Beijing Express

The staff there are nice and helpful. That is the only reason I gave it another star or it would have had a 1. I knew the food would be bad when guy taking our order said my meal would be ready in 5 minutes. Chinese food usually takes about 15 to 45 minutes depending on how busy the restaurant is. There was no one there. When I got home, my food was warm but tasted like canned chow mien you get at Walmart. The egg roll tasted like it had been reheated after being cooked at the beginning of the week. I think they may have been dated since the Ming Dynasty! Just because something is name ends with express doesn’t mean their food should taste like week old garbage and be acceptable. I hate to rate it so poorly but, it tasted horrendous. For your own good, Go to one of the other restaurants down the road.

I had the tofu stir fry and it was pretty runny. I still liked it but it should have been cooked longer than it was. I have had the meat dishes there in the past when I was still eating meat and those were very, very good. I would recommend this place for its egg drop soup, egg rolls, wontons, and chicken dishes. I also recommend it for the cost; you can get a filling lunch for about $ 5.50.

My meal was not appetizing whatsoever. In fact, the food smelled so bad, I had to have the janitor remove my trash can because the smell was bothering my coworkers. Avoid at all costs!

Beijing Express is near the office where I work, naturally I had to try it out eventually. I went with a couple of coworkers to the Kirkwood Plaza shopping center. We decided to try out this chinese restaurant because it had an advertised lunch special. I got general tso’s chicken with white rice, a vegetarian egg roll, and a drink for under $ 5. The chicken was not of the best quality but still edible. However, the sauce on the chicken was not very good, basically tasted like soy sauce with additional salt. The rice was rice, it’s hard to mess up rice when you have a rice cooker. The egg roll was pretty average though.
Overall, I would only recommend this place if you were on a $ 5 budget and you didn’t want another $ 5 footlong from the subway next door.

You can’t expect too much from a place called Beijing Express. Let’s face it, we come to such a restaurant for a quick, yet cheap meal so the quality of the food wouldn’t be on the top of our list but this place really pushes the limit of how far a person is willing to compromise.
Yes, the food is cheap here. Yes, the proportion is generous. BUT… I can not and will not recommend this restaurant because of their extremely substandard food quality (and that’s putting it NICELY).
Their chicken tasted like it had died again in their kitchen. Their shrimp tasted like it was left to spoil. They have little to no vegetables in their food. To sum it up, there are better places to go for a quick meal.