Absolutely amazing and freshly made food! This is the best Chinese food I have had since I moved to Georgia!! I also decided to try something new and tried the garlic wontons and that was this best thing I have ever eaten in my life I will be back just for those! I was lucky enough to come with a friend and saw first hand that each order is made freshly! Nothing like it, this will be my go to spot from now on. read more

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I lived in St. Louis for over 15 years and Taste 8 tastes like authentic St. Louis Chinese cuisine. While picking up an order I spoke with the owner awhile back and he informed me that he once lived in the Lou! That explains how he is able to bring that unmistakable delicious St. Louis flavor to Atlanta. read more

If you are from STL then you know. If Taste 8 we're just a little closer, it would be very dangerous. We have been twice now. It is not fine dining. You place your order thru their website, schedule pick up and go in and get your food. Dont forget to ask for the spice packet. Happy New Year! read more

Good fresh and taste great each time! It reminds me of our STL rice. Closest thing to it here in Atlanta.

Everything was soooooo good, only place serving St. Louis style fried rice ! I ordered whole order special w/ bean sprouts, half order of chicken fried rice, chicken gizzards, and a special St. Paul. Pineapple vess and red hot corn chips my only issue is the prices are a bit high, but I guess when you are the only place making it, you can do that read more

It's a hole in the wall, next to the Chevron, with bomb food. I had pork and broccoli and my friend had General Tsao's chicken . Delicious. Fried rice cooked deep brown! Crunch egg rolls. I'd drive out here from JC again! read more

Taste 8 - General Tsao's chicken and crab ragoon. - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

Anyone from St. Louis, MO understands how hard it is to get Chinese food *anywhere* that is prepared how it is in STL. The struggle is real!! So when some other STL people who now live in ATL metro told me this place was the real deal, I had to come. I walked in and explained what the streets were saying. The owner said "yep, that's where we're from." I replied with one question: does that mean you sell St. Pauls? He replied in the affirmative, so I skipped the menu and went right into my standard order: one chicken St. Paul and a half order of plain fried rice with extra egg and gravy. Dear reader, it was perfection. The St. Paul had the softest bread to ever touch human fingers. The rice was dark brown as it should be and the gravy dressed it right up. I needed to add soy sauce but was so into eating that it was gone before I could. This place is like an hour from my house, so I can't come frequently but I will certainly be back! read more

Taste 8 - Chicken St. Paul - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

I ordered 2 shrimp egg rolls one regular egg roll One krab ragoon One lo mein and one orange chicken The egg rolls and krab ragoon were delicious But the lo mein and orange chicken were not edible. $41.00 meal read more

I ate the food and it was alright. The Happy family was not good. The egg fu young was delicious. There was too many big onions in the happy family and the pork in it was terrible and that imitation crab was not good. read more

Being a TRUE ST LOUIS NATIVE!! This is the Real definition of home away from home. Me and my family drove over an hour and it was worth every minute !!! the rice, the noodles the Saint Paul, the crab Rangoon, the vess sodas the "sundance "chips. Everything was on point. We got sweet n sour sauce. Not "duck sauce ". The rice doesn't have vegetables because who eats peas and carrots in they "chinamen" ?? Rice was just the right amount of dark !! I could go on for days. But instead. We'll just go back. We gladly spent over 200$ on three adults & 6 kids !! Worth every penny. See you next weekend lbvs read more

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I recent drive to St. Louis for a family event. Sadly I was not able to sample the ahinese food as I've been told is phenomenal. As luck would have it, a client mentions that there actually IS a place that serves St. Louis styled chinese food. After a lot of yelp searching, Taste 8 came up. The reviews are spot on. While I've never had St. Louis chinese food, the flavors of the food were worth the drive. I will be back! Note, this is a take out restaurant. read more

I was not impressed with this place. I ordered Shrimp egg foo young and shrimp fried rice. Wanted a combonation for this but this place does not have an egg foo young combination. So I had to pay for each item separately. I asked the guy was the gravy light brown and he said yes. Which it was not. My total was $17.75 just for shrimp egg foo young and shrimp fried rice which is ridiculous. when I got home is when I found out the gravey was not light brown it was dark something and thin like water. The gravy was nasty . The egg foo young was also greasy. I was very upset. So this is a one and done for me. read more

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I'm from St. Louis so let me tell you how to order your rice lol half order or whole of rice whatever rice you want I get shrimp Fried dark (I don't know why yal eat light skin rice it's mind boggling) extra eggs, bean sprouts. (Extra white onions for me ) Make sure you get red pepper you have to ask got it and SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE not DUCK SAUCE get SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE I repeat not duck sauce lol and get you a Vess soda get the whole St. Louis experience lol pineapple or fruit punch! It's simple read more

Taste 8 - Shrimp Fried Rice - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

Great food! Had a small issue with an appetizer and the owner fixed it. We love a local family owned business. We will be back

Great counter service. Very polite and patient. Food was delish. Egg foo young and ranch wings. Delish lunch

You've never experienced Chinese food until you've have Chinese food from St. Louis Missouri. Taste 8 hails from the Show-Me State all the way here in Georgia. Every item I can order in STL is on the menu here including Vess pop, and the St Paul. If I have a choice I'm always choosing Taste 8. read more

When it's attached to a gas station, you already know the food is going to be good! Taste 8 was highly recommended by friends from St. Louis. Ordering was convenient. You can do this online on their website. They will call you to let you know when the food is ready for pick up. Currently, the location is for pick-up only. You order at the door space they converted to a window. Everyone here is sweet and friendly. Food came in huge portions and piping hot! Ask for gravy on the side for your fried rice. Would definitely come back again. :) read more

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Food tasted like it had chemicals in it! Me and my girlfriend had to different dishes and we both said the same thing. But they were nice but a lot of people are nice to people they know about to die read more

Called in an order for beef and broccoli to go with my cauliflower fried rice and my total came to about $13.50. I wasn't given an estimated time or anything so I just guessed to head over 20 minutes later where my food was done and lukewarm at that point. When you arrive, their payment set-up is right at the door so you open the door and there is the credit card reader which made it efficient in my opinion because they bring your order right to the door. As far as taste, it wasn't bad. The only thing I'd recommend is adding more salt because the gravy was a bit tasteless, but the beef was tender and the broccoli was well cooked. But with a little bit of salt and sriracha, it satisfied my Chinese food craving. The serving was big enough for me to portion into about 3.5 meal preps. read more

I'm a bit confused. I had this probably two months ago my family brought it home and it was worth remembering. Today I ordered the same thing "Szechuan chicken" and this is not anything like what I had couple of months ago. I want to try the kung pao but I don't think I should Incase it's sweet as well. Owners must have changed since then or ??? Szechuan chicken in general is a spicy dish and savory. What they've given me is orange chicken you get from the mall with extra duck sauce in the food. It's painfully sweet. Rice is not even the sticky Asian rice it's just regular short grain. They've dumped the sauce all over the rice so this is mostly inedible because it's just a lot of goopy duck sauce all over. Will not return unfortunately. Absolutely not edible. Nice customer service though. read more

The prices are high, they went up because of inflation but give you less meat in the rice. The rice is extremely greasy but the hot braised chicken wings are good. They charge for condiments & they have children running it which they don't have good customer service, of course. They're too far to drive to not get your money worths. read more

Food is good the younger ones have no customer service and they are very dry but the adults tend to be friendly and place tire order with a smile Great food read more

Taste 8 - Chicken St. Paul sandwich and wings - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

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Taste 8 is a hole in the wall grab and go spot. You can only order takeout as of when this review was written. The owners are short with you and have their kids running all around the place in the background. So.. No to ambience, but this place delivers on the "authentic Saint Louis style" Chinese food experience. Duck and Noodles - CHECK Crab Rangoon - CHECK Vess Soda - CHECK Saint Paul's Sandwich - CHECK - CHECK Come here for your ultra-Americanized Chinese food classics done right! read more

Felt and tasted like back home, only issue is they said the 20 oz. Vess sodas for $4.

The food is good I recommend sticking to the fried rice and lo mein. The cashier is nice and very helpful. The building itself could use some work but other than that I can't complain. read more

The first time we visited the food was great. The second time the rice and the sesame chicken was terrible. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because it is a hit or miss. I think it is that way because the young children cook the food sometimes. There is no place to sit and the service was mediocre both times. The restaurant was clean. read more

Been to this eatery off and on for years. Went recently for a pick-up order and after paying through the modified entry/check-out space at the front of the store, got the food home within 10-15 minutes. The only thing that was still hot was the soup. In checking the menu prices, also noticed that I might've been overcharged $5 + on my order. I didn't receive a receipt so I have no way of knowing what or how anything was charged. I paid cash and had the exact amount because that's pretty much the standard these days. I do know that some eateries are up charging for orders due to shortages etc.... A heads up on that would have been appreciated. I'm pretty sure we aren't returning to Taste 8 at any time, at all. The food that was ordered and had to be reheated, just wasn't good enough to keep this place on our list. read more

The place was empty when we arrived. We visited this establishment due to previous reviews, so we just assumed it was a slow time of day. The food was not fresh. We paid $70 and the only thing good was the lemonade. All of the food seemed like it was fried a day before and refried today to keep from having waste. Even my daughter who usually gives good ratings, gave her lo mein a .9 out of 5 read more

I love this restaurant because it's St. Louis style. This is literally the only Chinese place I know of in Georgia that reminds me of home,they even have Vess soda!!The only thing that's missing is walnut cookies other that this place is perfect. read more

The food was delicious and the service was fast. It was quite expensive tho. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone. It tastes just like home. Very much the St Louis vibe. read more

I use to be a huge fan being a stl native but this cook has gotten lazy the rice back light skin no grease they taking on atl recipe Vs staying authentic to home read more

Great food!!!!! St. Louis style rice! Excellent customer service is very good highly recommended

The Singapore noodles(not what they call it though) is amazing !! I get it with no meat and light vegetables, so you get more noodles. The crab Rangoon is amazing .. the fried rice is ok too.. it's not Chicago but it'll do lol. Definitely recommend. read more

this place was way too far for me to just order one thing. The rice reminds me of home but it's not quite that chicken saint Paul was just okay it didn't formulate well together but it was a good effort. if I'm in that area maybe I'll try it again and let them know I'm from st. Louis and they'll do a better job preparing it the rice was a little more greasy than I'm used to even being from St Louis but it was tasteful although my order took a while because I added a lot more things read more

Born & raised in St.Louis so moving to Atlanta it was so difficult finding rice that tasted even close to HOME !!!! I completely hate fried rice here so locating Taste 8 was a game changer for me now I actually believe I can survive out here when I have my withdrawals missing home because there is no fried rice like ST.LOUIS FRIED RICE !!!! I've referred so many people to Taste 8 people visiting from my hometown & also those I know from GA no one has had any complaints they've absolutely loved the food as I knew they would lol So THANK YOU GUYS your food is amazing & your service is exceptional I will forever support this family owned business !!!!! read more

This is really a disappointment that I have to write this review. I called and placed an order for 2 extra extra spicy braised shrimp. I patronize this business a lot considering we reside on Old Snellville. When we got our food it was not how we ordered it. I called today 7/25/2024 to let the manager know he told me to bring the food back which we did. He then overtalks me and tells me he can only remake 1 not both my total was 34 bucks and the same dishes. He then tells me that I didn't order it right in which I did the child on the other end that took my order repeated extra extra spicy to me. Per the owner, she didn't charge me for it. Not my problem, I placed it how we eat it. He would not allow me to get a word in. I am very very disappointed. We will not be back here and beware if you order your food Right and it is wrong it's not the kid who answers FAULT IT IS YOURS!! I will be disputing this as he did not want to fix my issue properly. read more

I have probably ordered from them 943 times and have NEVER had a bad meal or an unreasonable wait! I don't think the food is healthy, but it tastes delish! This is a take out or delivery only place. And I despise restaurants in gas station complexes or too close to them. This place is the exception. Love it! read more

Rarely a let down. Tried a lot of the menu and everything in extremely tasty. I thought the reviews were hype. Not so. Highlights to me are wings, fried rice (real fried rice w/ eggs and scallions), General's chicken (actually stays crispy 45mins later) soups. The Thai menu is limited but that's a good thing because they do it the right way. You can never go wrong with the yellow shrimp or chicken curry served with jasmine white rice. I'm spoiled. Never going to another Chinese restaurant again. Go to Taste 8 and order anything you'll be glad you did. read more

Great experience. I ordered delivery. Only took 30 mins for 9PM. I ordered the buffalo wings with fried rice. The fried rice was really good. The ranch was a little weird not much of the ranch dip taste. More like the dressing. The buffalo sauce had a good taste but the wings were alright. They were big tho. They delivered ranch, soy sauce, silverware, all without being reminded! Which was awesome! read more

Taste 8 - Buffalo crazy wing and fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

Saw this place on google maps and thought it was a sit-down restaurant, but it's actually one of those sketch gas station places. I went in anyways and got the vegetable steam noodles. It was less than $6 and ended up being a lot of food. The food was pretty good, but I wish it had come with more vegetables. I tried my sister's veggie lo mein and wasn't really a fan, but she liked it. Boba was decent. Overall not a bad place, but definitely better for ordering take out or delivery than eating there. read more

Taste 8 - Vegetable lo mein - Chinese Near Me - Lawrenceville, Georgia

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