Hunan Chef

This is my favorite place in the Towson/​Lutherville/​Timonium/​Hunt Valley area to get Chinese food! I have lived in the area for 5 years and have tried every Chinese restaurant in order to find a reliably good restaurant to satisfy my occasional Chinese food cravings. This place is fantastic! I highly recommend the lunch boxes– they are well-​portioned and reasonably priced. I like replacing the rice in my lunch box with lo mein, which is always chewy and delicious. Unlike other Chinese places that give you loads of barely cooked onions in your lo mein, Hunan Chef serves it as just noodles, which is exactly what I prefer. The owners of the business are always nice and try to give me free sodas, which I always decline. Seriously, get Chinese food here!

I’ve ordered from Hunan Chef about 3 or 4 times on the recommendation from a friend. The delivery is consistently fast and the food is hot when it gets here (we live about 10 minutes away from the restaurant). I especially like the shrimp spring rolls, mu shu, and broccoli dishes. The spicy dishes aren’t very spicy, a lot of them are a little salty for my taste, and the Lo mein and fried rice are pretty bland, but everything else has been good.

After trying every Chinese delivery place that delivers to Timonium, this is by far my favorite! I order from Hunan Chef almost one a week. The portions are generous and the prices cant be beat. I always get the General Tso’s Tofu because it’s the best tofu dish in the area and better than many other places I’ve tried. I also get a new dish to try every time I order and haven’t had a dish I didn’t like yet!
I see some people have had bad experiences and that’s a shame. But I know things happen. I, however, have never had a problem in the last 2 years that I’ve been ordering from them *knock on wood* and will continue to order from Hunan Chef until they cant deliver to me anymore! I’m actually about to place an order now and I definitely recommend you do the same!
PS. Try the cheesesteak egg roll, oh my goodness, it’s a must!

The food sucks and the customer service is the worse. I was a frequent customer and tonight they delivered a horribly cooked meal and when I called and asked to talk to the manager they dodged the call. After I was explaining about the issues the manager jumped in the call and proceeded to argue with me. I would not have called if it was only one entrée but everything except the crab Rangoon was horrible. I will never eat there again and I recommend that avoid the place as well.
The worse part is that when I called to tell them they argued and did not care.

I haven’t found a closer place that delivers but so far i have not bee disappointed with their food. It is really yummy and the delivery drivers are so nice and prompted! They even throw in free stuff if you are a person that orders constantly from them. mostly sodas though.

Straight up sugar.
Everything is too sweet and tastes like a pile of sugar was dumped all over it. Their garlic chicken is basically just chicken and broccoli in a brown sugar sauce with zero hint of garlic. Where’s the garlic? Where’s the spice!
Egg drop soup was good. That’s about it.

After a few more visits and trying a few more dishes, I had to give this divey little take out place a better rating. We have had delivery and few times now and the food is just as hot and delicious as when we pick it up. Generous portions, good prices!

I have been a Timonium resident for over twelve years and have driven by this place countless times; for some reason, it never registered on my radar. I had been a fan of the now-​defunct Great Fortune Buffet that was across from the Starbucks, Five Guys, Coldstone Creamery, et al. but had to start looking for a new place. I definitely found it.
The restaurant is small but appears clean. There are maybe six or seven small tables. The staff is friendly and accommodating. It’s a carry out place, so don’t expect tea lights, a romantic atmosphere or an engagement ring.
Full disclosure: I have only eaten Hunan Chef’s fried dumplings, chow fun and pork fried rice, but all three dishes are incredibly good. If you get the fried dumplings, be sure to ask for PAN FRIED and not deep fried or you’ll get a pimply, warty wad of meat and dough (not that I’ve ever gotten deep fried dumplings at Hunan Chef, but I made the mistake of not clarifying the term «fried» with another Chinese carry out and thought they were barely edible. I ate them despite my loathing: D). The dumplings are large, succulent and not incredibly fatty. I consider myself a dumpling connoisseur, having eaten dumplings at well over 200 restaurants throughout the years, and I can safely say that these are very, very good. The only other place that I can think of that has better dumplings is China Kitchen at the Wilkens Avenue Giant shopping center.
Onto the chow fun. If you don’t know what this stuff is, you owe yourself a try. Chow fun is hard enough to find in Baltimore, let alone *good* chow fun, but this offering is superb. Actually, I think it’s crazy good superb. The rice noodles are so delectably wide, thick, tender (yet satisfyingly toothy) and yummy. It’s 10:30AM in the morning, and my mouth is watering at the thought of ordering this dish again. This is not a low cal fare, but, hey, it’s Chinese food and in keeping with most of the cultural cuisine. Crank out another ten miles on your bike, and you’ll be all good.
Hunan Chef also has mei fun, the much thinner rice noodles. This is what most places have. Never tried it here, but I expect it to be outstanding. Mei fun, IMO, is nowhere as interesting to eat as chow fun.
The pork fried rice is quite good but not what I would call over-​the-​top excellent. To be fair, this was offered as a free dish since I ordered a minimum amount ($ 35, I believe).
Give this place a try. I think you’ll be quite surprised at how awesome it is.

All the ingredients were there for a great find. Mandarin speaking owners, run down storefront, freezing inside cuz owners were too cheap to turn on the heat, etc. Hunan shrimp was really bland and spicy duck wasn’t spicy nor memorable. Both sauces more or less tasted the same– brown sauces with some oyster sauce and chili garlic to make it barely palatable. They treated my friend and me really well though in spite of coming real late. Otherwise, it was pretty forgettable. Sigh…