China Tung

Servings are large careful not to over order!

They serve REAL Chinese pancakes with the Mu Shu dishes! We ordered «extra pancakes» and got a whole sealed package. Not those flimsy unusable things so many restaurants are trying to get away with!
And we loved the fried dumplings… fried and then steamed, so crunch on the bottom and soft on top. The sesame noodles were pretty good, too… a little doughy but good sauce, and came with extra scallions as ordered.
This is our new favorite!

This joint is pretty standard stuff. There’s one like it in nearly every neighborhood across this city, so you should know what you’re getting:
–Cheap, Americanized Chinese.
–Quick take out or delivery.
–[If you order correctly,] Non-​organic meats covered in high-​calorie, sugary sauces over your choice of starch.
I do like that they give you options when you order on line (quart or pint, mild, medium or hot, etc.). And I would like to apologize again to all my friends for forgetting to order the dumplings. I’m still surprised any of you have forgiven me.
I know. You’re probably just surprised I have friends.

surprisingly alright

A waste of money. I grew up in in NYC and so I have eaten a lot of Americanized Chinese food in my lifetime. I can safely say that this is some of the WORST Chinese food I have eaten. The fried dumplings were inedible– they were pasty and chewy and did not have the nice crispy exterior that you come to expect from a fried dumpling. The dipping sauce was also nothing like the norm. The sesame chicken was basically just small chunks of fried breading– hardly no meat at all and the garlic string beans were limp and tasteless. I didn’t dare try the beef and vegetables. The only positive was the white rice.

My view is when you want to be picky, you either cook at home or you go for something that’s not cheap. I do both, more often the former. Most of the time I have to act like a cheapskate (temporarily, I hope), I just want food, and I think first of New China Tung. I discovered it on foot – it’s only about two blocks from where I live – and I’ve compared it to other inexpensive Chinese places nearby. For me, it’s The One.
My absolute favorite here is Singapore Chow Mei Fun. It meets the $ 8 delivery minimum, and it compares well with the version at Sammy’s Noodles in the West Village, near which I used to live. Actually, it compares well with any version I’ve ever had. Shrimp, the bits of scrambled egg, bits of scallion and a couple of things I can’t name, thin strips of roasted pork, mixed among the thin Mei Fun noodles. You get to choose the spice level. Yum!
All of the Special Combination Plates meet the $ 8 delivery minimum, and they come with pork fried rice – my favorite – and an egg roll. It’s two meals at one click. (All the Chinese dishes I’ve ordered here are good for two meals.) My standards are beef with broccoli (where I wish for more broccoli), chicken with garlic sauce, hot and spicy beef, General Tso’s chicken, and Kung Pao chicken. All of them do the job.
Among the American dishes, there are two I return to. The double cheeseburger with French fries is big and reliable; I usually want to give the fries a toasting in my broiler, which is true with other fries as well. (Despite the whole foodie movement, it seems like half of American fries are still made wrong, not fried long enough and probably not hot enough. Maybe it’s only the cheap half, but please – French fries are not hard to do right.) For delivery, I add the hot and sour soup, which to me is good by any standard.
My other American standby is the ½ fried chicken and French fries. I’ve had better chicken; the best was something called broasted chicken that I had down in Dallas, Texas. Among cheap NYC chicken, all I really like is Popeye’s, but there’s not one near my current residence. So I go for this, plus hot and sour soup and either a shrimp egg roll or a spring roll.
Apologies for almost no careful descriptions. As it happens, I just received delivery… from New China Tung.

This is definitely my new go-​to for Chinese food. I typically order from New China Wok but their $ 15 delivery minimum is such a drag. I found this place on Unilocal,read the reviews, and decided to give it a shot. I’m so glad I did. The food tastes fresh, and is the best I’ve had in the area. I will definitely call them anytime I’m craving Chinese takeout.

As far as Americanized Chinese food goes, it’s not bad. Didn’t taste too much MSG, though the sauces were very starchy.
Crab rangoon was okay, and the scallops/​broccoli was pretty decent. Delivery via Seamless was quick and you get a free soda. Pretty standard stuff.

Whenever I move to a new apartment I try to find a decent Chinese food place that will be adequate enough in a bind but not gross enough to turn me off (I have made that mistake before and it is not pretty).
I ordered the General Tso’s lunch special, which took only 15 minutes to prepare, and it was quite tasty — it even had a small amount of cooked vegetables. The lunch special itself came with a free can of soda, which was a nice bonus.
So, in short, this place is not the most amazing food in the world but will get the job done when you need it to.

Went here for lunch the portions are generous. I got the sesame chicken and there was very minimal breading, a lot of REAL chicken. Quality food best chinese I’ve had in a while. highly recommended

Very good old school Chinese Food. We ordered on
and in less then 45 minutes we had fresh hot delicious Chinese food delivered to our door. We ordered the BBQ boneless spareribs. egg rolls and chicken and broccoli. Although their prices were very low the quality seemed very high. Everything was very enjoyable. Deffinately hits the spot when you crave old school Chinese

My go-​to place for delivery Chinese food!
Delivery is fast, it is super cheap, and the food is GOOD!!! I like that they have a health conscious diet menu (or at least they claim it is) and usually get the broccoli and chicken with brown rice. Sometimes I’ll even treat myself to a wonton soup which is also super delicious. My boyfriend always orders the general tsos combination plate which is enough food for 3 meals!!! (and comes with a soda, which we always seem to forgot and is a pleasant surprise when it arrives.)
After trying a few other places in the ‘hood they just can’t compare. New China Tung far surpasses!

My go-​to takeout place. I usually get the chicken with cashew nuts, sweet & sour chicken, or vegetable lo mein and it’s always cheap, delicious, and delivered extra-​fast. Definitely enough for two meals, or even three. They’re great about substitutions too — I prefer vegetable fried rice over pork fried rice (the standard add-​on to dinner specials), and they always substitute it without complaints or extra charges. I typically order cheese sticks to get to the delivery minimum on seamless (and because who doesn’t love fried cheese) & those are good too.
Word to the wise: I would caution against the chicken chow mein, but maybe that’s just because I didn’t know what to expect.

This is a great neighborhood Resturant. It’s more of a take out spot but they have a few tables & chairs if you wanna sit in. Everything I’ve had on the menu has been good.

i don’t know about you, but i’m all about lightening speed delivery!
this place was on the money.
i hate when people write an essay,
so i keep it short and sweet.
here’s what we ordered.
–crab ragoons (YUM)
–vegetable lo mein (YUM)
–general tsos chicken — they give the sweet/​sour sauce on the side as to ensure the chicken doesn’t get soggy (bonus points)
–wonton soup
i got a free soda — as if i needed the extra calories, but i’ll tell ya what… this place is cheap as hell and the food is good.
i will without a doubt be a repeat custie.
thanks NCT!

I enjoy cheap Chinese food as much as the other guy. Most of those times is when I want something greasy and tasty. However, this place makes their food way too greasy. Beef lomein, chicken with broccoli, and general tso’s chicken were all so greasy that I didn’t even eat the left overs. They don’t switch out white rice for brown rice and once they forgot to include the white rice that comes along with the entrée. Definitely not the worst place, but far from being good.

Delivery was fast, and everything was very affordable. The food (fried rice, gen. tso’s, pork chow fun…) was reasonably good but nothing was excellent. There was nothing too salty or poorly flavored and no stand-​out either.

After the Coogan’s 5K race last weekend, my metabolism (of course) had me concentrating on one and only one thing: food. I had yet to find a Chinese take-​out place in my neighborhood and I’d been living here for about 6 months. Off to GrubHub I went and found a fairly well-​rated Chinese place, so I decided to take a leap of faith and try it out.
I ordered the orange chicken and rice special. I’d assumed that they wouldn’t let me substitute fried rice in (because I was unable to do so on GrubHub, but kudos for letting me order online!), so I ordered an extra side of fried rice. I’d mentioned in the special instructions field on GrubHub that I was just substituting the extra fried rice order for the white rice, so I didn’t need the white rice.
Delivery quite a while (hence the minus-​one star), but when it arrived it was hot, delicious, and they’d given me fried rice instead of white rice and the extra side of it. Duly noted for next time! All of this was $ 10, and I had leftovers for lunch the next day at work.
Yay! I’ve found a new mistress (e.g. new Chinese take-​out place)

bleh.
delivery was fast. the only thing i liked was the hot and sour soup.

I’m not sure what I was expecting. The delivery was fast, 20 minutes, the food was mediocre. I ordered the sweet and sour pork. I also got an order of fried dumplings because of Lucien’s post. I usually get vegetable fried dumplings and shouldn’t have strayed because I hate mystery meat. They were good enough that I finished the whole plate though.
I was very disappointed with the sweet and sour pork because it was fried for way too long and was more like pork jerky. I called them up and told them. The woman on the phone apologized and suggested that I try the sweet and sour chicken instead. She sent me an order for free which got to me in less than 10 minutes. The sweet and sour chicken was ten times better.
Overall the service was great, the food was edible, and I really felt like a valued customer even though this is the first time I’ve ever ordered from them. Next time I’m gonna try the fried veggie dumplings and Mei Fun that Brian posted about.