China King

Fist time are last time I ever eat here. Got the pepper steak and there was, more fat then there was steak! We got the wonton soup and the dumplings were hard not soft like they are every other place! On to the next Chinese restaurant!

Well, this was my third time trying this place, never again. The people are nice but the food is horrible. Beef and broccoli. Frozen broccoli ??? REALLY ??? Frozen onions. Clear so they were old. Same with the carrots. The beef was like gristle and had ZERO Flavor… Anyone can put a meal like this together. This is not how Chinese food is suppose to be. Don’t waste your money, I’m telling ya you won’t be happy. I ended up giving it to my dog. Like I said this was my 3^rd time trying this place and I won’t go back. Whatever happened to the Chinese places that made home made food? Even the egg rolls were Frozen and not home made. These lazy owners are here just to make money selling frozen crap. Not getting any of my money anymore… if they don’t change I can’t see them in business for long and maybe someone with some cooking talent will take over. This says one word to sum up this place… GREED…

This place should be closed down by health department. Be very careful it’s very dirty.

The worlds best pork dumplings always get them with extra sauce it is so good best fried but steamed it also amazing

Overly Deep fried, way too much spice, and incredibly overpriced. Don’t waste your time and money.

I might be wrong submitting a review for a place where I haven’t actually ate. I parked in front of the storefront today hungry for Chinese food. The appearance of the place is so bad that my teenage son asked me if I was sure I wanted to eat there. They have a menu board like Panda Express (in the mall), and the tables and chairs screamed 1980’s. The front door was propped open. It was lunchtime and not one customer. This said to both of us that they are too cheap to use the a/​c and have no regard for flies or local health codes. We went next door to Leo’s Coney Island. It was jamming. Food and service were great.

Mediocre. Everything was bland with not enough flavor. Go down the road to Wing Hong.

Not bad but nothing special here either. Pretty much like any other strip mall Chinese place. The food tends to be a little bland but is not terrible by any means. I will continue to stop here as it is convenient for me.

Just ok. My husband thought it was pretty good. We got sesame chicken and sweet and sour. I thought the crab rangoons lacked flavor, you do get 8 for $ 5 tho. Good size portions reasonable prices too. They were also pretty quick

We tried this place a couple times, and each time have been disappointed. My wife ordered sweet & sour chicken (attached photo of what we got) and actually called back to see if they made a mistake. The menu photo looks like what you should get, at least at every Chinese food place we’ve ever been to. But what we got was dry breaded chicken with a side of sauce and rice. After calling back to see if it was a mistake, they said thats how they’ve made it for the last 8 years, if we want vegetables and pineapple (like in the photo) we should ask to have it added. Needless to say, we threw both meals out, and ordered Chinese food from another local place off m-​59. It was that bad, I would rather pay double for decent food then try this place again.

I used to love this place. Haven’t ordered in about a year. It was good over a year ago. now it’s just… not so good. I love Sweet Asia in Southfield. China King is just battered chicken with gravy and rice. I hate to bash that badly but it’s was always good about a year ago.

One more note for BLAND and BLAH. really a 2.5 star but can’t make up that rating. Portions are large, but you can only eat do much taste-​free food. Had Szechuan chicken and shrimp (lots of chicken but only five shrimp). Worth the few extra mile drive to go somewhere else.

To be honest it is fair Chinese /​American cuisine. Like some of the past few reviews… Its very warm even as a carryout dish. Its was low on flavor, heavy on breading, and typical sauces /​almond gravy that you would expect from any typical Chinese carryout place.
The gentleman that answered my call was very nice and pleasant to talk to. I called back since my wife left work early and I asked to have the order rushed so that it would be done when she got there, and they were very nice and said it was no problem.
The prices were not correct from the reviews /​Web pages that listed their menus. I found what I expected to be $ 18.00 for dinner portions and the appetizer… Ended up being nearly $ 27.00. That however Falls on me for not asking and trusting outside references for prices.
I would recommend this if you’re looking for typical average Chinese /​American cuisine but it’s just that typical.

I’m not sure why folks are rating this place ‘mediocre’ and ‘tasteless’ — I actually drive out of my way from where I live now in Novi, past plenty of other Chinese places, to get to China King. Their cashew chicken and crab rangoon are awesome. My daughter loves the General Tso’s and will only eat it from here. They are friendly and reasonably priced, and the servings are VERY generous. This is by far my favorite Chinese carryout place in the Novi/​Commerce/​Walled Lake region.

over priced, not very good at all, twice now got home and had rice missing, all dark slimy meat in the general poes chicken, gross. i would never go back.

Been Taking out chinese food from here for years. Good soups good food very clean reasonably priced.

It’s an ok place. The people are really nice and the soup is pretty good. Some of their dishes aren’t the best (beef can be tough), but the flavor can be pretty good. The dumplings and sauce are pretty good.

Um not so good. In all fairness I am from Hawaii so I am spoiled by a plethora of tasty, high-​quality Chinese fare. This is neither. We had spring rolls, cashew chicken, beef and pea pods and hot sour soup. None of it was very good at all.
We ordered take out and on the positive side everything was piping hot. Always a plus! The guy at the register was pretty nice too. That was really the end of the positives.
Spring rolls… tasteless. There is absolutely no reason to consume this caloric waste. What more can I say?
Hot sour soup… HOT! Wow! I was not expecting something so spicy but at least the spice gave it some flavor. It was about the only thing with flavor.
Cashew chicken… tasteless. No flavor at all. Chicken pieces were small. Very mediocre.
Beef with pea pods… tasteless and frustrating! I ordered beef with pea pods and asked if they could make it with chow mein. The answer? No. They serve beef with pea pods. They serve chow mein. They couldn’t combine the two and up the price? No, apparently not.
I’m not familiar with the area so I really don’t know about the local Chinese selection. My suggestion… Select another restaurant.

First of all, there aren’t many Chinese restaurants in this area of Commerce township. China King seems to have a bit of a monopoly for about a 5 mile radius. That may explain their mediocrity. I’ve only experienced carry out, but there really isn’t much of a dining room to speak of anyhow, just a couple tables shoved next to the wall. The cashier seemed friendly enough, and my order was accurate.
The food itself was average quality. We had 4 adults, and ordered 3 meals — almond chicken (dry and tasteless), Szechuan beef with veggies (good spice, flavor; tender veggies but tough beef), and General Tsao chicken (also very good flavor and spice level). We had fried and white rice and both were just fine. The price was a bit high for the quality, about $ 35 for the 3 entrees and rice.
I’ll probably try China King again before ruling them out completely.

I honestly thought I’d written a review for this place already, and I thought I’d given them a few stars. And then I felt bad about it, because 1) I don’t really like writing follow-​up reviews, and 2) I’d hate to take all those stars away.
Imagine my surprise when –what luck! — I didn’t actually write a review yet, so I can just go with the crap rating that I’d give them today! And believe me, it’s a pretty crap rating.
Speaking of, I wouldn’t even use this place’s bathroom, though I don’t think I would have earlier, either. It’s never been clean, but neither are a lot of eateries in Shanghai so I haven’t really held it against them. Now I’m thinking twice.
A few months ago I would have given this place a decent enough rating. I liked to come here after a long morning case and indulge in terrible fake-​chinese takeout. I think my love for fake-​chinese is fairly well documented, and this place more or less hit the spot.
So I walk in on Tuesday after a particularly grueling episode up the street and it’s almost as cold inside as it is outside. It seems they’ve turned off the heat to save money. I can see that in the summertime, maybe, I can deal without air conditioning. But when it’s 20 degrees out in the middle of January, put on a frickin’ heater if you want customers.
Now, on the menu, they have lunch specials which I’ve long thought are pretty great. You get your entrée and fried rice and soup for about five bucks. Now, in the window they are advertising a free drink with «all lunches.» Sounds great to me!
Well, either they fired most of the English-​speaking staff or the gentleman at the register wasn’t aware of his own menu, because I had to stop him at four different steps to tell him what I wanted.
At this point, some kid slips in the door behind me and goes back behind the register, I’ve seen him there before and is an employee, possibly family. This is important for later.
So I finish with my order and stand around waiting for it to be finished. Meanwhile, the kid says something in Chinese to the guy who took my order, and he starts cooking up something. At one point he wipes his nose with his hands.
Sure enough, the kid is fixing MY food. No gloves, no washing of hands, nothing. And he tells me that you only get the drink if you don’t get the soup. I don’t know what language they’re using, but on my street, «All Lunches» means «every one that we are serving,» and not «at our discretion because we also put snot in our food.»
You know what else was in my food? Buffalo wing sauce. That’s now their idea of «ways to make things spicy.»
Long story short? Don’t go here. Ever. You’ll waste your time and your money, maybe even risk your health. There’s no wonton worth a tapeworm, and hell if buffalo wing sauce is ever going on my chinese food again.