Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant

I agree with the last Unilocaler. You know what you get when you walked in here for the Chinese food. Yes, it is walking distance to CCSU and most clients are locals and students and staff. I’m a faculty and it is the nearest place for Chinese food. I’m a Chinese and I agree that I don’t expect much if it’s fast food. When I crave for Chinese food, I go there which is seldom. If you expect more, go to Butterfly, Great Taste, Shu where you pay more and expect more.

I live a few blocks away from this restaurant, and I place take-​out orders at least once a month. Yes, they use too much oil in the wok, but whatever I’ve ordered over the last eight years has been perfectly cooked and very tasty. The woman at the counter now knows my voice on the phone, so maybe being a regular repeat customer helps. I wouldn’t give it more than 3 stars, because the restaurant is too small, and fairly uncomfortable. But I find the food good, the counter service is very good.

It’s Chinese food. Not the best but extremely quick. Lunch special is a good deal. General tso chicken, egg roll and fried rice for about 5 bucks. Definitely not healthy don’t go here if you on a diet or counting calories.

So I’m on a diet right and I get one of my cravings to eat something super unhealthy. Some how I landed here after driving around looking for some high calorie, f#ck this diet type of meals. I walk in this place and it is as quiet as library, its a Saturday night. for a Chinese restaurant this alone should raise some red flags. A descent Chinese restaurant on Saturday night has the phone blowing up i know this because if you haven’t figured it out by now I’m a fat man and we know this kind of stuff. I ordered a half chicken with vegetable fried rice, simple order one would think. But those bastard screwed it up. the chicken was under cooked bloody rice was over cooked very mushy which also tasted like cardboard, vegetable were raw, they even screwed up steamed vegetables! They completely blew it I through most of it away. This place actually helped me on my diet i LOL. I’m Never going back. #Sorrynotsorry

My only option for Chinese when I’m on campus and want something besides sandwiches. The place isn’t the cleanliest, and there’s just enough seating so as not to have to stand when the place gets busy. The dumplings, pork fried rice, and shrimp lo mein are okay. Their chicken and broccoli… well, it was edible, but I didn’t care for it. I didn’t try anything else besides those because those are all I really care to order when having Chinese. The lady who takes the orders is super sweet and always smiles. Overall, it’s your standard Chinese fare that will do when you’re craving the stuff. I can’t say if there are any better options in the area because I don’t live in NB.

Even when considering this place is «dirty fast chinese food,» this place is still not that good. I’m from California and maybe we just expect a different quality of food especially asian food, but this place just fell far far below expectation.
I had the Beef with Chinese veggies, with pork fried rice, and an egg roll.
The beef and veggies were decent, warm and the veggies seemed fresh. However — i was very confused as to what was considered fried rice? Fried rice is usually made with veggies, meats, fried and flavored with soy sauce — what i got was yellow rice with pork bits.
The egg roll was terrible. It was large, too large, almost burrito like. The wrapper was poorly fried as you could see the bubbling on the wrapper, and who knows what was in the filling (and why was it tinted red? What was that crunch?)? So many questions. Don’t want to come back to figure out answers…

This review is like me writing about McDonald’s and other chain places. Though Chinese take out places are family owned and rarely considered a chain, I feel I have to write about these places.
Well, it’s not the cleanly of places. I get skeptical as to what is going on back there. The food here can be hit or miss. Either you can get a nice crispy friend chicken or crab rangoon, or it could be very burnt or highly greasy. The woman who takes the orders at the counter is a very nice woman.
Hey if you’re a Centralite, come here if you’re in the mood to try something other than those typical sandwiches on campus.

Let’s make sure the playing field is level first…
We are all in understanding that Hong Kong is one of those quasi-​fast-​food, take-​out Chinese places, right? We understand that places like this are world renown for purveying meals laden with grease, salt, cholesterol, sugar, and thick coatings of fried batter, correct? And it is common knowledge that such places sell their meals dirt cheap, therefore the ingredients within are also very cheap, is that fair?
In other words: YOU KNEW what you were getting into! This is cheap crap food, and under the circumstances, Hong Kong does a better job than most places of its kind. Is it better food than Great Taste, China Pan, or Butterfly? Of course not! But you wouldn’t expect it to be, because you have a unique human trait known as «common sense.»
If you’re a finicky hypochondriac, of course you’ll hate it. But if you’re a normal person, you can be quite sure you’ll get a good cheap meal here. I have no clue what Amy T. is talking about, because I’ve found their General Tso’s to be quite good. I also like their fried rice and lo mein.
The food comes out quick (they also deliver), and it’s very inexpensive. I disagree with Alexander E, you can do FAR worse than Hong Kong in this price range.

bleh… The only reason this place stays in business is because it’s the only Chinese food option for the college kids who are stuck on campus at CCSU. Avoid anything vegetarian, it’s seriously all GROSS. The general tso’s chicken isn’t even that much better. Eww!