Red Star Chinese Restaurant

DELIVERY REVIEW: I was hesitant based on previous reviews, but my food arrived on time (1 hour wait quoted) in the rain.
Giant portions, as mentioned by others. Will probably get at least one more meal out of it. Fried rice that came with the sesame chicken dinner combo was on the dry side, but I imagine that if you ordered it as an individual item it’s probably fresh. Chicken was fine. Fried pan stickers were crispy. Nothing was mind-​blowing but all of my orders came on a bed of lettuce. Doesn’t add anything to the food, but makes it feel a little less like greasy Chinese.
Would order again because it’s pretty decent tasting food and one of the few places that delivers to Broadmoor.

This review is for their delivery and not the actual restaurant. We ordered wonton soup, egg rolls and veggie rolls, combination fried rice, and chicken fried rice. The wonton soup broth was delicious! I don’t like wontons, but will taste the liquid. The egg and veggie rolls were good, but not the best. The fried rice is also good, but has too many onions for my taste.
Now, I ordered it when there was heavy rain, but it still took an hour and a half for the food to arrive. The delivery guy was nice and talkative, so that was a plus. I would order delivery from here again, but just take into account the time issue.

The orange chicken is and the broccoli is nice and crispy! This will definitely be my new go-​to Chinese take-​out!

Red star catered an event I attended and the food was plentiful, tasty, and hot! Event was for 100+ people and it was delicious and hot from first serving to last!

The food is perfectly OK (but ever heard of Mongolian beef with mushrooms and no peppers in it?) although nothing to write home about, but the delivery is really unreliable.
Today after 45 minutes trying to get a delivery of three things, I called to find out why, I was told «it’s raining.»
Yes, it rains. This is Louisiana. Surely there is better delivery than this. Apparently this is a serious problem with Red Star. So if it’s sunny out, by all means. But if it’s raining, their car melts or something.
After over an hour they called to say that their driver hadn’t shown up, so I cancelled the order.
Don’t order from these people. It’s terrible.

I really enjoy the food that they make — I ordered broccoli with beef and some egg drop soup for a very affordable price. They also delivered it earlier than what they said they would (30 min). I guess I caught them on a non-​busy hour of the day! Definitely going to order from them again.

Well I’ve been waiting for an hour… Called and no answer! Still wondering if I’ll actually get food!

Let’s start with a qualifier. as good as it gets in standard takeout Chinese food … if you are looking for fine dining this is not it.
However, the vegetables are the freshest and crispest I have found, they will substitute Tofu in all dishes (something several of the chinese restaurants here would not do) and even when online ordering you can adjust the ratio of meat to vegetable.
Unfort they do not carry spring rolls but their vegetable rolls are crisp and not too greasy. Hot and sour soup is nicely spiced and chock full. not just a broth.
The best vegetable fried rice I have had in this town (actually that maybe the best in the last 3 cities I lived in), ain’t no frozen peas and carrots for sure. The portion is super generous, and you will get large pieces of broccoli, bell pepper, onions, zucchini, snow peas, carrots, etc. I wind up making about 4 meals off an order. either as a side or more often I will scoop out a portion and just slide a fried egg on top and make it a whole meal.
When I first started ordering about 8 months ago the were a little slow on delivery but that has improved greatly in the last 4 – 5 months. now they are at my house within 20 minutes.

Great prices and large portions
Great for delivery when you want to share with a large group
Food came on time and service was decent over the phone

Mediocre food, terrible delivery, and horrible customer service. Last time we ordered from them we waited an hour and a half, and when we called to check on it they said they never got the order. Awful all around. AVOID!

Good, delicious standard ‘fast food’ Chinese. Huge portions. I couldn’t tell if it was very salty or if they were using MSG, but I got very thirsty after eating. Highly recommended if you can ask for less salt/​no msg.

Well, it’s been an hour and twenty minutes and my food still is not here.
So.
I guess I’ll never know.

No surprises Chinese food. You’ve probably had most everything on the menu elsewhere. Everything I’ve had here over the course of several years was as I expected.
The Lo Mein deserves special mention here as a crowd-​pleaser-​and-​filler.
I’m considering adding the fifth star for the portion sizes and freshness of the vegetables. Greens in the veggie fried rice were bright and crispy.
It’s a good choice when you’re in the mood for Chinese or just came off the relatively long drive in from Harahan (4.5 miles, but about the only place in the metro area where one still drive that distance without crawling to a stop or white-​knuckling the wheel. I’m looking at you, Hi Rise and I-​10 east).
The place is set up mostly for take-​out, but there is a roomy seating area with comfortable furniture. One small complaint was an ongoing duel between Frank Sinatra and CNN, on the music system and tv, respectively. (Sinatra won, of course. We stopped listening to CNN).

I ordered delivery from here tonight. It took an hour and a half. I called back twice, once after an hour and a woman told me the driver was on his way. I live only 10 min away so I called again after 20 minutes. The woman told me he was on his way again. 10 minutes later my food came.
I ordered general tsos chicken and crab ragoons. The chicken was really fatty and mushy. I prefer dragon king where the chicken is crisp.
The crab ragoons were good. Still not going to order from here again

Super friendly service. Delivery was quick and portions are generous. We had the General Tsis chicken, beef and broccoli, lo mein, and stuffed cream cheese wontons. All wonderful. Will definitely choose this place again.

My husband and I order take out here all the time after a recommendation from a friend. HUGE portions, and the «weight watched» chicken and vegetables is actually a delicious steamed entrée full of white meat chicken and assorted vegetables. The Singapore mei fun is spicy and full of a variety meats, although they can be a little heavy handed with the curry, leaving a dry, almost powdery texture once or twice.

Food is decent for take out cheese food in this area. My complaint is that they add additional charges without telling you. They say they charge $ 1.50 for delivery but then they add an additional $ 1.50 on top of that. If the delivery fee is $ 3 that’s fine, but just say so and don’t try and use hidden fees or lie.
I emailed both the restaurant and the ordering service and neither one of them responded.

Red Star.
Crab Rangoon.
More like «HOLLY CRAP! THIS IS GOOD»
I mean, is this infused with CRACK?!?
A distinct possibility given the neighborhood, but I would go there just for this little taste treat.
Perfect Crab to Cream Chees filling ratio.
Shaped like a little pocket, perfect for depositing just the perfect amount of sauce into the Rangoon.
And as always, my go to dishes at Chinese are Egg Foo Young, and Lo Mein which I shall rate here:
1: Egg Foo Young, OHHH BESSIE! «Super amazing, happy wonderful full tummy» is how they would rate this in China.
4 full patties, cram packed with ingredients, and a nice, albeit unconventional sauce for the patties.
This dish alone could feed 2 people.
2 Lo Mein, Good, not great, but good.
A little too greasy, but this is a common flaw in some Lo Mein.
Flavor wise, it is amazing, and content wise the House Lo Mein, with AMPLE amounts of Beef, Chicken and Shrimp (Why no Pork?) You will not leave hungry.
Lagniappe:
For the health Conscious, the Seafood with Vegetable Lo Cal dish, is good, but the «Crab Sticks» although not tasting like crab (Hmm, not crab but on this I fall under Don’t ask, Don’t Tell) is tasty indeed.
The sauce is a little dry, maybe they’ll give you a side of it as well.
And the Seafood Combination, a saucier variation of the above dish, also, very tasty, same crab stick, but you know where I stand on identifying that item.
Well worth the money for this dish, in the concept again, of «EBTKS».
Red Star, in the category of «CHEEP CHINESE», they are head and shoulders above the rest.
And in some aspects, would fit in nicely alongside the heavyweights South of Canal in NYC.

Yes the delivery here takes a while.
Usually I would always get my food to go.
My favorites would be crab Rangoon, spring rolls, eggrolls, fried oyster and the fried crab stick.
Most of my orders here were custom.
The owners are also nice enough to make me any type of tofu or bean curd creation I asked for. This was very nice of them.
I believe for nostalgia only in the kindness I was given I have to go with five stars all the way.

I’ve ordered delivery from here twice; never again. The first time, it took over an hour and arrived cold. The second — for which I’ve been waiting over an hour — still hasn’t arrived (we’re at an hour and 20 minutes now), and they aren’t answering at the restaurant.
This is fucking ridiculous. I’m hungry, I’m pissed, and I’m grossly unimpressed.
PS — unless they confused my eggdrop soup container for the grease bin, that shit was pure oil.
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EDIT: Food finally arrived. Part of the order was incorrect, my husband’s entrée had leaked over everything (sticky General Tso’s sauce err’where), and my beef and broccoli tasted… boiled? Bland and oddly-​textured, and the sauce was like a mixture of corn starch and brown, and the meat was very soft and sad.
The whole thing, slight the potstickers (which were actually pleasant), was very sad.