again and it was MUCH better. The food was fresher and had more flavor. Not what it was when I started going long ago, but tasty. However, they upped their prices AGAIN... by lot! I still their pre-pandemic menu and some items have almost doubled in price with most meals costing around 50% more than they did before. Inflation is bad and restaurants were hit hard but a 50% price increase is just over the top. Some items actually cost more than a...

We have been going here for some time for take out now and the food has met or been beyond our expectations. The menu consists of the typical takeout items but as with any place the items taste and ingredients vary per restaurant. This just happens to be our favorite. Some of our faves are the crab rangoons, shrimp egg rolls, lo mein, vegetable fried rice (which could have more veggies in it for my liking), sweet and sour chicken, general t'sos, I mean you can't go wrong. The staff is nice, sometimes hard to understand but make sure when you order you know exactly what you ordered, the number on the menu and how many because sometimes it can get lost or misunderstood is translation and that's completely understandable. Definitely hit this place up. There is something here for everyone and...

Let’s be honest all the good reviews on here are people that have never had authentic Chinese food. Or even close to good Chinese food. No disrespect to those people. So let’s be honest this is frozen food cooked in oil. This food is maybe a 2 out of 5 on their best day. The place is dirty and nasty and outdated. General tso chicken is stringy and very over cooked and all pea sized pieces. Not chicken but chunks of batter. Egg rolls fried and burnt. Beef and broccoli no flavor and not even close enough sauce to cover all pieces of meat or broccoli. Food needed to be returned to show how bad the food was in order to get credit. No time for that.

Do yourself a favor and...