I was in Dedham center today and decided to walk into Cathay Kitchen to get lunch. I've eaten tons of Chinese food my whole life and wanted to see what this place was about. Let's get out of the way first that this is a take- out, no tables, no frills place. It's simple and to the point. I went with the pork fried rice, and an egg roll. I noticed that the portions was very generous, that was a plus. The egg roll was very tasty, and tasted authentic, not generic, which was a plus. Also, the pork fried rice was very tasty, and meaty, which was a plus, but noticed that there was a bit of a grit to it in some of the bites. This was different, but I concluded it was just some added sugar. In conclusion, I liked my lunch very much and will be back to order more from here. read more

Cathay Kitchen - Pork Fried Rice and an egg roll. - Chinese Near Me - Dedham, Massachusetts

Lunch Special: Kung Pao Chicken with Veg Fried Rice was not good. Chicken was weird, no breading or sauce. Just grilled chicken tossed in the sauce. Wish I took a photo. Rice was sloppy, I paid $4 extra for "vegetable fried rice" and all they did was add broccoli. I do not recommend this place. read more

Delicious food, generous portions, very fair prices. I highly recommend Cathay Kitchen for take out.

Food was ok. Scallion pancake and general gau were the two I would get again. Everything else wasn't my taste read more

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Great food able to pick up food quickly and food was nice and hot. Good choice of appetizers good choice of food choices.

Tried again for some food from Cathy Kitchen and no surprise it was awful. Food over cooked and hard/dry, thought I would try the Mongolian beef which is normally a sweet and savory dish, but this was over spicy hot, and the beef looked prechewed. Done with this place and all of you looking for Chinese food, go elsewhere. read more

Food, service and ambiance not good. I knew while I was standing waiting for my food for about 15 minutes, that this restaurant was subpar. Not a single customer came in. Nor did the telephone ring during my wait. There was no seating so I took my meal home. I live about five minutes away. It was 3 pm on a Sunday and being hungry, I sat down immediately for my meal. Opening the takeout box, I was greeted with a huge amount of noodles, two teriyaki beef on a stick and other pieces of meat. So far so good. Unfortunately it all looked recycled. Not fresh. I ate a bit of it but was so turned off I toss it all into the garbage. Cross this restaurant off my list. read more

Great take out, got the house low mein and delicious as expected and a massive portion. If you're craving Chinese take out look no further than this place. read more

I used to like the food yesterday the boneless ribs were dry and burnt, and pork fried rice was dry no taste.

Go Somewhere Else. Well, it was Christmas Eve, and my good old standby spot had too long of a wait. I don't know if Cathay Kitchen is under new management or just have all new staff, but the food last night was terrible. 2 large boxes crab Rangoon (not the only thing I ordered) all were burnt and broken, and flat where the filling should be... only filled about 1/2 way. Maybe they're trying to cut costs, I don't know, but the food quality has gone way done while the prices have gone up. Total waste of $100. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else. I should've ordered from Tahiti, they never disappoint. Lesson learned read more

Uninspired and lacking flavor. reasonable quality for the price. better chinese food around like bamboo. I ordered the kids meal with rangoon and the #3 big plate special and hot and sour soup. rangoon was meh... the beef skewers were ok. rice was pretty ok but nothing to write home about. Noodles were ok. Soup was slightly less than ok. Fried shrimp were the same as every other place ever. service was nice and staff had a smile. restaurant seemed clean and the atmosphere was not terrible. Bottom line, was not terrible... read more

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I have been ordering Chinese food from them for a while now and I just have to say that the quality of the food has been excellent! The food is very tasty and delivery is so quick. I have ordered many things and every bite was just delicious. So far I have been extremely please and this is my go to for Chinese food! read more

However you like your Chinese food, this is the place. Healthy brown rice. No msg if you prefer or poopoo platter. They have hard working employees with a clean kitchen. read more

They denied my business due to the fact that they only were doing "large orders" and no combo plates. Remind you I was going to just pick up the food myself. read more

What a waste of cooking space! Unless you're desperate for chinese food or don't have time to research alternatives then avoid this poor example of Chinese food. I judge my chinese food restaurant by the most simple dish to create. If you cant pull that off, the you have no creative cooking talent. Fried Rice. It was basically white rice made brown in color with small pieces of pork. Thats it. No chopped onions or egg or bean sprouts. Totally flavorless. Next was the Mongolian beef and the Moo Shi. Both looked exactly alike with brown sauce. The Mongolian should have been called " container full of sliced onions with a few pieces of beef" The moo shi was meh. Go the the great coffee shop or the greek place instead next door. read more

Cathay Kitchen - Waste of a tree - Chinese Near Me - Dedham, Massachusetts

Food was very delicious. A friend recommended the place and I am very glad she did. I ordered the food for my son's birthday party and everyone loves the food. They also have great customer service. read more

However you like your Chinese food, this is the place. Healthy brown rice. No msg if you prefer or poopoo platter. They have hard working employees with a clean kitchen. read more

Listen, this is my go to for Chinese take out. Not anymore. WTH happened? New management/ownership? New.cooks? New suppliers? What?? The.food had very little to no taste. No consistency with the.food that I purchased. The gentleman out front was running around like a madman trying to take orders and get them out. It was not crowded...the delivery guy was sitting around with me and another patron...waiting for food to come out. This is the second time within 6 months that this new regime has failed me....pretty sure there will not be a third. I complained about the lady that did not greet customers with a warm welcome before...at least the food was good...Smh read more

Very good take out.very fast,the house rice is the best. We can get Chinese food from 4 different restaurants, but my fave is Cathay kitchen

We order delivery from Cathay pretty often. Always quick and the food comes hot. Large portions and tasty food!

They used to be my favorite takeout place in the area, hands down. Their delivery was crazy fast, and the food all tasted really good and fresh. They've changed some of the recipes over the past several months. I would always get the hot and sour soup because it was very tasty, but when I ordered a few months ago, it was bad. Thinking maybe it was a one-off event, I decided to try again yesterday. It was so awful to me, by the second sip, bite, whatever you do with soup, it was so sour, I literally spit it back out. Also, the Mongolian beef I ordered was probably 75% onions with 25% beef. It tasted fine, but not good enough to go back anymore. read more

Honestly the best Gen t'so chicken I've had in the area it was so good I got it 2 days after ordering it for the first time. The prices are very reasonable and the portions sizes are great. I got a pupu plater everything was great except the fried shrimp very tuff and chewy. The roast pork lomain was delicious as well. The orange chicken and Gen t'so chicken are the best thing I've had there so far and thy they only have 2 pieces of broccoli and are filled with chicken un like other restaurants! Ordering online is very easy and user friendly I haven't called in an order but the staff there is very friendly. The only reason I didn't make this a 5 star review is due to the restaurants awning see photo attached the name is so faded it took me 10 minutes to find the place n I was standing right infront of it! read more

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We've lived in Dedham for just over two years. When we moved here we tried food from pretty much all of the Asian restaurants around here. Cathay Kitchen is consistently by far the best Chinese food I've ever had. Ma-po tofu extra extra spicy? Wow. Generals Gaos? Excellent. House special fried rice? Delicious. They're so considerate that they will call to double check for allergies if you ask for no seafood. Who does that?? As long as I live here I'll always be a customer. Try it! read more

This is a takeout review, as I have never actually been to the restaurant. Most, if not all of you reading this review understand that when moving to a new area, one of the very first things you scope out once you get settled is where the best delivery is; and for me and many others specifically where the best Chinese delivery is; look no further than Cathay Kitchen. I am a creature of habit, and have been eating the same Chinese food for as long as I can remember, General's Chicken with rice and crab rangoons. Cathay does them all superbly. The food is always hot and fresh, it gets delivered very quickly, and the delivery driver is always incredibly friendly. Keep up the good work Cathay Kitchen!! - Alex @ Jefferson Apartments read more

The menu of this place boasts a lot of selections and they all sounded good, but when the food arrived for the price I would have expected better. I am not sure I have ever had Chinese food that was so bland I had to add salt. The fried rice and even the cashew chicken were tasteless and just boring. Even after adding soy sauce it didn't help. The only thing tht was good was the chicken fingers but how could you screw those up? Then again, how could you screw fried rice up. In this neighborhood there are 4 other places that are much better choices than this place so I would say skip it! read more

After a long day of work, and coming home to do more yard work, my husband and I wanted takeout. After looking at reviews on Yelp, this place seemed to be the best in the area. We ordered a pupu for 2, and chicken lo mein. I was happy to see a promo when I ordered on here that we got a free small order of crab rangoon. I got my email saying the food would arrived in about an hour, but it actually arrived in 30 mins on a Friday night! Everything was hot, crispy, tender and delicious. We rarely order Chinese food, but when we do, we'll order from here again! read more

Fresh, fast, delicious I'm surprised to see the bad reviews. The quality varies some, but not by much, and that's true everywhere. The fried rice is sometimes dry, but I have never found the food greasy--my usual complaint about Chinese food. The food portions are large and the prices reasonable. They give coupons on the menu for freebies, so be sure to request a new menu each time. I always get the General Gao's chicken or tofu, amazing sauce. They don't put chili peppers in it like some restaurants, which I actually prefer, but use chili paste, but it's still good. The Udon noodles with Seafood is addictive, full of scallops, shrimp, calamari and laced with lemongrass and basil. They have good appetizer platters as well, I like the crab rangoon and chicken fingers. The hot and sour soup is amazing. The orange chicken is good as well. read more

It pains me to write a negative review for what appears to be a family-owned restaurant that's just getting started in a bad economy, but I found the food to be overpriced and not very good, and it seems that the problems could be fixed relatively easily. I stopped in here for lunch one day and ordered the General Gao tofu and a side of brown rice. I was a little confused when they asked me if I wanted a small or a large, since the menu seems to indicate that this dish only comes in the large size, but I asked for a small when given a choice. Also, rice is not included, so I had to order an extra side of it. The tab was just under $13--a little steep for one vegetarian entree and some rice, but at that point there was nothing to be done for it. The portion size was absolutely ridiculous--easily enough food for three people. Unfortunately, the quality was not great. The sauce was gloppy and sort of congealed, although the tofu was nicely crispy and the flavor wasn't bad. The tofu came on top of some broccoli, although I would have appreciated a little more broccoli and a little less tofu. Also, the brown rice appeared to have been instant, Uncle Ben-variety. I would have happily traded a smaller portion size for better quality. In general, I am not likely to return. read more

This our go-to Chinese restaurant. I always get the #21, General Gaus chicken combo. It can be somewhat inconsistent in how "saucy" it is, or how crispy it is or is not. We always specify white rice, as we are not fans of pork fried rice. A few times we have ended up with pork-fried even though we asked for white. Appetizers are the usual, but very good. If you want to eat-in, they have plenty of seating, unlike a lot of chinese take-outs where there is usually just 2 sad booths or tables. read more

Outstanding food and service. We always order too much, but it all heats back up great! The pupu platter for two will not disappoint. Don't close down! read more

Absolutely the best Chinese food I have ever had. I am selective when it comes to Chinese food. Too many times I have found myself ordering out and getting Chinese food that is too oily, and not so tasty. For the past 5 years I have been ordering from Cathay Kitchen and it is by far the best Chinese food around. I seldom order anywhere else. Never oily! Always fast and service is good. read more

I like chinese food as much as other people do and I tried this place because it was close and I had a craving. The price isn't bad and it's comparable to other places I've been. The food however isnt bad but could use a some more flavor. Im not sure if its the oil the use or what but definitely needs a more flavor. The chicken wings and fingers were good, the crab ragoon was a little over done , the rice tated more like uncle bens or rice a roni, pork strips were a little over cooked but not bad. I went on a Saturday around noon, they just opened and so that may have made a difference. I might visit again. read more

Although delivery was very quick-- we both got sick. Ordered beef and broccoli with white rice and the sauce was so much the rice was almost soupy. The PFR lacked flavor- every other Chinese spot I've ever ordered added eggs , onions ect to the rice, this was literally just a few small pieces of pork and rice. Ordered from here 1x before and was definitely better; but the fact we got sick-probably not again. read more

Sometimes standard Americanized Chinese food is like comfort food, but tonight was not one of those times. We didn't expect gourmet food from Cathay House, of course, but we also didn't expect to be this disappointed. Truth be told, a couple of the dishes we ordered tasted OK (Boneless Ribs, and Hong Kong Style Chow Mein with Chicken), but everything else was very, very mediocre. The Hot and Sour Soup was arguably the worst I've ever had (and I've consumed many gallons of this over the course of my gastronomic career). The soup was very thin - almost watery - in texture, dark brown in color (like it was colored with a lot of soy sauce), and contained some tasteless ground meat (not sure if it was beef or pork) plus a few pieces of very soft tofu as the only discernible ingredients. We had some extra soup left in the container after serving up everyone's portions, but no one wanted seconds. We then had the Boneless Ribs. As I mentioned, these were fine - not anything near amazing but not overtly bad, and it was a large portion for the price. So one thumb up for that dish. After that, we had the Hong Kong Chow Mein with Chicken, Shrimp and Lobster Sauce, and Pork Fried Rice. The only one of those dishes that was even remotely tasty was the Chow Mein, and that dish earns only one thumb up at best. I'd advise staying away from the other two altogether (I'd actually advise staying away from this restaurant entirely, but if you do wind up here, be pre-warned that the Shrimp and Lobster Sauce has that same watery texture, same brown color, same ground meat, and not many shrimp. The Pork Fried Rice was similarly brown in color, with tiny and rather scant pieces of basically tasteless pork mixed in. There was something amiss with the rice itself as well - possibly cooked using too much water so it was kind of mishy and mushy. The portion size was generally quite large for all the dishes, so we now have to face the dilemma of either choosing to have a very unmemorable dinner (or two) of leftovers in a day or two, vs throwing out quite a bit of food. We are a thrifty family but the disposal might just get fed this time around. Yes, it was that unimpressive. The woman behind the counter, though, was very pleasant. I really wanted this food to taste better than it did, but alas, that was not to be. For those yelpers who think this is great Chinese food, I beg to disagree - this food is neither great nor is it Chinese. Please come visit Vancouver - the Chinese food there will blow your tastebuds (in a good way!) - or just go downtown to Boston's Chinatown (Beach and Kneeland). read more

Salty, fatty and worst: Every dish as MSG. We didnt know. (most places in city no MSG, so never thought to ask!). Husbands face flushed in 25 min. Food all fried. Tastes like one frylator, put all food in one batch. Awful. Who the heck uses MSG anymore? its a flavor enhancer additive, used in 70s. IF you use right spices, you dont need preservatives /additives in 'fresh food ' guys. Old fashioned, we are drunk and dont care food. Not for us. Nasty nasty nasty. read more

nice place with grate foods. Udon is my favorite, typing while enjoying, it ll be my back kitchen for a moment read more

Cathay Kitchen - Fried beef udon - Chinese Near Me - Dedham, Massachusetts

After my favorite Chinese takeout place went out of business a few years ago, I tried a number of places and this became my new favorite. Because it's a little far from where I live, I only got food there twice after COVID, but it was still just as good. Today I was looking forward to picking up lunch there and was very disappointed. The fried rice was still good, but the chicken chow mein had soft pieces of chicken (like it had been frozen and thawed out- too soft). The egg roll was really bad-burnt with almost no filling, and what filling there was was ground up pork with hardly any vegetables. I thought it might just be the second-string chef today, but reading another recent review about changes in some recipes, the place may have changed too much for me to come back. I hope I am wrong and will read new reviews before deciding permanently. read more

This place is pretty great. The food is good and vegetables taste fresh instead of drenched and over cooked. The container is big (I ordered a dinner value meal) and they protect from mess by covering container meal in a plastic bag in the brown bag. I recommend. All at a good price! read more

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Just received an order and everything was terrible. Chicken wings way over done. Ordered chicken chow Mein and it wasn't chicken chow mein. Not sure what it was! They sent me two orders of pork fried rice when one was ordered and both were flavorless. Crab Rangoon with very little stuffing. Very disappointed and won't be returning. We used to order from them frequently. read more

Awesome food! Quick delivery! Orange chicken, shrimp fried rice, ,, everything................