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    Taste of China

    3.5 (40 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Closed 11:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    D5 Combo
    Jayson D.

    Food quality is pretty good, pretty much on-par. Owners are quite friendly. Portion sizes are nice and huge! I was quite interested to see the full bar and beer selection inside. My one complaint was the small size of the eggrolls. I am definitely going to have to order from here again.

    Scorpion bowls
    Liz F.

    The best Chinese I've had in a VERY long time. I'm particular when it comes to Chinese and Taste of China exceeded my expectations. We had to drive quite a bit to get there, but once we met Rob at the bar it was all worth it. Service was excellent, food was better and the owners even came out to interact with us and ask about our experience. I will definitely be going back.

    Chicken Tang Mein with hot pepper oil
    Ken C.

    Like some of the other reviewers, i've visited Taste of China for lunches and take-outs over the years when they were in North Kingstown and now in Exeter. The owners are friendly and personable and i've seen their children grow up from babies to teenagers! The food is typical American Chinese fare, nothing super special, but IMO it is a little better than most of this type: the wonton soup has a good broth, the Tung Ting Lake shrimp is reasonably good, and our kids enjoy their chicken lo mein and pork fried rice. A reliable staple for Chinese take-out whenever you're too tired to cook or too busy. However, what makes it special to me - other than nostalgia and loyalty - is their off-menu items; they're sometimes willing to make special requests for you. In particular, they have a great off-menu noodle soup dish: Chicken Tang Mein (also can make with shrimp, beef, etc). This alone is worth the visit! Big, hot, brimming bowl full of flavorful broth, a generous amount of sliced vegetables, noodles, and tender chicken breast. Garnish this with hot pepper oil (layou) to your taste (I happen to like a lot) and this becomes a heavenly fiery and filling meal. A bowl of this on a cold winter's day will give you plenty of cheer! I always need extra napkins to tuck into my shirt, otherwise it will become covered with soup stains.

    Robyn F.

    Make sure to go on an empty stomach, the proportions are Huge!! This place was great. Reasonably priced, with huge yummy proportions. I wish I could say they had tons of authentic dishes, but they seem to be lacking in that category. Overall, between the very friendly fast service, huge ass plates, and the overall good food I'm quite looking forward to returning to Taste of China.

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    Great food. Best Chinese in the area. And Robyn. It's great portions not proportions!

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    Oddly enough ... Good American-style Chinese food is hard to find in Rhode Island. I have not yet…read morefound a good spot ... and China Garden is no exception. Having said that, of the 7z or so, places I have tried in RI, AI would put this toward the top of the list (which isn't saying much). American-style Chinese food is my favourite junk food ... my guilty pleasure. For many years it has been my comfort food (I dove into a plate of Orange Chicken after failing my driving test in high school) and my New Year's Eve tradition (having waited an hour and a half in a freezing cold doorway at Cathay Garden last year). The bottom line is this is just average. You won't hate it ... but it's not as good as 80% of what you'd find in Massachusetts. Chicken Fingers ... This is the golf standard of how I judge good Chinese takeout. They were below average ... a thin, rubbery strip of chicken with around a 20% chicken to 80% breading ratio. The texture was odd, almost as if it was small pieces of chopped up chicken, reconstituted. They also tasted as though they had been soaked in chicken broth. The rice flour coating was good ... but there was way too much vs. the chicken making them too thin, too crispy and too dry. Crab Rangoon ... Incredibly garlic-powder tasting. They are the triangles of dough (normally my favourite kind) and not the little ball-shaped ones more common in Rhode Island. They were just overpoweringly garlic tasting for me. These cheese was cream-cheesy with a slightly sweet crab flavour. A little skimpy on the filling and way too much garlic. Eggroll ... Too small. This was spring roll-sized. Dry filling ... mostly cabbage and not much pork. Didn't have much flavour until dipped in the hot mustard or sweet and sour, which made it better. Didn't taste fresh and was too dry and bland. Pork fried rice ... Judging by the colour of the rice, I thought I'd be disappointed because this looked more like yellow Spanish rice. It actually tasted better than it looked. No egg pieces and very few pieces of onion but there were several thin pieces of pork in it. It needed tons of soy sauce and a small bit of hot mustard. Not the best fried rice I've ever had but I thought it would be worse. BBQ Pork Strips ... The BBQ sauce tasted more like Kraft BBQ sauce than the sweet pink Chinese sauce. Other than that, these were pretty typical of what you find elsewhere with a less BBQ/smokey flavour. General Tso's Chicken ... Meh. Not the worst but not the best. The chicken fingers are similar to the pieces of chicken you'd find in here. The sauce is very sweet and sticky but not as complex as some of the other places I've tried. Not much garlic and citrus to layer in with the sugary sweetness of the sauce here. Pan Fried Peking Ravioli (pork dumplings) ... The best dish they make. Perfectly pan seared on the sides, doughy and a nice pork flavour inside. The included soy/plum (?) dipping sauce was good and went nicely with the dumplings. I'd come back to order these. Condiments ... Gave a miniscule amount of hot mustard sauce compared to other places but it was homemade. Very hot but a bit too sweet. Duck sauce was more like runny applesauce. Homemade but not the best I've had. Overall, 3 stars might seem like a bad review ... but it's really average, which this was. I have been spoiled by the great Chinese food in Massachusetts. For some reason, some states just don't have good suppliers ... I find it odd that Chinese food looks/tastes different at each place in Rhode Island and none of it is great. If I were going to order Chinese food from any restaurant in Rhode Island, this would actually be at the top of the list, which is a sad commentary.

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