New Main Moon

We have had takeout from here about a dozen times. The food is mostly good, but not excellent. Sometimes the dishes with breaded chicken or a bit mushy. If you ask for changes to the ingredients in a dish they may or may not get it correct — you should check before leaving. The prices are good. The place seems clean and it is convenient for where we live so we continue to eat here.

the worst chinese restaurant on the planet, nothing more needs to be said

The pork egg rolls are ok. The rest of the food was good. Ribs were very good, so was the pork fried rice.

The décor is bad, but the food was very good. Ingredients are fresh and the price is right. You get two free egg rolls with an order over $ 20. The egg rolls are very good. It’s the best I’ve had in the area so far. I’ve ordered take out several times. It’s was all very good except the Thai didn’t taste like Thai. It was good and fresh, but didn’t taste like Thai food. The Chinese food has been excellent.

My husband and I have tried this place twice. It is by far the least favorite of any Chinese place we have tried in the area. General Tso Chicken sauce tasted like BBQ sauce. The egg rolls are big but flavorless. The service is good and the staff is really nice but that isn’t going to make me want to eat the food. It’s a bummer because it is so convenient to where we live.

I eat food from new Main Moon frequently. The food tastes better than a number of the more formal chinese restaurants in the area and is definitely better priced. It is a joint so don’t expect something fancy. But you know what? My experience is that joints have the best food. BTW, I find most restaurants in the greater Danbury area to be very mediocre, so if I say the food tastes good, I really mean it.

This rating is for their Thai food, since I have never ordered any Chinese food there; however, I did order the Pad Thai. I was very happy to see that they offered Thai food and couldn’t wait to bring it home and dig in. Unfortunately, it was not Pad Thai, it was lo mein with Thai-​type, very thin noodles. How disappointing, the eggs, fish sauce and tamarind juice were missing, which Pad Thai should contain. I won’t be back.

I just discovered this place when my power was out and I couldn’t cook. It is really good food. I returned several days later even though my power was back on. They do a good business and the cooks run around at break-​neck speed to give quick service. I would definitely recommend it.

New Main Moon is situated in a new development in the Hawleyville area of Newtown along side a few other new establishments including Al’s Pizza. I get Chinese takeout only a few times per year, and already know of some of the «good» and «bad» in this area.
Starting with the good — New Main Moon had your standard cookie cutter menu. Do they all order these from the same place? They also have a good number of other «special» dishes normally not found at Chinese takeout restaurants. Pad Thai was one. Another was a Singaporean dish. And to be honest I can’t remember the others, their names weren’t familiar. The portions were HUGE, very nicely packed in sturdy takeout containers (although for environmental reasons I’m definitely NOT a fan of plastic containers), and to be frank, all the food was very good. I’d say one notch better than most other takeout joints.
Ok, onto the bad. When I entered, the restaurant was completely empty and the cooks were hanging out at a table 10 feet behind the counter eating some dinner. Granted it was like 10PM which explains why it was empty. Now, considering I was the only person standing at the counter, looking over the menu, discussing specials with one of the young cooks, you’d think the other employees sitting behind the counter would be doing all they can to project a positive image. We’ll, I’m not sure what they were eating, it looked like some kind of Asian kabob (like satay chicken on a stick), but they were spitting pieces on the table, like how someone spits out watermelon seeds of their back porch. Not a good way to start, and maybe I should have spoke up or left… but hey, I gave it a try. The food was good, I now have some concerns about cleanliness. Will I be back? I can’t say for sure, but I’ll head to Jeffrey’s Kitchen in Danbury first for sure.

This place is a typical low-​priced Chinese restaurant. I ordered take-​out with my sister and we both enjoyed it. We accidentally ordered enough food for a family of four, but it was only about $ 20. Don’t plan on sitting down there, they only have a couple of tables and the environs are not great. I’d never been to this part of Newtown – it seemed like a strange area for a restaurant – but there’s actually some stuff back there (a pizza place too).