Express Cafe

Omg once again she never fails me!!! I’m not sure what the negative hype is, but this place is the bomb at 7am, soem of these pics I see i dont think there from this place!

My coworkers and I eat here regularly as it is a nice and close. The food has always been very consistent and filling with a portion size that usually leaves you with left overs. We’ve always gotten very quick and friendly service and our food has been great in the ~3 years we’ve been going here.

Terrible, I only went here because I have had such great success with other restaurants in this strip mall. The menu is all over the place, and it was confused. Are you a fried chicken place? A sandwich place? A Chinese place… What are you? I’m not sure the cooks know either, because the Asian chicken lunch I got was disgusting. It was old rice (I know because it was dry in some places and stuck together in hard clumps) and overly sweet ambiguous pieces of chicken that had clearly been around a while because they were incredibly tough and stringy. The salad that came with it was roughly chopped iceberg lettuce with dressing that was just a hard mayonnaise… You would literally need to spread it with a knife. And even though I was eating there, my food came in a styrofoam Togo container. What a waste of money for them, and it’s terrible for the environment.
I have a picture of my meal, just look at the stringy chicken. They asked if I wanted «spicy» and I said yes, so they just sprinkled some raw crushed red pepper (the stuff at the pizza place that comes in the shaker) on top before they closed the lid. Also notice the terrible salad… In retrospect I should have stuck my fork in the dressing to illustrate how thick it was (my fork would have stood straight up). There are so many other great restaurants I. That area… Choose one of those.

The husband and wife who own this are so nice and treat all their customers with an equal amount of respect. The food is always ready in 10 – 15 minutes, never a long wait but I like ordering ahead of time. I work close by and have been going here for 5 years now, everything thing has increased in price since then but you definitely get what you pay for in terms of portion.
Okay: Steak and Cheese (too much bread).
Good: Club Sandwich, Carne Asada
GREAT: Chicken and Shrimp Fried rice, Combination fried rice, Gyro, Gyro Meat on rice.
If you get breakfast, it’s really good here as well, the platter comes with a bunch of food and it’s SO cheap.

chicken salad gave me food poisoning. Stay away.

First to start my review I would like to state, THIS IS NOT a «hole-​in-​the-​wall». I was in New York between 2009 – 2010 and there are places there that are actual holes in the wall. This spot has been around 10 years. Props AND extra star for being an original restaurant. The food comes out quick, its a Mom and Pop store and they really try to produce good tasting food. I get different things when I come here, and usually they give me a bottle of water for free which is really nice of them. I’ve been coming here for almost 4 years. I always eat here and when its not busy the owners will talk with me. They are both Taiwanese and work very hard.
I respect mom and pop spots more then anything because its a lot of work, and usually they put in so much time/​energy.
I had the chicken cheesesteak, and a cheesesteak to go. There are a few tables for you to dine in, and parking is a bit harder to find now that there are a lot more active stores in the shopping center.
They serve breakfast here, starting at 6:30, and they close at 5. Their closed on Sundays.
This is my type of comfort food, I hope you give it a try!

I came here after dropping off a package at the Gaithersburg UPS Customer Center during my lunch.
Hole-​in-​the-​wall, total dive! I gave an extra star because the menu was interesting; they had carne asada and teriyaki chicken listed under Chef Specialities, as well as, fried chicken wings (w/​mumbo sauce) with fried rice or french fries on the menu. Any QSR establishment that has a Mexican, Japanese, and American Chinese item on the same menu warrants an extra star for the outré offerings.
As for the quality of the food:
1. The rice looked and tasted very old; there were clumps that were pretty mushy and other parts that were a bit hard.
2. The teriyaki chicken was pretty good, but it reminded me of bourbon chicken served in a mall eatery. Sarku will remain my go-​to for «teriyaki chicken.»
3. A side salad was included which was nice.
Overall, I probably would not pay another visit if I am in the area. I probably would opt to go to Phở Nam, which is in the same shopping center, instead.