New China Express

It’s yours for only $ 49,000!

A solid 4 stars.
If you go here with the expectation of some posh Chinese restaurant with sit-​down service, get your head out of the gutter.
This place is comparable to Panda Express, except that Panda’s is almost twice as expensive for twice as little food.
Their mandarin pork is pretty good, and their chow mein is downright delicious. Sure, it’s oily and greasy as hell, but just grab an Arizona green tea to wash it down. A filling meal can be had for under $ 5 here.
Their egg fu yong deserves special mention; with the sweet sauce it’s a good blend of onions and eggs.
The owner’s pretty nice, although the place itself lacks décor. With some sprucing up this place can be a pretty good deal.

Cheap, so-​so taste, lots of food. The guy working there is pretty nice. The food is definitely what you pay for. I would go elsewhere unless you are in a hurry or on a budget.

Came here on a co-worker’s suggestion. I’M NEVER TAKING ANY MORE FOOD RECOMMENDATIONS FROM HER EVER AGAIN.
Is she crazy? AND IS THAT ONE REVIEWER CRAAAAAZYYY? HEALTHY? WTF???
Got broccoli with chicken and some other kind of chicken. My broccoli and chicken was so bland it made me want to throw up. I’M SERIOUS. I had to stop eating it. The other chicken stuff… guess it was Sweet and spice chicken??? Whatever it was it tasted like chicken, grease and ketchup. I LOVE ketchup, but this stuff GROSSED me out.
PLEASE, DO NOT EAT HERE. UNLESS YOU’RE A CRAZY LIKE SHIRLEY THERE, DON’T EAT HERE.
Maybe she was trying to review a different place and got confused. oh wellz.

Mr. Express, what you’ve just served is one of the most insanely disguisting meals I have ever eaten. At no point in your dried-​out, flavorless recipes were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational meal. Everyone in this room is now nauseous for having eaten it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Seriously… We were sceptical… took a bite… made eye contact… and said «Wow… that’s really bad»… We actually giggled because it was so awful. Almost threw it out and went somewhere else. Would have been the first time in my life I would have thrown out food and left a restaurant.
The room was 95 degrees, though the food was 70 degrees. Noodles actually crunched, they were so dried-​out from the heatlamps. Everything seemed like it was out there for hours and hours before we got to it. Left food on our plates that was inedible.
Pretty much the worst meal I’ve had in about six months.

I’m with Laura P. with her incredulity: this place is not HEALTHY. To anybody reading this, don’t kid yourself.
This place is cheap. Very cheap. I come here with my roommate when he and I are feeling very cheap. That is the only reason to come here. Well, I suppose it is fast too.
Sometimes a meal is just about putting mass into your belly. If you want that mass to come from a steam table and taste vaguely Chinese, this is the place. For cheap.

Okay, before I start my review, I gotta say to the first reviewer… HEALTHY Chinese food? We talkin’ about the same place here?
1.25 stars
Husband and I tried out New China Express just moments ago. Dubious, we were, because the place looks like a run-​down rathole and the prices were so incredibly cheap (one star) we knew something was up.
We both got the two-​item lunch with chicken chow mein (him: hot & sour chicken and lemon chicken, me: lemon chicken and sweet & sour pork), and I will say that these folks do not skimp on their servings (one star). The service was quick, even though not a single word of English was exchanged (one star).
The food labels were all screwy, though, so when I went to get my sweet & sour pork (always start with the American staples when venturing in to an unknown cheap eatery, I say), I was informed that it is actually chicken, which meant that I ended up with chicken chow mein, lemon chicken and sweet & sour chicken.
We also ordered an eggroll each and a can of Coke each. Which the guy took in to the back for a few seconds and then returned with. At least we think it was the same can.
The total came to an even $ 12, not outrageous. It was kind of cute how they ran out of change and had to dig out two bucks in quarters. Hey, at least I can do more laundry now!
The chow mein was okay, bland and a bit greasy but certainly edible if uninspired. Six or seven bites is what I could stand before it got to be too cloying and filmy in the mouth.
The hot & sour chicken actually turned out to be something neither hot nor sour, but was also edible, drenched as it was with that sticky, sweet glaze of truly cheap chinese dishes.
The lemon chicken, similarly drenched in sticky, sweet glaze of unknown origins (they even tasted the same, but were different colors) was also edible, but not as much so as the hot & sour. Three or four bites.
To say that everything else we ordered was crap would be an offense to crap worldwide. I mean ICK.
The Spring Rolls (called egg roll by the server but were in fact spring-​like if room temperature) were gross. Sour and chewy and oily and just inedible. Half a bite, spit back out in to a napkin.
The real horror, though, lay in the sweet & sour pork-​I-​mean-​chicken. I had to go back to the counter after I got my lunch, because the serving guy (owner, if I had to guess) did not put any sauce on it. Bonus, thought I, that they do not leave their yummy-​looking pork/​chicken nibblets to get all soggy. My kind of folk! I was rudely, abruptly, shockingly disabused of the momentary glow of compadre; it was beyond inedible and boarded toxic. Not only was it bland (even with the too-​sweet sauce) but incredibly thickly breaded and so greasy that the oil *squirted* out of the chunks and oozed, ’cause the pieces were not even room temp, out of the entire mess. (minus 1.75 stars!)
We ended up actually eating at McDonalds.

I first stumbled upon this very small restaurant on my way desperately running to the closest ATM machine at any bank on Shattuck by the BART Station staircase to get some moola…
I know every SF Bay Area person riding on BART has experienced this very sad detail: You don’t have your BART ticket, but you’re in an extreme hurry to ride BART, but you have all limp dollar bills in your hand, no change, and the BART ticket machine keeps rejecting your limp dollar bills! I need to get change at a business or find an ATM machine nearby FAST!
O=:-O Oy-​EVAY! I am hungry and I am in an extreme rush, too! Panic! Run up the stairs from the BART ticket machine, find my bearings on Shattuck. .. is there a Bank somewhere?
Out of the corner of my peripheral vision, I see this small sign on the side of this building. .. China Express!
Hmmmm. .. I wonder if I should take a peek at the food served here and get change in the process-​you know kill two birds with one stone kinda motive. ..
What am I reading here on the restaurant wall? 1, 2, 3 choices. .. Prices are extremely inexpensive!
Looking at the food selection behind the sneeze gaurd window. .. A plethora of seafood dishes served here without charging an extra buck fitty for choosing seafood???
Huh? Dis can’t be true! Are my reading glasses foggin’ up on me or what???
I must be in Heaven! So twoo! Ahhhhhhhhh. .. The angels sing in complete harmony!
My lunch &/​or dinner meal consists of usually choosing half Bar-​B-​Que pork fried rice & half chicken chow mein and three main course items-​two items are fried prawns/​shrimp, fried sole, and one beef &/​or chicken veggie dish=$ 5.50 for three chocies from varied selection of main courses served here!
Yup! You read the price right! The food served here is NEVER greasy, always very fresh, never limp or soggy, and very hot, I mean temperature hot food!
Fabulous Chinese Chef! Healthy food to go, plus obtain non-​limp dollar bills for the BART ticket machine. .. SCHWEET!
I am off rushing to that stupid BART ticket machine! Byeeee-​thanks for my food and giving me non-​limp dollar bills, too!