Hunan East

So, for everyone who used to get frustrated ordering takeout from the traditional «Chinese style» menu… You’re welcome. I just took about 50 pictures of all of the pages in the traditional menu.

Amazing food, reasonably priced and big portions. Great customer service the place is small but overall the quality of the food is amazing.

We have been eating in and taking out Hunan East’s food for two decades. It is the absolute best Chinese food on the east side — and you can have your pedestrian Cantonese or, wonderful authentic Hunan dishes from the regular or Special menus. I will admit that the egg rolls are not impressive. But the Hot and Sour soup certainly is. The Beef Satay appetizer is delicious, as are the potstickers – I love mine steamed with hot oil on the side. Ordering can be a challenge because so many choices of very good food. For example, our favorite dishes are: Veggie Egg Foo Young. I can guarantee the you have never seen this dish prepared better than this and it tastes super. Two HUGE servings, about the size of a softball each – not the sorry flat pancakes served elsewhere. Hunan Beef. Can be ordered at any amount of heat – I like mine medium, using the perfect white rice as a contrast. Lettuce Wrappers off the Special Menu. An amazing combination of chopped chicken and Chinese vegetables with a delicious tangy sauce, served on and along side of huge lettuce leafs for wrapping. Ho Fun Chicken. Wide noodles, all kinds of veggies, chicken and wonderful sauce. Finally — ALL the fresh shrimp dishes are fresh and wonderful.
The owners are on premise and speak perfect English as a second language. The servers are monitored and taught to do things correctly – sometimes there is a language barrier but the owners often intercede.
It’s really nice to have a high quality Chinese restaurant as fine as this nearby. Enjoy!

Giving five stars for the all around experience: exceptional food, staff and service. Two menus to peruse, an authentic Chinese menu or the easy American style, point at pictures type.
Used to never be a fan of hot and sour soup until I tried it here. It’s a steal for only $ 1.50 a bowl! Generous portions of bamboo shoot, tofu and pork make this soup chunky. It’s also the generous portion of vinegar that makes my lower mouth start to salivate and keeps me coming back.
For the low carb community, would recommend the mu shu, but specify without noodles. Nice blend of vegetables and meats, enormous portion, comes with a fried egg on top.
Love the owner Mike who has always treated us like family, will sit down and talk with us and never shoo us away.
Parking lot right outside. Also, side tip, ask the chef to use less oil.

All I can say is WOW! Generous portions, wonderful flavor. Unilocal has once again helped me to find fantastic food in a foreign city. Cleveland has been full of good food and good people.

First, expect traditional Chinatown NY service. It may come off as rude, but it’s just… intense.
If compared to other take out restaurants, it’s a 4 star because of quality and portion.

Very good food quality and great value on price! Make sure to ask for the home made spicy mustard much better than packets!

Great food for a price you cannot beat! These people make me feel welcome all the time! I have been living in this area for a few weeks and I have been their at least 5 times. I will continue to go back knowing the people who works here treats me like family

Not good. All the different dishes taste like they use the same exact sauce, egg rolls are something that came out of the freezer section at Sam’s club and their wonton soup is really salty.
Unfortunately the only reason I think this gets decent reviews is because the east side is lacking a truly good Chinese place, so people can’t compare. Although this might be the best Chinese on the east side it doesn’t mean it’s actually good. Take the drive to Jackie chens for takeout.

Ugh. Saw the great reviews of this place, had been meaning to try it for years. Finally had an errand to do in the area, dropped by. Friend and I ordered off the Chinese menu: fried pork chop with noodles and Shanghai fried rice cakes. Waitresses speak Cantonese (and Mandarin)!
After waiting an epically long time for our food, the fried pork chop with noodle soup came first. Noodle soup was all right, fairly large portion. We asked for the pork chop on the side, since it usually comes in the soup, which makes the fried pork chop kind of soggy. We asked the waitress if we could borrow food scissors to cut the pork chop into strips (as is typical at every Chinese place I’ve been to that sells this dish). She was confused, and when we asked her again, she picked up my knife and my friend’s fork and tried to cut it for us herself at the table. Exasperated, we gave up and did it ourselves. A decent portion of the pork was raw. As in, it was red. Not just barely-​there pink. We left it on the table since we didn’t have time to ask them to fix it since I had other errands to run. At least the noodle soup was fine?
The Shanghai rice cakes came next and it was near unidentifiable. It looked overcooked and mushy, and after tasting a couple pieces, it was evident that it was not Shanghai style, nor was it cooked properly.
We paid and high-​tailed it out of there. They did apologize for the raw pork even though I made no mention of it.

For a Chinese this is one of places I can find authentic Chinese food, more are the east region of China (Shanghai etc) instead of Cantonese style food you see the most. The price is reasonable and the portion is A LOT! If you dare to eat pig feet/​organs (all authentic Chinese food) you can find them here! :) they have two types of menus: one is for authentic Chinese food (in Chinese); one is for Americanized Chinese food (in English). They also have a photo menu which maybe good for people wanna order authentic Chinese food without knowing Chinese.

I don’t like the taste there. The food are too oily feel like a bit Americanized but my other two Chinese friends think it is a very authentic Chinese restaurant.

Food was horrible. Didn’t enjoy it and will never go back. But they did apply a law enforcement discount which I really like. Didn’t really think they would or if they did. Didn’t see it coming lol.

Really good food for a decent price. This has become my go to spot when I am on this side of town. The portions are great and the taste is even better.

Hot & Sour soup is best in town! No lie!
Egg rolls are interesting. They are different than anything I have ever had — they are small and incredibly tasty.
I have been told by seasoned travelers that this is the real McCoy of Chinese and by far, the best in town.
The have a photo menu too.
It is clean. Service is prompt. Food is fresh. IMO priced reasonably. Owners are kind.

Great Chinese food, huge portions, and an owner with a great sense of humor. Hunan East may look like your everyday Chinese suburban takeout joint, but its quality definitely surpasses what you would get at your typical Chinese takeout restaurant.
I’ve had 5 of their dishes now and I would say that all of them are tasty. The large picture menu makes it easy to order items. I ordered the hot and sour soup the last time I was there and enjoyed it so much that I ordered a second bowl. The ma po tofu is decent. The vegetable dishes were delicious. If you’re very hungry, go for the lion’s head with vermicelli. Essentially the filling of a chicken dumpling rolled into a meatball, one of the 5 meatballs in the dish easily had more meat than 4 normal sized meatballs. And the noodles in the dish were good too.

Not the best I’ve ever had (having frequented various parts of Asia), but this is the best Chinese restaurant in the Cleveland area. Period.
My family and I have frequented this restaurant countless times over the past several years. This is, and still is our go-​to Chinese place when we don’t feel like cooking at home.
The owners, a husband and wife, when not manning the front desk, can ofttimes be found apron in hand, tossing the wok and cooking when the place gets busy.
If you’re fortunate enough to read Chinese, get the Chinese menu. If you don’t, do yourself a favour and make a Chinese-​speaking friend just so you can come back here and order from said Chinese menu.
We’ve brought scores of business guests from across China to this restaurant over the years and they’ve never failed to be impressed by the quality of the food. Recently, one particular guest from Szechuan, famed for it’s I-need-a-tongue-transplant-yeah-it’s-that-spicy hot food, commented on how weak a supposedly spicy dish was at Blue Point Grille downtown. He was brought here, the owner specially prepared a chilli pepper & oil-​laden dish and… well, let’s just say those weren’t just tears of joy he left with.

I have been back here almost weekly since writing my last review. This will blow any place on the east side out of the water unless you like your Chinese food from a can.
Side note:
The authentic stuff is mostly Cantonese. I do not know anywhere with in 5 hour drive that you can find a robust Hunan or Schezwan menu.
Just about anything from the Chinese picture menu is good. Had something called Pork Jaja Mein. Or something like that. It was on of the to 10 best things I have eaten. It was a huge bowl of Chinese lomein noodles smothered in a spicy, garlicky, gingery, sauce with pork, onions tofu, veggies and diced Chinese shrooms. Absolutely amazing.
I was stuffed after about eating ¹⁄₃ of it.
This is super munchie food.
Other outstanding dishes:
The shrimp or seafood in black bean sauce is to die for.
Chicken or Beef with Chinese mushrooms.
Beef and sour vegetables.
Chicken in garlic sauce.
Kung Bo Chicken
Look at what others are eating and that is how I have discovered some really good finds. Or just ask me.
Of the American Menu the chef’s specialties are very good.
The General’s Chicken is very good, you can tell it’s white meat chicken breast.
Triple Delight
As far as food goes this is some of the best Asian food east side. The ambiance, not so much.
There is no liquor so drink before if you feel the urge.
The prices are super reasonable.