China Chef

The black pepper chicken is yummy. The black pepper chicken fills my tummy. Crab rangoon so good. Drinks in the fridge, assorted. Spicy mustard packets. Fortune cookie says «looks like we made it»

We’ve been trying to find a new chinese restaurant since buying our new townhouse off of Two Creeks. After trying at least 5 other places and finding none of them satisfactory, we decided to try this place today. Food was good, tasty, hot… up to standards. This will be our new chinese food place. Wish they delivered and hope they stay consistent. Oh, the crab rangoons were the best I’ve ever had!

Ran out from work for a fast kung pao combo. When I got to work and opened the package, i was greeted by a large coil of metal shaving on top of my food. Go to this place at your own risk.

started going when it first opened years ago — I order take out 1 –2 times per year and stopped going cause the quality was really going down. Tried take out last night — fried rice with white meat only chicken. UGH — disgusting — the chicken was translucent — how does that happen? The rice — just short of paste. The eggrolls were over doughed and very greasy fried. Even the wonton soup had a weird smell. NEVER Again — Raise your prices and improve the quality.

So this china chef is a family owned Resturant. There are two others locally, owned by siblings. We have been coming to this particular one (in Lake Pine shopping center next to Kroger) for the past 15 years.
The food is consistent. We love it! The owner knows when I call it’s a large order due the to size of my family. We get a smörgåsbord! The Egg foo Young, house special lomein & shrimp w lobster sauce are GREAT! We know the Americanized dishes of fried rice & chicken wings aren’t REAL chinese but still reminds us of what we would get in NY. Service is always great. I highly recommend them

Quick when you don’t want to cook. The price reflects the quality — not as fresh ingredienrs as I’d like, but its better than eating other fast food. Can’t compare to Pei Wei but then its half the cost. This is our go to dinner a couple nights a month.

We ordered carryout from this place once, and will not be going back. We didn’t expect much, but the food was pretty terrible. There was nothing in the fried rice — no eggs, sprouts, or veggies — except for rice. The sauce on our beef and snowpeas dish had a strange aftertaste. The sesame chicken was acceptable, but nothing special.

I go here to China Chef once in a while as a solid lunch alternative to the same ol’ thing. It’s not a fancy place or one that would be exhaulted as top of the line cuisine, but for decent «Americanized Chinese» food for a lunch break from work or a quick bite, it gets the job done.
Located in the Lake Pine shopping center in Apex, it is your typical shopping center Chinese food stop. As I mentioned before, no elaborate setup for décor. Simple but clean, and a few tables with chairs if you choose to eat in.
The food is ok, like I said it gets the job done if you are hungry. Pretty good steamed dumplings (the sauce they put with it does perk them up). I like their wonton soup, but I always like wonton soup, a standard with me. The sesame chicken is good in that there is an ample portion of chicken, and the sauce is not so syrupy and sweet, a good compliment without going too far with the sweetness. However, like most places comparable to this one, if you order beef with broccoli/​chicken with broccoli, there always seems to be an over abundance of broccoli, not enough meat for my taste. The Moo Goo Gai Pan is pretty good, good choice for a meal. Drinks are just canned drinks and bottled water from the cooler in the dining area, no fountain drink setup.
To sum up, great for a quick bite and take care of the hungrys… not a place for a first (or any) date. The staff, always nice, service is good. I will continue to hit it for those lunch times I want quick Chinese noms.