Chow Express

I have been eating and craving!!! Chow express for 10 years. The hot and sour soup is so fresh, perfectly spicy with so many textures, I cant say enough good things.
General Taos chicken, the bomb!!. Crunchy, juicy, hot and sweet. Everything you want. And served in a container you would pay $ 1.50 for at grocery.
I have yet to get a poor dish here and I have tried at least a dozen Chinese take out restaurants that have disappointed me.
A RARE find!!!
Trust me! Give them a shout and you’ll be hooked like me.
P. S. I live downtown now and every time I go up north I call chow express. Its that good.

I live right around the corner and I eat here quite often. The food is very good and everyone working is very friendly. I would recommend the Hunan chicken!
It smells a little like cigar smoke when you first go in but that is because of the cigar shop next door.

Excellent food and service, despite being located in a run down looking mall. Your food comes in microwave reheatable containers instead of the usual cheap styrofoam stuff you get at other restaurants, making it easy to reheat your leftovers.
Unlike some other restaurants using suspicious artificial ingredients, the food was just as good when reheated the next day in the provided container. The lo mein noodles were fresh with plenty of fresh beef and green onion. I enjoyed the mongolian beef dish, which you could tell was fresh and real beef unlike the stuff they use at cheap restaurants and Chinese buffets. The mongolian beef had a fair amount of onions, which I didn’t mind though. I would give a solid five star to the excellent food at Chow Express
The service is good, at least for the take out order I did. I was greeted very promptly and the chef took my order with special requests quickly and correctly.
The restaurant is very clean, and you can see the kitchen from the ordering area, so you know that they are not hiding anything shady inside.
I would definitely recommend Chow Express to anyone who enjoys Chinese food.

This is as good as it gets for low cost chinese. Excellent chicken fried rice! Not greasy or salty and it’s still white meaning its was not loaded with soy sauce. You get to add your own. I have been looking for fried rice like this every since I moved to Indy 15 years ago. I got the chicken fried rice and veggie spring rolls at a cost of $ 8.14 including tax. the spring rolls were just OK, not many veggies inside but what do you want for $ 1.25? What a huge portion of chicken fried rice. I ate two plates full and still have enough for lunch tomorrow. Seriously two hungry people could eat and be full. Very flavorful and fresh. Friendly service. No frills but the place was clean and pleasant. One reviewer mentioned the smell of cigar smoke. None was present when I entered. All I smelled was the wonderful aroma of fresh chinese food being prepared. Lots of sizzling and pot banging going on in the back and that’s a good thing. This was my first experience at Chow Express but I will def be back. I can’t hardly wait!

This is our go to Chinese food place. Best egg rolls around. The best thing is their consistency. Never a bad dish. Quick, always fresh and they always are busy cooking. Real prices of chicken, not just chewy pieces of skin like most buffets. Vegetables are nicely diced and easy to eat.

This is the best take out Chinese food in the city. Trust me, I have tried most of these and not many compare. I love taking out on a Saturday night and watching movies with friends. The food is always really good. Ask for the shrimp egg foo young combo. They make it especially for me. He he!

The people are very friendly and the food is cheap and comes in great portions. I’m giving it three stars because it’s nothing extraordinary but i still enjoy it quite a bit! If you live in the area and are looking for something cheap and easy on your way home then i suggest Chow Express.

found this place by walking from marsh. awesome. i had seasame chicken only. i was given a hugh portion for $ 9.75. the while bowl was full. no grease. chicken was crunchy. also plenty of sauce. i will be back. open 3:30 to 9:30 pm on sundays.

New to this area and found Chow Express on Unilocal.Lunch special (11 a — 3 p for $ 5.95) Curry Chicken was expertly prepared with generous portion. Includes rice and soda. Restaurant is very clean and service is fast. I’m back now for dinner takeout at my new go-​to for neighborhood Chinese!

Their Crab Rangoon is baked instead of fried??? It is cold and soggy and flat. Their fried rice is not fried at all. It is white rice disguised as fried. It is also very expensive. Not at all worth what you pay. It used to be much better years ago. Maybe someone else is running it now. The person on the phone is very rude. I am never going there again, and hope and pray that no one else does either. A huge disappointment and waste of money.

This place has the friendliest staff and the best chicken fried rice anywhere!!! I would def recommend giving this place a try.

I have long been a fan of Chow Express. The service is always good and the food is delicious.
I recommend their Shrimp Fried Rice.
One added benefit of this small shop is that you walk away with reusable tupperware!

Located in a strip mall on Shadeland, Chow Express is A yummy. Quick service spot. I’ve been dining here for years, never disappointed.
Order the Fried Rice, General Tso’s or the Egg Foo Young. Delish!
Done or Carryout is available.

Love Chow Express for lunch during the work week.
Yes, it smells like cigars when you first get in the door but you’ll get over it. Walk up to order, very fair lunch special prices. Fairly quick to serve your meal. Meal comes ready for a lid so you can take the rest home if need be. The best part about this place: the freshest of Chinese places I’ve ever been!
You know that feeling you get after consuming something really greasy and it’s usually Chinese food? Not here. The fried rice is still white! And its delicious. And the portions are great to have some for tomorrow’s lunch.

It’s a take out Chinese joint with a nice interior! They have about 6 tables if you would like to eat in as well, and you might because it isn’t a stereotypical dark and greasy place. I had the General Tso chicken lunch combo with white rice. They cooked it fresh when I ordered it and it was plentiful and flavorful. What more can you ask from a hole in the wall Chinese place?

Nothing special. When I got the tofu and veg, I was surprised it was silken tofu (not called out). I asked for fried rice but I got white.

Ordered from here on a Unilocal review recomendation. I have had some recent frustration with our normal go-​to Chinese food place. Overall it was OK, nothing to write home about-​but maybe a few notes on Unilocal
I would not eat AT the store front. It is next door to a cigar business, and yuou can smell it. The last thing I want to smell while I am eating is cigars. YUCK!!!
The Pheonix shrimp had a good spice level, but, as with most Chineses food store front locals, it was drown in sugary he eggroll and crab rangoon had an odd earthy flavor to it. The search continues…

The General Tso’s chicken here is really good. Super fast and friendly service. Definitely a great place to go for a tasty and speedy lunch or dinner.

Pretty good for a walk-​up type of place. They have most of the standards, but it’s not a cookie-​cutter identical kind of place. No back-​lit pictures. Custom menu, not the red-​green «standard». The dining area is tastefully decorated in an understated way. TV up on wall. Track lighting. Serve-​yourself plastic utensils/​napkins. Order at counter. They will bring your food to you if you dine in. Self serve soda fountain. Dine in food served in foam to-​go container.
One negative is that when you walk in, you can smell some of the fresh cigars/​tobacco (UN-​burnt, not smoke), from the cigar/​tobacco store two doors down. I stopped noticing it quickly, and it is not smoke, so it didn’t bother me.
The dine-​in tables are a little bit too high, so they may be uncomfortable for some.

I have lunch here a couple of times a month. It’s a strip mall location with seating for about 25. You order at the counter and they bring the food to your table.
Food has always been well cooked (tender crisp veggies and well done meat). No complaints about freshness of food and staff is friendly. Never had to wait too long for food to be served and never had more than a couple of people in line to order before me.
Good menu selection and they are willing to make changes when requested. Overall a well run establishment for a low budget Chinese food restaurant.