Szechuan East

I must echo the concerns of the other one star review because I have also suffered significant gastrointestinal illness after eating here. Last Thursday, traveling on business, the Hampton inn recommended Szechuan East and I picked up kung pao chicken with fried rice. The restaurant was a typical strip mall take out place with a few tables and for being 8pm it was doing a good takeout business. The food was above average for takeout Chinese and I enjoyed it. I began feeling ill the next morning which got progressively worse throughout the day. Then from 4pm on and over the next day I was incapacitated with vomiting then diarrhea. I still don’t feel great. I would stay away from Szechuan East.

Ever get that hunkering urge for a good Chinese dish!!! This place satisfies everytime. Its a amall but adequate restaurant in a great location for Johnstown.
The service usalways excellent and the food always served fresh and hot. Im a sucker for any dish served in their brown garlic sauce. Add 4 stars to pep up the spiciness and you end up with pure oral perfection
Definitely my go to compared to the other 5 or 6 Chinese restaurants in town

I love this restaurant, and get excited to be able to go every time I’m in town. Their food is great, and their lunch prices are unbeatable!

This is the go to when I’m just tired and don’t feel like cooking. Everything is perfect when ordered. Usually ready for pick up within a half hour. We love the combination platter. You get soup, egg roll, rice and enough main dish to share or it can be two meals for one. NEVER disappointed. Excellent staff. You can eat in also, but it’s a small place. We like to relax at home with this meal. Chicken and broccoli or cashews. Beef lo mein. Yummy. 2 meals for $ 20.

I really wanted to give this place a positive review. I was here for a job interview at Johnstown and thought chinese food would be the safest, tastiest, and cheapest option for dinner. Since this place is the highest rated, me and my wife wanted to give it a shot. We got the general jou’s chicken and it was tasty albeight being a bit oily. All went well and we enjoyed dinner. Then everything went down hill from there. We both woke up at 1am with severe nausea and abdominal disturbance, then came the vomiting and diarrhea. Unfortunately for the restaurant I am a doctor and I knew what was going on. We had what is called «fried rice syndrome» or Bacillus Cereus food poisoning. This illness develops due to poor refrigeration of rice and having it lying around for long times at room temperature. The toxin doesn’t get destroyed with re-​heating so again unfortunately for the restaurant it was clear they had that rice lying around for days without properly discarding it and cooking new batches. Now we are at the airport feeling sick and running to the bathroom every now and then, and will remain doing so till the duration of the condition (up to 24 hours).
Long story short, we probably won’t be having chinese from this place ever again but I thought it is of utmost importance that anyone deciding to eat from there to know what to expect. This type of food poisoning is a benign one, but still it reflects the place’s sanitry values in general. They did it once and they’ll do it again for sure.

This place is great! I was craving Chinese food like no other! Decided to go here after the gym. I went it for a take out order and got th General tso lunch special which comes with soup, spring roll, rice and the chicken! I opted to get lo mien instead! That was $ 2 charge but well worth it. You can also order it without MSG which I did, and for spice you can have a 1 – 10 star rating! 1 being the least and 10 the hottest! All this for $ 9, if I opted for th rice it would have been $ 7.
It was a quick in and out, they told me 10 mins which wasn’t bad but it was like 7mins! The chicken was fresh hot and perfect! The noodles were perfect as well!
Compared to the downtown restaurant I reviewed a few months back, this one is 100x better!!! I will definitely be coming back to this one.

Now that winter is coming, I look forward to some more cozy nights with my favorite: white rice, egg drop soup, and the best crab Rangoon I’ve ever had. Cheap, filling, and so very good!
I even like their spring rolls, and I don’t usually go for those.
Hubby loves the General Tso with fried rice.
Good stuff!

I stopped by for lunch having never been here before. The lunch specials were a great deal and came with plenty of food. And the food was all great. Highly recommended.

We didn’t find this to be at all comparable to the downtown location; overall the food was humdrum and unremarkable.
The hot and sour soup, however, is tofu– and mushroom-​filled bliss in a bowl. It’s a better quality of soup than you find at a lot of hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurants, and it’s topped with a scattering of green onion slices and a drizzle of hot chili oil that pushes it over the line from «awesome» to «sublime.» Stir the oil into the soup and enjoy the pain; it’s the good kind of pain.

Tasty food, quick service/​delivery and great prices! They are always happy to create a custom order.
I enjoy the general tso tofu with broccoli and their ‘chips’ with duck sauce.
Unfortunately, while dining in the restaurant, I observed workers sitting in the dining area, eating food while snapping the ends off of green beans. Of course, this would not pass inspection and is not clean.

Excellent. Never had a bad meal. The wait staff and owner are super friendly and personable. This place is in my top 5 favorite restaurants.

Not crazy about this place at all. As another reviewer stated above I know people who love this place… unfortunately everyhing I’ve had is pretty low quality. The chicken has an odd taste to it, and the rice has virtually no flavor. Not to mention the after lunch stomach pains are never a good thing either. I will give them props however on the price point, a lunch special is $ 5.75 and comes with soup and an egg roll, although as stated above you kinda get what you pay for.

Good food. Clean restaurant.

I work with people who LOVE szechaun. Myself is not a fan by any means. They have a HUGE lunch rush every day, but as I said I am not a fan. It is entirely too greasy for me and honestly I haven’t found anything that is amazing from there. They have some upsides. The little breaded crispy chip things are awesome, you can change how spicy ANY dish is (1 – 10), It’s cheap, and Give you ALOT of food. In my opinion Lychee by wal-​Mart is 10x better
The only reason it gets two stars instead of one is soley because the sizes for the price during lunch.

We go here often enough that they know us by name and start putting in our order before we even get served. We love this Szechuan East.
Pros: Awesome food, great service, friendly, laid back.
Cons: None

A satellite of the Szechuan Downtown, this small restaurant shares all of the same excellent recipes and does a brisk take-​out business. Waitresses are friendly and pleasant.
CONS: Not a lot of seating.