I'm not sure why this place has all the bad reviews. I just had the general tao chicken and it was the best I've ever had! This is a proper Chinese takeout spot. read more

I really enjoyed everything I ordered today. Wonderful and kind service from the beautiful lady, I didn't get her name but she's been working at this establishment since 2008 (just shy of 20 years) I thought this was awesome; I got the mee goreng, fried chicken and the dumplings and I haven't had Chinese food this good in I can't remember so! I'm not sure why this place has bad reviews but I enjoyed the esthetics of the place, the service and the food!! All good ... if I had one suggestion is for them to offer the dumpling sauce but otherwise 10/10 for me! Thank you! read more

China Bell Restaurant Madison TN - This is so delicious it's mee goreng with a side of fried chicken .... Hit the spot! I can't wait to try their other dishes! - Chinese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

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The General Taos chicken was HORRIBLE. The quality of their food has changed from previous years. read more

The food was fresh. Lo Mein was very tasty. Sesame chicken was ok. Egg roll was tiny. I give a 3 as the food was average.

As someone who is a local and loves good ole Chinese take out this is the right restaurant for just that! If you ever feel like not cooking and want Chinese take out I would recommend this place! Very yummy! Service is good! Ambiance is cozy and sometimes even the kids are there and that's when you know the food is good!! read more

I've always said Nashville had the worst Chinese restaurants until I found this place. 10/10. And the cashier remembers my order when I call!!! My favorite read more

Dinner and a show at China Bell Sure you'll pay extra for extra sauce, and there's a minimum on credit card purchases, but the entertainment is included. At China Bell, you get both decent Chinese food, all the while watching the owner and the staff taking the customers to task. You know what kind of place this is because of the wall to wall signs. There's even a sign if you get the wrong order. Basically, don't even think about bringing it up. Special order? Nope. It comes as it comes. They don't save the sass just for customers. That's a carry over from the work environment. The food is okay. What you expect from a strip mall Chinese place. If you're not expecting much, and have a good sense humor, this is the place for you. Come for wonton. Stay for show. read more

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I order from here regularly. Best Chinese in the area. In 12 years I have never had an order that wasn't perfect. They've never left out or made a single mistake. That's impressive! Very nice people. Highly recommended!!! read more

If you like coconut cream shrimp this is the place to be. Fried shrimp covered in a coconut sauce. Simply the greatest shrimp dish I've ever eaten. This is a must try!! read more

Great place. I phoned in my order and I could clearly hear them and they could clearly hear whet I was ordering. I even called back to add to my order and it was no problem The food was all good and just as ordered. We will come back again. read more

Just ordered for delivery. Order should have 4 egg rolls. Only got one?! Food itself was bland.

I love this place, my friends and I really enjoyed it and the customer service was great!! I've ordered take out through yelp and gone inside, both times was great. Delicious food! read more

I haven't been there for food in a few months because of having to order by phone or maybe online. I like to go in and buy my food instead of having to go through too many other ways to get the food. read more

For a long time I always said China Bell had the best Chinese food in the area. Many people agreed with me. I dont know if owner ship changed or what but it seems that the price went up and the quality of the food went down. Way down. We use to spend around $45 for my family of 3 to have a meal each of us get our own bag of teriyaki chicken which was my family's favorite. Now it's about $65 for the same order we always got and the quality of the food is wayyy less. Not to mention this is the second time in a row our 3 orders of teriyaki chicken have been burnt to a crisp and almost none edible, all 3 bags. If your gonna raise ur prices don't compromise the quality of ur food. I'm not about to go stand there and wait for them to get the food right. Do it right the first time! This is the 2nd time this has happened now. Why would you bag the food up that is burnt to a crisp and feel right charging ur customer for it especiallyat the price u charge now. Makes no sense! You need to do better or u will lose your returning family of customers. read more

China Bell Restaurant Madison TN - burnt Teriyaki chicken in the bag. 3 orders all burnt cost about $18 that they thought it was ok to sell. - Chinese Near Me - Madison, Tennessee

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I am usually a customer of number one Chinese on old Hickory Boulevard next to Piggly Wiggly but they are closed for renovations, so I try China Bell. What a mistake! I order a large beef and broccoli. The container is only 3/4 full they don't even give you a pint of rice. I ordered a large wonton soup and it only had five wontons in the big container. Definitely not worth 32 bucks. I won't make that mistake again! read more

I just had the shrimp with mixed vegetables and white rice. I enjoyed it and will order again.

This food is delicious. It was our favorite Chinese place for a while. And then we had an order come home with cockroaches in the bag. Seriously. Two tiny cockroaches were smashed against the wrappers for our rangoons. If there are so many babies that this could happen...how many adults are running around. Just unacceptable. read more

Food is excellent quality, but pretty small portions. Pork fried rice had great flavor, but very little pork.

Really good food. Me and my family have ordered it since I was a kid. Still taste the same.

My favorite Chinese takeout in Nashville. Best takeout Lomein! I would give it a 5 except my family doesn't agree with me because it is pretty greasy. I would say try for yourself if you're in the Madison area. read more

Ordered the snow peas in garlic sauce and eggroll. Only $8.50. Meal was flavorful and crispy. read more

OK SOOOOO...I wanted some chinese food and ordered from the nearby China Bell Madison, TN. My order came very promptly (40 mins) and was hot and fresh. I ordered quite a bit of food so when it was delivered in two bags I wasn't surprised. When I opened the bag I noticed that they gave me way more lo mein and fried rice than I normally get but I figured maybe they were trying new containers. I immediately made a plate and commenced to dressing my food to eat without even opening the second bag. About 20 mins later there's a knock at the door and it's the owner of the restaurant stating I took too much food and they wanted it back!?!?! I was like, I've already started eating...he said he didn't care scrape it all back into the container and give it back! I was a little mortified but when I looked in the second bag, there was my original order. So I handed him "what was left" in each container of the first containers and sent him on his way... Now there are so many things I could say about this but all I'm going to say is that I HOPE and PRAY he didn't go deliver that food to it's original intended!!!! Also, I won't be ordering delivery from them EVER AGAIN! read more

This is our go-to Chinese restaurant because it's close and convenient. It's standard Americanized Chinese fare, and it's perfectly serviceable. I've only ever gotten takeout from here, and it seems like most of China Bell's business comes from takeout and delivery orders. To the uninitiated, I wouldn't recommend eating inside the restaurant. The dining area is a little rough on the eyes and lacks any ambiance. Typically there is a stereo blasting awful dance music in the dining room. The "soup nazi" mentioned in other reviews has always been pleasant and friendly to me. The "soup nazi" aspect is actually one of the main reasons I choose China Bell. As another reviewer mentioned, the place is covered in long-winded "signs" going over the rules and regulations of the place...as well as the expectations the place has of YOU. This is probably the only restaurant in town that goes into great detail -in writing- about all the ways in which you are annoying (as a restaurant patron). I think the signs are hilarious, and I never tire of reading them. Despite all that, the cashier manning the register and the phones every single time I've been is super nice. Even though I only visit the restaurant once every couple of months or so, she always remembers me and my boyfriend. As for the food, we haven't explored the very large menu AT ALL. I usually get the General Tso's chicken or the honey chicken, and my boyfriend always gets the jalapeno chicken. An order of crab rangoon usually seals the deal. The recipes for these dishes have changed a bit over time (for the worse), but we've never been disappointed enough to not return. read more

Worst Customer Service Ever!! Last night I decided to get some dinner from China Bell. I ordered Sweet and Sour Chicken and Chicken Fried Rice. The reason I ordered extra was because I am sick with the flu. So tonight I went to eat my fried rice, and I noticed the order was wrong so I did what anyone else would do and called the restaurant. They told me that they would not redeliver the order only giving me a credit. So I decided to make another order only they would not include the price of the rice in the order so I would have to order the 20 dollar minimum. Do not order from these people, because they do not care about customer service at all!! Never again will I order from these creeps. read more

Listen ALL! I have ordered 6 times from this restaurant, giving them the benefit of the doubt. But I'm fed up with this service. If you order something be very prepared to not get it. Or wait more than an hour for your food. It has happened to me 5 times (long delivery & wrong food). I called and the only thing they say is I'm sorry. Also, not to add to this frustration. I had a hair in my fried rice. Please for heavens sakes order from China wok or hibachi if your in the madison area. They are more reliable and much more accommodating. read more

i don't mind hole in the wall places, but this one is a piece of work. In a sketching part of town next to old time pottery, this fast food, Americanized Chinese restaurant is scary on the out AND the inside. Even though i have a boyfriend, a bit of flirty from the opposite sex is always fun, but i must say being hit on by the guy covered in feces pushing his grocery cart was not cool. He was allowed to bring that mess into the restaurant as well which seems nuts since there is a row and row of rules for this joint. So after all this I took my house fried rice and general chicken (per-ordered, didn't feel like i could back out at that point) home and after 30 mins we both started getting violently sick. No thank you read more

Pros and cons: Pros - food is decent, tasty, cooked and served up quickly. Spring rolls are plump, tasty and filled with all the veggie goodies. Prices are decent too. I had two spring rolls and a lunch sized veggie Mai fun and bottled water for $ 11. Also, the quantity of food was enough I made two meals out of it Cons - not much of an oriental "atmosphere" here and secondly, although there is vegetable fried rice, vegetable lo mein and vegetable mai fun, there aren't any dishes that have bean curd/tofu. When asked why the response was this area of town is mostly a chicken, beef and pork area of town. So, in general, good enough to come back to when in this neck-of-the-woods. This place is mostly used for delivery and carry-out. read more

I just got the lunch special and I should've known it was too good to be true. Halfway through my shrimp chow mein I noticed that my shrimp was bad. I tried a few more shrimps and they were all bad too. Hopefully I don't get sick :-/ read more

Delivery was supposed to take "about an hour." I called after an hour and fifteen minutes and was told that they're just now starting to cook it and it would be another 30 minutes. I asked to speak to a manager and was told "we don't have a manager." Unreliable and rude. [update: they lied to me about the kitchen being "backed up." In fact, they forgot to put my order into the kitchen. They called back to apologize and said they'd take $9 off of my order for their mistake. But they charged me the full amount anyway.] read more

Ate in, very clean and organized. My chicken fried rice was served quickly. Portion was a little small, tasted precooked, and was greasy. Worth another try, but consider this just ok. read more

It saddens me to be typing this because, as you can tell from my prior review, this was my hands down favorite chinese food in the area. Unfortunately I will no longer be ordering food from this place. The last time I ordered the mei fun there were chunks of... what I hope was black plastic all through it. The first bit I thought, okay gross, but maybe a piece of spoon broke off or something. But when there was more and more... of course I had to throw the entire batch out. It wasn't burned food I don't think; it was very hard. The time before THAT when I ordered the mei fun there was an entire plastic zip-tie in my food. The only reason I'm leaving two stars is that I didn't give them the opportunity to 'make it better'. I didn't find the ziptie until a couple of days later when I was eating the leftovers. I was willing to let that one thing go. The second time though.... I didn't want it replaced, I didn't want anything else from them, ever! So, unfortunately, as much as I used to love the food... I'm done with them. read more

Their food has always been very good and never disappointing, but the owner has been extremely rude to me the past two times I've gone in there. Boycotting simply because I refuse to support the business of a man who will talk to one of his customers the way he has to me. read more

Awesome, I've eaten here for over 15 years and have never had a bad meal. I started with General Tos Chicken, then Singpour Mi Fun, then Schetzwan Chicken, then moved to Jalapeno Chicken, and my new favorite is Yum yum noodles! For Take out or eat in its GREAT. read more

Ordered through Uber Eats and I couldn't be happier. We had Hunan Chicken, House Special Mai Fun, Szechuan Chicken and General Tso's Chicken. Yeah, we were hungry but not for long. Everything was fresh, hot and arrived within an hour. It was late night though. I will order again. My favorites were the Hunan Chicken and Mai Fun! I have never been inside so cannot comment on the cleaniness, service or atmosphere. Since I will go back, I will update this review if I find them not to be consistent. Hoping it wasn't a fluke. read more

First off. I ordered two sesame chicken only received one because whoever took my order didn't repeat it back. Second my sister was eating an orange chicken platter and a fucking hair was in this chicken. Spent 60 dollars att this place for them to tell me I had to pay for another sesame chicken if I wanted it and for there to be a hair in one of the meals was just down right ridiculous. Will not order again. She was a bitch. read more

Most of the reviews complained about service. I used Uber eats and what was delivered to my house was DELICIOUS!!!. i ordered five entrees and all were fantastic! read more

Took them almost 2 1/2 hrs to deliver my food last night(I live 10 minutes away). Food was okay but we'll be trying a different Chinese delivery place since this has happened before. read more

My food was cold and said something to the manager and he was very rude told us it was warm not hot very rude and never coming back here again it's my friend's 1st time and my last time ... Never again read more

Food was awful some of my order was missing that I paid for and to top it there price gauging because of covid 19 will never go back and will not recommend them to and one I know read more

I stopped in to place a to-go order, so I can't speak for their delivery. The restaurant is bare bones, which is why I decided to take my order home. I agree with others that the service wasn't very friendly, just straightforward and busy. They seemed to be doing a steady take out business on a Tuesday night. I gave four stars not for the ambience or personalities but for the taste of the food. Got home and enjoyed both the hot sour soup and shrimp mai fun. The soup did have pork in it, which is only an issue if you're a vegetarian like myself. Now I know. The shrimp noodle dish was tasty and plentiful, definitely will be enough for at least one more meal. So overall a good choice for take out Chinese and reasonable prices. read more