Shing Fung House

New to the area and needed a quick dinner. Stopped in to look over the menu. First thing I noticed is that the place is buried in the corner of a sad looking strip mall with poor lighting to identify the place. Staff was pleasant enough and the wait time on a Friday night was no longer than what would be expected. I ordered the hot and sour soup with shrimp and snow peas. Both dishes were tasty with good flavor. The shrimp were nice and plump with a generous helping of snow peas. I will be back.

Good for a take out. Large portions and they know my order when I call. They should move to the new location when it eventually gets built. Very busy on Fri and Sat dinner time!

Cheap. Greasy. Dirty interior. Food not great. Terrible fried rice with combo platters. Much better available, even in Clifton Park. Avoid. I’ve given them three tries. Strike three!

I am a huge Lo Mein fan and love it cold the next day. I have yet to find a place that rivals this place. It is out of the way and not at all aesthetically pleasing, but their food is consistently good. East Wok may be more convenient location wise, but their food is absolutely disgusting. I know I can pick anything off the menu and it will be pretty decent.

«Holiday Hunan»
by Josh K.
Every Christmas, my immediate family and I would order take-​out Chinese. We don’t celebrate, so there was no leg of lamb or baked ham to look forward to. The Chinese restaurants were always open, however. And gradually, this became a tradition. Now, I can’t remember a time when we didn’t order cartons of lo mein, mu shu pork, some wonton soap and egg rolls among other standards.
Growing up in C.P., Shing Fung was always our go-​to Chinese take-​out. I can safely say it is the best of its kind in the immediate area; and more importantly, the most consistent. The owner, whom I go to know from working at the Price Chopper next door back in 1998, is still there running the whole operation.
Shing Fung also carries out these things that make the difference when it comes to your average Chinese take-​out include:
1. Homemade egg rolls, wontons, and dumplings — with great sauce
2. Always fresh vegetables (broccoli, bok choy)
3. Fresh (er) Seafood — the shrimp in particular
4. Making it spicy (Szechuan style) on request
5. Fortune Cookies are never stale
6. Chicken is identifiable as chicken, the pork as pork
7. They never seem to mess up your order
8. Free White Rice (this is increasingly becoming harder to find these days)
Cons: cash only (only reason we have on occasion gone elsewhere), no delivery, and I wouldn’t recommend sitting down to eat here (it’s pretty grim).
Let’s not get too carried away. Shing Fung is still your standard Americanized Chinese take-​out comfort food. But sometimes, especially on Christmas with my family, there is nothing else I want more.

Summary– Way better than I remembered take out Americanized Chinese. CASH ONLY!!! Next visit may yield 4 Stars. Also, why none of these places do delivery in Clifton Park is totally beyond me.
Food– 3.5 Stars
Crab Rangoon– The best I have had from a take out place in the area. Nice, THIN dough fried perfectly. Om nom nom.
Dumplings were good not great, a bit too doughy but the sauce was excellent.
Beef Broccoli was rather good. General Tso chicken was far too much breading for me, next time I am going to get something not fried. This is where they lose the 1.5 stars.
Service– 3 Stars
Be prepared to repeat your order multiple times. Nice enough once you are there.
Atmosphere– 2 Stars
Oy vey, what do these places have against cleaning?
Value– 4 Stars
Cheap and good.

I became a Chinese food snob when I lived in Manhattan. However, the standard dishes I’ve had from this place (General Tso’s, Sesame Chicken, Beef Chow Fun) have all been great. Big portions, definitely enough for two meals. Everything is ready in 10 minutes.

Talk about Yin and Yang.
This may be the filthiest place I’ve been to in some time. Dirty windows, walls, and floors; kitchen did not look like it would pass muster with the health inspector; faded out generic pictures of their dishes; and a number of dying or completely wilted plants to complete the sort of fly-​specked décor. As a hole-​in-​the-​wall generic Chinese takeout joint in a sad old strip mall, one must emphasize the «hole» part. We only gritted our teeth and ordered because the kids had chosen this place over Pizza Hut (go figure) after having waited quite a long time for lunch today, and everybody was starving. Definitely against my better judgment.
But wait — the food was pretty good! I think we may have been the only people in the last decade to actually eat-​in (there are no actual placesettings, not even paper mats with the Chinese zodiac on them, they just give you to-​go stuff of the cheapest styrofoam to eat off) but it did mean we got food prepared within just a few minutes of ordering. The veggie platter special (the Jade Jewel) was tasty and cooked just right. The standard-​issue Sesame Chicken had detectable garlic in the sauce and while fried, as ever, was OK. Fried dumplings were actually quite large and only moderately greasy. Again, pretty standard generic AmChi take-​out, nothing special, but competent and quick.
I honestly have little basis on which to compare this type of place, as I probably wouldn’t go back again due to the gross-​out factor (which normally is at best a two and often an automatic one), but the food was solid three stars. Are the results, or the process, more important to you? So I’ll just settle on three stars and let you sort out which of the above factors is most important to you, one star Yin or three star Yang.

Woohoo! Yummy!