Ching Mei

This is my go to jjajjangmyung place in Altanta. I come here at least once every two weeks. I think it’s better than Man Chon Hong on Buford Highway. The jjajjangmyung sauce is consistent every time I come and suited for the Korean palette.
I usually get the jeng bann go chu jja jang (stir fried black bean noodles w pepper) and pork tang soo yuk (sweet and sour pork?). They have a bunch of combos as well, but the noodle portion will be smaller.
This is not your typical Chinese restaurant. The owners are Chinese-​Koreans and they speak 3 languages. I’ve never had a problem w the service. Sometimes I’ll go to the front to pay if I’m in a rush.

We like to come here to eat jja sang myun and jjamppong. The prices here are like everywhere else. Their tangsooyook and ggangpoongi is really good as well. This place is known for their korean/​chinese foods.
Their closed on Wednesdays. The service here can really depend on who is working and what day, I suppose. Sometimes the ladies here can be really nice and sometimes be really mean for no reason. They can be slow and sometimes be fast. It really all depends. I like to come here because it’s really convenient and you don’t have to go out of your way to get some.

I will not return to this restaurant, even one star being too much. The owner threw a tandrum and gave us a nasty attitude because she doesnt think she got enough tip. She flicked the receipt and told me I don’t tip enough. For service, she does not come to your table except when she has to bring the food and simply stares at you from afar. She yells at her employee which already sets the tone of the restaurant. Service is half of the restaurant experience which is sorely lacking. If you cannot withhold at least a minimum bar of hospitality then this is the wrong industry for you.

I would leave less than 1 if I could. Cashier chucked our receipt at us and said, «Wow u guys really don’t know how to tip.» Table service was comparable to a broken vending machine at a dirty bus stop. Maybe I’ll come back once she can comprehend that generous gratuity comes, when basic customer service starts. Maybe she needs to get a massage, a hobby, or a boyfriend

Ordered takeout from this place. We got combo CD ($ 25) which included blk bean noodles+ spicy noodles soup+ braised shrimps.
Pros: Food came out fast.
Spicy noodles soup was no joke. It was HOT.
Blk bean noodles was decent.
Shrimps were big. Guess they used tiger shrimp.
Good portion with reasonable price.
Cons: spicy shrimp dish was more like sweet chilies shrimp (will not order next time) .
Noodles were cold when I opened the box (it shouldn’t have been cold coz it was just right down the street from my place. Barely 5 mins drive).
Conclusion: will be back trying other stuffs. Their menu seems very authentic.

A lot better than Duluth Hmart’s korean-​chinese food court joint, but not as good as Yin Jing on Buford Hwy.

This place has been my family’s choice for korean chinese food but I think it may change since the last few visits.
I went in during lunch time today with friends and the service from the beginning was sub par. One of the servers pointed us to seats and we sat down and looked at the menus. We felt rushed to make an order by the server even though some of us weren’t ready. She seemed like she didnt want to wait for us so she put in two of our orders and came back for the third one.
Our food got to us all at such different times. Mine came in about 5 minutes of ordering and the other dishes took way too long. After we got the last dish about 20 minutes later I discovered that there was pork in my food despite the fact that I asked for no pork. This mistake and the incident of my food coming out suspiciously fast made me think that my dish wasnt fresh and was probably made for someone else and they just gave it to me. Regardless, the lady apologized and I got a new dish. I still felt uncomfortable, having found the pork in my food so I didn’t finish the dish.
When we were paying, we wanted the change back for our cash but she only gave us the bills instead of the coins. In terms of the amount, its not a big deal but I thought it was very unprofessional to not give the full change amount back. The way that she was acting with the money and with the food and ordering earlier really does not make me want to come back. We left feeling unsatisfied and regretting our lunch. With so many other korean chinese restaurants in the area, I am not likely to return to ching mei because of their unprofessional service.

On a Sunday evening for dinner, I wanted a certain type of food, tuna kimbob etc. Unfortunately, Manna was closed on Sunday and Dahnmooji was renovating for the entire of month of May. Therefore, I thought we try a new restaurant in the same Nukoa plaza, Ching Mei.
It didn’t look all that fancy or clean, but I thought I still give it a try. We sat down next to the kitchen area.
So here it goes my first experience at this restaurant. My party of 2 became a party of 3 as I was eating. In midpoint of my meal, I was having a staring competition with a GERMAN ROACH about inches from my face and a foot from my food and water. I was eventually was going to kill it, but I was trying to move my water and dishes away from the wall because if I miss, this GERMAN ROACH can jump on my food or I can accidentally knock something. This GERMAN ROACH was quite lively and active. I didn’t want to cause a scene and trying to kill it quietly. Then, one of the restaurant owners or worker came over because the other guest was petrified and had a scared face («I am about to scream») look on. He, then quickly, gathered a napkin and tried to kill it as he apologized about how these GERMAN ROACHES are reacting to the bug spray. He pressed against the GERMAN ROACH, but it didn’t stick to the napkin. It was still actively moving, and so the restaurant worker had to try second time before it jumped on my table or my face. Second time around, he definitely killed it and took the dead GERMAN ROACH away.
I felt sick after having a third party join my meal like that… however, I didn’t want to make a scene in the restaurant in front of people and be that «Asian.» I finished half my meal, and we got our check. When we got our check, what I noticed was that the restaurant charged us for the entire meal. No discount was considered. I was a really offended at that point because not only did you lie about some GERMAN ROACHES reacting to a fictitious bug spray, but you don’t consider the horrible dining experience we just had?
I am not even going to comment about the food here because honestly, I don’t remember it much except the fact that I was staring at a GERMAN ROACH’S EYES for about a full minute.
I get on Unilocal and to see what kind of review this place has, and guess what I see? Another review about ROACHES in 2013.
Let me educate everyone about AMERICAN ROACHES verses GERMAN ROACHES. The kind of GERMAN ROACHES that this restaurant has since at least since 2013 are the type that colonize in dark space where it’s warm and feeds off on food in open space. They are the type that lay larvae into food and the walls. These GERMAN ROACHES populate in places because the place is filthy or dirty. AMERICAN ROACHES are the type that come from outside because they live in the wild. The one I saw at Ching Mei was a GERMAN ROACH. For this GERMAN ROACH to be out in the light and public goes to show that there are a lot and pretty used to the light. Furthermore, I sat next to the kitchen area. PEOPLE ARE EATING ROACH INFESTED FOOD.
There is a post about ROACHES in 2013, and on 5÷3÷2015 during my visit, I ATE WITH GERMAN ROACHES. Obviously this restaurant has not changed and will never change at this rate. I highly recommend not going to this restaurant. Why? Two words for you… GERMAN ROACHES

*3.5 stars but closer to 3 than 4.
Ricky and I tried this place for dinner one random week night because neither of wanted to cook or clean dishes and wanted something fast and tasty so we tried this place. We were greated when we first got there which was nice and our waiter was very nice and attentive (not too busy either). We got the combo with jajangmyeon, tangsuyuk, and jjamppong (hope I spelled them right) for roughly $ 20 – 25 bucks. The portions are decent and the food came out pretty fast. The jajangmyeon is pretty darn good I have to admit but not a huge bowl but a lot of bacon and yummy. The jjamppong was nothing special to me and a little on the spicier side (still not as spicy as the one at hmart though lol). The tangsuyuk was a huge portion but the pork was soggy and not crispy. I feel like a lot of the meal was pre-​prepped so didnt feel too fresh. Something that did bother me though is the other tables had metal chopsticks and we got disposable chopsticks, and they ordered tangsuyuk but they got more meat than we did (maybe they are regulars though and they were older).
Overall a nice place to get korean chinese food. Cant compare to the korean chinese food i had in korea but it will satisfy your cravings.

Tasty Korean chinese food. We ordered a combination meal which included sweet and sour chicken, black bean noodles, and a bowl of spicy noodle soup. Kids loved the chicken and bb noodles and besides the food tasting fresh, the sweet and sour sauce wasn’t lighting up with red food coloring. Everything tasted fresh and come out piping hot. The restaurant was very busy when we got there, so we had to wait for a table and then wait about 30 mins for our food. Too long for an asian joint in my opinion but I would go back during non peak hours. There were only two servers managing the entire restaurant. Both running because it was so busy. Definitely solid three star rating. I might have given it four if the service was better. The place is mom and pop style — nothing fancy, but good food.

Awesome food and staff. Mongolian beef was fantastic. Don’t miss out on this place!

Love this place. Their Tangsuyook is to die for and their Jajang myun is great too! I haven’t tried much of others but I am sure I will. My family’s most desirable Korean-​chinese restaurant. I can understand the customers complaining about the service or servers yelling and stuff. It’s just quite typical for a Korean-​chinese restaurant aatmosphere.

Food itself is pretty good. It’s not your standard Chinese food that most American’s are accustomed to such as Panda Express or PF Changs. About 4 star worthy if judging strictly on food.
Why 1 star?
The service and the owners are absolute trash. Rude as you can get. Been here couple times and their service is always slow even when they are not busy, but this incident was the last straw.
They close at 10 pm. We went around 9:10−15ish.
First, she just stares and doesn’t say a thing. Then lets out a loud sigh and asks how many we are sitting and I tell her 5. As she is getting the menu and the utensils, she says in korean, «Why are the fudgers coming in this late at night as we are about to close ()» out loud, bluntly for me to hear. in dismay, I just walked out as I lost all my appetite and didn’t want to eat there any longer.
As I leave and go back to my car, she comes out and angrily yells at me that they close at 9:30pm and asks if im going to eat or not. I got annoyed and told her why is the freaking sign say closes at 10pm and your OPEN light is on and told her to go back inside. Unbelievable.
Don’t care how good the food is, you don’t treat your customers that way. If she didn’t want to serve, she could have simply said, i apologize but our kitchen is closed for the night instead of acting like a little B. Apparently, I am not the only one who is aware of her rude behavior within the Korean community. I wonder how she treats the non Korean speaking patrons. Will never go back.

Best Korean/​Chinese restaurant in Atlanta.
I’ve only had the «usual» jjajangmyun (black bean noodles), tangsooyook (sweet & sour pork), ggangpoongi (spicy chicken) and their king dumplings– ALL great.
Service is kind of slow though but they’re always extremely kind.

Small Chinese-​Korean restaurant that is great to eat your favorites… jajangmyun, sweet and sour chicken/​beef, spicy seafood soup. The place is never too busy so it’s a great place to go without having to wait in line for much. If you need something, don’t hesitate to ask for it because the service can be slow at times. Refills are hard to come by but they will do it if you ask for it.

I used to eat here a lot because i loved their black bean noodle dish and tangsuyook. It’s kind of a hidden, small place inside the NuKoa shopping center. But one day, there was a roach chilling on the wall next to the table i was sitting at. I wasn’t going to freak out and let the whole restaurant patrons know because i know that there will be roaches in all restaurants regardless of the efforts to spray for bugs.
There is abundance of food and roaches will always be attracted to it. It wasn’t the roach that got me turned off about this place but how the manager reacted to my soft-​spoken, secrecy voice informing him of such. The manager looked at me as i was pointing to the wall where the roach was chilling and looked at the wall himself. He just acted like he saw nothing and walked away. I expected him to return with a wad of paper towel to kill the roach for us so that we can continue to eat at our table but he never returned or moved us to another table so that we could finish eating our food.
He decided to act blind to it as if it didn’t exist. So we ended up calling our server to tell her and she came back with a wad of paper towel and killed it for us and apologized. How is a manager going to ignore our request that we had to get a female ahjooma server to kill a roach? This behavior was unacceptable and i vow not to return to this restaurant again. Not because there was a roach but because the manager decided to act like an asshole about it.

My wife loves it, not for me though. Seemed like the noodles were cheap.

After dining at many decent Korean-​Chinese restaurants in New York, Atlanta does not have as many options to choose from. Ching Mei is pretty much it, as far as popular choices. Many other Korean restaurants serve Korean/​Chinese dishes, but at Ching Mei, it is their specialty.
Conveniently located right off of I-​85 in Nukoa Plaza. There are two MUST-​ORDER dishes here; Jjampong and Jajangmyun.
Most restaurants that serve both, serve a split-​dish of the two. Like a large bowl with two compartments, one part of the bowl for each. That is not an option at Ching Mei, and seems to be the biggest complaint from customers that want to sample both, but cannot handle such a large portion of just one.
Since the prices are much lower than other Korean/​Chinese specialty restaurants in the area, I can see why many people visit.
I also really enjoyed their Tang-​su-​yuk because a spicy version is offered. Not only is it spicy, but the spiciness is mostly provided by finely diced and de-​seeded fresh jalapeño peppers. So it is more of a natural taste.
Most of the dishes are offered in a spicy option. But, I ordered the regular Jajangmyun to taste their version in its most basic form. I have had this dish an insane amount of times at many restaurants in multiple locations and at home, and this version… the bean paste they use is much stronger tasting than I am used to, definitely more of a Chinese flavor.
It was also nice to see that the chef is Chinese and the waitresses speak both fluent Mandarin and Korean.
The décor is definitely not important to me, but it would be nice if they dimmed the lights a little. The fluorescent ceiling lights are really bright. I almost thought that they were not open yet, because the installed decorative lighting was not used.

The food here was just ok — couldn’t help but compare it to Man Chun Hong which we thought was a lot better. The jja-​jang-​myun didn’t have the same smoky flavor. The tang-​soo-​yuk (sweet & sour pork) wasn’t as good. Portions felt smaller. And our server wasn’t very friendly.
We ordered the $ 19.99 combination which included «sweet & sour pork, jajang myeon, and spicy noodle soup w/​seafood» (jjam-​pong). The food was not bad, but couldn’t help but compare to the same $ 19.99 combination that Man Chun Hong offers — and I think their combo meal includes steamed dumplings too. My dad seemed very happy w/​the jjam-​pong though.
We also got a small order of the spicy jja-​jang-​myun w/​seafood for $ 7.99 b/​c I was curious what it would taste like. We all agreed it was tastier than the «regular» version — w/​just a slight kick from the chopped jalapenos mixed into the sauce — but it wasn’t as good as I had hoped. Maybe my expectations were too high — I have that problem a lot. The «seafood» was just shrimp, FYI.
I don’t think we’ll come back for the noodles but I might be interested in trying the other Chinese dishes just b/​c I have other friends who like this place.
FYI — the lock for the women’s restroom door is all taped up so you can’t use the lock. And above the lock is a paragraph-​long explanation written in Korean, but I’m slow at reading Korean and it was better use of my time to just do my business and pray that no one would open the door.
Another FYI — they’re closed on Wednesdays.

I thought that Yen Jing was the only decent Korean-​Chinese restaurant in town, but now they have a competitor! Introducing Ching Mei, a Korean-​Chinese restaurant in Duluth with classic dishes such as jjajjang myun, jjam bbong, tang su yuk, ggam poong gi, etc. The dishes are mighty tasty. They probably have the best beef tang su yuk I’ve had in Atlanta. Also, all their dishes come out fresh from the wok. Therefore, be careful not to burn those taste buds off your tongue.
One dish that stands out more than the others is the jang ban gochu jjajjang. It’s a huge plate of jalepeno infused jjajjang myun. Yum, jjajjang myun with a kick! A large plate is only $ 11.99, enough for two people or meals. What a deal! The regular jjajjang myun is good too, and only $ 5.99. However, I prefer the little kick, it gives it a bit more flavor.

Anyway, if you’re out in the Duluth area, and only if you’re out in that area, then Ching Mei is definitely worth trying. I don’t think it’s worth driving across town for, Yen Jing is still good enough for the south side.