China Max

Little variety and very expensive. Worst Chinese food ever. I asked for, a water cup with a large drink purchase and they said no. They don’t accept Amex.

This is the worst Chinese food ever. If you are so hungry and must have Chinese food, just order the plain white rice with soy sauce. Nothing else is worth eating.

I would give negative stars If I could. This place makes panda express look like gourmet food in comparison. Threw out 80% of my plate cause it sucked so much.

Don’t be fooled by the crowd of Chinese tourists waiting in line here. This place has one star for a reason. Ok, I get it, you’re a shitty Chinese fast food place at the outlet mall. You’re not aspiring for greatness. But China Max is awful. My broccoli beef was INEDIBLE. I literally spit it out as soon as I had one bite because I did not want to get food poisoning then drive all the way back to LA. You’d be better off strolling over to In N Out. Eat here at your own risk.

Overpriced food, smaller portions than panda. Bought for my daughter for lunch, the quality also looked to be a step below panda. They even charge for a cup of water here.

Not bad but not great. Oily as heck. Flavors are whatever.

If I can put ZERO stars I would… Rude customer service… The owner was on some «you buy now» stuff. Clearly he hasn’t been in the states that long. We ordered a 3 item combo and our plate was too full so we asked him to put the 3^rd item on another plate. He refused to do it and wanted to charge us an additional fee. He was acting like he’d die if he gave us an extra flimsy paper plate. And then when we left I was sitting down and I saw these to little kids walk up to him and ask for quarters for their dollar and he straight blew them off. Like looked at them like they were crazy. This guy is just ignorant, and won’t last in the real world.

Listen to the reviews, folks.
The eggroll looked nothing like the picture and was puny. I’m pretty sure it was vegetable too. They also wouldn’t give any cups of water, which is unheard of, and said they were only selling bottled water.
I know there’s not tons of choices in this food plaza but I would avoid here, if possible.

This is the most awful Chinese fast food place I’ve been too. At all cost DO NOT EAT here! Food was terrible. I know it’s fastfood but DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE! I ordered Orange chicken which was mostly breading, 70% breading and 30% chicken. I don’t think chicken is so expensive. Orange chicken was full of breading and it was so bland just like their fried rice. How can someone mess up a simple fried rice. If someone messes up a simple fried rice, that just tells you what kind of food they’re serving. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you.
They also charge 50 cents for a cup with ice, seriously!!!

Food is not so good and if you want water, you have to buy a bottle water. Save you’re money.

This has got to the the worst Fast-​Food Chinese I have eaten in about 20 years! ONE STAR!
The restaurant is located in the Dessert Hills Premium Outlet food court. The food court is somewhat small, since they only have 4 food vendors at this location.
I originally decided to get the 1-​choice plus noodles/​fried rice combination for ~$ 6.50. The servings are SMALL and CHEAP! I literally got a tongs full of noodles and a scoop full of orange chicken. It was served on a flimsey takeout plate. I realized that the portions were so small, I decided to (wrongly) order a second choice option to my meal for another $ 1.50. I added the spicy fried chicken, and the owner added 2 pieces of wingettes to my plate. For $ 8.00, here is the small plate that I got (use the size of the small jalapeño to judge how little the food was)!
The noodles were typical of any fast food Chinese places. Noodles were oversalted with absolutely no flavor. The chicken was itsy-​bitsy pieces of chicken deep fried with a LOT of batter. Little flavor. Surprisingly, the spicy fried chicken was tasty, hot, and fresh, but TWO pieces @ $ 0.75 a wingette? Come’on!
Service was pretty bad. The owner who ran the restaurant was at the cash register. She got pissed off at me when I said I didn’t want to order a small drink for $ 2+. She didn’t keep eye contact with me, because she kept on looking at the security monitor that was placed next to the register (she was watching her workers in the back cooking the food).
Food Grade: D–
Service Grade: D–
Worth the Money grade: F
Overall Impression: D-​/​F