Top China

There was a DEAD BUG in my lomein, a FLY to be exact. I noticed it after I had already eaten some. THE END. OH AND NEVER AGAIN :)

Love the food always eat here vs the others in the area service is good also. Very clean. I love the sesame chicken here

It’s ok

I wanted top go with 3.5 stars, but as usual when I’m torn I go with the go with the higher rating, what ps it over the top is the service. If you call ahead, your meal is always, and I mean always ready in about ten to fifteen minutes. The woman who answers the phone is also very pleasant. She gets you with a smile and days thank you, singing that doesn’t happen with enough frequency in the DC area. The food is good, but the service is much better. Try the triple delight its excellent. Funny story about this place, IRS agents stopped in to tell them that they were being audited, they didn’t speak enough English to understand, and the IRS agents spoke no Chinese, so I had to pull up the translation app on my phone and translate what was being said to them. They were still pleasant after I told them that they were being audited lol.

The food is tasty and well prepared. Their staff is friendly and personable. By far the best Chinese food in the Oxon Hill/​Ft Washington/​Tantallon area. The prices are reasonable and the quality exceed the pricing level.
I have visited the restaurant at least twice a month for the last 10 months. This usually occurs on the weekend, when we have unexpected guests and our kids with the grandchildren return for a visit. Usually, we place a large order that covers family and house guests. 95% of the time my guest and family are extremely pleased with the food.
Most of the chef’s recommended dishes are very good and they are accompanied with a a healthy dose of vegetables as well as the listed meat. My personal favorite is their «Perfect Pair» combination dish that features vegetable, Shrimp and scallops. My family prefers the Shrimp Lo Mien and General Tso Shrimp. A pleasant surprise is their chicken wings. They are almost perfect! My house guests always request an order of their wings. Recently, a friend requested that I get an order of forty wings for their party from Top China.
Honestly, the restaurant is a notch below the top Chinese restaurants in downtown DC, but it is a cut above other neighborhood carryouts.

Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
There’s a cat the kettle at the Peking Moon!
–Weird Al Yankovic
Top China probably would’nt be the «Top» place to eat in China or on my list of local favorites in FT Washington for that matter. They’re another Chinese takeout that doesn’t really stand out. The food isn’t that bad. But it isn’t that great either. They’re more like an impulse buy at the grocery store. If you happen to be at the shopping center and can’t wait to eat, you stop here to quench the hunger.

Love them! Shrimp are huge in the General Tso’s. Best Chinese food in this area!

food is so delicious!!! its always fresh and hot. i get the sesame chicken, which isn’t too sweet, chicken crunchy, rice is always fresh and never too hard or greasy. finally found a good chinese place close to home

I have to preface this review by telling y’all that I’m not into the typical Chinese places that offer take out. They just seem to be Chinese junk food to me, meaning that it doesn’t ever taste super fresh or flavorful. That said, we had to drop off the ridiculous amount of dry cleaning we always have, and we were both STARVING after work. Top China is a few feet away, so in we went.
I ordered the roast pork with veggies. Hmm, I guess I forgot that pork at these places is typically red on the outside and sweet-​ish. That’s not what I was in the mood for. In addition, much of the meat was chewy. I liked all the other parts of the meal way better — veggies, fried rice (typical, but it’s still fried rice), and the eggroll (also the standard stuff for these types of places — and I loves cabbage, so thumbs up).
Lucky for me, the hubs had an order of, what else, General Tso’s. The flavor was better there. It was so much better than my stuff, that I pretty much ate half of his. Poor thing. It still wasn’t even outstanding though. The outside was not crunchy at all. This had nothing to do with the time it took to get home. The outer coating just melded with all the sauce. Still, I was very happy to eat it instead of my dish.
Am I going to rush out and go back to Top China? If anything, the only reason I’d go back there would be during another drycleaning run, only if I’m starving again. However, there’s another place way closer to my house that I’d probably get take out from, if I was in the mood for this kind of stuff. It’s a bit more expensive, but the food is fresher and tastes so much better.

I have eaten here a few times and here’s what I think:
Pork Lo Mein — Amazing
hot & sour soup — Amazing. lots of veggies and a good kick
chicken with cashew — not enough flavor, but acceptable
pork fried rice — yummy
kung pow chicken — yummy
egg rolls — standard
sweet & sour pork — yummy
They are quick with the take out, by the time I got there it was ready for me. Its pretty cheap. standard chinese food prices, but its pretty good stuff. I have tried most of the chinese food in fort washington and this one is my favorite. just be sure to check your bag, they did forget something the last time I went.