Peking House

Peking House is our favorite Chinese restaurant. The portions are large and delicious, and the meat and vegetables are always generous and fresh. The same family has owned it since we started going there in 2000, and they are always warm and friendly. The older generation doesn’t speak much English, but there is usually someone there who does. They remember exactly how we order our items. If you order by phone, it is usually ready to pick up in 10 minutes. The restaurant isn’t fancy, but it is always clean and bright. Some reviewers said that the restaurant lacks atmosphere. Well, you are eating in a strip mall and paying around $ 10/​meal, so I am not sure what those reviewers are expecting. If you don’t like the atmosphere, get take-​out. They pack up the dinners very well and the food is still warm when you get home. Peking House is the best value for Chinese food!

Great Chinese for carryout. Needs some help on the interior for dine-​ins. Yummy food!

I used to come here for lunch when i was in… hands down one of the best places for General Tso chicken and the BEST fried rice. I actually crave their fried rice with general tso sauce. The rice is yellow too, my absolute favorite!
I believe this place is family owned and operated as well. They do offer a lunch buffet but not on Sundays and do offer lunch specials. Egg drop soup is pretty good here as well. Always very clean and super friendly and professional staff. Love this place!

I have eaten chicken fried rice hundreds of times in my life but this one was terrible. The chicken was something like I would imagine comes out of a can, and grossed me out within the first minute. My wife was sharing the dish with me and we just threw the whole thing away and cut our losses. We considered mentioning it to the people running the place but it all somehow seemed suspicious, almost like if a restaurant is serving that level of food then maybe their business isn’t actually food… perhaps we ate there on one bad day, but it was bad enough that we will never return. The good news is that we are only in Columbus once a year or so, so no big loss to them.

I LOVE this place, the staff is amazing and are so helpful of my picky food demands, and they remember my orders. The food is amazing and such a good deal. I would say this is one of the best Chinese restaurants in Columbus, they use all fresh vegetables and have some amazing tofu. A very good family owned and run lunch and dinner joint.

Coming from New York, which for some reason is a Chinese food Mecca, I’ve had a hard time finding Chinese food that Is in the price range I’m accustomed to and in the style I am accustomed to. This place fits the bill! Affordable and tasty. I’m glad to have finally found my new go to Chinese food place!

I’m so glad the old owner is back now. I’ve been eating this place for almost 14 years now. He cooks the best Chinese food ever. There was a couple working there after owner was gone. The food is okay to me. Compared to what I have before. Good job!!!

My family and I have been Peking House fans since the restaurant opened. It’s your typical Chinese food — we usually order General Tso’s, chicken and broccoli, and lo mein. There is one HUGE exception that makes Peking THE BEST Chinese take-​out restaurant… the dumplings. Oh my lord, please order their dumplings. I usually prefer them steamed, but they are just as perfect when fried. They are handmade and ALWAYS fresh. The sauce is wonderful as well! I could literally eat Peking’s dumplings habitually and not get sick of them.
UPDATE (4÷23÷215): Peking now delivers! Awesome!

We went here a few years ago, and it was better quality food. Now, the sweet and sour chicken has basically no chicken inside and is chewy. We used to go all the time until the food changed and tasted so cheap and became less in quantity. Only one of the girls working/​cash register was nice, always asked what rice we wanted. One time I forgot to tell a different lady what rice I wanted (she didn’t ask), and got home, it was the fried-​looked very gross too. I went all the way back to see if they would give me white rice instead, and the lady was so mean to me saying, You should have told me you wanted white. That was the last time we ever went. The building inside is gross, falling apart and needs major updates, and going cheap with the food did not keep our business, we like Eastern Bay much more.

This is your standard American-​Chinese restaurant, and all the basics are covered there, tho they have a few things on the Chef special menu, as well as chow fun, which few other places in CMH carry. Prices are slightly better than that elsewhere in Grandview and Upper Arlington. Décor could be a bit more welcoming – having the counter set all the way from the door doesn’t make seem very friendly. But they’re under new management, apparently, and from what I can tell, they’re trying to make a effort to be friendly to their customers – I got a free wonton soup. This probably isn’t the norm (and probably isn’t good for their business if it is), but it does seem like they’re trying.

This place is pretty awful. The food is cheap and tastes like nothing. The tables are sticky and the place is simply not clean or kept up. This is the bottom of the cheap carryout, covered in non-​descript corn starch based sauce, deep fried, strip mall Chinese you can find. I would have to be pretty desperate to eat here again. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is at least the person working the counter was relatively friendly. Avoid at all costs.

Been there a few times, and meh. Standard fare, rather bland. Stay away from the buffet… some of that stuff looks like it been there for hours. The only reason this place survives is because the high school kids over run it at lunch time. The staff is not very friendly either, as they watch the kids like a hawk to see whose stealing from the buffet. Please.

Disgusting. I am so sad, because I did LOVE it there years ago. it has gone down hill. DISGUSTING DISGUSTING DISGUSTING. Nothing else I can say.

So very, very meh. I believe I was here several years ago when Columbus was iced over and driving was not recommended. I walked to Kingsdale (about a mile) and was excited to find something open. If Peking House was here at the time, then this is where I went. It was a welcome sight in a storm, and the food was passable.
There was no such emergency today. Just a desire for takeout, and it was nearby and convenient. When I got there, I noticed a sign for «milk tea with boba» in the window and was briefly excited. I was hoping I’d be able to find it on a menu and see if they had a soy option. But it was not on the menu and not posted in any obvious place inside. I had no idea what was up with that sign. While I was waiting for my food to come, I noticed another sign, handwritten, on the canned beverage refrigerator. There was still no indication of where this tea was coming from, so it might be in a can for all I know. Disappointment.
The interior is very fast foody. I’d have expected it in a mall food court, not in a fairly nice shopping center. And with only one family in one booth in one corner, it looked and felt vacant.
The food came in a sturdy plastic container inside a heavy paper bag inside a plastic one. And yet my hands were already greasy before I even got home. Broccoli and garlic sauce. It did not impress me. Nothing to write home about.
It may be worth trekking to when your house is snowed in and nothing else is open. It’ll taste better then. On your average day, though, there’s better Chinese food around.

This place is very dirty the food sucks big time. you get very small amount of over cook food. i will NEVER LEAVE WITH OUT MY CELL PHONE AGAIN EWWW .
this the worst chinese i have ever had. I would give a longer review but there is nothing more to say about this nasty place.

I went to PH because of a storm and couldn’t drive any further… mistake! Will never go back… wayyy expensive and bland food. No taste on Mooshu (gave my son a BAD stomach ache) and my general tso’s was less then appetizing! Not spicy at all and sauce was thick like glue, I did tell them about it spice, they gave me a spicier sauce when I got boxes to go… still not very spicy once I got home and had leftovers.
Atmosphere not very exciting either… worn booths and as someone else said a buffet pushed against wall.
Should have stuck with my gut and gone to Panera or even MCL.

Good news & bad news. The good news is the Peking House is near my home and that makes chinese take-​out convenient. The bad news is Peking House is near my home and… well, you get the picture.
I made my first stop at Peking House after an exhausting work day. Famished, I order two different meals (hot & spicy beef; chicken & broccoli). Hey! The re-​heat is what I’m all about within 49 hours. So my meals go home with me and they are well-​proportioned. But don’t let «size» be your guide to satisfaction.
I tasted-​tested both and was disappointed in the flavors. Very bland. And the fried rice was very yellow with very little «fixin’s» mixed in. The previous excitement of diving into chinese fare dropped to a ho-​hum meal. Something told me that blasee’ is common place for meal preparation at Peking House.
And if you looking to dine in? Yikes! The place appears down-​trodden. Cheap booths, crummy tables & chairs and a buffet service area just pushed up against the wall. The overhead photos of meal-​plating are campy. So you walk up and order at the counter and in a reasonable amount of time (quickly) the staffer runs food to your table.
I can say that I’ll order take-​out from Peking House again but I’ll be feeling desperate.

I can think of two instances as to why anyone would eat at Peking House: either he/​she has exhausted Chipotle, Panera, Caffe DaVinci, and First Watch (bless your heart, seriously) or he/​she has a serious hankering for Chinese food, in which case I would suggest driving an extra mile or so to Tai’s on Lane or Nong’s over on Northwest. Both places (albeit the former being highly Americanized) will deliver tastier dishes.
If cheap, fast food style is all that you ask for, then by all means head on over to PH. While portions are quite generous, my taste buds were highly unimpressed. My fat cells, on the other hand, were squealing with joy.