88 China — Restaurant in Saint Charles

Was our go-to Chinese place, and it's gone downhill in the last year or so. There's an Indian influence to the cooking and, as much as I love Indian food, they need to keep the cooking separate from Chinese. The counter service is just ok, a little on the abrasive side of polite and far from mindful. We order once every month or every other month, and lately the food has been hit-and-miss. Unfortunately we are going to find another go-to Chinese restaurant.

The owner says my comment is biased towards racial discrimination. It's a sad day when that's all you have to lean on instead of addressing the issue that the food has leaned more and more Indian the last year.

My comment said there is an Indian influence in the Chinese cooking and if I go to a Chinese restaurant I want Chinese. If it's Chinese-Indian fusion then say so. If it's not fusion cuisine, then dont. If that's racist, I don't know what to tell you.

Since we want to be cantankerous in our replies (sort of like I mentioned the service typically is above), Sweet and Sour Chicken (or pork) typically comes with pineapple, green pepper, and onion in sweet and sour sauce, not tempura chicken nuggets with a tiny side of sweet and sour sauce. Yet another reason we'll be going somewhere else. Also, my wife and I split an order of chicken fried rice this last time and the chicken tasted day-old and dried out. Yeah, we...

One of my favorite Chinese food places in the area.

The only negative I can even think of, is that during super busy times, the delivery length can be up to an hour or longer, but they always always apologize and it isn't typical of their delivery times.

Their food is very very good. Always incredibly fresh and very hot. I love their Chicken Fried rice, their shrimp rolls are my absolute favorite. Crab Rangoon is always hot and fresh and incredibly creamy. I'm addicted to the steamed dumplings but also adore the fried dumplings. Love their Mongolian Beef, General Tso's and really pretty much everything I have tried has been simply delicious.

I love their online ordering, so incredibly easy to use. I also love that for every $10 you spend, they give you a voucher which can be redeemed for free egg rolls (1 voucher), crab rangoon (2 vouchers), chinese donuts (3 vouchers), chicken wings (4 vouchers), steamed (5 vouchers) or fried (5 vouchers plus small upgrade charge) dumplings and even a free entree when you save 10 of the vouchers. I feel like I am getting something back.

In the last year or so the prices have gone up quite a bit and what we used to order a year ago that cost $20.00 now costs nearly $30.00 so that's kept us from...

I like this restaurant. Although it is not big, people and food here always give me a different feeling. Every time when I eat in this restaurant, I take away the rest of the food no matter if I go home or can't finish it. but this is my basic respect for them. I am also a chef. I know that when a chef makes mistakes, there is no perfect person, let alone a dish has to go through the skills of several chefs. Even the best restaurants will receive the complaints from customers believe there is still customer service in this restaurant. I talked with the people here ones. When I praise her for good work, she told me very modestly that she was not the best. however she will try to do better. She wants told me with a smile that for dishes that are not in place, she usually give the customer some reasonable discounts. For the places where the meal is wrong, she will personally help the guest to. She will personally drive to the customer to make up for it, for the better or worse, I loyally support this small restaurant. I believe it's quality is still good. Their overall quality...