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    4.5 (10 reviews)
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    New China

    New China

    4.3(43 reviews)
    42.0 mi
    $

    Very plain fried rice. Had it twice and it only had rice and chicken. No veggies or egg…read more Crab Rangoon is very good.

    Good: Crab ragoon was good, hot and fresh. The steamed shrimp with vegetables was good. Shrimp…read morewere nice sized and cooked well. Bad: Egg roll was cold but tasted ok. Fried rice was yellow rice with some onions, very sad rice with no flavor at all. Hardly traditional fried rice. Was given a 25 minute estimate. Got there at 20 minutes and waited almost 30 more for my order. The huge tub of brown gravy they give you is ridiculously large for the amount needed for the entree and scalding hot temperature. The container it comes in has a lid that is impossible to remove without spilling the full sauce all over. There are no sauce packets out for you to grab like most Chinese take out places have and when the bag was handed to me all sealed up I assumed (wrongly) that they had thrown some sauces in. My bad for assuming. They did throw fortune cookies in. Ugly: The General Tso chicken was inedible. The unrecognizable chunks of "chicken" were so stringy and tough and full of cartridge more than half of them could not be eaten and had to be spit out. The sauce also had no heat (menu shows a spicy symbol) and really no flavor like traditional General Chicken you would expect. Our total order exceeded the amount ($21 before tax) listed on the menu for 3 free crab rangoon which I asked for when I ordered. When I got there they charged me for the rangoon but I didn't notice that until I got home. This is our 3rd disappointing visit in a row. I realize it's the only Chinese in town and everyone in Bethalto loves it but it's really sad that it doesn't live up to the hype.

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    Chinatown - Sushi, shrimp, steak, fried rice and noodles. Everything cooked perfectly, it was a great experience!

    Chinatown

    4.0(42 reviews)
    43.0 mi
    $$

    Great place to eat! Lots of selection and attentive service! Very clean and lots of tasty…read moreselections. Only thing I would ding them on is food is not always really hot! Today was good but, times the food has just slightly over warm. Good food at a good price! Very nice place for dinner!

    I wanted to be fair, so I have intentionally waited until we have been here three visits. We have…read moregone for lunch each time. The first was while in a hotel when we first arrived in June to move into our "forever home" in Staunton (about 10 miles away). We went again a month or so after moving in. We went today (Sunday lunch) because we wanted to pick up a few things at Walmart. Understand where I (we) are coming from. My wife spent her childhood in Hawaii, and her father is Japanese. I am an Army veteran, and have been to plenty of Asian restaurants around the world. I do have a tough standard. I am sincerely not trying to punch down. I want this place to be good, it would be better for my retirement years for it to be good. It is the closest option for buffet. Our Staunton option is a menu only, and it is also not a good option, at all. I understand that a place needs to cater to its patrons to be profitable. I am not saying they don't try, I'm not saying they don't care. I do understand that americanized and (bland) is what they need to lean into. Our lunch today was $40 and we both left unsatisfied. I am willing to eat anything and have the girth to prove it. My wife is a bit more particular, but certainly has the ability to provide a decent value judgement on the things she chooses. There just are not consistently good choices to be had here. The "sushi" for example is marginal at best. There are more breaded/fried items than truly exist in Asian menus at other places I have been. The other items almost always have a sauce that is salt and sugar forward. There are very few spices/textures that I would expect from a Chinese menu. It is relatively clean, the people working here do try to do a good job. I appreciate the effort required to put all this together for us. It has the standard Chinese restaurant decorations (I think there is a kit that can be ordered from somewhere), but they haven't overdone it. I do understand and accept that people like this place, and appreciate the offerings. I am in no way looking down on their preference, [To each their Own] and please continue to enjoy it. If you are however, just passing through, it may not be the best stop for good Chinese food, okay "food" sure, but not on par with other options I have enjoyed.

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    Royal China

    4.1(16 reviews)
    35.7 mi
    $

    Love everything I tried. The food is always fresh and hot. It is made the way you ask for it. I…read moreask for no MSG. The service is fast always. We don't eat there but it just a little sit down Place.

    We have been ordering from this place for ten plus years, it was a tradition for Christmas eve…read moredinner. I haven't ordered since December because something seemed off with that order. The fried rice was not the best and the veggies in the entree were different. Placed order tonight and everything was fine until they called me while my husband was driving home with the food. When I answered a woman was shouting over her coworkers asking if I picked up food. I said yes, my husband did and click she hung up. The phone rang again it's them and again asked if I picked up my order. I said my husband is driving home with the order now and I asked if there was a problem. She said check the order and let us know and click. I called them back and I'm upset because we live close to thirty minutes away. I ask what is going on? Do I need to call him and check the order? Surprise!!!! The people that take your order and talk to you on the phone are an answering service. That has terrible customer service. We ended up missing parts of our order and were told to come back and get the food they forgot. I asked if they could just refund me and the terrible telephone service they have didn't know how to do that. We will not be order it again. Shame the family that did own it was wonderful!!! We will miss them.

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