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    Express Cafe

    4.0 (23 reviews)
    InexpensiveCafes
    Closed 6:30 am - 4:30 pm

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    Tiffany L.

    Chicken was fried hard and lacked flavor , when I say hard , it was so chewy it was like eating something very abrasive . The rice wasn't good some parts of the fried rice looked uncooked other parts looked cooked . , all the way around i was disappointed .

    6 piece wings and fried rice
    Rumman N.

    This was the worst meal I have had this year. The mushy rice isn't even fried, it's soggy with no flavor at all. The wings are also flavorless. They increased the price from $10 online to $14 in person. It being bad is one thing, this cheaply made meal is worse than buffet food, and they give you less portion size than chipotle. The box is small. DO NOT EAT HERE, ANYWHERE ELSE. SO MANT BETTER OPTIONS. worst Chinese food I've ever had, and I'm Asian, us smaller countries ate Chinese and Indian food growing up, we know.

    Chicken Teriyaki w/rice and salad
    Christopher S.

    I came here after dropping off a package at the Gaithersburg UPS Customer Center during my lunch. Hole-in-the-wall, total dive! I gave an extra star because the menu was interesting; they had carne asada and teriyaki chicken listed under Chef Specialities, as well as, fried chicken wings (w/mumbo sauce) with fried rice or french fries on the menu. Any QSR establishment that has a Mexican, Japanese, and American Chinese item on the same menu warrants an extra star for the outré offerings. As for the quality of the food: 1. The rice looked and tasted very old; there were clumps that were pretty mushy and other parts that were a bit hard. 2. The teriyaki chicken was pretty good, but it reminded me of bourbon chicken served in a mall eatery. Sarku will remain my go-to for "teriyaki chicken." 3. A side salad was included which was nice. Overall, I probably would not pay another visit if I am in the area. I probably would opt to go to Pho Nam, which is in the same shopping center, instead.

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    Steven X.

    Same great food and goo value, lovely place for breakfast and lunch, I never have any complaint here! Totally recommended.

    Terrible... Read my review... Beware this confused restaurant.
    Brian S.

    Terrible, I only went here because I have had such great success with other restaurants in this strip mall. The menu is all over the place, and it was confused. Are you a fried chicken place? A sandwich place? A Chinese place... What are you? I'm not sure the cooks know either, because the Asian chicken lunch I got was disgusting. It was old rice (I know because it was dry in some places and stuck together in hard clumps) and overly sweet ambiguous pieces of chicken that had clearly been around a while because they were incredibly tough and stringy. The salad that came with it was roughly chopped iceberg lettuce with dressing that was just a hard mayonnaise... You would literally need to spread it with a knife. And even though I was eating there, my food came in a styrofoam Togo container. What a waste of money for them, and it's terrible for the environment. I have a picture of my meal, just look at the stringy chicken. They asked if I wanted "spicy" and I said yes, so they just sprinkled some raw crushed red pepper (the stuff at the pizza place that comes in the shaker) on top before they closed the lid. Also notice the terrible salad... In retrospect I should have stuck my fork in the dressing to illustrate how thick it was (my fork would have stood straight up). There are so many other great restaurants I. That area... Choose one of those.

    This shop is always deliver the consistency of their food. I dont know why people don't like the food. They are fast and convenience. I ate here and never once I had a complain. Their food always too much because the portion is huge.

    Omg 7am chicken fried rice..

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    1 month ago

    Highly recommended the food is just great, the flavors are great customer service 8/10

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    1 year ago

    Great food! Great service! Great salmon burger! Great old school real steak and cheese! Wow!

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    3 years ago

    Love getting the combination fried rice and chicken wing combo with soda. I've been going here for years.

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    9 years ago

    Awesome customer service. Great food. Decent prices for this area. Close to work. I visit regularly.

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    8 years ago

    Nice place to eat. I like their chicken wings and salmon burger. They also make a decent gyro. Very friendly.

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    9 years ago

    What can I say... GREAT FOOD ... well priced... I enjoy the going there when I get a chance.

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    Good: Club Sandwich, Carne Asada GREAT: Chicken and Shrimp Fried rice, Combination fried rice, Gyro, Gyro Meat on rice.

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