China Star

Great service! Very fast and friendly. They accommodated my additions to the entrée I ordered. Fresh ingredients and very flavorful.

So, we really like China Star. It’s the only place in the area that has passed the test thus far. Granted, we’ve only tried three places… but this is the only one out of the three we’d consider going to again. So, they have that going for them.
The chicken (general tsao’s… if that is spelled close to correctly you know what I mean…) is usually pretty darn good. The pot stickers are just okay, but, they’re edible and at this point that’s all I’m asking for from a chinese take out place around Lombard. The food has not ever made us ill, and we were able to finish our dinners, so we’ll be back.

Quick service and good food in this small strip mall carry out place. They ask you ow spicy you want the orange chicken which is a good thing. The strip mall is pretty dilapidated and this place it not going to rival anyplace in Chinatown but it does its job when you want something else besides the usual fast food corporate chains.

I’m still in search for amazing take-​out in the «VALley» (Villa Park, Addison, Lombard area) and I find China Star just OK.
I do love the friendly and smiley service. The menu is pretty large but boasts the traditional Americanized Chinese fare – fried rice, chow meins, lo meins, sweet and sours and the like. There are some less mainstreamed fare like Szechuan green beans and salt and pepper shrimp. Some tofu dishes on the menu which is also a bonus.
Take a pass on the Sesame chicken, it was pretty soggy and you can get much better from the fast food panda. I did like their BBQ Pork fried rice – not greasy and lots of bits of pork, I also liked their Shrimp Pan Fried Noodles – again, not greasy, lots of shrimp, noodles cooked well, great flavor. I wished there was more veggies but that’s just personal choice. The Egg Rolls and Crab Rangoon were very good too, crispy and not overly greasy.
I don’t know what it is about living in the VAL-​ley, but the Kung Pao Chicken is always mild, even when we ask for spicy. And here, even though I confirmed «spicy» it was still pretty mild. Good thing we always have Sriracha in the house.
All in all, a great deal for huge amounts of food. There’s a liquor store 2 doors down if you need something to do with your noodles.

Sometimes I’m guilty of writing the phrase «Well, I wanted to like it…» in my reviews, but come on. Let’s just agree to banish that, because if you’re spending your hard earned money somewhere, can we agree that you probably wanted to like it? Good, now that we got that out of the way…
I WANTED to like China Star. Really I did. But I um. just didn’t. Great in concept because it was one of the only places that would deliver to my work but the food wasn’t as good as my go-​to place back home.
I had an order of pot stickers and the lunch special of General Tso’s chicken (which includes fried rice and an eggroll.) Let’s start with the fact that this food is ENORMOUS and will last me, minimally, three meals. I got my money’s worth, that’s for sure.
Pot stickers– extremely huge, probably double the size that I’m used to. The pot stickers themselves were really good but I tasted an overwhelming amount of lemon. Not sure if that came from the dumplings themselves or from the dipping sauce, but it was too much. They also gave me an ungodly small amount of dipping sauce for the amount of potstickers they gave me.
General Tso’s– the lady on the phone warned me that it would be spicy. They always do, but it never seems spicy. Theirs actually does have a nice amount of kick to it. This was probably the best part of it.
Fried rice– seemed bland even with soy sauce. Not sure why, but there wasn’t enough flavor to it for my liking.
Overall food wise, I think that the execution could have been a little bit better, but it wasn’t horrible either. The best part of the meal was the chicken.
The delivery driver and the woman on the phone were both really nice, so it made the $ 3.00 delivery fee extremely worth it.

I still have not found a favorite Chinese food place in the West Suburbs.
China Star is my favorite place in Lombard. The prices are decent, there is enough food for leftovers, and the food is consistently decent. There is hardly ever a long wait, the people who work there understand me when I speak to them, and they are polite.
The food isn’t anything to write home about but it is good.

I don’t understand how this place has such bad ratings. I never had a problem with their food or service. The dining area is divey but their vegetable chop suey and vegetable fried rice are both really good and reasonably priced ! I wish they weren’t stingy with their sauces though :/