My husband and I decided to get some Chinese during a movie marathon break at the High Pointe Theatre. Right around the corner. Order at the counter only. No tables inside. Plexiglass shielding the counter with only a small place to hand out orders. Freezing cold inside. The girl that took my order seemed to speak English well, however, I had to repeat myself several times and even pointed in the paper menu what I wanted - shrimp/mushrooms/shoots. She asked me if I wanted half or whole order. I should have known then she still didn't understand me. I said half and ended up getting shrimp fried rice. This actually worked out because it was easier to eat in the theatre. Was charged for shrimp fried rice. Seemed like there was a lot of carry out orders. Fried rice was as expected. I don't know....frustrating. I don't think we will do this again. read more

The best Chinese take out for the price. We love the drive through window so you never have to get out of the car. I wish they did delivery. We often order the pepper chicken, beef and broccoli hot sour soup and egg drop. They're all solid. They can cook your order in 15 minutes typically which is amazing for last minute orders. I've never eaten in there but it seems clean and has been a standard for years. read more

Ya know what, I'm giving it a four because they are so nice. Yes it's Americanized, but the price is right and they treat you well. I hope them the best with their business. read more

Chinese Express - A bit of the generals chicken - Chinese Near Me - Saint Louis, Missouri

I came here to pick up a lunch combo today. It's a classic American Chinese Food Hole in the Wall place off of Clayton road. Service is always fast (ordered in-person right at opening and took only 8 minutes (I was quoted 10-15). As other reviewers have already pointed out, the prices are fantastic; the Braised Chicken Lunch Combo (I chose egg roll and white rice) with an extra side of Wonton Soup cost $13.98. While waiting inside, you can sit in one of the three available chairs. Outside there is booth seating for four. This place is clearly built for take out and completes that function well. As far as the food is concerned, it's nothing special, but what more do you want from your neighborhood American Chinese place? The hot braised chicken is not actually spicy. read more

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We LOVE Chinese Express! We have never been inside the restaurant because we love the drive through window. It makes pick-ups a breeze with a newborn. We use it every time! The service is always quick and efficient-- meals are usually ready for pickup in 15 minutes or less. The shrimp fried rice & crab Rangoon are my favorites on the menu. Highly recommend this spot for your to-go Chinese dinners. read more

Always Hot, Fresh, Friendly, Fast, Large Portions, Great Value, Great Neighborhood Spot for takeout

Chinese food over the years have changed. Either the health trend or the economy has influenced what Chinese food is like post 2022. Long gone are the days of cheap unhealthy but tasty meals you expected from the local Chinese spot. Am not critical of the 65% more veggie to meat ratio when I order a poultry meal. In fact I'm a fan; even if the meal is greasy at least psychology I don't feel bad consuming the high sodium high cholesterol dish. This is a go to spot for the typical Midwest Chinese food in the Clayton area. What is to like? General Tso, Kung Pao, chicken wings, beef broccoli. Order ahead, no dining room area. read more

Chinese Express - Kung Pao chicken - Chinese Near Me - Saint Louis, Missouri

The bar was set so low from all the reviews, but I was truly impressed with my order from Chinese Express! First off, inflation have not touched these prices. Dishes for less than $10, waaat? Add extra vegetable for just $0.50, no way! Highly skeptical of what I will be getting, but I needed to find out first hand. After feasting on fresh vegetables and great tasting dishes, I'm sold! I'm giving a 5 star rating in the category of fast food Chinese restaurant that's a step above Panda Express. Crab Rangoon (5) $4.75 - There is no crab in the filling, but who actually has crab in the filling? These are simple, no frill, cream cheese stuffed Rangoon. Hot Sour Soup (pint) $4.25 - Enough to share with 2 people. Loaded with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and tofu, good flavor. Vegetable Lo Mein $9.95 - Noodles taste like spaghetti, but I'm not mad. The sauce is tasty and it's loaded with fresh crunchy vegetables - broccoli, snow peas, mushrooms, onion, carrots and cabbage. Kung Pao Shrimp $9.25 - I got the half order and was expecting some scrawny cheap shrimp and was instead blown away by the huge meaty shrimp that I got. Not only were there 6 of them, but it was loaded with vegetables! Delicious! Could have been spicier, but that's easily rectifiable. .|\---/| | o_o | .\_^_/..2023 read more

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Food is not great anymore. It used to be - but now different owners. There is no ambiance to speak of.

This place is always so convenient and consistent! The food is always fresh and the employees are always kind. They also have lots of appetizers so it's nice to be able to mix it up read more

The food was good. Not great, but good. It was a pretty standard American-Chinese restaurant. The amount of food they give you per dollar is great. Not much to complain about. read more

Ordered Chicken Fried Rice. The rice grains were dried and rock-like; there were large chunks of onions, no other veggies. Small pieces of gristly, chewy chicken bits, the stuff that's left over when you chop up a chicken, were the "highlighted" protein in this entrée. $10 for a whole order and it went right in the trash can. Zero dinner for me. Too bad it is required to choose a star at all...because it should NOT reflect that there is any redeeming quality to this product. read more

In short: The food is good again, give it a try. I used to frequent Chinese Express about 6-8 times per month from 2008 to 2017. It was the best Americanized Chinese food I'd ever had in any state, except for maybe 1990's Old Peking out of Collinsville, IL. I've tried too many Chinese places to count for a comparison. Family and friends both local and out of state also agreed, the 08'-17' Chinese Express was the best they've had as well. The food was so good, that I wish I had tried to work there part time and wrote the recipes down haha. Anyway, ownership of Chinese Express changed hands around 2017 and unfortunately the food changed for the worse. I placed a few orders from 2017 to 2023 just to check up on the place and see if the food had improved. I would've rated the food from 17'-23' a solid one star. I've started ordering again as of June 2024, the food has improved greatly. While not quite as amazing as it used to be, it's still very good and the best around currently. I'll be placing an order right after this review, Beef and Broccoli and Cashew Chicken are hard to beat. read more

They deserve a higher rating than what they have right now! Let's bump it up! This is a consistent go to for me and my wife and a staple of the hi point neighborhood. Get it to go and watch a murder mystery with your boo on a chilly night. read more

Chicken with mixed vegetables hits the spot every time. Noodles are good. I don't like the fried rice personally. Egg rolls aren't ever as crispy as I want them. But the crab Rangoon is perfect every single time. It is very very WEY cream cheese heavy so if you don't like that I would not order them. The online ordering feature is great and they even have a drive through. I always get take out so I've never sat inside but there's only 1 or 2 spots inside to eat and 2 spots outside to eat! People are always very nice! read more

Our go to for to go! Their specialties are a huge step up from typical take out. We LOVE the shrimp with black bean sauce, amazing chicken, orange tofu, and the spicy garlic broccoli. Seriously that broccoli is our fave broccoli in the world. Only problem is it isn't on their online menu, only the printed menu, so you have to call to order it. We appreciate that they have a drive thru pick up window. read more

was in the area tonight and decided to takeout from chinese express, and I'm glad I did. Food is flavorful, filling, and AFFORDABLE!!! excited to use the hot and sour soup I saved for porridge in the morning read more

A very nice list of lunch specials and reasonable prices. It's a takeout place and I found the food to be as good as any Chinese restaurant around. read more

First time eating Chinese in St. Louis and The combo fried rice was amazing. So much flavor! Service was great. Very friendly and very quick. read more

Food was excellent and made in the timely fashion I also feel that the location is great and I'm glad I found it read more

Chinese express has been around for quite some time and has always been reliable and affordable. Their whole orders are enough to feed groups of 2-4 and no matter the dish you'll always finish satisfied. My favorite things to order are their crab ran, sesame or orange chicken. Can't go wrong there! Check them out! read more

Ok Chinese food, was better a few years back when they had the eat in area. Only have to go food now.

As far as Chinese food goes, this place is one of the best. I place my order online and by the time I get there my order is ready...the longest I've had to wait for my order has been 5 minutes. If you decide to go, place your order online. read more

So disappointing. This has been our go to spot for a few years since the folks we think run it changed. Perhaps ownership changed again and is not good. As they say, fifth strike and you're out. I got a St Paul sandwich for lunch. One of the pieces of bread was frozen. Yes, frozen while on a piping hot egg foo yung patty. The patty was so greasy, which had never been the case here before, that the other slice of bread was so soaked with grease that it was all flat and gross I'm guessing maybe they cooked the egg foo yung patty ahead of time and then reheated it in the oil, a sure fire guarantee for grease logged food. They used to be great. Either they don't read the direct feedback or they just don't care. We've given them plenty of opportunity to resolve the quality issues that have become the norm over the past 6 months. read more

Yummy Chinese food that warms the soul. Their menu has everything you need. The egg drop soup was good. The general tsos chicken was too. read more

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They are fast and quality / cheap Chinese food. Just got a combo plate today and the Kung Poa chicken was excellent and the fried rice was okay. Usually we get hot braised chicken because it is my wife's favorite! Very good egg rolls. For take out, they are very good. Be warned that it is take out only. read more

This food is cheeks. I was born and raised in the inner city of STL and like my Chinese food cooked a certain way. I ordered the Chicken St. Paul, Cab Rangoon, Chicken lo Mein, and an Orange chicken combination plate. The chicken looked under cooked and unseasoned for all of the items the rice looked fake and tasted disgusting. The peas and the carrots were gross the rice. There wasn't any seasoning on anything, the Crab Rangoon was gummy. The only thing that taste decent is the lo mein noodles. They also didn't allow the option to put cheese on my Chicken St. Paul. read more

Chinese Express - Chicken from lo mein - Chinese Near Me - Saint Louis, Missouri

I do not leave reviews that often, but I must tell you, warn you, do not, I repeat, do NOT take your chances with this place. We ordered chicken fried rice, beef lo mein, crab rangoon, and two egg rolls. Here's what we received: - Chicken fried rice: Chunks of lightly breaded raw chicken throughout - Beef lo mein: Smelt and tasted like they pulled it out of the garbage - Crab rangoon: Zero crab to be found, just straight up cream cheese - Egg rolls: So much black pepper, probably to mask the taste To top it all off, one of our corporate sponsored fortune cookies did not contain a fortune and half of it appeared to be a home for lil bugs. I called to let them know what we received and requested a refund. I offered to bring the food back to show them. They told me several times that they do not do refunds and that I can just throw it away. Seriously? read more

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We order Chinese express almost every week. Its always hot, tasty, & fast. Even our kid loves it! Nice people too!

The food was amazing! Everything was ready for pick up when I arrived.The chicken was crispy and the pieces were the perfect size. The crab Rangoon was delicious and I enjoyed how they were triangle shaped. I will definitely be eating here again! read more

Chinese Express - 86. Sweet and Sour Chicken - Chinese Near Me - Saint Louis, Missouri

Phoned in an order for this unit off Clayton Road in Richmond Heights today. Ordered sweet and sour shrimp withe the shrimp not to be fried, Was warned shrimp tastd bad that way but no worriess, got home to an order that was completely wrong. Avoid unless you want this type of treatment. read more

This was the first time I had tried it and I won't go back. Nothing wrong with service the food just wasn't very good. Egg drop soup was fine. Crab Rangoon was only cream cheese. General Tao chicken was ok, a few pieces were not very good. The seasons chicken seemed off, I think the chicken might have been bad. We tried to eat 2 pieces and couldn't, first one we though maybe it was just a bad one, second one it just tasted off. We threw it away all of the rest of the food away after that. I'm not sure what was going on with the chicken but It just ruined the whole experience. read more

The place has gone so far down in appearance and service since I last visited it several months ago. Sad too because they used to be a reasonably good place to eat. They eliminates the dining area. It's takeout or drive through only, but the way they did it with a glass wall and a cb radio like microphone they use to speak AT customers ordering, one feels like they're talking to a prison inmate on the other side of a glass wall. And we are the prisoners. Not very appealing. Plus instead of having a staff that will talk to a customer with menu questions they have an attitude of being put off and that you are an inconvenience (even when you're the only customer there). Very disappointing. Plastic ware is out in the open in the order area. Not COVID safe. Be sure to bring your own napkins too as they aren't included. The food is ok I guess. Nothing worth going out of ones way for. Mediocrity has settled in at Chinese Express and I hope they raise their standards soon. I wish them good luck. read more

Quick, budget friendly, local, and always tasty! I love the drive through feature at this place as well! Haven't had a bad dish yet.

Good prices. The egg drop soup was subpar. Wish our food was hotter when we picked it up though.

Very solid spot! I have tried several restaurants for Chinese delivery via Uber Eats during the pandemic and I have to say this is one of the best. The food arrived at the perfect temperature for digging in. We got the vegetable lo mien, scallops with Chinese vegetables, general Tso's chicken, and fried rice. I loved how many veggies they put in the lo mien, broccoli, snap peas and mushrooms, oh my! It was also not too oily/greasy which I find many lo miens to be. The scallops with vegetables for me was great, again lots of nice veggies, some kind of cabbage, water chestnuts, and carrots a plenty but they also did not skimp on the scallops plenty of those as well. General Tso's sauce was tasty, not at all spicy, and chicken was crispy served over a bed of broccoli. The fried rice was the must muh, not bad but not great. I will order from Chinese Express next time I am in the mood for takeout Chinese. read more

This is delicious Chinese carry out. There's an extensive menu with lots of vegetarian options. I highly recommend the veggie egg foo young. It's full of veggies and tastes fresh. I do not know if the gravy is vegetarian. read more

I've been satisfied with everything I've tried from Chinese Express. I they had me a drive-through pick up window.

I can't believe people actually say good things about their food... I had the braised pork combo and my friend had the beef and broccoli combo. Hot and sour soup for the both of us. First off the hot and sour soup was grayish colored... That's warning sign enough. Took a sip, and I didn't taste anything. Maybe that was a mistake. Took another one and still nothing... Okay taste buds must not be working... Too a bite of the fried rice... Tasted nothing... Ate a piece of "braised" pork. Okay this taste like sweet and sour pork. I guess braised means something else to Chinese take-out restaurants... But this meant my taste buds were still working kinda I guess... My friend starts a little after me, and thought the hot and sour soup was total crap and threw it out after 1 sip. Then complained about the rice too... Thank God I have some confirmation! Broccoli was actually quite good though, cooked to perfection and the sauce added some flavor to the rice, oh that and a lot of soy sauce. I love soy sauce but fried rice shouldn't need it. And pork was overcooked too. So yes Chinese take-out fail. This place is borderline gross, SOLELY based on the food. read more

This used to be a nice little grab and go Chinese restaurant. Since the nee owners or operators took over last year the food is less than good. It is bland and lacks much of the advertised protein. The mongolian beef had little to no significant beef, the scallop dish had 3-4 pieces of scallops . Both had lots of vegetables. If you order a hot/spicy dish rather than stir frying the chilies in the dish they hand you a packet of ground cayenne pepper. Last time I go back Wishing it was the old Chinese Express. read more