Stopped in for some dinner. As soon as I walked in I was greeted with a very softly spoken woman. Since this was my first time here, I needed a moment to decide on what I was going to order. Keeping in mind, this is a cash only place, and I wanted to try as many dishes as possible. The first thing I noticed most items didn't have a smaller size. I asked if they have a dinner menu, such as the lunch menu. She said no and apologized. I wouldn't be able to what I wanted to try. I ended up getting a small chicken fried rice and that's it. I received my order took it home and placed it on my fancy paper plate. The first thing I noticed was the use of peas and carrots in the rice. I prefer mung beans and onion. And if peas and carrots come along for the ride, I'm cool with that. There was plenty of chicken with bits of fried egg. The flavor was okay but it was less than 6 bucks. Hmmm. I would love smaller sizes in the egg foo young and chop suey. I think the lunch menu gives you the most value. But I wasn't ready to spend almost 40 bucks to try my favorites. read more

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Best Chinese quick eatery in Rogers Park!!!! All of the food is so fresh, flavorful, and thoughtfully prepared. Our go to items are chicken broccoli, fried rice, and chicken chop suey. Service is also friendly and efficient, which makes the experience even better. Love supporting a local family owned business and will absolutely keep coming back. Cash only. Highly recommend!!! read more

The nice woman behind the counter is the first star of Dragon Gate. She's my favorite thing about this tiny place. I need to learn her name. I ordered chicken fried rice tonight. SO GOOD. Like, really good. Lighter than I expected. There's a spice in it that is lovely and a little sassy. Thumbs up for Dragon Gate. Spread the word. And don't forget the Cash Only thing. I imagine that helps them more than it hurts. read more

Service was quick-cash is king. Delicious sweet & sour chicken with almond cookies. Delicious and fresh. Dig the tangerine orange walls

Cash is the name of the game at this small Chinese American carryout. Dragon Gate is old school in ways both bad and good. It can be inconvenient to remember to bring some bills, but before heading out you got to stick a few in the wallet. Good thing is that you won't have to bring many. This is about as dirt cheap as you can get for an entree in Chicago for sure. A cheap price tag comes at a cost. It doesn't have the bold flavors many other Chinese restaurants have. That means there's not the usual amount of spiciness. Even so, it's not bad. The portions are also pretty good, so you're not even sacrificing there. It's about $5 for an entree at lunch, so don't wait long before going. Last time visiting here I got the Bean Curd Home Style. There's not much that's complex about it, just lots of tofu and vegetables. Easy to make stuff and it was out fast. The food is much more authentic than some of these with flavors of chili and garlic. Hit up here for some cheap ass Chinese. It's best to go at lunch with those amazingly low prices on the specials but it's not even that expensive for the rest of the menu. This is a family owned business run on a tight budget so there's no delivery and it's cash only. read more

Dragon Gate - The Bean Curd Home Style - Chinese Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Live right by here and purposely have cash at home just for this! The lady who works there is great and the food is even better.

I decided to do a takeout order tonight at a nearby Chinese spot and came across Dragon Gate. Based off the reviews, I decided to give the a try. They are very quick to have your meal ready in no time. My food was ready within 15 minutes of me calling. Have cash ready because they only accept that method of payment. I ordered shrimp fried rice, Mongolian beef and general tso chicken. I also decided to get an order of egg rolls. The shrimp fried rice was flavored well with a good amount of shrimp (they were also decently sized). Pass on the Mongolian beef. It was a good flavor but the beef was very tough and hard to chew and eat. Pass on the general tso. It was soggy, and didn't have the usual flavor it normal should have. You expect it to be sweet and spicy. This was just spicy. The egg rolls are amazing! Crispy, flavorful, and everything you want an egg roll to be! Overall, I may go for the rice and egg rolls but that's about it. Glad I tried it but it did not wow me. Lastly, customer service was stellar! read more

I had a good meal here yesterday; I had Szechuan chicken and barbeque pork lo mein. Both dishes were tasty; the Szechuan chicken had a nice moderate kick to it, and the lo mein was satisfying. Neither was greasy and neither sauce was "gluey." Nice mix of vegetables in both dishes - and both the chicken and the pork were good. Big portions for a low cost! The staff was very friendly. I had ordered from this place once a while back, but I'd have to say that this meal was quite a bit better. I am pretty picky about Chinese food, having lived in San Francisco for years and gotten used to it there; I would rate this as very good casual Chinese take-out, I quite enjoyed the food I ordered. I sometimes work nearby, and will certainly order from Dragon Gate again. read more

After driving past this place a million times, my family finally decided to try it out and ordered takeout from Dragon Gate on Christmas Eve. The staff was friendly and the place was very clean inside. The prices are great- you get such good portions for your money! Cash only, by the way. We had egg rolls, chicken fried rice, vegetable fried rice, vegetable chop suey, and vegetable lo mein. Everything was excellent and the egg rolls were especially delicious! We'll definitely be going back and making this our go-to Chinese food since it's so close. read more

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I have only been here once during lunchtime. They have a lunch menu when looking for a quick bite. The pricing was reasonable and the service was pleasant. read more

Not too many of these original gems left in the city. From the combination fried rice to the beef lo mein...the flavors are on point. The Mongolian beef is amazing and you have to ask for their spicy chili oil for the WIN. They are cash only and offer no delivery....its so worth pulling money out of the ATM and getting off my sofa to pick up my favorite comfort food. read more

Dragon Gate is a great neighborhood carry-out restaurant. I enjoy many of their entrees, the staff is friendly courteous and efficient. My order is always ready when advised. Good food! read more

My favorite Chinese restaurant by far. It's affordable, fresh, and the service is always great. There isn't much room to sit and eat (3 tables), but I always get takeout. FYI they are cash only and don't deliver, but it is worth the drive. I recommend the BBQ Pork Fried Rice, Hunan Vegetables, chicken wings, and egg rolls. read more

BEST CHINESE FOOD EVER!!!!!!!! 3 rd time having it and every single times its fresh and soooo delicious! I get the chicken low mein, chicken fried rice and pork egg rolllssss!! THE BEST read more

My boyfriend picked up food from here and once he got into the car he said "babe I think this place will be really good." The portions were perfect! The food tasted fresh and didn't look or tasted like slop! I am impressed and will be ordering here again. I'd say my only negative is that it's cash only. I, myself hate touching cash especially during this pandemic. Still recommend this place though! read more

Cash only. Worth every penny. Generous portion for the lunch special and made fresh right when you order. The lady who takes your order is so nice. I highly recommend the Szechuan chicken. read more

The best Chinese food in Chicago! No fluff! My favorite are the egg rolls super crunchy super delicious.

This place has been consistent for 10 years at least. I have been ordering from their delivery, take out, whatever. I've tried many things in the menu has always been great. The people that run in are super sweet and should get a PhD in customer service. It's not an upscale restaurant but for takeout Chinese it is worth taking the time to write a review about read more

Really good food at a very good price. Better than your ordinary Chinese take out. IMO, the roast pork dishes are better than the chicken & certainly better than the beef dishes. Excellent apps, lo main was really good. Super nice lady running the front counter. As good as it gets for Chinese take out in Chicago. CASH ONLY (helps keep the prices down!!!) read more

They have really good food here and Taste really fresh Very nice and greet when you walk in Been going here for years chicken fried rice is really good But the kung pow chicken is really good read more

Cash-only spot but the food is delicious and the service is delightful! I randomly drove by this place and decided to give them a try as I love Chinese food and am always looking for great new restaurants. 10/10 would go again. Take a couple extra dollars for their tip jar! read more

Great service, great food, and low prices?!? I think I need to come back here! The lady at the counter was patient as we stood for about 10 minutes to decide what we wanted. She was very nice to us and did not try to rush us as we ordered about 10 dishes. I made sure to get the egg rolls like other reviews suggested. THEY WERE CRISP HOT AND FLAVORFUL. I didn't order enough :/ Everything was still hot by the time we got home and we even had to wait to eat because some dishes were still steaming. All the meat was actual meat and I could decipher everything that was on my plate. I didn't get a photo though because everything disappeared :/ This food was better than ANY Chinese food back home in San Francisco. Great job! read more

This place is cash only which makes sense because it's probably a front since their food is terrible. The women at the counter is very pleasant which is why I gave them 2 stars. However, I got the orange chicken and kung pow chicken. Both were not great. The orange chicken being super gross. I can recommend this place to someone I dislike because this spot is bogus. read more

Their crab rangoons, egg rolls and shrimp egg foo young are fantastic. Cheap and you get a ton of food. And the woman working was so nice - which was the cherry on top. I read more

I ordered Szechuan chicken shrimp fried rice and Mongolian beef for my husband. The chicken is tender juicy spicy but not blinding hot. The fried rice is fresh in flavor delicately seasoned. My husband is picky when it comes to Mongolian beef. It did not make the cut read more

Dragon Gate - Crispy egg rolls. Thin crispy skin. Good flavor. - Chinese Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

I found a good Chinese restaurant near me! Good food, tastes fresh, good size portions, reasonably priced. I'll definitely be back for whenever I get a hankering for Chinese food! Yum! Btw, the people are always nice. Now I'm hungry . . . . read more

The best food around rogers park everything made fresh would recommend their fry rice

There's nothing worse than reading the review from someone who has a tremendously different sense of taste and basing your food choices off of that person. I saw a bunch of recent positive reviews for this place and wanted to try it. My husband and I had been craving Chinese food and had yet to find a good place in the area. So we ordered combo fried rice--extra spicy, Mongolian beef, general tso chicken, shrimp egg foo young, egg rolls and crab Rangoon. This is our go-to order for most Chinese restaurants. Everything we ordered was EXTREMELY BLAND. I have never had Chinese food that was this bland. Even the extra spicy fried rice was bland. Someone had stated that the crab Rangoon were the best they ever had and another raved about the egg rolls so we ordered those...HIGHLY disappointing. The food was $52-which is average for a takeout order of that size (I guess), but definitely was not worth the money spent for the quality of food. I don't know if this was an off night or if this is the norm. I won't be finding out because I will not be ordering from here again. I guess the search continues for a good Chinese restaurant on the north side. I gave 2 stars because the food was edible. read more

My favorite place to get Chinese food :) it's clean, the food is fresh, and the staff is always friendly!

Took a chance once again by a four star rating. No delivery. Didn't care. We just desired some great or even GOOD Chinese takeout ! Wow were we wrong and now out over FORTY bucks !!! Well, I'll try to keep this short : Crab Rangoon: way over fried , light filling , just crumbled and dark. Egg roll : Petite like spring roll , immensely over fried no flavor and dried up Beef fried rice: frozen processed veggies , no flavor except sodium , beef way rubbery and lack of said protein Kung Bao Shrimp: no flavor except for heat and sticky sauce which this dish was drowning in. You could not differentiate the vegetable flavor to even the rice ! Precut factory veggies and horrible Mushy Shrimp. This dish was so bad and embarrassing. If you like sticky flavorless sauce with some heat you go for it Szechuan Chicken with Garlic Sauce: Painfully disappointing incredibly bland dish. Slight heat but again , factory processed veggies and a thick horrid sauce with no garlic essence whatsoever!! Hardly any protein. Factory veggies. Cornstarch based grossness and No garlic. No crisp veggies. It's so ridiculous !!! All the veggies were drowned !! You could not pick out any flavors!! All one note from beginning to our " one serving "end. We had no desire to eat more after one helping We also decided on Almond cookies. I love those decadent buttery discs of soft joy. But NOT THESE they were round hard flavorless pucks of what wanted to be a cookie Disgusting This place is horrid and I am personally shocked that there are those who approve Please go elsewhere. Our money was completely wasted here read more

We have lived in the neighborhood for many years and never thought of trying this small establishment, but one day we decided to give it a try since our friends and neighbors have all been there as this is their usual go to... I am so glad we did, there is something about their fried rice, we get their chicken fried rice spicy, and also their chicken lo mein, there is something about it that is is delicious!!! Oh, we normally don't get appetizers since we like to just dig in to the entrees, the egg rolls are super tasty, and then we tried their crab Rangoon!!! Goodness gracious!!! If you like crab Rangoon, it is the best we have had, it actually taste heavenly with the consistency mixture of the cream cheese and the flavoring of the imitation (I can only assume) crab meat!!! Like it is not your usual when you only taste the cream cheese.... All in all, let's just say, we are their regulars and weekly visit is a must, or any time when you want to quick tasty Chinese food, a quick phone call, walk down the street, with cash in hand, yes, cash only!!! Plus your facial covering, it is as simple as that! read more

Food was hot and flavorful. I can't recall names of dishes but it was spicy beef with vegetables, and egg rolls. We will definitely go back. read more

Absolutely my new favorite place for authentic Chinese Takeout*. Now if you're looking for more Americanized versions like you'd find at Wing Ho, this is not it. Tons of garlic and spice, quality ingredients, hot and fresh. We got wings (small but crunchy), crab rangoon (fine), egg rolls (not american ones), combo fried rice (packed with meat!), and General Tso. The GT was the best I've had in Chicago in 20 years. Full of veggies and not sweet like most. Very garlicy. The chicken was crispy and fresh. And very nice customer service. Easy to chat with and order. Wouldn't recommend to eat in, as it's really just made for take out.*If you're of the Grub Hub generation or only order food on apps, stay away. This is old skool and easy. Just call and head over. Worth it. Just don't complain of any inconvenience. read more

My usual go to Chinese spot was closed so I wanted to give a new place a try, I called in for pick up for 2 orders of beef and broccoli a common favorite. Once I got home it looked like some type of chicken with vegetables I called the restaurant back to let them know the mistake and the cashier was completely rude about it said that I said chicken and broccoli so it was my mistake! Beef and chicken don't even sound the same! Now I had another person in the car who also heard me correctly and I also repeated it once I picked it up, I'm only writing this review because I work in the industry and he didn't even apologize and treated it like it was my mistake never asked how they could fix it or anything he said we needed to bring the food back in order to get a refund not even asking if they could give us the correct food! Especially during COVID small restaurants need every customer and they completely lost not only a customer but a refund and the food they tossed! read more

This place is our favorite Chinese take out in Rogers Park. Small (very small) family owned business with folks that are friendly and happy to serve the neighborhood. Good portion sizes and pretty quick service. Don't expect any dine-in ambience however, they do have seating. Egg Foo Young is my favorite in the area. read more

I'm giving this place 5 stars. Let me tell you why. First of all, I've tried just about every Chinese delivery place in the Rogers Park/ Evanston area, and this is the ONLY place that actually has FLAVOR in the food. Period!! The flavor is VERY GOOD.... really. It's well balanced, spicy is hot, it's deep and rich, etc. I find the texture a tiny bit thick, maybe a little too much oil, BUT THERE'S FLAVOR!!! Yum... And the sweet lady that was seemingly the only person working tonight when I picked up my food seemed to take pride in what she served me, as I told her I'd ordered from Dragon Gate solely based on the YELP reviews. FIVE STARS!!! better than MOST Chinese food places in the city. read more

Support this small business! The family owners work so hard and deserve it! I have been a consistent customer at Dragon Gate basically my whole life. My parents took me here every Saturday as a child and I continue to go here as an adult. When I was about 8 years old, the owners started to let me "waitress" for them aka bring plates to the tables. It was one of my fondest childhood memories. When I go in now I not only pick up great food but smiles and updates about our families as well. The food, to this day, is some of the best Chinese take out I have had. My favorites are combination fried rice and potstickers. read more

Authentic Chinese food. Everything on the menu is amazing. Orange chicken is my favorite.

The Kind Son of the owners, I believe his name is Steeben is very friendly. The food is very delicious and always on point! And his AWP at Mid is quite strong. read more

OEverytime we ordered frpm yhis place the food was fresh and delicious as well. They are cash only but that shouldn't be a problem if u plan a little ahead..i highly recommend this place..once again the food n thecpruce is just right read more