China 1

Delivery was quick. Food delish. Was easy to order via phone, not having to repeat myself several times as with other Chinese restaurants. Ordered beef w/​broccoli with fr. wings as appetizers. All good. Definitely would use them again and recommend.

I just started a job in the area so was asking co workers about good Chinese food. They all recommended China 1. Not only was it good. It was quick and nice and hot. Will be going again.

Just coming from the grocery store, I was too exhausted to cook and I had a taste for Chinese. I was riding down Algonquin and decided to stop in. Based on the number of reviews and being somewhat high, I decided to give it a go.
First impression– place was in a run down strip center and inside was not very appealing. Floors and tables had food particles but ironically the place smelled like bleach. Large menu with standard choices. Nothing out of the ordinary.
I ordered chicken lo mein. As I ordered the clerk said it would be a 10 minute wait. As I began to wait, I decided to actually review the pictures from the Unilocal reviews. To my surprise (not really) I noticed that one mentioned of cockroaches. As I starred around me, I was not surprised yet for some reason decided to continue.
I came back into the store, I stood watching the clerks unload boxes. The lady was wearing latex gloves, purple to be exact, and as she was opening a box that appeared to be for soy sauce packets, she shrieked ew and jumped back. The gentleman beside her, seemed non bothered and looked inside the box and moved it to the floor. After seeing the reviews and what I witnessed, I decided that I couldn’t do it. I kindly accepted the food, only for the sake of this review.
Food– From the looks, it’s standard. Not greasy as you may find at other places. Lacked chicken. Large vegetables with a light sauce. Sorry I did not taste it.
My recommendation would be to proceed with caution, unless you want to risk extra protein in your food. I would hate to taint a restaurant reputation, but when there are red flags, I do not proceed.
Maybe someone else had a different and better experience. Good luck
Good luck!

Do not buy the orange chicken. It is all soggy breading. It is horrible. AVOID.

Good food, fast delivery, never make mistakes on your order, will accommodate special requests. Never skimp on portions.
Best Chinese joint in the area. Going here is a no brainier.

Decent food, reasonable price, fast delivery. If you need a quick meal for a good price you will love this. You get a large portion for the money, and you get it quickly. The orange chicken is good, but I am not in love with the shrimp fried rice which comes with the meals.

Great egg foo yung… lots of meat and shrimp, give a hardy portion too, rice is average

I forgot my lunch and did not want to go out so I checked out grubhub and liked the recommendations I saw for China 1 so I thought I would try it out. I was not disappointed.
The food arrives hot! Portions are a good size and the food is tasty. You get a lot of food for your money and the food is so good.
There was a little mishap the first time I ordered but they have more than made up for the error and I have not has any issues since.

Egg foo young is amazing! I hope they don’t change that.
My only complaint is in the beef and broccoli or chicken and broccoli dishes they don’t have just that. Last time I ordered it they put in onion and peppers etc. When I asked for just the meat and broccoli (how the dish is supposed to be) there was a small charge for that since its considered «extra».
Otherwise I highly recommend this place. I love their deal after $ 20 you get free egg rolls and after $ 30 is free crab rangoons. Everyone is friendly as well. Food is made quickly and delivered quickly.

No flavor, No taste, no spice! Disappointed for sure! But I guess you get what you pay for. Cheap prices for nasty tasting food! I ordered the magnolian beef extra spicy, tasted so plain all I rated were the big chunks of onion and green bell pepper, I order the pot stickers nothing but dough and tasted raw, and the filling again needed something cuz it didn’t taste like anything good. I also got the Singapore noodles (only comes in one size super extra) YUCK! I’ve had them before at other places and this place is gross! Oh and there egg drop soup yuck yuck!!! You get two free egg rolls if you order more than $ 20, they could’ve kept them and gave them to some one else, soggy and smelly! And honestly these people are so rude when they take order that should’ve been a sign to not order shizzzzz!

good food reasonable price, just alot of oil they use in the rice and they charge for every little thing including hot sause!

I would give this a 5 star but the only reason why I’m not is because we ordered two xl large and large sesame chicken and was given only 3 sweet sour packets otherwise this place is amazing the food was amazing and when they said xl large they ment it! If we lived closer we would come back all the time!!!

Food is pretty good and reasonably priced. The dumplings are solid. The Mongolian Beef was actually spicy, which was nice for a change. The Kung Pao Chicken was equally good. I would definitely recommend China 1 to anyone looking for some decent Chinese food for a reasonable price. Delivery was spot on also.

Lunch special is so good! Egg foo young is something I never tried from other Chinese restaurant, it is very special and good. People in that place is very nice and patient.

After reading a review where diners found a cockroach in their food (there’s a photo posted of it!) and others commenting on the dirtiness of the restaurant, I regret not reading the reviews prior to ordering delivery. Now, for our personal experience. The delivery driver was friendly. The restaurant forgot to deliver the wonton soup. No hoisin sauce for the Mu Shu Pork. They delivered the fried chicken pieces, but no sweet and sour sauce for the sweet and sour chicken. Fried foods very greasy, obviously not drained before packaging. The crab Rangoon was just cream cheese in fried wonton, no seasoning, no crab, no spring onions, nothing. Everything was very bland. The beef almond ding and combination rice was OK. It’s very overpriced for the low quality food. Overall, unimpressed. There are way too many good (and clean) Chinese restaurants to ever revisit this one.

Been going here since I moved to meadows 14 yrs ago great place great price and the food is great…

From the outside, this place looks kinda shady. I’ve never been inside, but we have ordered in for delivery a few times. Their lunch specials are super cheap, and the portions are HUGE. I happen to love their crab rangoons — they are ginormous and taste pretty dang good. Sometimes the food is a little on the luke warm side when it is delivered. They don’t have anything that is out of the ordinary here. It is your typical Americanized Chinese restaurant that is good if you want a fast, cheap, not-​so-​good for you meal. Not bad, not amazing.

Food is 3 out if 5, but value and speed of delivery was 5 out of 5!
Got food within a half hour and was very fresh.
In MN we call this fast food chinese cause there are like 40 chinese restaurants that serve the same exact chinese recipes with exact ingredients that hade exact same «cheap chinese» flavor made it seem very mcdonalds-​like. But man does it taste it great when you get in that greasy, generic, amazingly overly flavorful chinese food mood.

Lunch specials for $ 5.70 are huge! China 1 is the definition of a hole in the wall. Shady lookimg characters hanging outside in their cards and crazy drivers in the parking lot.
I’ve tried the Sesame Chicken (surprisingly spicy), Orange Chicken (very spicy!) General Tso’s Chicken (full of veggies, my fav of the bunch, spicy) and their eggrolls. All three flavors tasted markedly similar even though they were all what I would consider vastly different items. Each lunch special was marked as spicy so I can’t say they didn’t warn me on that! Their eggrolls are not as big as some other Chinese places but their lunch specials are HUGE in size.
The girls working inside were very nice, the price isn’t bad, portions are large and the food is pretty good. I’ll be back to China 1 fo’ sho’!

China 1 #2 was pretty good. The prices were affordable, the accommodations looked clean, and the portions were appropriate. This wasn’t the «OMG I’m so full I could die» type of affordable, but the General Tso’s and Beef broccoli were both good. The small rice container that was given was well-​packed, so each was easy enough to split and the meal made for 2 normal people sized meals on a small size order. Prices looked typically $ 5/​small $ 9/​large.
I had no problems communicating a reasonably complex order which can be a problem sometimes, though it’d be really nice if they had 2 things:
1) Chow fun /​wide rice noodles
2) An online menu
I’ve heard a couple of complaints about the neighborhood, but it fronts to Algonquin road and seems safe-​enough, though there were some strange looking folk gathering a few doors down.