China Jade

Food isn’t very good — service is worse.
Crab Rangoon is soggy. Egg rolls are greasy and flavorless.
Restaurant owner is rude & doesn’t speak English very well — often misunderstands orders and then when it is brought to their attention they refuse to correct it. Accusing the customer of misspeaking.

This place delivers to my house. The shop itself doesn’t look the cleanest inside. I usually just call in for delivery. Food is always pretty decent. The delivery does not take very long and they usually get the order right every time.

I’ve been looking for a go-​to Chinese takeaway on this side of town, but had been scared off from most of the contenders due to bad ratings. In the case of China Jade, I’m glad I took a chance and placed my order in spite of mixed reviews online.
I call the number. A garbled young voice picks up and says something not quite intelligible. I announce I want to place a take out order. He says HANG ON, followed by a clunk as the receiver is set on the counter. When he comes back, I place my order (Medium Hunan Shrimp, as listed on the menu, is repeated back as Small Hunan Shrimp).
I ask if they make their Hunan Shrimp with broccoli.
«HANG ON»
*clunk*
*background shouting: MA! DOES THE GARBLE GARBLE BROCCOLI GARBLE*
*Mom shouting back*
The kid told me 10 – 15 minutes for pickup, and yes, it has broccoli. (Then he asks — you like broccoli?)
This is a family run place.
Their young son was designing a video (?) game in between taking orders on the phone when I arrived to pick up, and I saw what had transpired with me repeat in person:
«HANG ON»
*clunk*
*kid runs around the counter to get something to write with*
Presumably customer on phone asks question:
«HANG ON»
*clunk*
*shouting: MA, WHAT DOES SMALL SESAME CHICKEN COST??*
To be honest it was all pretty charming. When he was done taking the order he wanted to tell me all about the game he was designing.
My food was ready pretty quickly. There was a little mixup where the mom thought I had ordered chicken (mom rolled her eyes at kid, kid insisted: «I said SHRIIIIMPPPP»), so she apologized and they remade it with haste.
The food: good! For the small/​medium order, there is a *lot* of it. Plenty of fresh veggies — (chinese cabbage, broccoli, baby corn, carrots, onions), good flavor to the sauce (I might prefer a bit more spice-​heat), 5 large shrimp and two big scoops of white rice. The egg drop soup was pretty standard, just broth and eggs, but not too salty, which is a pleasant change from some places. I can see sending Husband out to pick up a quart of the stuff next time I come down with a cold.
Prices are slightly higher than what is listed on their website — probably just an outdated menu — but not enough to matter since everything is so cheap anyway. My meal — a TON of food that I could not finish — was just over $ 8 before tip, and next time I probably wouldn’t get soup since I know just how much is in the regular «small» size order.
All in all, I’m really glad to have given China Jade a shot, and I’m sure I’ll be coming back with frequency in the future.

We ordered the sesame chicken combo with lo mein. Nothing special, basic run of the mill Chinese food. It took them over an hour to deliver because they were «very busy» and we only live 10 min away. It’s a ton of food though. So if you’re looking to stuff your face with disregard to taste then this is your place.

Terrible bad bad bad… took 1 hour and 30 mins to deliver 10 wings and fried rice. Never again

Great General Tso tofu — I always get it extra spicy and extra crispy and they always do it right! Lo Mein is not greasy and has a large quantity of veggies!
Only downfall is that the woman is extremely hard to understand via phone and on weekend nights, the delivery is on the slow side (we had only 3 items, took 50 minutes Saturday night around 10pm)