House of China

Hands down the best Americanized Chinese food in Dubuque. I am talking total Dubuque style. They serve sweet n sour in ketchup bottles… Bonus: it’s so tasty I want to drink it out of the bottle! Don’t know if it’s made in house but I love that it’s cold!
At dinner you always get free tea. The servers are pretty awesome for mostly high school or college aged kids.
Their lunch specials are out of this world good deals!
Their delivery is always worth the wait but never takes more than an hour (I lived down town and I think that’s why it took that long because once I moved up near the mall I always got my food within 40 minutes) and has never been spilled or wrong for me. (I lived in Dubuque for three years and ate their lunch delivery religiously 4 – 5 times a month)
Egg rolls and crab Rangoons are the best you can get in a 70 mile radius.
The entrée I always get isn’t even listed as a house special but it really should be. Their Mongolian beef always ha fresh tasting onions and never a stale rice stick. And the beef tastes like beef not some odd gelatin based meat product you would get at some buffets. Also the sauce isn’t blobby and has lots of flavor especially if you as them to make it spicy!
Bottom line come here it’s by far the best Chinese around town. If you really want a buffet wait for Sunday and enjoy all you can eat favorites from their menu on the buffet!

Meh. Just barely OK. Service was fine. Had the buffet, which offered less variety than the local grocery store chinese offerings, but not as good. You’d do well to spend your $ 8 somewhere else, unless quantity is more important than quality.

I read about this being the best place for Chinese food. Came here for dinner, it’s a buffet style restaurant.
It was pretty much an «all you can eat» experience.
The service was super great, the busboys were very attentive and fast to replenish your fountain drink.
Nonetheless, the place was also well kept.
As far as the food options, they offer traditional food; soups, rice, chicken, beefs, pork, shrimp, vegetarian, fruit.
If you’re in town it’s worth the try.

My favorite place to get Chinese ever! Always delicious! The best egg rolls, crab ragoons, sesame chicken, mandarin shrimp and twice cooked pork i have ever had! Honestly dont understand why they have such low reviews. After traveling to many places in trying lots of different Chinese restaurants this is by far the best one I’ve ever had!

This place is barely tolerable. The restaurant itself feels like a Chinese-​themed high school cafeteria. All the waitresses are teenage white girls, the bus boys are Mexican, and the chefs I saw were white (I know it shouldn’t matter, but you’d think you’d see a Chinese person at a Chinese restaurant).
Our mixed drinks were painful to drink. My Long Island iced tea tasted like Kool Aid and gasoline. The food was probably the worst I’ve ever had at a Chinese restaurant. My cashew chicken tasted like bad Salisbury steak, I swear.
This place is «popular» because Dubuque as a town does not have refined tastes. All the good restaurants close while ones like this stay open.
Service is fast and friendly so they get a star for that, otherwise, this place is garbage.

Best Chinese food in Dubuque. Twice cooked pork and mandarin chicken are my favorites. Best egg rolls ever!

We ate here about 4 or 5 years ago but went passed this restaurant Friday… we loved the lemon chicken. Quick, clean, and very pleasant experience…

Bland. Oily. Not great. Egg drop was very unusual for a Chinese restaurant. Veggies didn’t taste fresh.

Lunch menu on a Saturday… I’ll give it 2 stars because the service was nice and fast; however, the food was so bad. I order sweet & sour chicken. It tasted as the chicken was either frozen or old. The lack of texture was horrific to bite into and worst to swallow. I come to visit here in Dubuque but maybe try somewhere else next time.

I’m from Chicago and now live in the tri-​states and can say don’t bother going to House of China. I have been there several times and each dish ordered has not been impressive. The last time I went I ordered a dish that had mushrooms in it. I wasn’t a happy camper when I realized the mushrooms were canned. There is nothing wrong with canned mushrooms, but when you are running a restaurant and so many of the dishes require fresh vegetables then mushrooms should also be one of them.

House of China is not only my favorite place to get chinese, but it’s one of my favorite restaurants… period. My husband and I live in Chicago now, but we make it a priority to get House of China every time we are back in Dubuque.
The service is fast and the servers are extremely friendly and attentive. Lee is our waitress a lot of times and she’s the best!
Some of my favorite things to get are the Kung Bao Beef, egg rolls, egg drop soup, and the crab rangoons. I can’t say enough about how delicious their crab rangoons are. I am actually disappointed everywhere else because they are SO amazing at House of China.
If you live in the tri state area, I recommend getting House of China AT LEAST once a week. It’s the best! :)

Skip it. Even in Dubuque there is much better. Ordered extra spicy and NO heat. Soup had no flavor whatsoever. Fried wonton was good. In general, the sauces on all three dishes ordered where bland. Service was slow and spotty.

My favorite is chicken fried rice. It does not have soy sauce — it is white rice.

After having moved out of town to the East Coast, I haven’t been to House of China in at least 4 months. Everyone told me that the food that was once good is now terrible. They were were right. My chicken fried rice was the most disgusting dish I have ever been served at this place. It used to be great, but now it’s nothing but grease. After the waitress brought out my food, I refused it and asked if they had changed their recipe. She said no and I asked why there were no veggies in it. She took it back and brought out a new plate and said that she had mixed up a carry out order and mine. She put the plate in front of me and I literally found 2 peas and 1 carrot. I didn’t feel like arguing so I tried to eat it and after two bites I stopped. There was entirely too much EGG and GREASE and it made me sick to my stomach. I have a feeling they just tossed a few pieces of vegetables on it and served it to me.
I feel so disgusted about this experience that I WON’T return. I hear the owner is quite a tyrant and is extremely difficult to work for, so I guess they keep going through new chefs. They just lost one of their most loyal customers. What a tragedy. If I could give 0 stars I most certainly would.

Good taste on their take out, the pot stickers were wonderful, and the Mongolian Beef was good, if a little too onion filled for my taste. Came highly recommended from locals.

The food was OK I have had better. I like the vegetables in the Vegetables Egg Foo Young and Fried Rice. I did not like the fried rice was white rice with vegetables.

My house of China experience was an okay one, especially considering my hungover/​tired mood when I ate there. This was my first meal of the day, and I kind of wish I had something else. I must say, however, that I found their crab rangoon to be very delightful, and made perfectly. My mongolian chicken? Not so much. There was something lacking. It reminded me of a garlic chicken plate than a mongolian chicken. Oh well. Next time all around, I guess I’ll avoid eating Chinese for breakfast when I’m hungover. I’ll stick to a bowl of cheerios.

Oh, House of China. I’ll admit upfront, the only time I eat at House of China is when I’m hungover. And that’s the best time for some salty, fattening Chinese food. Their lunches include egg drop soup – which is amazing – and come with won tons, which are one of my favorite things on this planet. The Mongolian Chicken is to die for, in a hole in the wall Chinese place sort of way. I’ve had most of their chicken dishes and while they aren’t anything to write home about, they are the perfect solution to the morning after a rough night. The décor is really cheap and silly, though I do enjoy rubbing the big Buddha’s belly every time I go in. Certainly not the best Chinese in the world but it will always have a special place in my heart.

Their Mandarin Chicken rocks. This place is good, traditional Chinese food. Lots of options, pretty Americanized, but it reminds me of The Golden Wall (an old Sioux Falls, SD great Chinese spot). Recommend any time beyond Sunday brunch; their buffet on Sundays from 11 – 2 was ok. (not a lot of selection) and they don’t do order from the menu at that time…
Get the mandarin chicken.;.) yummo.

Stay away! horrible service by the Chinese server, on the verge of being rude. the food is so so, will never eat there again!