Let me start by saying if you are looking for the fast food of Chinese food, Hong Kong Express got you covered. I grew up eating at these type of places because it's affordable and they usually provide a drink if you come during lunch. I find that Hong Kong Express has the better quality in the area for these types of restaurants. The only thing I order here is what I can't get as delicious in the other fast food Chinese restaurants in the are, Fried Chicken Wings with Pork Fried Rice. I remember one customer one day when I picked up my order was like, "you can get fried rice with pork!" I smiled and said, "yes." And in my head I am like, "it's delicious and unhealthy too and it's for that kind of day when you want to treat yourself!" read more

The Alexandria area isn't the first place you probably think of for Chinese carryout spots but this one was fairly decent. They've got all the expected items crab Rangoon, wings, fries, lo mein, all the broccoli plus protein combinations you can think of etc. with prices generally in the range of $12-$18 which isn't bad. I ordered the whole wings (which comes in 4pcs) with shrimp fried rice, beef and broccoli (comes with a small white rice) and a small wonton soup. The service was pretty quick, overall good portions on the shrimp in the fried rice and the wings were on the larger side versus some of the other locations in the area. All in all if you're local and in need of a quick carryout fix this will get the job done. read more

Hong Kong Express - Beef & Broccoli - Chinese Near Me - Alexandria, Virginia

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This is a great place for Chinese and Japanese food... They do not speak English very well, but their food is delicious!!

I love the wings. I usually get the general tsao chicken. I've also tried the lo mien. It was really good.

Food is always good and fast. Best fried rice in the area. A bit expensive but portion sizes are substantial

The food is good but when you place a order over the phone they rush you lol. The location doesn't have much seating because it's a small location. No dining in read more

My take-away order was taken efficiently and I was told it would be ready in 15 minutes. The inside is not set up for dining in and since It was a beautiful day I elected to wait in the outside seating area. I could see the staff from where I was seated. They do a very brisk take-out business. I went back in w/i 15 minutes and my order was ready and very hot. It was still piping hot when I arrived home (only a couple of blocks drive). I had fried rice, combination lo mein noodles and pan-fried dumplings. Although I was able to order a small on the fried rice, the lo mein noodles and pan-fried dumplings came in only one size. That was enough for me to have two meals...so I'm not complaining. Compared to other Chinese food restaurants that I've enjoyed I would rate the food was just okay. Since it was take-away I was able to add flavor at home. read more

Amazing service! The food is delicious and the front desk lady is very nice and understanding. I'll be coming again!

Love this place! Close to home and she always remembers our order. The quality is consistent. The people have been there for years and I appreciate that. read more

Their food is consistently good. I love the combination fried rice and my husband eats there regularly and has enjoyed a wide variety of dishes. They are friendly and efficient. read more

Stop in to get a takeout order of chicken and cashew with wonton soup. The chicken dish does not have any taste at all, and the cashews are missing in action. The lunch to go special is extremely small, and barely portion for one person. The cashier is very rude to walk-in customers as well as customers on the phone. She really should not be working in front taking orders without some attitude adjustment. One visit here was enough for me; will not be ordering from from this Duke Street location again, due to tasteless food and bad customer service. read more

Not particularly good, even for a "cheap Chinese food" sort of restaurant. I got a variety of dishes here when moving, as I wasn't able to use my kitchen. While none of the dishes were particularly bad, all shared the same issues - a bit overcooked, a bit under-fresh, and a bit over-sauced. It was definitely tolerable and not disgusting, but I was rather unimpressed. read more

Service is a little rude, but food is good most days. Good veggie quality. I enjoy the chicken with broccoli and the egg foo young.

I am a picky Chinese food fan. So I try many many places as I fix computers on site in the metro area. My favorite fried rice place closed down, so being on the hunt I tried this place. I ordered crispy beef, combination fried rice, combination lomein. The good: the place is small but kept clean and sports about 5 tables for eating in. No frills though, it's just plain tables with no decorations anywhere. The good: lomein was good. Not great, but by far the best of the three dishes. I would buy it again. A little greasy, but that gives it taste. (Best lomein in the tri state area is at new Szechuan express, on edsall rd) The bad: the rice is horrible. Supposed to be fried, there are clumps of unfried white rice among the fried rice. Tasteless , plain. Barely edible. The bad: the crispy beef was NOT edible. Threw all of in the trash. (China Garden, in Kingstowne , has the best I seen so far ). It was made with tons of flour, so mainly you will just taste flour. On top of that, it was dry as heck. They give you tons, but tons of trash is just more trash. The bad: they charged me an extra 2 dollars per dish to use while meat instead of dark meat. Most places I go to give you white meat by default. read more

We order from Hong Kong Express on Duke St. at least once per week. Everything we have ordered is extremely tasty . Their hot and soup is the best. Egg rolls are always crispy and packed with flavor. The service is prompt and orders are always ready! The best Chinese food around! read more

I love here my order always comes in a timely fashion and my food is always hot and delivery men are always kind!

We order from Hong Kong Express once a week. Egg rolls and Crab Rangoon are very good as well as the hot and sour soup. We've tried many entrees and all are delicious and ready in 15 minutes. Good value for the money! Courteous service. read more

This is not fine dining. This is a carryout. As simple as that seems, other carryouts in the area need to buy a clue. Hong Kong Express is as close to the wonderful ghetto carryout as your gonna get around here. Their chicken wings and mumbo sauce are the best in Alexandria...Fried Hard Dammit!!! Their fried rice is not all jacked up and gummy like other local carryout establishments. Their chicken dishes don't come out slimy. Their spring rolls ain't all greasy like. read more

Ay order a combination fried rice no shrimp lo mein combination no shrimp and when o Serb in into my plate there was no chicken and no beef and I am never coming back to your restaurant again. read more

The food is always great. Both locations that I go to have wonderfully delicious chinese food. Makes me hungry to think of their food!

I don't like Chinese food, but my husband does. However, Hong Kong Express is the only place I actually enjoy - really! This is the same location as the one in Falls Church, off of Columbia Pike; I was surprised that they had another location that was close by. We ordered the fried dumplings (came with 8 pieces), Chicken Lo Mein, and Crispy Beef. The dumplings were good and had a nice solid chunk of ground meat inside the thick dumpling skin; it comes with a vinegar-y soy sauce, but I chose to dip it in in the regular soy sauce. The Crispy Beef was actually less saucy, but this place seems to give you more portion-wise - we had a hard time finishing it up! It was more sweet than 'spicy,' as the menu states, but there is a note on the menu where you can change the level of spiciness. I did enjoy the Chicken Lo Mein the best, with an extra dash of soy sauce. It was mighty tasty with the slivers of chicken and onions and the well-cooked noodles. Staff were friendly, and the place was clean. Definitely a place I would frequent if I'm craving for noodles and/or my husband wants Chinese! :D +Chicken Lo Mein +Crispy Beef read more

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First time at this place, the place looks just like a typical carry out Chinese place. I ordered a lunch special, Shrimp with garlic sauce and it came with free soup, I have sweet and sour soup. Both of them were very delicious, good portion. I was full from entree and soup, shrimp were a good size, the sauce was tasty. The soup has a good spicy level with a kick. The meal was $6.95 (lunch special) before tax. The place practices a very strict social distance, and good sanitizing, I saw the lady cashier clean the order area a few times. I would come back again for a quick cheap and delicious lunch. read more

It's too clean for a Chinese joint. I'm from Jersey City, NJ; I'm a city girl and I know what a fast Chinese food place looks like- hole in the wall, dirty floors, dirty tables, maybe some roaches, and dirty cooks. But do we care? No, because the food is delicious! However, this place is clean AND good! You may laugh, but I didn't trust it because it was too clean. I'm glad I was proved wrong and found a place that can be clean and still have that flavor you think is authentic Chinese but it really isn't (you'd know if you have Chinese friends that have invited you over dinner at their house). Anyway, we haven't done dine-in but we have called for delivery, takeout, and pickup. We always see tables available but we are always rushing to stay and that's why we call ahead and take it home. We've been satisfied with the time they take to make the food. The parking is great too because it's located in the foxchase shopping center with ample parking. The people are nice and deserve a tip for delivery even though we live 2 minutes away. Their prices are ok, then again I could only compare to the street corner Chinese food restaurant I used to go to in NJ that sell an order of chicken wings with fries for $3.50. But the prices are reasonable for the location and again, the food is good. I have no complaints, therefore they get 5 stars, because it's the closest flavor of Chinese food I can get to the urban city Chinese food in NJ. Try it for yourself! And if you complain, I invite you to try the Chinese food in my old hometown and then you could talk! read more

My wife and I have been here a few times and we were disappointed by the food, we started going to Good Luck which is across the street, by the 7-11 and Good Luck is our new carry out chinese place now! We weren't impressed by the food, we felt the rice lacked flavor and seemed dry sometimes. All in all, we feel like the food should have tasted better, we didn't have a problem with the customer service or the timeliness of receiving our food, the food wasn't bad, but it didn't impress us either, we'd say it's pretty average. read more

Basic Chinese take-out. Plenty of parking and modestly clean store front. Con- duck was cold and dry. Travel 20 minutes away for roasted duck at Marks Duck House. Menu is very basic and caters to American style food. read more

Fast service and delicious food. Try the Singapore mai fun - spicy noodles with chicken, shrimp, and pork! It's a treat to come here and after a long day working or staying out later - they're open until 10 p.m. I am happy to live in a neighborhood close by. Walking distance from Foxchase Apartments. read more

I spent 15 years in San Francisco so was looking for a good Chinese place after my move to Alexandria. This is mostly a take-away Chinese restaurant, though I decided to eat lunch inside (there are 5 four-tops). I had the garlic sauce chicken combination platter. My plate was heaping and came with fried rice and egg roll. I found it flavorful and delicious, also cooked fresh and delivered to my table piping hot. I think I found my new take-away place. read more

This is me and my husband's go-to Chinese take-out restaurant right around the corner. Best beef teriyaki, chicken chow mein and chicken and broccoli, and the BBQ ribs are big and plump. Always friendly service with piping hot food. read more

Our first time here. Food was good. We ordered general so with friend rice lunch special. Prices were reasonable.

I so wanted to like this place after great reviews on yelp, but to my dismay the gen tsao's chicken was highly disappointing. I just delivered my child at inova alexandria and was craving some chinese food. I sent my husband to this place to get an order of gen tsao's and spring rolls. $16 later, upon opening the plastic container of chicken and tasting it, I was so bummed. The sauce was a runny tasteless mess. The chunks of chicken tasted like broccoli that was tad sulfurous. The white rice was a little too wet and the spring rolls were just mediocre. I was so bummed. Never have I not finished my American chinese food, but I had to pass on this one. It's sad when the hospital food was far superior to this... read more

Not bad, not great... just right there in the middle like a 3 out of 5 would be. On the plus side, they stay open and will take an order 5mins before closing. The food is just a bit too salty and the ingredients I think could be a bit higher quality (specifically the meats, the noodles and rice are fine). If I were the owner, I would find a better meat supplier - even if I would have to charge a smidgen more for the entrées. Big plus is that they got the coronavirus safety protocol down here. read more

Largely take-out chinese food in this area has been greatly disappointing for the last 8-9 years. Hong Kong Express is surprising good. I've only gotten take-out. And when they managed to pass my traditional "to-go" test - pork lo-mein or pork fried rice, crab rangoon, chicken wings (frankly if a chinese take-out place can't get these right - time to move on anyways), I was brave enough to venture back for a few other dishes. I've had better chinese take-out for sure, but not around here. Its not the emperor's finest cuisine - but it isn't a grease ball or taste like something the cat coughed up. Service is quick. Food is good. Prices are reasonable. And its close enough to home that things are still piping hot when I get home. read more

The Hong Kong Express follows the same formula as every other carry out Chinese restaurant: a half dozen tables for those compelled to eat there, fading photos (of dubious origin) of some of their dishes, and a menu consisting of hundreds of selections (all made from some combination of maybe a dozen or so ingredients). However, the Hong Kong Express is a little cleaner, the staff is a little nicer, and their food is a little higher quality than most similar restaurants I've been to. I had the beef pepper steak. The onions and peppers where nicely cooked and where still crunchy. The beef was more tender than you usually receive from restaurants like this. The rice was less gummy than you often receive. The overall dish was also less salty. My only gripe is that I ordered it "really spicy," but it came with only a hint of spice. A solid (American) Chinese take out! read more

I love their food. Stumble passed this restaurant on my way from Pentagon City Mall. This was my third time here and today I was a little disappointed. They really skimped my dinner size Chicken and Broccoli read more

Hong Kong Express - For 13 dollars I need to have leftovers - Chinese Near Me - Alexandria, Virginia

I am always skeptical of each Chinese food in the DMV area since I am from NY and we get some of the best fast food Chinese anywhere ... in my opinion (and many others ...) So when visiting a friend in VA, the recommendation was made to order from here I went straight to Yelp to see what people had to say. I have to agree that this place is really good. The food was fresh and tasty! I ordered the crab rangoons which were really tasty and just the right amount of fried. I also really enjoyed the kong pao chicken and shrimp with asparagus ... which I had with chicken fried rice. We also got an order of wings because everyone on here was talking about them. Reeeeallly good. Overall a great eating at home experience ... very reminiscent of home. read more

I tried this last night, and was hoping for great stuff, given the reviews that came before mine, but it was flavorless. I tried the chow fun noodles which were bland, and the hunan chicken which I also thought lacked flavor. My boyfriend was happy though. The duck sauce packets they have are like sugar cubes - gross! We ate the food there, and the food was steaming hot and the lady at the register was very nice. read more

I'm sorry, I'm more than a fan and I go here all the time for it to merit 4 stars. We were ordering from a different chinese food joint that went down in quality to compensate for their competitive prices. I rather the price go up and quality stay good. This place, I always order the fried chicken. I'm not a mumbo sauce kind of girl, I throw it away, but it's tasty but I like my bbq sauce. The chicken is so crispy, even after being delivered in a styrofoam container it stays crispy. It's lightly seasoned so it pairs well with sauce, ketchup, whatever. I recently ordered the beef and brocolli, to DIE FOR. Im down, this place is my fave, they're polite, nice, and efficient. I'm a FAN!! I go here!! Love it! read more

Since I've moved here (about three weeks ago), I've only visited a few restaurants in Alexandria, and luckily one of them was Hong Kong Express. The restaurant is a typical strip-mall Chinese fast food place. It has a couple of tables, bright lighting, and no ambiance. However, what it lacks in decor it certainly makes up for in price, quality of food, speed of service, and friendliness of staff. If you're looking for cheap, good-quality Chinese fast food, this is a great place to start. read more

Given that I got violently sick last night after ordering from here -- nothing too exotic, just orange chicken! -- I'm probably not the best person to be reviewing it. I'd had one fairly positive experience here a couple months ago, but that can't negate my most recent experience. read more

This is a fairly new Chinese takeout joint in the Foxchase Shopping Center that I've taken quite a liking to. Though the small restaurant resembles most other take-out places, including that same menu that I swear just gets mass produced with different names and locations stamped on the front, it's the service that I love here. The people are so friendly, and very quick. I've never had to wait more than 10 minutes. Plus, even though it wasn't on the menu, I asked if they could make General Tso's tofu, and they were like "SURE, NO PROBLEM!" How awesome is that? read more