Hunan Express

I wish I could say how the food is… but, it’s taken over an hour to get our food and they said 35 minutes! Extremely slow service.

Yes it is still a small take out place. But they seem to have improved on food quality. I have no issues with this place now. Plus it seems to be the only Chinese delivery place in crofton now. All the others went out of business.

Gross. Ordered Peking duck for 15 bucks and all we got was fat, skin, and bones. Also, the ‘pancakes’ it was supposed to come with were flour tortillas? Ridiculous. Go to the sushi place next door.

Food is ok. But sadly, they can’t get everything right. They can’t even include BUT 1 duck sauce for all my food. And someone who ordered sweet and sour something, must be missing the sauce… cause it was in MY bag! Don’t think I’ll order here again.

So everything was good until about 30 minutes into our meal (delivery) and then my wife found a pretty big piece of metal in her food. Looks like it came off a cleaning scrubber. Looks like a wire or something.

Poor service. Greasy food. Why did I even come in here? Oh yeah — because I was stuck in the area and couldn’t go far for a good 30 minutes and needed a quick bite. Didn’t expect it to bite back. No me gusta. My tummy was rumbling! lol! Skip it.

I love the crab rangoon and general tso chicken! Great prices and pretty quick delivery! We order out from here a lot, and I’ve never been disappointed. Everyone I’ve spoken to have been very polite and professional.

Love their Beef sticks. I also order Beef Fried Rice and the meat is very tender! I work in Crofton and this is my place to go now

Easily the BEST Chinese take-​out I’ve ever had. The sauce was so good, I wish I had more rice to finish it off with. The veggies perfect– not too raw and not too soggy. The meat was tender and very good.
The rice itself was cooked properly, and had that good fluff that you’d expect from well-​made rice. Will (not «would») definitely go back every time I come to Crownsville.

They have really good lunch specials and are generous with their portion size. I would have liked the fried rice that came with my general Tso to include vegetables but it was still good.

I ordered from here for the second time last night. This place really impressed me. I ordered a dinner combination meal which came with an egg roll, won ton soup, and pork fried rice. I also ordered a pork lo mein on the side. The fried rice and the lo mein was outright delicious. The won tons were firm and not loose or mushy and had good flavor. The egg roll was crispy (even after being delivered) and they provide the traditional spicy yellow mustard that most places seem not to use anymore. I ordered sweet and sour chicken to share with my daughter and it was ok. It’s not something I normally order but it wasn’t too bad.
Delivery took about a half hour to Odenton which I found to be extremely fast. I was very impressed and this will now be my go to place for Chinese. An added bonus is being able to order via grub hub on my smart phone. Order, tip and pay from your phone? You can’t beat it.

Limited experience but what I’ve had was great. Perfect American-​Chinese food. We got the orange chicken and sweet/​sour chicken, egg drop soup, egg rolls, and lo mien. Nothing was overly greasy (you need a little to make it right). Good value and quick for pick up. Ill be back.

Has been a steady staple of our family for a decade. If you keep the ball on the fairway and don’t try and get to fancy, this place is consistently solid.

We like this place and order take out a lot. Very friendly lady behind the counter. Huge portions — they pack the boxes until they are bulging. My wife and I always get a general tso’s to share and we can barely finish it between us.
I read some of the other reviews complaining that it isn’t always fresh tasting. We’ve found it is great if you order during peak meal times and they cook it right then. Once, when we ordered at odd hours it was kind of mushy — like it had sat under a heat lamp for a while or was maybe left over and re-​heated from lunch. But the general rule is that this place is good.

Awful parking in this lot. Be ware in peak hours. Delivery took over an hour and I’m maybe a mile away… if that. I was charged for hot oil. I was charged for a TSP worth of hot oil. It’s not my fault American Chinese restaurants don’t understand that I want spicy. I am American but I can handle it! Never again!

Stay away! Greasy dead cat! This place is horrible! Don’t even think about this one!

We ordered two meals from Hunan Express and both were fantastic! I let the nice lady behind the counter know that we had never ordered from them before, and she recommended two dinners for us. We ordered the Schezwan (sp?) delight with brown sauce and the chicken broccoli. One came with hot and sour soup, the other was egg drop soup.
It was a lot of food for our family of 5. My kids ate it and raved about it. We had leftovers that were just as good heated up.
I’m not sure what the other bad reviews were for. Maybe we just got them on a really good day, but we are definitely going back. I have to agree with another reviewer that they have the best hot and sour soup I have ever had.

I’m being extra generous by giving this place four stars, especially when Chinese take-​out places seem to be all the same. But it’s the little differences that make this joint a consistent favorite among the sea of others in the Bowie/​Crofton/​Odenton area.
First, the girl working the counter is always pleasant, whether you’re ordering by phone or taking it to go. I’ve even eaten in the little front waiting area, just sat down and went at a carton of lo mein. She chatted me up and recognized me the next time I walked in.
Second, the portions are HUGE. The dinner specials are redonk. It’s like 5lbs of food plus a pint of soup.
Lastly, the food is great. Granted, I really only eat the veggie or shrimp options so I can’t speak for the whole menu. But for me, the hot ‘n sour soup is always the deciding factor. Some places it’s all tofu and mushrooms (meh, more bean sprouts, plz). Some places its neither hot nor sour. At Hunan Express it’s like the perfect ratio of all the ingredients plus extra sour. Ask for it extra hot and you’ll find a dried pepper floating on top. Me likey! And the lo mein is never dry. The last time I ordered from Hunan L’Rose I was very disappointed.
So if you ever get a craving to order Chinese take-​out and sit and watch t.v. with your honey while sipping beer (which I do, quite frequently), I highly recommend Hunan Express. And the delivery is super fast!

I don’t know if they changed their cook or are under new management but the food as gone from great to gross in a matter of months. Our past three orders have consisted of dry, over-​cooked chicken, undercooked rice, and excessively greasy egg/​spring rolls. Their delivery times have been inconsistent — 20 minutes to over an hour. We will not be ordering from this restaurant again. Damn shame.

Thank God this place exists, or I’m convinced the Annapolis area would be devoid of a decent take-​out place. There are a few dine-​in restaurants here, but when it comes to strictly take-​out, Hunan Express is legit. How legit? Let’s put it this way: we moved away from the Crofton area in January and still get food from this place because in my opinion, it’s worth the 30 minute drive.
My wife and I order here all the time, and I’m just now reviewing them (because I had some Chinese food that was so bad I had to review it, and I need to cleanse my soul after writing a one-​star review). Our typical order includes the kung pao chicken combination (with wonton soup, chicken fried rice, and an egg roll), orange or Hunan chicken, and some sort of shrimp item (usually lo mein or Singapore noodles). The food is delicious, the Hunan style cuisine is authentic as it gets, and the variety is enjoyable.
The only complaints I may have about the food are minor: carrots and celery do not belong in kung pao chicken, there’s not nearly enough meat in the hunan style dishes, and the orange chicken is often a bit too crunchy for the average human. Also, the lemon chicken and sweet and sour chicken are nothing to write home about: it’s just deep fried balls of breaded chicken with some mediocre sauce to dip them in.
But honestly, even with all the filler, the kung pao chicken dish contains so much meat, it’s absurd to think that one person could ever eat it all in one sitting, especially with rice. The same could be said of the orange chicken, which has some excellent sauce. Their wonton soup is quite amazing, and it satisfies my picky wife (picky about soup, that is) and reminds her of our favorite soup restaurant in Hong Kong.
One thing to note: if you’re looking for spicy food, this is not your place. But I’ve also never asked them to kick it up a notch, so perhaps that could be arranged if a spicy dish is something you crave.
Another great thing about this place is their prices. They are very reasonable, especially for the huge portion sizes, and their website boasts coupons that you can use every time you come in. Other perks include an intelligible and pleasant phone operator, a convenient web order form, and speedy service for such a busy restaurant. I’d recommend this place to anyone in the area.