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    China Taste

    3.9 (91 reviews)
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    Open 10:30 am - 9:30 pm

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    Pork tripe with sour cabbage (top corner) Mapo tofu (right) Shredded potato with fresh hot pepper
    Lisa H.

    We are new Buffalonians and have found this to be our go-to Chinese restaurant so far. We love their Mapo tofu and shredded potatoes. We just found a new favorite--pork tripe with sour cabbage! I could eat multiple bowls of rice with these three dishes and have done so :P I am so happy to have found this wonderful place with authentic flavors. A little price but they are good portions. We have had these for three meals with loads of white rice haha Also tried their fish with sour cabbage and cabbage and shrimp. Both were really good!

    Tofu home style
    Meenarin P.

    The food is so good. We visited Buffalo for 3 nights and we had 3 meals here They all get served in a real hot. Good Chinese food need fire to cook to perfection. We really love it here. You can pay cash here, check with the store. Even though the space is not big but they distribute the space well. I don't feel crowded at all. We tried Sunday special, soy milk and more. Love it. Also tried chicken with spicy sauce, appetizer, scallion pancake and mapo tofu. Didn't take photo .. too hungry. I guess you can order anything here. Because we ordered 8-9 things, they are all really good. The service is great. They are all nice.

    Green beans. Ordered April 2025.

    Taste has changed. The visual says it all. Either the chef changed or the owner changed. Quantity is larger but the there is a discernible drop in quality. Compare the two photos of the same dish, green beans- one from a recent order and one from Yelp review 6 months ago.

    Sauteed pork liver lunch special
    Elizabeth K.

    The best Chinese food in the area. Everything is good, but what impressed me was they perfectly executed a couple technically difficult dishes that are hard to find elsewhere: sauteed pork liver and candied sweet potatoes. If you've never had pork liver, it tastes nothing like poultry liver; the texture is more like a tender cut of beef. It's easy to skip steps or get the timing or seasoning wrong, but China Taste gets it all right. Same with the candied sweet potatoes, which are basically soft and tender on the inside and coated in sugar heated until it just melts, so it forms a thin coat that crystalizes into a crisp caramel shell when dipped in cold water. These you have to order in, takeout isn't the same The leek egg and shrimp dumplings are great. I like the black moss tofu soup but its texture isn't for everyone. The eggplant with minced pork I get a lot but is saltier and heavier on the oil than their other dishes. There was an egg tofu dish we've gotten in the past that was excellent. We've also gotten some basic chicken and beef dishes and really it's always been delicious. Anyway this is the only Chinese takeout place we order from and it's even better now that it's open for dine-in again. The service is great by the way. Tea quickly refilled and staff is attentive but unobtrusive. If you speak Mandarin they do too, but you obviously don't have to.

    Michelle Z.

    Came here for lunch with my boyfriend. Been here a couple of times but the first time for my boyfriend. I normally like to get authentic Chinese food When I come here. It is a small place but nice and cozy. I always get a protein or two and a veggie dish when I come with one other person. That is more than enough food for me. I always get the eggplant dishes cause I love eggplants :) the protein dishes are super good as well. I love their dumplings! It has a lot of flavors but I wish they are pan fried dumplings. The dishes are just a little pricey compare to other authentic Chinese food places. Other than the price, everything else is good.

    Shredded beef with peppers
    Miranda H.

    Everything I said last time. With the following caveat: I've had the beef fried rice and the Sichuan style beef with cumin since. The beef fried rice is tasty. But, so, after a short conversation about spice level, I got the Sichuan beef "actually spicy" (chef's words) and wow, yes. Delicious. Raises the stars from four to five! What a difference it makes OMG!

    Because this food is so London (it's not, I wish we had this food in London)
    Fox E.

    Not to be confused with the restaurant of the same name down in Virginia... "VA China Taste." Oh wait. This is the best place in WNY for real Chinese food (better than the half dozen or so others offering it), and one of the 10 best restaurants in the region at the moment. If you don't finish your meal, it's China Waste. If you eat it too quickly, it's China Haste. If you put it in a blender, it's China Paste. If you forget what you ordered, it's China Spaced. If you add drugs to the meal, it's China Laced. If you spray some dude in the eyes because he's trying to grab your butt while you're eating, it's China Maced. And if someone eats all your leftovers out of the fridge and you don't know who, then it's China Vanished Without A Traced. And if you're virginal and have never done anything sexual like me, then it's China Chaste. Oh wait. What to get: Chicken w/ Eggplant in Brown Sauce. And about 10 other amazing dishes, especially the Spicy Diced Chicken. What not to get: The American stuff on the menu. Orange Chicken. Sweet N Sour. General Tsos. You name it. Just don't. It makes God cry. And Buddha. And Chairman Mao. Especially him. Also: It's not "the usual" Chinese menu. At all. It's real Chinese homestyle with a few Americanized fake sh**s mixed in there to pacify those that are afraid of real Chinese food and/or things that aren't loaded with sugar. One of the very best restaurants in the Western New York area serving wide range of authentic Chinese dishes as well as some Chinese American crap mixed in there. One of the best places in the area for Chicken Eggplant, and Chongqing Spicy Chicken (which is called Spicy Diced Chicken here), and all sorts of other top-notch deliciousness. Some things are slightly cheaper at lunch time. But then so is your mother. If you finish too quickly, then you China Raced through your dinner. Not sure why. Maybe because they're soooo busy here some nights that there is nowhere to sit. And the fact that 93.7% of customers are Chinese should tell you a lot. If it doesn't tell you a lot it's probably because it's trying to tell you a lot in Mandarin, and you don't speak Mandarin. Perhaps you speak Satsuma instead. I'm not trying to asuma that though. If I assume you did well on your SAT, then I'm an SATassumer. Besides, we all know you China Aced your SAT, so. The Spicy Diced Chicken is easily my fave version of it within a few hundred miles. They use real "numbing spices", the little heart-shaped peppercorns from Szechuan. They make good dumplings, hot pots, Lamb Cumin (with masses of cumin seeds all over it), but the Chongqing and Chicken Eggplant are my standout faves that I keep ordering, over and over. If you called here and made a bogus order, but they logged your number, then it's China Traced. The employees here are super friendly (I love the tattoo girl and the woman who mans, or womans, the cash register), and the chef has some very interesting quirks. You'll probably hear them for yourself, loudly, from the kitchen, if you come here often enough. Or honestly even if you come here once. If you pretend you like it, but then insult it secretly, you're China 2-Faced. I haven't had a dish here that I didn't like. Some of them I absolutely love. I can't decide whether I like this big delicious menu or the small delicious menu at Tasty Express down the road better, but what I do know is that we are exceptionally extremely lucky to have these two incredible authentic home-style Chinese restaurants right near each other right next to the UB campus here in Buffalo was used to have nothing like that at all. But if you eat here too often, you'll have an expanding China Waist. Since writing that, the other one - Tasty Express - has closed down. So while Peking Quick One and China King (Maple/N Forest) and Mandarin Garden still have great authentic stuff, China Taste is now *the* destination in WNY for real and delicious and expertly made homestyle Chinese cuisine. Which is why it's always so busy. And I need to start going tanning again. I'm getting China Pasty.

    Cute little dining area
    Jillian R.

    Had a work meeting that went long and needed lunch near UB North today. Stopped at this place to see if *by chance* there were still serving any lunch specials at 2:30 PM. They were (it's till 3!). I quickly looked over the menu and decided on my old stand by- beef and broccoli. The lunch special comes with rice, entree, and hot and sour soup. As the other reviewers have mentioned, there is a 10% cash discount! I waited about 10 minutes and had my lunch special to go! All of the staff were very friendly and I went home to enjoy lunch. The portions are quite generous and I was able to save my hot and sour soup for tomorrow's lunch making the price point ($10.50 for the lunch special) absolutely fabulous. The beef and broccoli was better than other versions that I have had at other local Chinese take out places. Everything was still piping hot when I got it home about 10 minutes after I left the restaurant and everything was packaged well/neatly. If you need a quick, cheap, and tasty lunch this is a solid choice.

    Kung Pao Chicken
    Jodie K.

    We've dined in multiple times and did take out once. It's much better when you dine in. I feel like the food doesn't travel well. Today we dined in and got Kung Pao Chicken, Beef Udon, and Eggplant w Minced pork. The eggplant looked so amazing we started to eat it before I could take a picture. They serve it with the skin, but it's so flavorful that the bitterness of the eggplant skin compliments the overall dish. I love Spicy, and on a scale of 1-10, 10 being I have tears in my eyes and can't breath, it's 7. Definitely ask for rice to tone down the spice level. Sometimes Chinese can taste greasy or like it was made in dirty fryer oil-but anytime we've ate there it's never like that, which is a huge win. Other good items we've ordered in the past: Dumplings and Beef with Spicy Oil

    Jiamin Q.

    I am Chinese and all I have to say is this is the best Chinese food I have had in up state NY. I ordered the eggplant with minced pork and beef with green peppers for take out. They came with rice. And the portion is huge, I mean huge. The pictures don't justify the taste and the portion. The beef was juicy but not overall saucy. The eggplant is very tasty. If you crave for Chinese, you have to try this place!

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    Authentic meals. Get take out here regularly as the place is usually busy. Located pretty close to Ub north campus.

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    Golden Hill Asian Cuisine - C49. Orange Chicken on the provided white rice, with an egg roll and crab rangoon on our plate at home.  Delicious

    Golden Hill Asian Cuisine

    4.3(78 reviews)
    1.5 mi

    Finally had the chance to dine in. Walked in at 1:45pm on a Monday and there was soft music playing…read morein the dining room. I was seated and immediately served complimentary tea, and fried wontons with sweet and sour sauce. I ordered the Kung Pao lunch special which comes with a choice of egg roll or soup, and white or vegetable friend rice. I chose the wonton soup and fried rice, and I ordered an egg roll as well. The egg roll came out quickly, and the lunch special was served right when I finished that. The food was good and the dish was spicy (Kung Pao is supposed to be spicy but it never is-- not for me) and the service was polite. When the check came it was accompanied by a plate with two slices of orange and a fortune cookie. The only thing I didn't like about the visit was that there was an advertisement for a big commercial law firm on the back of the fortune slip and the "lucky number" was the phone number. I thought that was tacky. I walked out at 1:15pm. Great, quick lunch.

    Nice people, good food, pleasant atmosphere: because I can never decide which is more important,…read morethey are equally important factors when rating a restaurant. Golden Hill has all three. And a lunch menu. Wow! I just gave my receipt another look and the people are nicer than I thought. I thought they were pleasant, friendly, happy we were there, concerned that we would enjoy our visit. The lunch menu offerings were each $10.95 and included eggroll OR soup, and white or vegetable fried rice. Daughter ordered the Eggplant in Garlic Sauce with eggroll and white rice, plus an appetizer order of steamed dumplings. I ordered Eggplant with Pork in Garlic sauce with eggroll and white rice, plus a small bowl of Hot and Sour Soup. The soup on the appetizer menu was $3.95. My receipt shows the server put the soup as my lunch choice and charged $2.95 for the eggroll. She never said a word, didn't point out that I could save a dollar by switching the sides around. So the people are all I thought plus kind and conscientious. Marvelous. I was delighted with everything I ate. The entree was enough for two, so supper came home with me. The eggroll was fresh and crisp and non-greasy, seemed homemade. Excellent. The eggplant was perfectly prepared and cooked, as was the pork. Delicious. The hot and sour soup was easily one of the best I've had, and I'm always looking for a great hot and sour soup. Coming from downtown Buffalo, we'd been in Williamsville because I had an appointment on Essjay Rd. Afterward, we looked for a place to have lunch before shopping. Finding Golden Hill at 4001 Sheridan Dr. in Amherst was pure serendipity. You can bet, though, that I will visit again after next appointment.

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    3.4(38 reviews)
    2.1 mi
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    Went here for lunch and ordered hot and sour soup, chicken soup with noodles, happy family, triple…read moredelight combination platter and mixed veggies with tofu. The servings are definitely smaller than other places and the quality is not that great. The flavors seemed off. I've had these dishes and soups numerous timed from multiple other Chinese restaurants throughout WNY but this place just had very odd flavors and strange consistency to the food. The Hot and Sour soup was lacking flavor and had snot-like clumps in it. The chicken soup with mei fun noodles tasted bitter, almost spoiled or massive amounts of rice vinegar in it. The triple delight combo container was 85% rice and 15% triple delight (very small serving of the entree). The veggie dish and Happy Family were lackluster in flavor and the containers were not filled all the way (only about 3/4 of the way full). There are seats and about 6 tables inside and plenty of parking in the plaza parking lot. The staff is friendly and have everything ready in the usual 10 to 15 minutes. This place works if you are desperate, don't mind weird flavors or lack of flavor, and enjoy getting less than the container can hold. Otherwise, stay away from this place, there are many other Chinese restaurants in the area that are much better.

    The only reason it's not five stars for me is that it's no frills when you walk in the door. Go…read moresomewhere fancy if you're looking for 5 stars. If you want food that tastes good to take home, eat in while you're on your phone, or in the car like I did on my most recent video as I left town. Don't worry, I didn't use chopsticks. He included a fortune cookie for dessert. I have been getting food here for years. When my kids were sick, and we had to cancel our Thanksgiving plans last minute, they were open. We were thankful. The owners live in the neighborhood, so we would see them watching fireworks at UB. They used to have a large, handwritten Chinese menu on a whiteboard on the wall. You know they are good, like when you see Italians in an Italian restaurant. They serve others who know what's good. I couldn't read the white board, but sometimes I would ask her for something off that menu. She would ask a few questions to narrow it down. Yes, it was good. :) They also serve typical American General Tso's, etc. My favorite is their shrimp egg foo young, without the gravy. We moved away, and I can't find a place we like nearly as well.

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    4.3(71 reviews)
    1.5 mi

    Firstly, the prices may seem high, but quantities are for hungry families: Figure four meals per…read moreorder. Secondly, white rice is ordered separately: It is not included in the cost of the dish. The owner handily takes orders (table service as we were alone and I was senior to her); the chef had my order on the table in just five minutes!! Lamb with cumin: Absolutely delicious! The side of rice was just the right degree of sticky to absorb the lamb juices! I plan to stop here every time I shop for groceries at the Asian Market (it's right around the corner).

    I love authentic Chinese food and seek it out when traveling. So, when in the area recently I did…read moresome research and this place came up as being probably the most authentic in the Buffalo and Niagara areas, so I went for lunch. Sure enough, their menu is legit, filled with many of the recognizable delicacies you won't find at the ordinary Chinese-American joints. Entering the place is odd, they have a weather barrier (those plastic slats) hanging from the door after you open the glass door - very odd placement of them. Inside is rather small and simple, not decorated much, it's truly a carry-out place that provides table service too. Service was decent, far from fancy. I decided to try their cumin beef and an order of scallion pancakes. The cumin beef came out first and though I asked for it to be spicy, it most definitely was very mild. The flavor was a little bland overall and this is typically a dry-wok'd type of stir fry with more oil and less sauce, but mine was slightly saucy and lacking flavor completely. The scallion pancakes looked and tasted decent. Perhaps if I ordered something different I would have enjoyed the food more. I still recommend stopping in if you're seeking authentic Chinese, I'm sure they have some great dishes here.

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