When you're hankering for traditional Chinese-American style carry-out, you're not expecting…read more"authenticity" or "gourmet" or anything "fusion." No, what you're looking for is fast, no hassle, inexpensive, decent portion sizes, consistency across visits, and flavor. I've been surprised at how mediocre most Chinese-American carry-out -- or, frankly, the sit-down as well -- in DC is, but Hong Kong Carry-out hits all expectations. They don't deliver, but you can order via delivery services. But Hong Kong Carryout is so freaking fast I just usually order pick-up over the phone. When you order over the phone they end the call with "Okay, ready in 10 minutes." It takes me just about 10 minutes to drive from home to their location, and my order is almost always ready by the time I get there. I've tried a lot of dishes on the menu and the combos (smaller portion, but comes with a pile of fried rice and an egg roll) are a good deal. My regular order varies between the kung pao chicken, hunan beef, General Tso's chicken, szechuan beef, or lo mein. The egg rolls are the best I've found in DC, but the soups are just okay. The sleeper menu item is the Cold Noodle with Sesame Sauce. Again, if you're going here expecting something "epic," don't. If you're going here because you love traditional Chinese-American take-out joints and you appreciate fast, inexpensive, reliable, consistently above average dishes, you'll be satisfied.

Let me start with the best part-- the customer service. I called in my order. John had great energy…read moreand had no problem accommodating my request for light sauce on the sauteed broccoli. The restaurant is well-it and clean and they have duck, soy, and mustard on the counter so customers can grab as much as they want. SO much better than the spots that charge per pack. A really nice touch! The food is good. I got shrimp egg foo yung and hoped that it would have been more flavorful. It seemed to be lacking seasoning. Not salt, but something to add a richer flavor. BUT the gravy was not super heavy and cloying like it is at other places. So it does taste fresh. Same with the broccoli. It was a tad too crunchy, but that also made it seem fresh. A little more seasoning on the egg foo yung and a few more minutes on the broccoli and this spot could become my go to!

So, I'm brand new to DC. From NYC, by way of Hampton Roads. This isn't the first Chinese Restaurant…read moreI've tried. This is my first time here. The hospitality was immediately welcoming. She acted like she'd known me for years. The ambiance...? It's a "take-out" restaurant; there IS no ambience. I went with something safe... chicken wings & French fries. If they messed that up, no way I'd go back. They didn't. In fact, they excelled. Chicken, FRESH, fry's, PERFECTLY cooked and salted. I found my new Chinese restaurant.

Quick and so good. The wings are fried to perfection. The service is always super quick.read more

I haven't been here in a while, so I thought I would pop over since I was right around the corner…read more I have been here several times prior since I live in the neighborhood, and had always been please with the food. I ordered the general sales tofu and the vegetable lo mein. The ordering process was super fast. I probably waited about 20 or so minutes, but I had an errand to run so by the time I got back, it was only about five minutes left to wait. The space itself is a bit awkward to wait in, so I would recommend ordering and then going to run an errand and coming back. I love my general tofu. The taste was on point. The tofu texture was great. The vegetable lo mein was also great. I really liked the noodles. The vegetables were cooked great as well and I appreciate that they were cut into smaller pieces and weren't massive hunks in the midst of the lo mein noodles. Overall, this is a really good grab and go spot as there is nowhere to sit and eat your food. The store is setup so that it is solely a lobby to wait for your food to prepared.

For a carry-out, they have a pretty robust menu that I haven't seen other carry-outs within the…read morevicinity. They are located in an area where carry-outs are not unknown, but it is very clean and legible when it comes to their menu. Parts of their carry-out experience are high-low, so you'll read a lot of mixed reviews on Yelp, so let this be an objective point of reference. Its maintained this neighborhood historic quality, being that the entire place is lined in granite. It has those nostalgic faded picture menus and the history of crossed out prices and new things they have added without redesigning the entire menu. It is next to a smoke shop, so you will see loiterers, but they respect the business, so keep your head down and just walk past them. I would recommend that the best part of their menu is possibly the cheesecake. I have never seen this on a carry-out menu. I was so inclined to try it from the dedicated custom glowing neon on the side of their building. I'm hoping that someone at Full Yum is just very passionate about cheesecake because it doesn't fit into anything on the menu. There are many combo/promotions that prompt you to order the cheesecake. They offer two variations: a classic cheesecake and layered crepe. It comes in so many flavors, we got the blueberry and it was rich, creamy (not icy), and the perfect light ending to our meal. This carry-out produced such an impressively uncharacteristic cheesecake, I would describe the eating experience similar to Rihanna's lyrics "We found love in a hopeless place..." Another good thing on their menu is their wings, since they are coming from a pretty general Chinese carry-out menu, things that are made to order probably serve as the highlight of their offerings and this is exemplary of that. Wings came crisply battered and a generous portion of fries. Of course, their main offering is classic carry-out style Chinese-American food, I'm definitely noticing that they tailored their food regionally for DC eaters. I'm not seeing a lot of vegtables aside from bean sprouts, onion, and broccoli (of course, only when ordered). It will hit all of those notes of crispy, greasy, salty, but in the good way that Chinese carry out is suppose to. We tried a large range of their menu, but at some point, it felt like the breaded items, noodles, and rice were a vehicle for the same combination of seasonings, and it was on the oily side. Flavors are not bad, but they are also not notable or distinctive. Yet, it is still one of the few places that have maintained a reasonable price point for their food. The food is made to order, but depending on when you catch them we got a pretty stale portion of rice. I see a lot of people come in throughout the day and night so I think they're moreso feeding the community in the area. It will be a good, quick, and affordable fix.

Several people told me this was the best chinese carryout spot on that particular side of town and…read morethey were not wrong. Make sure you bring cash. They DO NOT accept credit cards. I came in to order the $7.65 lunch special general tso chicken with fried rice which is a $1.50 upcharge. That's cool. No biggie. It turned out to be very delicious. The chicken tasted fresh and it was very tender. The only complaints I have about the general tso chicken was that it could have been some more pieces of chicken in the container. Maybe I didn't get that much because it was the lunch special, but it was definitely yummy and worth the trip. The chicken had a little too much general tso sauce on it, so I might have to tell them to make it with a little less sauce next time. The fried rice was pretty much standard when it comes to some carryout's fried rice. Nothing extra was added to it like onions, bean sprouts, or eggs, however it was delicious. You know the fried rice is good when you don't need any soy sauce to go along with it. I also got a pork egg roll and 3 whole chicken wings along with my order. The pork egg roll was meh. Nothing extravagant about it. Their whole chicken wings are pretty good, but they're definitely overpriced. 3 whole wings (that's the minimum count) for $4.65 is a ripoff. Their mambo sauce is not the greatest though. It has a nice consistency that's a perfect match for your wings or french fries where its not watered down or too thick, but it failed to meet the connection with it's sweet, tangy, and spicy taste. They also have a mini bar which is cool and I really like their old fashioned cash registers. If you need an ATM, use the one at the gas station or the one at the convenient store that's like 3 stores down.

today I discovered a bug in my meal. I'm no longer eating here again. I use to love the shrimp &…read morebroccoli up until today!

Hmmm... Twin Dragon Carryout was sent my way as a recommendation. So, I set off one sunny afternoon…read moreto give them a try and see if any of the hype was real ( FYI: It Was ! ) This is definitely your definition of a neighborhood hole in the wall spot. With that being said, I have to give them their props because the food was actually really good. I ordered the shrimp fried rice and shrimp egg rolls. No doubt the shrimp fried rice was one of the best I ever tasted from any where. The rice was delicious and had its own flavorful texture. While the shrimps were a nice size ( nothing like most smallish shrimps I've seen in these carryout boxes ) and their egg rolls are healthy in size as well... I'm talking filled and crisped to perfection. So, if I'm passing that part of the city I will definitely stop by again !!! ( try it !! )

I don't care what the reviews say--this is the only place in the area that still makes real…read moreeggrolls. Not those tiny, half-filled ones--these are full-on, hearty, sandwich-style eggrolls packed with flavor. 10 out of 10. I haven't tried anything else on the menu because I come here just for these. If you're an eggroll lover, you need to give them a try!

I had a random craving for Chinese one night so I took a leap of faith and tried China Cafe…read moreCarryout for the first time, due to its reviews and I was not disappointed. I ordered the orange chicken, white rice, and a egg roll and my cravings were well satisfied. They did not hold back on the portion size either. I had enough for dinner and lunch the next day. My only issue was they only accepted cash. As someone who doesn't carry cash, I became discouraged but strangely enough, they accepted CashApp so I was able to pay for my food. There was a ATM inside the restaurant also though I had no intention in using it. I highly recommend though! Just remember, if you don't have CashApp or aren't comfortable with using a random ATM, then take cash!

The food was decent. Love the shrimp fried rice, but I found a piece of a bug in the container…read moreafter eating some rice. The mumbo wings were decent--not fresh though and they come in a bag, which caused the sauce to leak out onto the other food. Very messy. The cheese steak was my favorite, but it was weirdly cut into 4 pieces. The yat was not good and was not mixed (the sauce was on the top with veggies and the egg was at the bottom with broth) and the fork they provided was so cheap that I was unable to mix the yat and eat it. I received recommendations for this place--but no one warned me about the area. The area is sketchy, I visited at night. The staff seemed a little friendly until I asked for soy sauce and duck sauce. This place only accepts cash or electronic payments (such as Zelle and other platforms), they also have an atm inside with a $1.99 service fee.

I love carryout wings, so I decided to give this a try since it's a couple blocks from my place…read more Wings were fresh and hot and were nice and crisp. Flavor is similar to my most recent fav Jerry's on Georgia Ave, but more expensive. Gave the Szechuan chicken lunch special a try bc I wanted to see how Americanized it'd be and was hoping for something more authentic. Alas, it was bamboo broccoli chicken without a hint of Szechuan spices. That's ok, It was good and the broccoli wasn't overcooked and soft. I can go to Panda Gourmet if I want something with more spices.

The mamba sauce and chicken are A1. If you use a credit or debit card it's an extra 50 charge.read more

Wait. Do i like a carry out place?…read more I didn't even know this was just a 'curry out' store. The general tso's tofu was SO GOOD. Perfectly crispy. Good sauce flavor. The Szechuan shrimp was not what i expected. But was a great mix of shrimp, peppers and onions. I upgraded some sides and got the fried rice which was okay but not amazing, and the lo mein which was such a huge portion I'd absolutely go back for the Szechuan tofu Egg roll was also good!

This Chinese restaurant is the most average type of Chinese carry out type of restaurant a lunch…read morespecial for $9.90 so I ordered the Beef and Broccoli special. The lunch special comes with either white rice or fried rice. The portion was very good and I thought it was a good value for less than $10. There was only one employee working there and she was doing everything like taking the orders and cooking in the back. It seems like an efficient operation and my beef and broccoli was excellent. It's located a little north of Mount Pleasant but it's easy to find.