Meh.
I was craving some Chinese food and started asking around at work, where I could find such a place. A few people recommended New Asian Kitchen. It's only about 2 miles down Bell and it made it convenient to pick up lunch. I looked up their online menu and placed an order for myself and one of my coworkers. I went with their lunch special of the "house chicken" as well as a sweet and sour chicken rice bowl. My coworker went with a lunch special of beef and broccoli. I drove down, paid my money (cheap btw...2 combos and a rice bowl was only $15.00!), and took my food to go. Here is how it was.........
Lunch Combo House Special Chicken- This special came with a decent sized portion of breaded and fried dark meat chicken, in a tangy brown sauce, fried rice, an egg roll and a cream cheese wonton. The chicken was cooked properly and tasted alright. Not one of the better "house chickens" I have had, but it wasn't nasty at least! The egg roll that came with it was my favorite part of the meal. Crispy and crunchy and filled with the usual veggies and pork (I think). The cream cheese wonton was good, albeit small. Now onto the rice.....I was happy when I saw that their fried rice was just rice! No fillers like peas and carrots and shit like that. Just plain, fried rice! The problem with it was that it was bad...like, bad as in I didn't even come close to finishing it bad. I took a couple of bites and was done. It had no flavor to it at all and had a weird texture, too! One of the worst fried rices I have ever had!
Sweet and Sour Chicken Bowl- Seeing is the lunch deals are so cheap, I decided to order a rice bowl, too. This rice bowl was horrible! The sweet and sour chicken was all gummy and didn't taste good at all. The white rice had a weird texture to it (same as the fried) and had no flavor at all. The sweet and sour sauce was horrible, too! It was way, way, way too thin and almost like a sweet and sour vinegar, instead of a "sauce". It didn't coat the chicken well and all it did was turn my white rice to red.
My coworker was not that impressed either. She said she has had much better and probably wouldn't come back. I'm in her boat! This was some of the worst Chinese takeout I have had in a long time. Even with prices being so cheap ($5.25 lunch combo, $3.50 rice bowl!), I can't see myself coming back. Service was friendly on the phone and during pickup. The service and the egg roll were the 2 winners of the day! The quest for a good Chinese place near Bell and the 17 continues! Hope I can find somewhere great! read more