Number 1 Taste Chinese Food Watertown — Restaurant in Watertown

If you're looking for a solid, reliable Chinese takeout/delivery spot, you have to give Number 1 taste a try! You will not be disappointed and you'll wish you had found it sooner!

Number 1 Taste is a local American-style Chinese food takeout/delivery spot. I stumbled across the place one evening looking for delivery on UberEats.

Given the mediocre reviews for spots in Waltham, I was thrilled to see I was able to get Number 1 Taste delivered all the way from Watertown. I wish I had found them sooner!

The portions here are extremely generous. The food is always delivered piping hot, fresh, and packaged perfectly. Our orders are always spot-on, five stars. Consistency is also on-point from order to order.

The quality of the food is also a major step above most spots in the area and downtown Boston. The proteins are always tender and fresh, no chewy mystery meat or old-tasting beef! The vegetables also appear to be fresh, not frozen like most spots use.

You'll find the flavors of the food is comforting, familiar, and satisfying without feeling thirsty afterwards. That is the major difference I noticed after the first order. It isn't loaded full of salt or overloaded with MSG.

The best bang for the buck here is the combination plates. For around $12.95 you get an entree, an appetizer of your choice, and pork fried rice or white rice. When they say an appetizer of your choice, they mean three-four crab rangoons!

It is an unbeatable value! The pork fried rice is just right, not too oily or greasy. Massive chunks of tender BBQ pork. It is probably the best fried rice I've had anywhere in Boston. Hands down.

I have tried several of the combination plates and I am never disappointed. Notable favorites are the Chicken Egg Foo Young and Beef and Vegetable.

If you are like me, you always get an appetizer to go with the meal. The shining star is the Peking Ravioli. I always order them pan-fried. The Peking Ravioli appear to be hand-made.

They are a solid size, plump and filled with pork and vegetable. The dipping sauce served on the side is the perfect accompaniment! They are very generous in terms of portion size. I usually eat four with my meal and warm up the other four for lunch the next day!

If you're looking for a lighter start to your meal, I strongly suggest the House Special Soup. The portion size is generous, plenty for two people to split!

If you love noodles like me, you'll love the Lo Mein! I've ordered the Chicken Lo Mein and it was filled with carrots, onions, and snow peas. The Chicken is melt-in-your mouth tender. The noodles are made in the wok just right, not too soft/mushy/overcooked. Not too oily or greasy, like many places!

Our favorite entrees to split are the Happy Family, Beef and Vegetable, Shrimp with Vegetables, Shrimp Egg Foo Young, and the Orange Chicken.

The Happy Family is our favorite. Loaded with beef, chicken, and shrimp. And I am talking full size shrimp, not tiny salad shrimp other spots use. The Beef and Chicken are so tender they melt in your mouth.

The dish was absolutely overflowing with tons of fresh vegetables. The sauce/gravy was just right, flavorful without being overly salty. Consistency of the sauce is spot on, not too runny or thick.

The quality of ingredients is most obvious ordering this house speciality.

This is our go-to spot in Boston and the surrounding area. The quality of ingredients truly shines in every dish we have ordered and enjoyed.

The portions are extremely generous and we love ordering sometimes twice a week due to the value. The portions and prices are just right!

Our orders are always delivered piping hot and packaged right. Example: They package the hot gravy/sauce for the egg foo young separately so it doesn't leak everywhere. Common sense many places don't pay attention too.

Keep up the amazing ingredients, food, prices, and service! You have a lifelong customer with me!

My only suggestions for improvement would be to offer almond cookies as a dessert option.

I'd also LOVE to see a combination or "house"...

Would not go here again.

Our first time ordering from them was last night and we got almost 100 dollars worth of food for 6 people to eat at my in laws house. I guess the first warning should have been when the person on the phone asked if we would pay in cash.

When we got home we found one of the dishes was wrong. Was supposed to be cashew shrimp but it was chicken instead. My wife called up to tell them and the person that answered the phone started giving her a hard time.

First he said that it was in fact shrimp, that " that's what the shrimp looks like" then tried to blame my wife saying that she actually did order chicken. So whats the story here? Is it really shrimp that looks like chicken or did she order wrong? The answer is neither. We had the order written down and she read it to them from our list.

Then he finally, after a bunch of arguing, ( a good few minutes worth) agreed to replace the food with the correct order but said we had to pay for the new food. In the end we had to go back, pick up the new food and finally get back to the in laws house to eat.

Honestly, the food was very bland and was mostly rice that was a bit on the dry side, with a fairly small portion of the actual dish. The replacement cashew shrimp was mostly vegetables. The sesame chicken was kind of gooey and spongy. Beef with broccoli just dull and flavorless. Overall the experience and the food was far from number 1, and a couple of hours later,after we left to go home, my stomach started to rumble. I don't need to go into the rest, but lets just say I was lucky to make it home.

You can decide for yourself, I'm just giving my opinion based on...

We used to like this place but it's hard to now since they're rather inefficient.

*Last 2x I ordered for my husband he picked up on his lunch break only to discover there was no duck sauce in the bag. He doesn't eat chicken fingers without it so they go to waste since he can't leave work a second time to drive back to the restaurant. Today he watched the employees put his bag together & didn't see them put duck sauce in so he asked & they claimed it was in the bag. He was smart enough to open the bag in the store & lo and behold there was NO duck sauce again. The employee insisted there was, took the chicken fingers out of the bag & all that..& says "oh you want extra duck sauce?" No..he only wants the one it should come with! I know better than to ever order delivery from here. Get it together please! Efficiency matters & duck sauce is definitely something you can spare. Don't penny pinch! *Another quite nasty tidbit is that the employee apparently had accidentally put two small bags containing 3 chicken fingers in my husband's bag even though we only ordered one...upon noticing he took one back to serve to another customer which is really gross in these times since my husband had already opened the bag/touched them. Unsanitary & I'd be fuming if I was...