Red Shrimp Company

I like this place. Fried rice no peas! I hate peas! Hot fresh made to order. And no I’m not the owner. Spring rolls, Rangoon or I think wan tons with every order. The elderly lady at the counter is so polite.

Decided on delivery. Order totaled to around $ 38. At checkout, you’re given three options: free crab rangoons, egg rolls or shrimp fried rice. We chose fried rice. Got the order within 30 mins. Gave them $ 45 including tip.
Order:
Pot Stickers: Dry meat
Egg Rolls: Good
Black Bean Shrimp: Too salty, asked for spicy but wasn’t spicy and salty instead.
Orange Chicken: Chicken undercooked.
Spend your money at Panda Express. You’re watching the cooks make the food and in a more comforting environment. The food is cheap here but would you rather feel disgusted after? Up to you. They should not even be allowed to serve food to people in my opinion just like a few other restaurants in town. Well, if you excuse me, I have a hospital to go to.

I tried delivery. It was very fast. Like it. Food is OK. Price is really good. Can’t complain too much when it is cheap

It was not bad, but it was not great either. I ordered mushroom chicken, but my dish had no mushrooms. It was alright in taste, but I wanted mushrooms. Mistakes happen, so I won’t hold it against them.
Eggrolls are cooked just right (free order, nice).
Fried shrimp appetizer was pretty good.
Egg Drop Soup was okay, not like I normally get. This one seemed to lack a full flavor.
Mushroom Chicken, no mushrooms. Decent taste.
Sweet and Sour Pork was okay, nothing to write home about.
SO MUCH WHITE RICE, rice was just rice, meh.
I am willing to try them again, perhaps it was an off night. Will update when I do.

Love this place, I’ve been getting takeout/​delivery for 20 years. Wonton soup is awesome!

I tried the shrimp with vegetables and BBQ spare ribs. The veggies were a bit under cooked for me but the shrimp was good. The ribs had mostly fat and were just ok. I’ve had this food before and I only stopped here because it used to be delicious years ago. I was disappointed this time.

What better way to enjoy your lazy day off than kicking back with a bunch of your favorite movies and chowing down on Chinese take-​out? I decided to go to Red Shrimp Co. so I didn’t have to suffer through the horrible Chinatown traffic. Their food is average at best, but nothing too spectacular.
I ordered the Mongolian beef and scallop fried rice.
The Mongolian beef’s sweet chili sauce was pretty good. Not overbearing and goes great as a drizzle over the steamed white rice they give you with the order. Unfortunately, there were WAY too many leeks and white onions than there was actual beef. It was also soaked in an unappealing orange-​tinted oil.
Not many Chinese take-​out places offer scallop fried rice as an option, so I went with it. The scallop fried rice was a bit bland for my liking. They were super sparing on the scallops as well (I saw a few scallop bits in there, but it wasn’t that many).
Here at the Red Shrimp Company, they give you a lot of food for an okay price for what it’s worth… I think this place definitely has the «quantity over quality» ideology here. I’m a little bit disappointed that their dishes were like 80% «filler» ingredients, but I can’t expect too much from a run-​of-​the-​mill Chinese take-​out place…
Hey, at least they saved me from making a trip into the heart of Chinatown for take-​out!

I’ve lived right down the street from red shrimp co for some time now and finally tried it today. After reading the reviews I was skeptical but gave it a shot anyways. I ordered lo mien chicken and curry chicken. With some egg rolls. Egg rolls were great. Lo mien was not too bad. As far as the curry chicken goes I wasn’t pleased at all. Waaaay too much sauce with very little flavor and was also cold. This will be my first and last visit.

I can’t say that this is the best Chinese fast food in town but they definitely get the job done when in need of some quick food! My mom really enjoys coming here but the few times I’ve been Im just meh :-/​about it! The service is pretty good! Extremely friendly and always on time with the estimated wait times for food to be finished cooking! Fairly priced and obviously somewhat good!

I thought everything was pretty good for the price… close to home. Picked up the food so I didn’t have to pay a delivery charge will eat again

Friendly service, mediocre food. With such close proximity to Chinatown, there’s really no reason to stop here when better choices are a block away. Simple setup, Americanized dishes, relatively low prices, $ 15 limited-​area delivery minimum.
The beef & broccoli consists of a little beef, a bit of broccoli, and, inexplicably, a lot of carrots and mushrooms as filler? I like mushrooms but really don’t care for carrots, this was an unpleasant surprise. Sauce was decently flavored but on the watery side. Portion for price wasn’t as great of a value as I had anticipated.
Wor Won Ton Soup was incredibly disappointing. Takeout container is packed with tons of chicken, some shrimp, and a lot of fresh produce, and the won ton skins held up well. But the broth is unforgivably weak and flavorless!
Rice To Go (cheesy name and all) is a far better option for quick, takeout Chinese with better selection and quality, get thee to Decatur & Spring Mountain instead.

Waste of money. The crab ragoons SUCKED. I thought it was odd that you get 8 ragoons for 5 bucks. Then I received them. Absolutely no cream cheese in them at all. Very disappointed since crab ragoons are my guilty pleasure. I went from feeling like I got a deal to feeling like I got ripped off.
I also ordered BBQ pork and Beef & Broccoli both mediocre at best. I dont know where these ⁴⁄₅ star reviewers usually eat chinese food but its not where good chinese is served thats for sure.
On top of the sucky food the lady was rude taking my order over the phone and was very rude to my husband when he picked it up.
Its ok because we are never wasting our money here again. Even if the customer service was excellent I wouldnt come back. I could get better tasting chinese for the same price.

Given the love it or hate it reviews here, I was hesitant to try this place, even though it’s only a few blocks from my house. One night, I was just too tired and craving chinese food, so a friend and I stopped in.
The place is nothing to look at from the outside, but it’s clean and has easy in /​easy out parking. The food is good. Nothing was greasy, overcooked or overbreaded. Even the kung pow chicken was done correctly, with fresh chicken, not frozen chicken nuggets in a bottled sauce. This was lightly fried with lots of crisp veggies. The lo mein was good. The egg rolls were light, although heavier than a spring roll, which is to be expected. The food came out quickly and was a good size portion for the money.
Been back a couple of times now, and I can safely say that Red Shrimp is my go-​to chinese place, especially for take out.

So I came back. I always like to give places the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was an off day or whatever. So this time I ordered the chicken teriyaki bowl and cream cheese rangoons. So the bowl comes from the back, and the cashier, who I assume is the owner, has a large container of teriyaki sauce up front and she puts the sauce on top of the bowl. Well she poured at least 2 CUPS worth of teriyaki sauce on top. 2 huge spoonfuls. I swear it was swimming in sauce. The worse part is the sauce was bad. I like teriyaki sauce, but this one was off putting. It didn’t even really taste like teriyaki. «Would you like some chicken, rice and vegetables with your teriyaki sauce?» the lady should have asked me. There was a decent amount of chicken and veggies, but there was wayyyy too much rice. Side note, there are 2 sizes for the teriyaki bowls. The small size is an actual bowl, think Panda Express one entrée. The large is in a to-​go container, think Panda Express 2 entrée. I got about 1 entrees worth of chicken and veggies, and about 3 entrees worth of rice. Next time, I would go with the small bowl.
The cream cheese in the rangoon was pretty much non-​existent, so they should just change this to rangoon. I swear the only day I forget my phone is the day that I wish I had it so you could see what I am talking about. The over load of sauce, and the no cream cheese cream cheese rangoons. Unfortunately I won’t be back.
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Definitely the worst orange chicken I’ve ever had; the chicken was dry with a plastic-​like texture, the breading wasn’t crispy at all, and the sauce was remarkably flavorless. It looked good and I was starving so I kept trying more, but I regretted each bite. So much chewing, so little flavor.
The egg rolls were marginally better. They’re the premade, frozen kind that are roughly half breading. You can get comparable ones from the freezer in the grocery store. They were the highlight of this meal.
For the record, I ordered there and took the food straight home. I live a little over a minute away. Yet, next time I want Chinese food and don’t want to wait, I’ll make the fifteen minute drive to Teriyaki Madness.
Some other reviews said that this place is inconsistent. This experience was bad enough, though, that I won’t be giving them another chance.

Little hole in the wall Chinese fast food place. The food is good, the selection is good, the prices are decent. Usually get my food to go. The interior is uninviting. There are usually contruction workers in there and a homeless guy or two outside.

Ok so it has been a very long while since my last visit to the Red Shrimp Co due to bad past experiences. This night I had an all girl sleepover and we were hungry due to the party favors. We wanted Chinese, we were craving Chinese so it had to be!
What we ordered:
crab rangoons, egg rolls, cashew chicken, garlic shrimp, sweet walnut shrimp, shrimp in lobster sauce, pepper beef, house fried rice, house lo mein, orange chicken.
It took two delivery people to carry the two heavy boxes of food. We had a mini Chinese buffet going on in my Condo :) You must go and look at the photos I uploaded for this review!
Ok so the service was excellent, the food was hot and fresh! Everything was delicious especially the honey walnut shrimp. Our only item that we did not care for was the shrimp in lobster sauce. No flavor at all and it was super runny and unappealing.
I am happy to say that this last experience has bumped the Red Shrimp Co up to a 4 star rating which is a huge jump from previous ratings.
This will be one of our reclaimed spots for Chinese take-​out and delivery. However I won’t hold my breath because their track record is NOT consistent!
Mmmmm yum yes!

This review is going off of a catered event from Red Shrimp we had recently at work.
I’ve heard up and down reviews about Red Shrimp. The reason my work went with this place for our luncheon was because of their ad placed in one of the local papers. It had coupons for some extras with qualifying orders. I’m guessing we got a decent deal for the food to feed 60+ folks.
The food from Red Shrimp however? Kinda MEH. Very MEH. Not my favorite type of hole-​in-​the-​wall Chinese food that I like. Maybe it was in the execution? Maybe it was because it was delivered and not eaten at the restaurant? It just wasn’t that great to me. The food from Panda Express I think I even like more.
Here’s the dealio:
–The lo mein was OILY. Like greasy. Greasier than usual. Very slick going down, not yummy.
–The egg rolls were pretty basic. Possibly store bought and just fried. But damn was the ginger strong in them.
–The beef broccoli was average. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t stellar either. It’s what you find at any Chinese restaurant here.
–The sweet sour pork was hard! Might have been overfried or stood too long before serving. There were bits of pork in there that were difficult to chew. Taste was ok, but damn did I have a lot of onions to go through.
–Main saving grace was the chicken fried rice. This was the best thing on my plate (s). That in itself was pretty yummy, but how hard is it to mess up fried rice?
If we were to have our work luncheon catered again by Chinese, we would probably decide to go somewhere else. The food from Red Shrimp was really under par and not of the best taste. You guys need to step it up!

**Review of Delivery Only**
I live around the corner from this place, and pass by it all the time. I’m picky about my Chinese food, and get nervous trying new places.
Yesterday, as a bit of back story, I spent all day with my roommates cleaning our house and garage.
By 4:00pm, I was starving, and ready to just order in and veg out.
My roommate and looked up the menu for Red Shrimp Company, since we had just seen it again Saturday night, and were curious about the food.
The web ordering process was confusing, so we called in and ordered the family meal, to feed 3 people. This came with: 3 entrees (picked from a list, not from the full menu), steamed rice, a choice of fried rice or shrimp lo mein, your choice of soups, and 3 egg rolls and 3 crab rangoon.
We were quoted about 55 minutes for the delivery, which was fine.
About 35 minutes later, the food had arrived!
So excellent points on a quick and speedy delivery.
The Orange Chicken: Good. Better than some that I’ve had.
The Kung Pao Chicken: very good. I don’t do spicy, and it had a very nice heat to it.
The Moo Goo Gai Pan: exceptional. I’d never had it before, so i can’t really compare it to other places, but I REALLY liked the flavor.
The chicken was tender in all three entrees.
Crab Rangoon: AWESOME. It was still hot, and was not soggy, like some places rangoons are when delivered. I enjoyed it a lot.
Egg rolls: Meh. I’ve had better.
Lo Mein: The menu had said shrimp, but we got chicken. Minor disappointment, but the chicken was moist and tender, and the noodles were great, so no biggie.
Rice: We were supposed to get steamed rice, but they gave us chicken fried rice instead. Nice surprise. It was good, but… a little bland, and kind of dry.
The soup, I hated, but my roommate loved. We got the Egg Flower soup… I personally think it looked like snot, and had a snotty/​slimey/​gross texture to it. I’ve had homemade Egg drop soup before and liked it, but this was just nasty.
So, all in all, it was ok. I think we definitely got our moneys worth.
I’d order from here again, for sure, just to try some of the other options, and for more Crab Rangoon.

Ok, yes there is bad service, BUT that’s what you get for the price of your food.
I’ve always ordered the same thing: shrimp with lobster sauce and fried rice.
There’s a 30 cent or 50 cent charge if you use your card. This place is in an awkward area too. Very hole in the wall, and trust me you won’t get food poisoning here.