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| - I moved back to east side a year ago, actually I'm still trying to find my way around these parts once again. It's coming back slowly, coming from ChinaTown area you don't have to search heard for AWESOME take out. You have more than enough choices, so looking through YELP as I often do, I came across China Joe's. Now looking at the reviews I was kind of weary, but this is YELP and we all have different opinions, hence the end of all my reviews read the same "but this is just MY opinion, try it out for yourself and see what you think" (ok, well most of my review have that ending)
I always go for "my USUAL" when trying new places, if you cannot get USUAL correct, I don't want to try anything else in you restaurant. So my universal USUAL is orange chicken and chow mien/fried rice. Very simple, no need to complicate the basic.
I ordered through YELP, you can set the time that you want to pick up your order. SUPER convenient. Now the 4star rating is solely based on food and service HOWEVER I would like to ass this little tidbit. The PARKING LOT is very crowed, China Joe's is located right next to YamaSushi, so after a certain that parking stays PACKED and you may need to circle around a couple times before you actual find a parking space. If you don't mind parking close to the bank, cvs or the far end of the parking lot (close to flamingo) then you good. Me myself personally, I don't mind parking wherever, my legs work PERFECTLY! ok enough about that
Dinner special is only like $10, very reasonable and you get a lot of food, enough to split with another, or take for lunch the next day. And there's always daily specials posted right next to the register and that's a damn good deal too. Last night I paid $8.11 for Honey Shrimp, Fried Rice and Egg Roll, ijs not too shabby and yep when I get home today I SMASHING THE LEFTOVERS but I digress...ORANGE CHICKEN
ORANGE CHICKEN
Decent pieces of chicken, not too big and not little chicken nibblets. Its dressed in sauce, a little heavy but I like it that way, so that was a PLUS in my a book. You can taste all 3 parts of the entree 1) chicken 2) breading 3) sauce and no one did not take over the other, it was well balanced. Chicken super tender and moist, breading NOT soggy w/ a tiny crunch and sauce not sticky to where your teeth are not sticking together but SAUCED. Yum, yum, yummy...
FRIED RICE (combo w/ egg)
JUST RIGHT! not gummy, not overpowered with soy, FILLED with chicken and egg, every bite you either have rice and chicken or rice and egg, or a bit of all 3 chicken, rice and egg. No super greasy and NO you cannot taste the MSG. Lol
Since my 1st visit last year, this has become or GO-TO spot for chinese food. I have also tried
- Shrimp Fried Rice (AWESOME, huge pieces of shrimp, and they give more than 3pcs, ahahahaa)
- Beef Broccoli (AWESOME, crunchy pieces of broc and tender pieces of beef, sauce ON POINT)
- Pad Sew (is that how you spell it? anyway, noodles aldente, even ratio of sauce-noodles-beef-veggies
I figured if I start to order the daily specials, I can hit the entire menu at a fraction of the price. Just a thought
No big GLITZ job as for decor, chairs and table and a soup bar. It looks like a family owned place, last night when we were there, they had their younger sons/nephews angering phones, taking orders. I was tempted to send my nephew back to work an hour or two.
Go eats here, don't let the reviews discourage you....but this is just MY opinion, try it out for yourself and see what you think.
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