Peking Gourmet — Restaurant in Wilmington

Huddled between a shop and an alley sits Peking Gourmet, a non descript but decent little Chinese restaurant. P.G. is a copy of many of the small "bodega-esque" Chinese restaurants that are popular in NYC. Inside, this dour hole in the wall there are not many table/benches for dinning-in because most patrons take away their food. However, if you're brave and hungry enough to enter this joint, you will find that the place is cleaner than it appears upon first sight. In fact the counters and kitchen look properly maintained and the food seems to be kept safely and handled correctly. Peking Gourmet's edge over competitors is they specialize in quick meal preparation for either take away or dine-in and dash-out options. Considering, how aesthetically unimpressive the place is inside and out, it is pleasantly surprising that the food is actually pretty good and not mysterious or questionable. It should be noted that P.G. does not have the ability to process debt or credit cards and so it...

I'm 41, I've been eating here since moving to Wilmington,NC when I was 15. I odee love Chinese food, I'm something like a Chinese food connoisseur, I KNOW good Chinese food and Mr. Chan had the best Chinese food in Wilmington. With that being said, I JUST ordered and its like night and day from how it used to be, not sure if Mr. &Mrs. Chan sold their business or what but it was absolutely HORRIBLE. I ordered a LG pepper steak with fried rice. The sauce was thin and watery not seasoned like normally. Its like somebody chopped up 3 onions , 1/2 a bell pepper, and put in 5 small pieces of steak (which are at the bottom under allllllllll of the onions). The fried rice is just really oily yellow rice, no onions (probably used all in the pepper steak🥴) peas,carrots etc. Just plain greasy yellow rice. Can't believe I paid $11 for this, NEVER AGAIN, I could...

Tried this place for lunch today and was pleasantly surprised. Ordered broccoli and beef with pork fried rice. Broccoli was crunchy, beef was tender, I asked for light sauce so it was just the perfect amount. But the star was the fried rice. Outside of big city Chinatowns this is one of the best fried rice I've had. It was cooked over very high heat, hence it wasn't greasy, and the high heat imparts a flavor that we call 'wok hei' loosely translated to 'wok breath'. Once you have it, you will know the difference. Looking forward to more takeout/delivery. Came back and was...