Food was delicious. I ordered a classic American-chinese dish that hit the spot, goopy sweet sauce with fried chicken ~1 cups worth, 3-4 pieces of broccoli, and ~2cups of rice. The sides that came with it: Fried wontons were nice and savory, soup that was peppery and warm. Service was friendly, quick! 10 minutes at lunch rush for takeout. read more

Ling Ling Riverwalk - General Tso's Chicken Special, Hot & Sour Soup, Fried wontons - Chinese Near Me - Basking Ridge, New Jersey

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This is an "OK" place to visit if you're in the area and craving Chinese food Pros: - food is prepared quickly - clean and well maintained interior - close to other shops - I was able to pick up my food quickly even though the phone was ringing off the hook when I got there Cons: - it's bland! The ingredients don't taste fresh either - small portions for the price - it's expensive! $20 for an egg roll and lo mein It's not bad but I don't think it's worth the price point. read more

Ling Ling Riverwalk - shrimp and noodles in a plastic container - Chinese Near Me - Basking Ridge, New Jersey

I just want to start by saying the food is delicious. I ordered MooSoo chicken, one of my favorite dishes. My husband ordered the seafood delight, which he loves. When we sat down,the waiter came over never said anything to us, drops off the fried noodles, no duck sauce. Doesn't even say hello or welcome or can I get you something to drink, absolutely nothing. Then we ask for a wine bucket, the waiter drops it off with no glasses. So we have beer and wine with no glasses? We flag him down again and have to ask for glasses, then he brings over 2 wine glasses. My husband has a beer out ready to drink, you think the waiter would get him a beer glass. That never happened. We have had this waiter before and he is extremely rude. Unfortunately we would have kept coming back if this waiter wasnt so so rude. Not sure what his connection is to this resturant, but i have been in the hospitality business for over 30 years and this behavior would never fly with me. He never comes back to our table. Im watching al l the other tables who are waiting for him to come. There was a table next to us with an elderly couple, the husband asked for the check. The waiter never comes back. I flagged another worker over to take care of us and them. The service is horrible!!!! I understand they close early, but have some respect for the customers who are eating!!! We pay your bills!!! RUDE RUDE RUDE!!!! I complained to someone who called the waiter and proceeded to yell at him while we were standing right there. Terrible management and customer service. These people need to take a hospitality course and learn how to treat customers who pay their bills!!! We will never ever go back there again and we will tell our friends about is experience. ¹ read more

Absolutely horrible service... Sat down for 15 minutes and nobody even came by with a glass of water or sauce for the stale noodles that we're sitting on the table for God knows how long. I ended up just getting up and walking out. read more

The food was good but felt overpriced for what you received. For instanThe won ton appetizer was almost $10 dollars when the are half that most places read more

Meat was not fresh Tofu was sour Worst food quality If you are Chinese food lover this is a big disappointment. Never come back never recommended read more

Food was delicious. Paying $40 for dinner and having to use the plastic coffee lid in my hotel room to eat with because no utensils was ridiculous. read more

The "New" Ling Ling is once again a very good restaurant. The service was excellent. Our food was fresh, hot and tasty. I believe they have new menus. I would recommend for anyone who enjoys Chinese food to come out and try it! read more

Tasty food that is a great to go option. Easy to pop in and get back in the road quickly. Friendly if you eat there.

Great local Chinese restaurant! Super friendly staff and very quick service. Amazing food and such great variety and choices available! You can't go wrong bringing people here, even the pickiest of eaters. They also have great lunch specials if you work/are in the area! read more

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The food was awful. The service was meh. This was some of the worst suburban Chinese food I've ever had. Way too sticky & sweet. I think at this point suburbia is ready for much better Chinese food. We had three people there for lunch before a visit at MSK. My husband had a pork & mai fun noodle dish that was in some disgustingly generic brown sauce (his words), my daughter had sesame chicken and I had tofu with mixed vegetables. None of us finished and none of us took them up on their offer to wrap it. Honestly, I've had better from sketchy take out kitchens in the inner city. Ugh. read more

Will never order from here again. The quality of the food is poor and they don't provide you with enough condiments/sauces for the amount you order. And crab rangoons apparently don't come with any sauce.... Lol im sorry like what... plain crab rangoons? Wild. read more

Back again! We love Ling Ling. A true gem. Always a pleasure to dine here or swing by for takeout. A great option to bring visiting friends too. read more

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Food is very good and it's byob. Service efficient and pleasant. You can take out too. Or get door dash.

Good flavor but overly oil. Delivery drivers have bad attitude about tips. One man actually complained about a tip to my 13 year old child. We tip for the drive-which has nothing to do with the amount of the bill-same drive. In the restaurant servers bring take multiple trips to the table. I will not pay 15-20% to a driver. They are rude and dismissive all the time. read more

Food is very tasty! Definitely, try the boneless BBQ ribs. Pork lo mein and egg fried rice are out go to"S.

Poor service. The man that took my order over the phone was very unpleasant and when I picked up the order he gave pork fried rice when I specifically told him I don't eat pork. When I returned to get the right order he was so rude and didn't want to give me what I wanted which was plain white rice instead wanted to give me what he wanted insisting that the lunch comes with pork fried rice. Terrible service... why can't a costumer get the food one wants.... Never coming again!! read more

Totally gone down the tubes. They were great for a while. Not sure what happened. You're a takeout restaurant...you need to get the orders correct. And refunds don't help when entire meals are missing. Food quality also down. read more

Adequate Asian food. Avoid during busy periods. Takeout on saturday night was unpleasant. Very disorganized.

Dumplings were raw, cups were dirty, service was okay, food took a while even though it wasn't busy.

I guess the new Ling Ling has reverted back to the old. When a Chinese restaurant can't make beef chow fun edible it's time to pass the torch to new owners. $52 of food that went right into the garbage. read more

Not only did the food take an hour to arrive but when my 11 year old answered the door I heard the delivery man yelling at him that the tip we gave wasn't good enough and that the drive was far and that we better tip more next time. It is disgusting that someone would even make those remarks but to make them to an 11 year old is even worse. The food was not good either. I will never order from here again and I've let everyone in my neighborhood know about our experience and they also plan on not ordering from there again...disgusting! read more

I can't figure out why this place has so little stars.....good old fashioned Chinese food. I've been coming here for years now and it is always excellent their food is so good and servers are always nice and attentive. Would definitely recommend to anyone in the area looking for some good Chinese food for take out or to eat at the restaurant. read more

Ling Ling Riverwalk - Chinese Near Me - Basking Ridge, New Jersey

I usually avoid American Chinese lunch, because I get picky, but a coworker raved about their Singaporean Chile Chicken. When we walked in for lunch, the whole place was smoked up worse than a stuffy Korean BBQ, and the heater was broken (on a cold winter day). It only took us a few minutes to walk out, but the smell stayed in my hair for the rest of the day. We ordered french onion soup at the neighboring restaurant to stay warm, but the soup itself was the almost the same price as Ling Ling's lunch special. So... we call to order takeout =) and brought our lunch back to the office. Sidenote - their takeout kit is very adorably packaged. $8.99 gets you solid portion of soup, rice & protein. You can choose brown, white and fried (talking about rice here) and there's alot of menu variety, even for vegetarians. I had the shrimp in lobster sauce, which is nice and light, but only about 5 shrimp in it. Would not mind ordering again. read more

Excellent food and fast service! The quality of the food is excellent. I'm very pleased with my order every time.

15 years ago was an amazing upscale place with reasonable prices. Today the food is ordinary at best, and although prices are almost the same, the menu had become highly overpriced. read more

I really liked my pork fried rice and the fortune cookie was the best I ever had. Very fresh .. ?? Didn't even know they could be fresh. BUT very expensive for fried rice! The price on the photo below (which I assumed would be the price) is almost $2.00 less than the website states and I was charged. I only saw the photo price. The owner really needs to update the photos with the correct prices! read more

Food is always delicious and flavorful. Have been doing take out and dine in for years. Tried different dishes last night to change it up, FABULOUS! read more

I am never impressed when I eat in the restaurant or lunch take outs. It's your typical Chinese take out place. The only reason they do a decent business is because there is such a lack of lunch restaurants in this area and office complex near by. I typically take out from this place during lunch hours. On my last visit, Tom yum soup was just ok it seemed watered down, our lunch special(Pad Thai) was very average and had no flavor. The dumpling appetizer was edible but nothing special. Over all food tasted bland in my opinion. From my take out this week order was ready promptly. I asked for hot sauce and soy sauce for noodles and cashier told me he can give me one for free but the other one would cost 50 cents for each packet. I've never experienced that before and felt they just wanted to charge for more anything you asked for. In my opinion this restaurant overcharges for the quality and quantity of the food received. Highly overrated and not good at all in my books! read more

Ling Ling Riverwalk - Lunch special: Pad Thai. It Lacked flavors.... - Chinese Near Me - Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Perfectly acceptable, americanized Chinese food served in a quiet strip-mall restaurant with efficient waiters. At lunch the specials are $8-11 which includes soup OR soda, rice (white or brown) and a main course. Always served with hot tea, ice water, crispy noodles and duck sauce. When we visited the counter people greeted us and the kitchen was very fast, our food came long before we finished the little bowl of crispy noodles! The lunch menu offered favorites like chicken in brown sauce, tofu with mixed veg, and scallops in hot pepper sauce on green beans; nothing memorable or particularly authentic like bone-in rabbit or tripe. The spicy pepper sauce actually had a bit of heat to it, definitely not mild. Our lunch was just fine, very reasonably priced at about $11 each including tax and tip. Parking in the Riverwalk strip mall can be difficult. Once you survive that, you'll see that the Ling Ling interior is quiet, it has only booths, and the tables have white table clothes, topped with glass, and that is in turn topped with a large sheet of white paper. Every piece of china has the restaurant name on it, even the tea cups. Back in 2004 this place was rated one of the best in NJ for Chinese food by NJ Monthly magazine. Well, maybe standards have evolved, or maybe the restaurant changed. Today three stars is about right: the service was solid, the food was reasonably tasty and it was a quiet place to eat. I don't understand the serious hate in some other reviews. This isn't a dive, the people were not mean to us, and the lunch prices were not high at all. Admittedly I'm not hurrying back, the flavors were too mild. read more

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The area is a blackhole for takeout. Compared to other offerings in Bernards/Bernardsville it's top tier, but in the grand scheme of Chinese/asian food it's just average. The menu is standard Chinese/American fare; I find it sweeter and less seasoned than average. Their lack of pork centric dishes is surprising, but I think they do a great job of catering to the market that they're in - more shrimp and seafood items are on the menu instead. Nothing marked "hot and spicy" on the menu has been particularly taste bud singing. If you want something more interesting and flavorful check out the weekly specials; they're usually more savory. Stand out items so far have been the salt and pepper pork, wuxi pork ribs, and everything I've ordered off of the specials menu (which rotates weekly or I'd be more specific). I don't like their noodle dishes - way too mushy and not enough vegetables or meat. For take out orders I haven't had them make any serious mistakes. Dine in service is average to above average for Asian restaurants. Ling Ling beats their competition in the area hands down in terms of service and quality, but high prices and limited pork offerings hold them to 3 stars for me. read more

We came here as a family of 4 with 2 boys and grandparents. It was the grandparents favorite Chinese place to eat in, but my husband and I weren't too impressed. I had the salt and pepper pork dish and can't recall want my husband ordered, but remembered he said it was just ok. Our son usually orders vegetable lo mein or lo mein with shrimp and always finished it at our other Chinese place. He didn't there. Said the noodles tasted funny. It is a very nice restaurant with great vibe, white table clothes, and good service. But we have our own favorite Chinese nearer our home that serves far better similar dishes. read more

This used to be one of my favorite Chinese places. The shrimp egg rolls aren't nearly as good as they used to be They still do the food service really fast but the quality isn't there anymore. read more

Don't understand the bad reviews. The food is standard "American" chinese, wont knock your socks off, but definitely a rewarding meal. Way better than Hunan at lyons Mall. Everything is pretty good. Service is excellent. Hot tea is great, comfortable atmosphere. Drawbacks: very very expensive, but it's Basking Ridge. Rent is high at Riverwalk, Im sure. Also, lately Ive noticed the portions are getting skimpier, "It's all sauce!"- to quote my father. Regardless, give it a shot. It's fine, middling-to-good chinese grub read more

Ordered from here a few weeks ago it was great. Today I got raw dumplings- the dough not even cooked. ONE was cooked correctly. Didn't notice it was raw until I took a bite. I called to let them know, they said they would refund us next time. When I said I wanted them today he didn't give me an answer. I also asked if the pork was cooked first he said yes but the texture is clearly less cooked than the cooked steamed dumpling. I am pregnant and if I ate raw pork or get sick due to uncooked dough, I am going to call back and flip out. read more

Ling Ling Riverwalk - Raw pork dumplings - Chinese Near Me - Basking Ridge, New Jersey

I'm so sad that this place has gone down hill so quickly. I understand completely upping the prices but at the same time lowering quality is not a good business move. Our beef was like chewing gum and this is now the 2nd time we couldn't get through our meals so much green pepper as a filler and even though the beef was definitely lesser quality there was still almost none in the dish. The icing on the cake was the roach in the bathroom! It's so not what it was :( read more

We like this place because it caters to your taste and needs. They can modify the dishes for low salt etc.

Much has changed with the new ownership and not in a good way . Food was not good. I ordered shrimp pad Thai - had two baby shrimp in entire meal. Other dishes also were terrible. read more

Good food. Reasonable price. Got the general tso's and everything was pretty good, but it could've had a little bit more kicked to it. Overall, good experience. Will stop there when I'm back in town. read more

If I could give 0 stars I would. This was hands down the worst Chinese food I have had in my life. First of all, it's extremely overpriced. We paid almost $50 for steamed chicken w/ vegetables, shrimp pad Thai, and plain fried rice - that's it. The fried rice was $9 and was literally just rice - no vegetables, no egg, nothing but $9 of rice. The chicken was so chewy I actually couldn't eat it and gave it to my dog. There was more fried tofu (this was our best guess at what it was) than shrimp in the pad Thai and could only eat half. So we paid $50 for a 40 minute delivery of cold rice, some vegetables, and a few shrimp. Will never eat here again. read more