Hunan Restaurant

We were traveling through the area (from Chicago) and thought we would try this restaurant. My expectations were very low as I was not expecting to find as good a Chinese restaurant as this place.
It’s a very large restaurant, extremely clean, polite service, and an extensive menu. We ordered the crab rangoon appetizer, egg foo young, moo shoo pork, and beef broccoli.
The entrees were delicious — excellent cook. Very high quality ingredients and expertly prepared. Veggies were not overcooked. The moo shoo was as good as you will find anywhere.
Next time I’m traveling through the area, I’m definitely stopping here again.

I’ve eaten at Hunan for many years and still love her food. Mae does a great job and fresh cooks everything. If you want it customized, she’s happy to accommodate. My favorite is Hunan Chicken or Volcano beef, both are spicy which I love. Fresh cooked is much better than the dried-​out buffet food at other places.

It’s really nice to see an eat in, Chinese restaurant as they seem to be a rare commodity these days. (at least this is the case in the Chicago, suburbs!) The inside of this restaurant is extremely clean and the décor is what one would expect from a Chinese restaurant and I think it was fantastic !
The waitress (owner perhaps) was very tentative, helpful and quick paced. I came here on a Sunday afternoon and there were only four tables to wait on, so service was very good.
The menu is extensive and has all the traditional items one typically sees from an American, Chinese restaurant. For my first visit here I ordered the crab-​ragoons, hot & sour soup and the crispy pork with steamed rice.
The soup and ragoons come out together and presented well. The ragoons had a good amount of stuffing in them, the wanton was crispy and they tasted really good. Especially when dipped in the sweet sauce which accompanied them. The soup, was good, although I was a bit disappointed that it was not spicy. As for the crispy pork, it presented well, was in fact crispy, the meat was tender, juicy and tasted good. This dish is suppose to be spicy, but I didn’t detect any. The steamed rice… well it’s plain, steamed rice cooked just right.
In the end, I was very pleased with the Hunan Restaurant and will certainly come back here again. Although next time I’ll see about getting the spiciness factor dialed up some. I’ll keep you posted !!

Best Chinese food in the charleston and mattoon area. One lady works the whole place so service and wait time is slow. They have a good selection of sea food if you like that. When I went with my boy friend we got sweet and sour chicken, empress shrimp, egg drop soup and egg rolls. (2 enters, 1 appetizer and 1 soup) The total cost was $ 36 which was crazy for how small the portions were. Bottom line: if you want the best Chinese food, have the time to wait, and the money to spend than try it out.

The owner is super friendly and it has great atmosphere. I went with a coworker and the Chinese food is typical Chinese food… I was pleasantly surprised that it was a little bit better than most the Chinese places around here.

Will never eat there again. We received out complimentary bowl of fried noodles, and halfway through noticed the bottom of the bowl was full of mouse droppings. I will be contacting the Health Department in the morning.

I was visiting Mattoon for a family event. Every other restaurant in the area was thoroughly disappointing, so finding such great food at Hunan was a complete surprise. The food was nearly on-​par with most authentic Chinese restaurants I’ve been to in California — some of the tastes and spiciness were toned down a bit at Hunan from my usual restaurants at home, but overall it was delicious.
I’d also say prices are comparable to what I pay around SF for entrees. They were good sized portions as well, with large chunks of meat or seafood. They even had brown rice as one of the rice options (steamed/​fried as well).
My only criticism was that it took a while to get our food. The sole waitress (Mae?) was constantly hustling and took great care of us, however. So likely it was just an issue with turnaround of meals in the kitchen. But everything arrived for our table of 6 at the same time (as we didn’t eat family-​style), and it was all fresh and steaming hot.