Choi’s Chinese Restaurant

A good place for a quick meal before a movie at the Logan Theater. Food was good, shared two entrees and appetizer with three and it was enough. Simple selection of sodas and bottled water. I found the service to be polite and the food came our fast, hot, no problems with getting plates and cutlery and a doggie bag for the left overs. Place is sparsely decorated, a few tables, but clean.

The service is great and the food is the BEST out of the standard Chinese American. I’m shocked by the bad reviews.
The portions are huge and I’ve always had great experiences. They’re always so polite and quick!
This place has been around awhile. Its recently remodeled and is now looks totally different and super chic.
Being in Logan sq since 2009, it’s only this past year I’ve discovered this place. Maybe it was the right timing to try it now before then but I’m glad they provide the food and service they do.

Decent takeout. I usually place my order in person, and the food, which is really hot and fresh, comes out very quickly. The egg rolls and other fried things aren’t dripping with grease, unlike a lot of other takeout places. I haven’t had any bad customer service experiences here so far (and hopefully never). The skinny guy with the hat is pretty nice too; he made me a vegetarian chow fun since there was only a beef version on the menu.

There was a roach in our food. Our friends live within blocks in Logan Square and eat there often. I called and all I wanted was a replacement dish. With patience and saying the words bug, insect, and roach on the phone I was laughed at and ignored. To resolve this I am driving to the restaurant to see if they redeem this disgusting service and food. It was a million to one thing but it happened and our group couldn’t finish our meal.

Take out Chinese! Come on. Have you ever lived in a small town where there is none? I like this place for take out, and I’m glad it extended its hours. My very first job was at a takeout Chinese place because no one there spoke enough English to answer the phone. Such nice people, and the take out Chinese is exactly the same everywhere. These reviewers really need to lighten up.
Update: I was under the impression most Chinese restaurants had stopped using MSG. I have a mild sensitivity, but I ate from here plus leftovers and loved it but I had a reaction. Open to recommendations for MSG-​free Chinese in the area. I realize it’s not a problem for most people.

All around average Chinese food. I will return because average Chinese food is generally what I’m looking for when I’m craving Chinese food. Cheap, fast, and sold in large quantities. The interior décor is not welcoming so I wouldn’t recommend sitting down and eating, but pick up was easy.

I have lived in the Logan Square neighborhood for over 30 years. Choi’s serves standard run of the mill Americanized Chinese food. The food isn’t bad. Portions are huge. At times it can be very good like their potstickers, pepper beef, or kung pao chicken.
Not too bad.
Then you have two obstacles that we, as consumers, should never face. Horrible customer service.
A legitimate asshole of an owner and the lady who serves you if you choose to dine in will treat you badly. Not a welcoming environment, very abrasive and arrogant for no reason at all.
If youre seriously hurting for Americanized Chinese food, you’re better off with Lee’s Chop Suey on Diversey.
You can go elsewhere like Friendship on Milwaukee close to Diversey.
The new look is significantly cleaner than what it used to be. So dont be fooled by the new cleaner look.
The staff there is not very nice and I wish I can give zero stars but it deserves a star due to the ok food. The service though is horrible at Choi’s. Avoid them like the plague.

Look guys, it is what it is. Takeout. The food is delicious. Like, I love the chicken & broccoli. It’s not a place to dine for the ambience and yeah the owner is rather abrupt. Order takeout, go home and watch a movie and enjoy some tasty Americanized Chinese food.

I give this place 5 stars for the food. It’s a neighborhood Chinese place meant for nights in, a 6 pack and a movie. If you want ambiance and service keep searching. If you want reliably great Chinese food then look no further.

Overcharged and they refused to correct it.
My receipt said $ 7.70 but bank statement said $ 9.20. Beware.
Place smelled like poo. Food has funky taste.

This place is heaven sent, a true Chinese dining experience brought to our humble neighborhood by the one and only, Peter Choi. My roommates and I have frequented this pavilion on many occasion, and with Black Friday prices, like 5 dollars for some equal to Panda Express tasting orange chicken, there is LITERALLY, no better place to go when you have been drinking, and at all other times.

I been coming here since I was little. It is my to go chinese place in Logan!

The food is fairly decent. Upon picking up the food, I requested for the receipt. The man in his late fifties quickly respond in an rather irritated commanding voice, «YOU no NEED receipt.» And I thought to myself, «Wow,» and left out. Ugh.

Choi’s is cheap and the quality of its food is good. This is our go-​to for Chinese takeout (if we want to eat in somewhere, we usually go to Friendship). The veggies are fresh and the sauces are the right consistency. The interior has been significantly remodeled and is now nice and modern, especially given its low prices. But we primarily order take-​out. I would say we order from here on average of once a week (and have for the past two years) and have yet to have any issues with our orders or the quality of the food. The owner has always been polite to me. I cannot comment on the sushi, but the bubble tea is decent.

This is our go-​to spot for Chinese take away and not just because it’s across the street from us. I used to think this place was pretty standard for regular, mediocre Chinese but after ordering from a different Chinese restaurant that had gotten good reviews and being extremely disappointed, I think Choi’s is pretty damn good. But, to be fair, we don’t stray past a few regulars so I can’t speak for the entire menu, but our orders generally revolve around a mix of the crab rangoon, egg rolls, pot stickers (not my fave, they’re a little too gummy for me), hunan beef, chicken fried rice, and general tso’s chicken. Friends have gotten the shrimp fried rice, some of the veggie entrees, the sesame chicken, and beef lo mein, all which have been met with decent/​good reviews.
And if you’re feeling exceptionally adventurous, they have watermelon soda. Yeah, I have mixed feelings on that, too.

LOL.
This place exists solely for the amusement of the owner, I swear. If this isn’t the set for a restaurant-​themed PUNKED show, it should be.
Don’t eat inside, it’s like a school cafeteria where they hassle and shuffle you to get people in and out faster, except that no one was waiting and it was 7pm. The waitress hates you, doesn’t speak English and has a sneer that lights up the place. The owner will laugh in your face if you ask for recommendations, then talk smack about you to his wife in Chinese.
They are bizarrely stingy about giving you cutlery and plates. Maybe they hate doing dishes or don’t want the extra hassle? My party of 4 had to ask repeatedly for things like forks and plates. We even got argued with about whether we actually needed these things, because «the food comes on plates, you can eat there.»
Yeah, just eat it from the serving dish. With one spoon between the four of us. We each ordered an entrée, but seeing as we’re all independent people, we mistakenly thought it’d be nice to have our own plates and cutlery to eat off of.
Don’t ask for water, you get handed a bottle of water and charged an upservice fee even if you hand it right back and say you wanted a glass of tap, because the owner «doesn’t know what you did to it and can’t sell it now.» They don’t have hot tea, because screw you, customer, boiling water would take effort.
Here’s the weird part. The food is excellent and inexpensive. The location is great. The delivery is fast, and done by bicycle.
It’s a boxing nun paradox.

This place is super cheap, the food is exactly what you think it is – greasy, mediocre Chinese food. The delivery is out of this world quick. If I were to write the review on only that, I would have given this place two or three stars.
I have ordered from Choi’s one or two times before, HOWEVER, the last time i ordered, I called and placed my delivery with the rude man who barely spoke English. Usual. And then on second thought, I realized my total was about $ 7 more than it should have been. I called back to pose the question, to which he told me that the delivery was already on it’s way, so I would accept this third meal that I didn’t order, and «you eat it, you like it!!». I politely told him that I would not be accepting the delivery at all if he did not fix the charge on the credit card, to which he responded, «no, no change now! you eat it, you like it!» and then HUNG UP ON ME.
Now. I work in retail. I deal with a lot of rude people. But this was a HUGE slap in the face. That is not at all how I expected to be treated by ANYONE, but especially not when the mistake was entirely not my own.
Obviously I did not accept the delivery, so the delivery man proceeded to call my cell THIRTEEN TIMES after I’d already told him I wouldn’t be accepting it unless he changed the charge on my credit card.
TLDR; I can accept shitty Chinese food for a good price, but you should NOT order from the place solely based on the GOD-​AWFUL customer service and outright rudeness of the workers.

If you are looking for great costumer service or gourmet food definitely go somewhere else… but the food is GOOD. Try to overlook the stereotypical chinese restaurant rudeness and you’ll be fine.
Also food is very affordable– I will go back :)

Food is good but OWNER IS TERRIBLE!!! i ordered my food for pickup over the phone. Came 15min later and I stood there for 5min after they saw me come in. Finally after acknowledging me the owner said to me «u picking up»? very rudely. I said yes but I would like to add to my order so i can use my free crab ragoon coupon, (which states must be $ 20 order to use) .
He look me straight in my face and said NO and walked away. I just stood there confused when he came back I said again I want to add potstickers to my order. He then yelled and said to me «u gonna wait a half an hour for some potstickers?» I said yes and preceded to sit down and wait. He then got so angry he took the bag of food I ordered (almost $ 20 worth) and told me to cancel my order and pointed to the door. I said to myself, wow all this because you dont wanna honor your own coupon that you have all over your counter??? How rude and I was suprised because I have ordered here before many times!!!
I escorted myself out because after all the disrespect to add a $ 4 order I had suddenly lost my appetite for chinese food. And there was no way I would hand him money after that. How ridiculous is it to lose a order of $ 20 because you didnt want to honor a free crab ragoon that cost $ 4!!! Unbelievable.
OH AND LET ME ADD IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS UNECCESSARY DISAGREEMENT A LADY CALLED TO PLACE A ORDER FOR DELIVERY TO HER HOUSE. HOW DO I KNOW? HE HAD HER ON SPEAKERPHONE AS SHE WAS GIVING HIM HER CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!! I HEARD EVERYTHING EVEN THE EXPIRATION DATE. THAT WAS KIND OF STUNNING TO ME. WHEN I PLACE A ORDER FOR DELIVERY I WOULD HOPE THE WHOLE RESTAURANT DOESNT HERE MY CREDIT CARD INFO!
I will take my business elsewhere. Would give a negative if I could for terrible customer service.

If you’re looking for gourmet Chinese, go elsewhere.
If you’re looking for awesome food and really cheap prices, go to Choi’s.
Don’t dine in, because the dining room is florescent lighting blah… clean… but not romantical.
But DO order take-​out, and then go home and watch a movie with Chinese food and be happy.
Mongolian beef or chicken is amazing. Seriously.