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| - I'll be honest from the start here because I'm not a fan of Chinese food take out. The Chinese food take out restaurants I've been to end up being cooked too much or they are so salty and greasy I feel like I was shot in gut and need to take a nap.
China Dragon has been an exception so far. My roommate and I have driven past this dozens of times and never thought twice about it until one day on the way home we drove past this place and decided to just try it. Something told us to and we did not regret it! One item on their menu that I just had to try because I thought to myself that this was "unique" to a Chinese restaurant was (brace yourself) Pad Thai. YES! A Chinese themed restaurant that serves Pad Thai! I don't know if any other Chinese take out restaurants mixed different Asian/Oriental foods but I had to try it. Well, they had all the meats; beef, pork, chicken, shrimp and also veggie for the non-meat eaters. They also had another option that intrigued me. They had a "House Special" version of Pad Thai. The house special Pad Thai here consists of ALL the meats you see listed for only $7.95 at the time of writing this!!! This definitely caught my attention and I really wanted to try it. My roommate picked up a Fried Rice w/ Fried Chicken Wings for $5.50. Now I have to explain something. When you see a price of only $5.50 for a item like this, around dinner time no less, you think this is going to be like a decent sized appetizer or side dish, especially from the way it's listed in the menu handout at the top and not with the main courses. Nope, this was not the case in any way. This portion was HUGE for the price! My roommate received what had to be a half pound of rice with 4 LARGE fried chicken wings! WOW! I was impressed.
Now, as for my Pad Thai, I wasn't expecting the usual and that's why I ordered it. Honestly, how many people can say, "Yes, I ordered Pad Thai from a Chinese restaurant and it was different but I really liked it!". China Dragon's is different but it is still very good if you can ignore the fact that it's most definitely not your typical or traditional Pad Thai. It's a noodle dish just like Pad Thai but it doesn't use the crushed peanuts or the typical Pad Thai sauce and the way they cook the noodles at China Dragon gave them an almost grilled like taste that I quite enjoyed. Plus the portion was also HUGE! I'm serious, it was about a pound of noodles with a nice mixture of vegetables, chicken, beef, pork and shrimp. The house specialty was a real treat as well because every bite gave a different piece of meat or vegetable, noodle and meat combination that made this one of the most enjoyable Chinese takeout restaurants that I've ever been to.
I'm not done though. I'm not saying in anyway this food will end up in the healthy "low sodium" section of the menu but the salt was not overwhelming. In fact, ALL the food we ate had taste that was not diminished by salt but rather had the right mix of ingredients to give a really good taste.
To top off all of this food off I wanted to try their Wonton Soup. A pint of their Wonton Soup at this moment was a surprisingly low price in my opinion of $3.95! I seriously had 3 decent sized bowls of Wonton soup from the pint!
The only reason I'm not giving China Dragon a 5 star rating is because of parking. Their parking lot is a small angled parking lot that if you're not careful you COULD end up on the sidewalk or even worse, drive off the curb into Northfield Road. But if you can angle yourself in their parking lot just right, China Dragon is DEFINITELY a Chinese take out restaurant that I actually do recommend. Their staff is friendly (the one gentleman remembers me as the 'Pad Thai Girl') and no one is sitting around as there are about a half dozen people ALL working/cooking behind the counter. They even have a few simple tables and chairs to eat there if you would like to do that as well. I can't wait to order from them again and talking about it makes me want to order tonight because $10 dollars at this place will give a decent meal that may include leftovers.
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