Ming Cheng Restaurant

This place has some of the best Chinese food in town. I myself am a huge fan of the crab rangoon. I don’t know what it is about those things but I love them. Their General Tso’s and Shrimp with Lobster sauce is also to die for.

Food sucks now after the authentic Chinese place opened last year in Kent, they basically gave in. People are nice though.

Cheap, fast, and good food. This place is actually quite popular. That may be attributed to the food being cheap, made fairly quickly, and tasting pretty good. For a quick bite of Chinese food, it’s not bad, it won’t blow your taste buds away by any means, but it’s serviceable. I personally like to order their fried dumplings when I’m in a hurry. They are huge, size and potion wise. Definitely worth it for a quick bite to eat.

I really liked the food and it was fast. I had the sweet and sour chicken and the fried wontons. I loved it all except the sauce for the sweet and sour chicken. I thought it was going to be a little bit better

I’ve had the take-​out here a few times. Nothing terrible, but definitely not that great. Just a humble Chinese take out joint located in a grocery store plaza.

They have good food that is well worth the wait… My wife and I get the garlic chichen :-D. I will say that you just have to be patient for it. They have also improved on their customer service providing better customer interaction.

So it was late, it was raining, and my boyfriend and I wanted Chinese food. After calling several places who were not willing to drive five minutes to deliver, we decided on this place. It was a pretty dismal experience. I’ve had my fair share of bad cheap food… I used to eat at a place called «Tasty Goody» and god forbid when you’re desperate and hungry it was BOMB. Tasty Goody is questionable and grease-​laden but leagues better than this place.
This place might be cheap, but you still pay too much for what this is. I don’t even know what it is. I have never eaten food before and legitimately worried that the meat was something they found in the alley until now. I guess it was chicken but it tasted like fish and had a really unsettling texture. I was worried I would be sick after eating this because it looked that shady.
We had a lot of leftovers and I usually like leftovers, but this time it was just a chore that took up fridge space and got tossed a few days later. It was truly dismal. I picked at the mu shu chicken which was the most palatable thing we ordered, but even that made me nervous. All of the food had so much grease and oil in that it turned into a gelatinous mold once put in the fridge. I didn’t expect much, but I didn’t think it would be that bad. I wouldn’t eat here again if you paid me.

Food was awful, I ordered the orange chicken for carry out got it home and my chicken was sitting in a pool of water. Also my white rice was undercooked, why does Kent not have any good Chinese?

Not the most exceptional of cuisine (this is a strip-​mall, Americanized take-​out place… what do you expect??), but consistent, quick, and nicely priced. I have been coming here with my husband since 2009 fairly consistently, and I have never had to wait for more than 10 minutes or had to correct any mistakes with the order. I am a vegetarian, and they have a small but decent selection of vegetable-​based dishes (tofu as well, if you’re in the mood). The presumed owner (the woman who seems to be staffing the counter 12 hours a day, 7 days a week) is not the warmest of individuals, but she is definitely efficient. Maybe it’s because I am not originally from the midwest, but I don’t think it is necessary for every person in the service industry to be over the top nice/​friendly. That being what it is, she has come to recognize my husband and I. She even smiles when she sees us now (I SWEAR!), and is friendly about giving us extra sauces, etc. So, not the fanciest of places, but a definite regular on the Kent dining rotation.

This is one of those, you get what you pay for situations. I’ll admit, all I ordered was the won-​ton soup & it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t worth making the out of the way trip for either. The woman behind the counter is definitely not friendly but my food was hot, and fresh so I really can’t complain.

Bland food, abrupt service.

I’ve been going to Ming Cheng since the mid-​90s, and it’s barely changed in that time. I’ve rarely ventured from my standards because every time I’ve ordered something different I haven’t liked it as much. Pork lo mein, pork fried rice, egg rolls, and wonton soup can’t be beat (just get the combo). The fried wontons are worth an extra hour at the gym the next day. A friend swears by the pork egg foo yung (with pork fried rice of course). They’re not heavy-​handed with the soy sauce, and you can often see someone cutting up fresh vegetables and meat at the back of kitchen. With that, it is what it is — it’s a strip mall Chinese take-​out place. Portions are very generous, prices are low, ingredients are fresh, flavors have been consistent for a long time even with new cooks rotating in and out. No, the owner isn’t friendly, but she keeps the cooks on task and gets you your food quickly and correctly

The food here isn’t the worst Chinese I’ve ever had, but it’s nothing to brag about. It’s mediocre, but it’s inexpensive and the service is fast. The selection is huge, but I’ve found that anything that isn’t friend chicken covered in sauce is awful. That said, the general tso’s is passable, and it’s what I get every time. For the price you get a lot of food, which is always nice on a college budget. They’re not trying to be gormet though, so I give the food itself 3.5 stars.
The biggest problem I have with Ming Cheng is how utterly rude and impatient the staff is on the phone. They never ask if you want delivery, how you’re going to pay, give you the total, or wait for you to complete your order before hanging up on you. Almost every time I’ve ordered I had to call back for one or more of the reasons above. Don’t say that it’s cultural, because I’ve been to plenty of Chinese restaurants where the service was fast AND polite. The impatient, rude service gets negative five stars.
1 Star over all.

Great for take out Chinese and always extra delicious. Sometimes the service is abrubt but it doesn’t seem to be unfriendly — just cultural. Good size portions and you can order your food, get a treat at the Acme and get back to pick up the food in 15 minutes.
If you call to place a pick up order, give them your phone number — it’s all they need.
You can dine in — it’s a very small cafeteria-​style place so groups would be a bit much.