..back in the Valley and my first crave was Perdiz Asada from China Palace! The Mongolian Beef was spot on as well as the service and staff. read more

China Palace Restaurant - Mongolian Beef & Perdiz Asada - Chinese Near Me - El Centro, California

Great food huge portions is definitely a must try. I recommend it to anyone who wants to eat great food.

Talk about AMAZING customer service this place was the best ! As for the food ...I seriously could not have asked for better quality Chinese food than this ! My only 'go to' for Chinese food in Imperial Valley! read more

great service , great food, lots of room also private party area! the food is very competitive with Chinese restaurants in the Los Angeles area. read more

Food was freshly made. Love the Chop Suey!! Service was very good. E we attended to as soon as we sat down Definitely recommend.

Quick and friendly service with delicious food at reasonable prices. The decor is a bit faded with the worn look of a well lived home.

We were driving back from the Palm Springs area and were too tired to go home & cook. We are still looking for a decent Chinese restaurant that we can go to regularly-we are on #3 and no dice so far. We have only 2 to go. One was closed today which limited our choice,so, we stopped at China Palace. We had passed it a few times and it looked old but had a nice appearance. You enter and see tasteful holiday decorations and nice (and not as old as the exterior) ambiance with authentic decor. We ordered Crab wontons but they don't have them. The menu online says they have those and lots of other things they don't have anymore. I put photos of the menu on Yelp so people can know what they have now. It looks like they removed a few pages out of the menu so they may have had more things before. So we ordered egg rolls. They were small and pretty good. We didn't care for the dipping sauce-it tasted like sugar diluted with a couple drops of food coloring. We ordered the combination dinners- 3 (BBQ pork slices, fried shrimp, pork fried rice and chicken chop suey) and D (egg roll, pork fried rice and pepper steak)and although the quantity was plentiful, the flavor was not so much. The BBQ pork slices actually were tender and had good flavor. The pork fried rice was ok-there was a slight flavor but it was rice with a few pieces of pork and green onions sprinkled on it. Nothing else. The Chicken Chop Suey had a good flavor but just bean sprouts. Nothing else. I actually had to look under the sprouts for chicken and found maybe 3-4 pieces the size of dimes. It had flavor so next time I would have to ask if they would put chicken in it. We were going to take one of the egg rolls and the 2 fried shrimp home but hubs snared one before it went in the box with leftovers. LOL! He said it was ok. So, I guess we are still looking for our place to go regularly for Chinese food. We've heard there are great restaurants in Mexicali, Mexico (which is only ~12 miles away) but it's a bit too far for during the week. We hope our last chance place is 'the one'. The restaurants we've tried may do some dishes better than the ones we ordered. It could just be that we have to find what those dishes are. read more

Great food year after year. Friendly staff. Very extensive collection of asian food, and also tasty house specials.

Food is good. Food is served nice and hot. Their sweet tea is super delicious Prices are reasonable. Waiters are excellent

China Palace has been the ONLY Chinese restaurant my family has eaten at in the last several decades. The food is awesome, from Cantonese rice and the soups to their sizzling dishes to Mongolian Beef , the Chinese Combination or Chicken with Pea Pods. The lunch combos are varied, delicious and filling. The chefs are amazing and the waiters are efficient plus very attentive. Jorge in particular is a fabulous waiter. I highly recommend it for an authentic Chinese meal beautifully prepared and served well. read more

Poor service, the food does not taste fresh and it is expensive! We were dining in, and served our food in to-go containers! Our server never came to our table to check on us. I came from out of town and haven't been there for years, the quality has gone down. Will not go back. read more

It was very late at night and we were looking for some restaurant. I usually avoid chinese restaurants due too much oil and MSG but my friend said this restaurant has some vegetarian options, so we decided to try it. It was not easy to identify at night this restaurant because the entire complex has shops and restaurants with their names written mostly in chinese language. China palace in English is written in small size. We ordered the following items Kung Pao tofu -- fried tofu. It was crispy on the outside and peanuts and chillies complemented the dish well. Vegetable fried rice -- Fried rice also had celery in it. Unlike other chinese restaurants I visited, none of the items had too much oil. Every ingredient in the dishes were well balanced. I might visit this restaurant again if I go to milpitas again. They take only cash..! read more

My partner and I enjoyed the food and the service. Don't go here for the architecture. But it is hard to imagine El Centro producing a better Chinese restaurant than China Palace. $60 bought all we could eat of well-prepared food, pleasantly presented, a tip and enough takeaway for a lunch. We will be back. read more

Disappointed. Took an hour for delivery, the "Pu Pu Platter" I ordered wasn't as described. It's unfortunately one of the few places that delivers to the hotel I am at. The shrimp tasted off, the ribs were dried out and tasteless. The BBQ pork was fatty and left an odd aftertaste. $30 lesson learned. The pork fried rice was edible at least! read more

China Palace Restaurant - That's suppose to be the Pu Pu platter for 3... - Chinese Near Me - El Centro, California

Absolutely love this place !! Been coming here for a couple of years now . Love the chicken chowmein & the bbq is great too ! Workers are nice & friendly & welcoming ! The place is always clean . Whenever I'm in town this spot is a must go to place to get my dose of Chinese food ! read more

Best restaurant in the Valley! Real authentic Chinese food as good as it gets. read more

China Palace Restaurant - Mongolian beef!! So delicious!! YUM!! - Chinese Near Me - El Centro, California

I have to say this is my favorite restaurant when I go to El Centro. The food always tastes delicious and service is excellent. I have also gotten food delivered from here and very please with their delivery service. Last time I placed a large order for a party and man did they cater as I expected! Prices are great and large portions. A must if in the area! read more

Free delivery orders which was good! Food is decent not best, but for the valley, well, do the job. Staff was nice on the phone and when delivered. Menu kinda complex when ordering because some items require to make double orders to get the price. Overall, as asian 3/5; as non asian 4/5. Fast delivery too. read more

By far, one of my favorite resturants in the Valley. The customer service is always great with almost all waiters. They do check on you unlike many of the other chinese places in the Valley, it's very rare when they don't check up on you to see if you need anything. This is one of those places you could easily take someone out to from out of town. The portions are great and always filling for me. The food is great too! My family always orders Chow Mein, Vegetable Fried Rice, and Tofu & Vegetables. If you want anything such as egg omitted from the fried rice, they will do it for you if you mention it at the time of the order. The restaurant naturally does not use MSG in any of there dishes, (addictive salt used in chinese food that has negative health benefits). One of the few chinese places in the Valley to do so. The taste of the food is just very unique and different from any other chinese place I have ever been too, in a very good way of course! The restaurant is never packed or crowded in the times that I have gone during lunch so it is reasonably very quiet in here, great for anyone looking for a quiet romantic evening. All in All, I really don't have any complaints about this place, I love it! Very fancy inside as well with a cool fish aquarium! Great costumer service, great food, great portions, can't get any better! The pricey dishes are well worth it! One of my #1 reccomendations to anyone outside the Valley or inside the Valley looking for great places or for a great Chinese places. read more

Omg, this review is especially for the roast partridge dish (spelled Patridge on the menu, haha). When we had this it was my first time trying partridge and oh my goodness, was it yummy. It was so tasty and juicy, what chicken wishes it was. The food here is straight up old school cantonese americanized style chinese food, the kind I grew up on and am always looking for. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the mandarin & szechuan places that are more popular nowadays, but I hanker for what I remember in my childhood as chinese food, it's comforting. Their egg foo yung is straight up old school delicious too, as were the bbq spare ribs and the won tons & sweet and sour. The SS sauce was clearly homemade, more of an orange hue than the bottled red stuff and with a definite ginger kick. And the waiters were really nice, especially Mario - what a total sweetie. The hubs and I can't wait to get back out to the desert again just so we can try other things here. read more

Good Chinese places are always super hard to find, and I thought that this one was up to par. I don't live in the area, but I was ordering for one of my offices. It was a very large order (for 15 people), and the amount of food was perfect. I ordered shrimp fried rice, shrimp with vegetables, Mongolian beef, sweet and sour chicken, egg drop soup. I placed the order the night before and they called in the morning to confirm. They open at 11am in the morning and I needed it made/delivered to the office by noon. They were on time and polite. Prices were good and food was well liked. Would order from here again if I'm in the area. read more

Was my favorite place! Not anymore! Food was horrible vegetables overcooked, noodles greasy, seafood combination were small shrimp lots of fish & imitation crab! Rice was old! Not sure what happened read more

The food is really good but was annoyed that the whole menu on Yelp was messed up. Yet China palace can't or won't log in and fix the menu issue. Both items I wanted they didn't actually have on the menu. Oh well time to find a better restaurant read more

At there yesterday afternoon, 8/13. The female hostess (not the waiter) acted like she was being bothered. I ordered the won ton soup bowl. The broth tasted like dish water. It was terrible. When I told the hostess she directed me to a young girl behind the counter who said she would tell the manager (I doubt it). The vegetables also appear to be just frozen and not fresh. Place is a mess. Would give it ZERO stars if I could. They have also "remodeled" inside and taken out the booths. It looks like a dirty high school cafeteria now. Really disappointed as it used to have some atmosphere and good food. Won't be going back. read more

A cockroach crawled down the wall at the table we were sitting at. Enough said...but I will continue regardless. It was a medium sized roach and it was making its way down when we spotted it. Onto the food: the chow mein noodles lacked taste, were not the known orange color, and could have used some more chicken. We did not receive one of the items that was ordered, and were charged for it. The service was good, independent to the overall unsatisfactory taste of the food. It was definitely not worth the totaled $80.00 plus. read more

Love the food. Excellent service. Called in advanced, when i arrived my table was ready. After you order the food is served very quickly ! #1 chow mein in the valley !! read more

Been eating at this place for nearly three decades. I proudly take out of town guests there. Other than San Francisco and Manhattan, few places give you that authentic Chinese food flavor. Their combination (Cantonese?) Chow Mein is the plate to order! It's chockful of veggies and has generous portions and cuts of every meat (chicken, beef, Chinese sausage) and shrimp. Their Chicken rice noodles are a treat, as is the deliciously tangy sesame chicken (not found in the menu, by the way!). The seafood combination has something for everyone: abalone, squid, shrimp, tilapia etc. stir fried in vegetables. Yummy! How can I not mention their fried rice, and the ever popular and spicy Mongolian beef and chicken? They also carry a fine selection beers: Shin Tao, Mexican and domestic, a fine complement to their dishes. And the best part of all are their prices! Caution. If you order to go or for home delivery, the portions are reduced by half. Recommendation: Eat the generous portions on site and take the leftovers home. It's like getting free take out! read more

I have been long time customer but the fact is I had not there in 3 years....much to my delight the food was great as in the past and the service was awesome! I had forgotten what a jewel this restaurant is! We had salt & pepper fish which is one of my favorites, the China Palace version unlike some others has very little to no breading meaty chucks of whitefish and served on a bed of crispy white silvery rice noodles with chopped scallions and chile peppers, it is super good! read more

I LOVE the Cantonese fried rice .I will order by phone my husband will pick it up.If you would like delivered to you ,you must order more than $10.00 and they will bring it to your home, motel room .This is not greasy Chinese food just good delicious and great prices read more

Its old school chinese food...you like panda fast food then dont come here! Its great food!

My daughter and I went this afternoon to have lunch and our waiter was very unprofessional. When asked about menu he replied " can't you see menu". We are from out of town and we love to make our stop at China Palace. Unfortunately, today was a not a good day for waiter . This is the first time we had him , an older gentlemen who seemed to be very distracted . read more

This place is great because they deliver. I feel that the orange chicken may be healthier as you get to add the amount of orange sauce to your chicken. Also it is breaded lightly. The lo mein (I think) is great! I'm talking about the thicker noodles not the sprouts. I always eat too many wontons cuz they are tasty. read more

Food is good but the online menu sucks. We need pictures and categories. Not just a shopping list. A specific list of categories and combinations will help. read more

This place is way overhyped! I ordered one of those family meals and they came out fast and I know the reason why! The food isn't fresh. It tastes like they pre-cooked it then microwaved it. I haven't been back since. read more

Only a two star cause the staff is good. Good service bad bad "Chinese" food. Fried rice isn't supposed to taste like Spanish rice, chop-suey is more than gravy and sprouts. Prob won't ever go this restaurant again. So disappointing and I love my Chinese food. Everything We ordered was heavy on the gravy and bland. Make more of an effort please! Not many Chinese restaurant in the Valley! read more

Stopped here on the way back to Phoenix. We had the #1 dinner for 3. It was ample food, friendly service and tasted amazing. We will definitely stop here again next time we travel to San Diego! read more

This place had a great atmosphere when I went in for take out. It was a little late but there were several large groups hanging out having a great time. The staff is friendly, and the food came out quick enough. The inside is a bit dirty, straw wrappers on the floors and the walls looked like they could use a fresh coat of paint 3 years ago. I saw several trays of food pass by me while waiting, and the portions are huge, as was the flat screen TV that had Sports Center on! I stuck with a simple sweet and sour chicken, but when I got back to my hotel it was a pineapple/carrot/ginger chicken. Pretty good, but mostly cuts of dark meat. Overall, this place is decent, and at least trilingual. I've had better Chinese food but you are in el Centro, what do you expect? read more

Love this place! There has been about two times when the service could have been better but both times we had the same waiter and he just seemed to not be having it, but food is really good read more

the people that work here are rude and the prices are high, what thay serve, looked like yesterdays leftovers, no, ty.

I love this place the food is not greasy like the other places here in El Centro, I always order Cantonese fried rice and they give you alot of it !! All the food is great here ! I LOVE it !!!! read more