Double Dragon

The employees are always extremely friendly. The food always tastes excellent. I drive past many other Chinese food locations to come to this one

Cheap food that’s good for Chinese takeout in the area. Wouldn’t recommend for a sit-​down meal because the service can be slow when they get to go orders. There’s a minimum credit card charge of $ 6. It’s easy to get to and not too much trouble finding parking.

Best Chinese food in Blacksburg… which isn’t saying much… but if you must, get it here.

Inexpensive, quick, and large portions. Pretty good food too. One of my favorites in Blacksburg

I’ll make this short and simple. Do NOT order the crispy orange beef. It was soggy because it was drenched from so much sauce and to my surprise still tasted flavorless. On another note, the fried wontons were actually very delicious and relatively cheap for 10.

So… Being from the San Gabriel Valley in CA (where you’ll find some of the best Chinese restaurants outside of China) I tend to agree with the previous reviewer, but everything is relative. For one, food in Blacksburg just generally sucks. There really isn’t a «good» restaurant in town (and by good, I’m coming from a pretentious California food-​snob perspective) and that includes Blacksburg’s sad attempts at any kind of ethnic cuisine.
Chinese food here just isn’t great. It’s pretty much all Americanized (unless you’re able to read the Chinese menu at Charlie’s Chinese in Christiansburg) and even for Americanized Chinese, it’s not very good.
So what’s good about Double Dragon that I’m willing to give it three stars? Well, it’s fast, edible, and fresh-​tasting. For the most part, the food isn’t terribly bland like most of the food (Asian or otherwise) in the area, and has flavors somewhat approximating Chinese food.
What I like:
–Dumplings in hot chili oil– pretty decent, actually good for the area
–Beef in scallion sauce– it’s got flavor and stuff, so I like it.
–Orange chicken– tastes like your typical orange chicken, which is a good thing for Blacksburg.
What’s okay:
–fried dumplings– get them from Chinese Kitchen, they’re much better there.
–Broccoli in garlic sauce– the garlic sauce is bland, but at least the broccoli tends to be crisp
–Lo Mein– this is something you don’t find so much on the West Coast, but it’s kinda like a mushier chow mein. You can probably get it better at other restaurants in the area.
So… Yeah, do I recommend it? Sure. If you want Chinese-​American food, and you’re stuck in Blacksburg, this place is totally fine. It’s good, even. But if you can hop on the next jet outta Blacksburg and go to a real city with real food, you should do that instead.

I went here once. Let me just say plainly that there is no good Chinese food in Blacksburg.
This is styled after any of those Americanized Chinese places with the pictures of all the entrees on the walls and the long list of a menu they had. I went after the general tso’s chicken, something that is usually done consistently and is a staple of that kind of food.
The chicken was formed into spheres, yes– perfect spheres that had been frozen and deep fried. It wasn’t even all white meat, and it just did not have the right textures. The sauce wasn’t spicy enough to qualify as General Tso’s either, that’s the whole point, otherwise it’s just sesame chicken without the sesame seeds. Regardless, the fact that my chicken didn’t look like real food really got to me.
Maybe they have other better things on the menu, you’re probably better off just asking them to make something that they normally make for themselves. I just couldn’t bring myself to go again, maybe I will just settle for a cheap lunch buffet when I have a craving instead.
I just wish with the large Asian population in Blacksburg that there would be at least one decent place, but it’s nothing compared to D.C.