China King

Awful. Ordered General Tso for lunch. Picked up «fresh» not delivered. The chicken was stale — literally tasted like it had been leftover from a couple days before and then cooked again until dry and hard — and the fried rice Definitely was leftover. It was cheap but I’ll never eat there again unless I need to throw up.

I’m a first time customer of China KIng. If your looking for Chinese delivery, call China King. If your looking for better Chinese food, go elsewhere and pick it up. Lomein was lacking flavor, Beef on a Stick (great name) was covered in too much sauce (not teriyaki, more like bbq — sweet, weird), a bit cool, a bit chewy, and was small for the price. The egg rolls are bland in flavor and the Wonton soup was again, lacking flavor. I swear I’m not a spice whore, but a little flavor would go a long way in all these dishes.

This is our go to for delivery. There’s been a few mistakes over the years. Folks are human, but it’s how they handle them. They take care of u! They even deliver in most snow storms. We had a power outage with an elec stove. Called to check & they were taking care of Middletown. Food is amazing! Best Chinese BBQ ribs in town! My food has always arrived hot — even in the storm.

So we decided to try them AGAIN, and we found out they had given us the wrong order when we came home. Maybe the young guy who was working would have given us the right one if he wasn’t so busy talking to his friends about smoking weed. It’s not like we drove down there in a snowstorm or anything. Fuckin idiots, NEVER going there again!!!

My 1^st time ordering from this and will be my last! I ordered 2 simple lunch dishes. My office is about 5 min away driving distance and 10 – 15 walking distance. I am not able to leave my job and I called for them to deliver. It took them an hour and a half to bring it to my job. Pizza comes by delivery faster than that! And the food is just okay and it came cold.

I ordered the crab rangoons and the general chicken. It came cold and I literally had to spell my address to them for 5 times. The dude showed up over an hour after I ordered it. When he showed up at the door he was smoking and ask if I wanted change back on my $ 8.25 order I gave him a 20… I live less than 4 miles away not like it’s a long drive or anything.
the food isn’t that good but that could be because the food was cold

This is hit or miss most likey if your in the restaurant while food is cooking it’s good

Good place to stop for lunch
$ 5.25 gets you a combo with soup
The broccoli dishes are excellent
Service is quick and unlike most of the other takeouts that you find around central Conn. these folks believe in putting the heat on. So a quick sit down lunch is a pleasure.

Vegetarians take note. This very typical Chinese takeout has one very special feature — a selection of faux meat dishes. All the dishes are very large for the price and everything seems clean but the food itself is dull. Take the hot and sour soup for instance. The container is about a quart but it tastes like it came from a can. It’s neither hot or sour. Also, don’t expect to do substitutions or have them leave out the onions. Customizing dishes is simply dot an option.

Clean and fresh as always. Delivery was within 30mins. delivery guy was kind and asked how I was :) got crab rangoons on the house
Definitely recommend and will order again!

The man who took my order over the phone didn’t know the menu very well. When my husband came home with the order half of it was wrong. I phoned and was told that they would credit my credit card, but that never happened. Needless to say, I will not be ordering from this place again.

best take out chinese in middletown. My wife thinks they know us on a first-​name basis.

I was passing through Middletown and had a sudden dumpling craving, as I am wont to do, and this place was apparently the only chinese place open at the time. The family that runs this place seemed very kind and allowed me to have tap water with my meal which came from a pitcher they kept in the fridge. The layout of this place reminds me of Neptune’s Yummy Yummy.
I got the sesame chicken, a spring roll, and an order of steamed pork dumplings.
The sesame chicken was your standard Americanized fare. Nothing special there. The spring roll was crispy but the inside had a texture I didn’t care for. At least it didn’t have shrimp in it like many of the spring rolls I’ve tried in Norwalk!
The main attraction for me were the dumplings which really raised this place from a 2-​star to a 3-​star review. I think this place must make their own dumpling wrappers or something and must use a different method to do it because there is no other way to describe the dough’s texture than «satiny-​smooth». That sounds silly, but it’s true. The inside of the dumplings was a tiny step above what I’ve come to expect in Connecticut, but still nothing to write home about. The outside really knocked my socks off though, which is saying something since the whole appeal of a dumpling is really meant to be the interior.
I believe that China King also has veggie dumplings. If I was passing through Middletown again, I might stop by and try out the veggie-​version to see if the insides could match the outsides.

good take-​out/​delivery chinese. i get the general tso bean curd. some decent veg options here and always ready very quick. sometimes parking in the movie theater parking lot is less than easy.