Old St Louis Chop Suey

You can find Old St Louis Chop Suey at 12 454 Saint Charles Rock Rd, Bridgeton, MO 63 044 near the Lambert International Airport and right of the St Charles Rock Rd exit from I270. The restaurant is in the middle of a shopping center and is fairly distinctive — park in the lot out front.
This is an old-​school «swag» Chinese restaurant — your basic Americanized Chinese cuisine. We stopped on the way to my flight out of St Louis with the promise that this place was super fast and indeed the time between ordering and food-​on-​the-​table was just a few minutes. I believe the owner or at least the guy being the small ordering window, was Vietnamese and like so many before him, he’s got a restaurant featuring food outside of his own culture. The restaurant’s interior isn’t much to write home about — very simple with rows of tables and just a few Chinese accents.
Menu items include all the usual Chinese you find in similar restaurants all across the US. Prices were super, super reasonable with most «Combo Playyers» ranging between $ 5.45 and $ 6.15 and the chef specials between $ 8.95 and 12.95 (Seafood Delight). My only complaint is that there weren’t any Vietnamese dishes included as that cuisine is one of my favorites.
I ordered the Hunan Chicken — it came on a platter with an inverted bowl of fried rice and an egg roll. The ingredients were quite fresh, if a little lacking in heat/​spice. The food was quite palatable and it worked well with the hour-​long upcoming flight.
Service was done by the same guy behind the counter — not surprising and typical of these mom-​and-​pop type restaurants — the guy was quite pleasant, answering all our questions and delivering our food quickly — in all, quite good.
(also published to my food blog)

This was my first time ordering chinese in the St Louis area. It was pretty good. We had our food delivered to our office, they told us 45 minutes and 20 minutes later received the call they arrived. Awesome! I ordered the sesame chicken combo platter. Most of them are $ 5.95 and they charge $ 1 more for their flavored rices. So I ordered shrimp fried rice. (I posted a pic of it too) They gave a choice of egg roll or crab rangoon so I went for the crab. There were 2 in a bag, they were amazing but definitely not the customary rangoons that I am used to. The rice by itself was awesome, I can’t identify the flavor but it was good by itself without soy or the sesame sauce which made me pleasured. Their chicken however gave me indigestion which did not taste good coming back up the second time around. I feel their portions could have been bigger though.
Conclusion: I will return because the food was decent and they are right down the road from my work.

This restaurant’s delivery service is really bad. The driver couldn’t find the address which is Lindenwood University, 209 S Kingshighway, St Charles MO. I didn’t get my order at all and they cancelled my order.

Well, I attempted to order online from grub hub despite the negative reviews. Go through the process of creating account only to discover this restaurant doesn’t accept online orders. They close in 43 minutes. Maybe that’s the reason. But I’m .85 miles from the location and my order would have been ready in 10 minutes. Oh well.

This place is what it is — a cheap-​o Chinese restaurant in a marginal part of town. The food is greasy, the place is well worn and the service can be questionable. On the upside, it is cheap. Nothing was horribly wrong but nothing was exceptionally right either.
I had the general tsao’s chicken. Typical preparation except that there was nothing to the dish beyond the chicken — no veges or other enhancements — just chunks of breaded and fried chicken in a goopy sauce. I was expecting some peppers or onions or something more… nope.
Fried rice was alright but they used a lot of soy sauce and I could feel myself shriveling all afternoon due to the amount of sodium I ingested.

Back in the early 90’s this place was awesome and really packed em in, however, the quality of the food has gone down a lot in the last few years. The place rarely has anyone in there when we go to pickup our order, and i am actually surprised yhey sre still open for business. I
I find it hard to believe that the health dept hasnt shut them down yet. My teenagers still like the food, but i doubt i will be back there again.

Went out to lunch on my lunch break and had a craving for Chinese food. Since I am not from the area and not too familiar with the general location and since this was he first visible chinese restaurant, I decided on it. it didn’t turn out too bad. I liked their chop suey and their fried rice. Overall, I would say the food is pretty good compared to others I have had. However, the service was quite terrible. The waitress seemed completely unhappy and angry for the most part. She angrily told us the total and seemed really annoyed when we stated that she forgot to add the drinks and re-​did the calculations and once more, angrily told us the new total. I’ll give it a 3-​star though because the food was nothing to complain about.

its combo meals are good, just the right size for the money. i have never dined in here, always get it to go. nothing stands out as amazing or tasteless. would go back if & when I’m over that way.

Back in the day I used to work at the Best Buy right next to this place and I have been here many times. I will give this place a 3 star rating for two reasons. The first reason is the Saint Paul Sandwich. I love the Saint Paul sandwich here it is one of my favorites. The other reason is that they are fast. I am not a huge fan of the fried rice here and the buffet is not amazing either. The workers here are very nice though.
You know what on second thought I am going to give this 2 stars. Because «Meh. I’ve experienced better.» applies to this place.

Coworkers and I were desperately wanting some Chinese takeout for lunch yesterday but were running into a few problems.
1) We had exactly 30 minutes to go, order, pick up the food and be back at our desks.
2) We work in Earth City. The closest option was off of the rock road.
We decided to give this place a try because we figured since it was right off of the highway we could *hopefully* be there and back in time. I kind of wish we had never made that decision. it is located in a generic strip mall style, exactly what I expected. I walked in, ordered quickly and sat to wait for my food. The food was ready in less than 10 minutes and I was excited that I got back to the office, at my desk with 5 minutes to spare. And then I started to eat.
I took a bite of the veggie «spring roll» which looked like any other I had before. It was the weirdest tasting spring roll I ever had. Like crazy weird and I couldn’t put my finger on it until I finally figured out that it kind of tasted like cinnamon? Weird. I could only eat 2 little bites and I was done with that. Then I took a bite of the fried rice, it actually tasted identical to the spring roll. Gross. I thought maybe I could redeem myself with the crab rangoon. I took one bite and had to spit it out, something about it tasted so rancid. My last bet was my chicken. I figured at least maybe I could get something that tasted a little different. Nope. One bite revealed that same exact taste as everything else. So what does a spring roll, chicken, crab rangoon and fried rice all have in common? They all taste identical if you get them from here.
So after a few bites of food, everything got thrown in the trash and my appetite was definitely gone. I would say it’s a pretty safe bet that I will never be back.