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Chinese Food Express

3.2 (18 reviews)
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“My bf & I came to visit his parents who reside in Hays.”

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Tryyaki Asian Cuisine - Veggie Rolls.

Tryyaki Asian Cuisine

4.2(51 reviews)
1.2 mi
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I had a short stay in Hays and needed to grab food. This place was the closest Asian restaurant to…read morewhere I was staying. I was expecting completely butchered Asian food subpar to Panda Express. I went through the drive thru. They were so nice and very quick. A few things... 1) No it's not exactly "authentic" Asian food (they also don't claim to be), but that's hard to find anywhere here not just in Hays since most Asian restaurants try to cater to their mostly American clientele. It was a true fusion restaurant and the food and flavor was A-MAZING! They took it and made it their own instead of trying to copy a generic Asian restaurant. 2) Holy shitake mushrooms, they give you SO MUCH FOOD for the amount they charge. I even had food for the next day. I don't go out to Hays much, but I highly recommend grabbing fast food here.

Been a regular here for the last two years. and this is certainly one of the better choices for…read moreAsian food in the Hays area. As someone who leans vegetarian, my choices are fairly limited, but what they do well has been consistently solid. The fried rice has always been good, and the portions are generous enough to make for plenty of leftovers. Their bowls are also tasty, filling, and reheat well -- another plus. They have a good selection of Boba and I've tried a few. Delicious and hits the spot in the summer. This is a takeout/drive-thru only with no option to dine-in. Recommend ordering ahead and picking up if you don't like waiting in the drive-thru. Glad they came back after being shutdown for a while last summer. Overall, a reliable spot that's earned its place in my regular rotation.

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Great Wall Super Buffet

2.9(23 reviews)
45.5 mi
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We really like the Mongolian chicken. The fish is very good. Both fried and baked very good…read more Fried shrimp very good. I like the potatoes and mushrooms, separately but I mix them. Many more items available. We drive nearly an hour to get there so it's a monthly thing. UPDATE:11:30 am Tuesday: Mongolian chicken left over from yesterday or before. Flavor suffered. Honey Chicken and sesame chicken both leftovers. Fewest diners I've seen. Less than a dozen. Unsure when we'll go back. Be quite a while.

What can improve? everything. The food if we're gonna be so generous as to call it food, was…read moreeither super sweet, super breaded, and overcooked. the "meats"were like jerky and almost everything was cold. Flavor was missing on everything. The frozen dessert contained zero dairy. There was one beef dish and I used the term beef loosely. Not even the Coca-Cola was good. I had very low expectations going in, I really didn't think it could get worse than it was. Our server was nice, but never refilled our drinks or checked on us once. We arrived at 11:30 on a Sunday, several of the entrees were empty and when I asked when they would be replenished, the server told me she wasn't sure if they would... Very odd considering they don't close until 8 PM and the lunch rush had barely started. When I went to pay the ticket, the cashier asked me how everything was. I said not great and she said OK. Your total is $42. $42 for two adults and two sodas.., barely worth two dollars. I did leave a $5 tip but only because I felt bad for the "server."

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Empire China

Empire China

4.3(6 reviews)
70.8 mi
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Empire China does Cantonese, Hunan and Szechwan cuisine, and does them well ... dine in, take out,…read moreand catering. (MasterCard and Visa accepted. Gift certificates available.) The restaurant, on the main floor of what used to be the Ly-Kan Hotel, is closed Mondays. Regular menu business hours are: Lunch, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dinner, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m (10 p.m. on Friday).; and Buffet hours are from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. What the restaurant lacks in decor and atmosphere, it more than makes up for with scrumptious food and excellent service. The buffet features a very wide variety of dishes ... enough that even a picky eater like me can find plenty to eat! The lunch special menu lists 33 choices, including 14 hot and spicy dishes that can be modified to your taste. These selections (various pork, chicken, beef, and shrimp dishes, plus two or three vegetable dishes) come with the daily soup, egg roll, and fried rice or steamed rice. Lunch special prices (all prices as of 7/23/2010) range from $5.50 to $5.99. The menu is incredible! Sixteen appetizers, ranging from chicken sticks, to golden fried to-fu, to sliced jelly fish cold plate, and everything in between! (I love the sugar biscuits, and the crab angels.) There are nine kinds of soup! The egg drop soup (excellent!) and the hot and sour soup come in a cup (small) for $1.25, or a bowl (large) for $4.50. Be warned, the large order served five or six members of my family the other night. Other soups range from deluxe vegetable soup at $4.99 to seafood to-fu soup at $5.99. I'm not sure about the size of these servings, so ask your server. Also on offer are a huge variety of pork, poultry, beef, seafood, vegetable, egg fu young, fried rice/chow mein/lo mein, and mu shu dishes. There are 12 happy hour dinner combination specials that cost $7 or $8. These are served from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Twenty-four chef's specials, served with fried or steamed rice, range from Szechwan Triple to Happy Family at $8.99, to Sizzling Peking Pork Chop Hot Platter at $9.99, to West Lake Duck at $10.99, to Seafood in Birds Nest at $11.99, to Whole Fried Fish Cantonese Style at $15.99, and Snow Crab Leg Combination Plate at $19.99. And 17 more choices in between! Family dinners are available for $9.50 per person or $12.50 per person (a minimum of two people). For those who aren't crazy about Chinese food, there are side orders that include: French fries, onion rings, hashbrowns, plain fried rice or steamed rice ($1.25 each); vegetable salad, or two eggs ($1.50); chicken nuggets, cheese sticks, bacon strips, or plain noodles (each $2.75). Everything my family of eight ordered the other night was excellent, and portions were large enough to share without leaving anyone hungry. Just a note: If you order the Chinese hot tea, it is made with loose tea unless you request the powdered teabag, so there will be little floaty bits in your cup. (You get a whole teapot full of tea.) Service was flawless. Special requests were honored with a smile. The main reason I didn't give Empire China the fifth star, is that the dishes served often didn't look anything like the photo on the menu. For example, I ordered the lemon chicken, which was pictured as two sliced, plain, cooked chicken breasts (unbreaded, unbattered), garnished with broccoli and about half a lemon, with lemon sauce on the side., What I got was a lot of small to medium-sized, battered, fried chicken pieces, swimming in lemon sauce, garnished with four pieces of broccoli and a couple slices of lemon. Very tasty, but not at all what I was expecting, and I spent a lot of time peeling the fried coating off the chicken to avoid the extra calories, etc. If you're in the central part of Kansas and get a craving for Chinese, head for Lyons, and Empire China. You'll be glad you did!

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP Empire China was a welcome addition…read moreto Lyons, Kansas when it first opened. The food was always good and the space was adequate. However, some friends of the former owners moved from New York and bought the place. I think the food is even better. The buffet has been expanded, both in size and in selection. The food was all very tasty, but with more variety. They've added some sushi as well, a nice little extra in my opinion. AND, they are now open on Mondays. The price for the lunch buffet remains very reasonable. I think you'll like the new Empire China.

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