Hau PO

We picked up dinner, chicken and broccoli, pork Lo mein and some steamed dumplings. All were fine, fresh and we also found 2 egg rolls in our bag.
The dumplings were very good, a little smaller than usual but 10 instead of 6 or 8 we get from other local Chinese restaurants.
In general it was just average, not bad and not great.

This is my go to place for takeout Chinese food. The prices are great and the food is good. The people who run it are friendly and your order will be ready quickly. The dishes are generous sized, with ample protein portions. We always have leftovers when we order two dishes.

I love this place. If you want that classic Americanized Chinese food, this is the place.

Best Chinese food in Middletown by far… The boneless spare ribs are the best and highly recommended! This is not meant to be a dine in restaurant stick with the take out…

I think these guys have the best fast Chinese food in Middletown. Their food is super fresh and isn’t over greasy like a lot of other places I’ve tried. LOVE their hot & sour soup!

This place is not bad. It’s the most tolerable Chinese food near me. I haven’t tried Great Wall yet but I think I should. Hau Po is a very dingy place and yes I was worried I would be sick after eating there, but I LOVE their peppered chicken meal and they do have the best chicken in garlic sauce (I’ve had it from China King, Anoho and Fortune Wok). It’s a shame the place is like, literally a dump.

I have given this place enough chances. Tonight was the last straw. The restaurant owners need to read all of these reviews or their business is going to fail. First off, you need to learn to be consistent and cook your food properly. Last time the dumplings were way undercooked, this time overcooked. My crab Rangoon was sooo overcooked, It tasted burnt and inedible with barely any filling in it. I ordered the pepper steak combo and got 7/​8ths of the container full of rice. Only a few pieces of meat with little peppers and more onions than anything. I understand that food costs have gone up, but don’t cheap out on the food, go up on food prices a little bit. The only thing that was decent was the beef and broccoli. And I am reaching on that one. BTW, the rice I had with the pepper steak was very salty and flavorless. Almost tastes like a bullion cube. The appearance when you walk in is dumpy and needs to be cleaned and organized. At the rate they are going, if they don’t make change for the better, I can’t see them staying open much longer.

I went here and the restaurant dinning room was a total mess. The people working here (all related and family). They were so disrespectful and didn’t have any since of kindness in them. They would look at you and turn to their family member and talk in Chinese and laugh hysterically. The food was just terrible. Either under cooked, over cooked and greasy.

Where do I begin??? Okay I will start with the positive (yes, singular)… They have online ordering. Yay.
Negatives:
— Online ordering didn’t give me any idea when the food would be ready. I arrived about 15 minutes after I placed my order and had to wait another 15 minutes. For 2 lunch specials and a pint of lo mein, and they definitely were not busy. There were 6 people in the restaurant, but one was fighting with someone on her cell phone and another was working on a laptop at the table I will describe next…
–Two things jumped out at me when I walked in the front door…1) the bench seat of a car or mini van set up at a table with all kinds of junk on the table (laptops, laptop bags, office supplies, books, magazines, etc) and 2) a big metal pan of what I assume was chicken, sitting out on the counter with no cover. Now, it might have been taken out for preparation but in the 15 minutes I was in there it wasn’t moved, covered or refrigerated. I was a little uneasy that my chicken was taken from that. Lets hope food poisoning isn’t on the horizon for me.
–Food was extremely mediocre. I tried a little of everything from the order… sweet and sour chicken, general tso’s chicken, pork fried rice and pork lo mein. The sweet and sour sauce was watery and flavorless, the chicken was overcooked. The rice was very dry, it seemed old. The lo mein was overcooked, flavorless and very greasy. And the best part? The hair on my general tso’s chicken… a short white hair that looked like it belonged to the man I saw cooking my food. I wish I had seen it right away so that I could have been spared from eating any of the food.
I usually go to Great Wall which is only about 1 minute away from Hau Po. I wondered if other Chinese might be good so tried something new. But I say stay away and go to Great Wall. Restaurant is clean and tidy, service is friendly and prompt and the food is fabulous! They have real chairs and tables, and they’re for the customers, not employee lounging. And, I’ve never found a hair in my food at Great Wall. Stay away from Hau Po… or be prepared to make yourself a sandwich when you get home and realize that the food is substandard.

I ate here once and never will again. We ordered take out and I was grossed out when we went to pick it up. The dining area was a mess — one of the benches at a table was the bench seat from a minivan. Newspapers were strewn all over, and an employee’s partially-​eaten meal was out on the table. The counter area was dirty as well. I could only imagine what the food prep area looked like if this is what they were presenting up front. My husband said his food was mediocre and I took a couple bites of mine and couldn’t even finish it. I just couldn’t stop thinking of how dirty it was.

Sad to report this place has gone downhill! Different owners? Food has been well below par our last few times! Not how it used to be at all!!! Sad, this place used to be amazing!

Decent take out. It’s very difficult to find if you haven’t been there before since it’s lodged in the corner of a triangular plaza. I ordered the Hunan Beef spicy combo dinner deal with an egg roll for 8 bucks. The beef was tender and surprisingly tasty and the vegetables were hot and fresh. The egg roll was exactly what you’d expect it to be. There is absolute no semblance of an atmosphere. In fact it’s somewhat depressing and there used to be an old car seat used for the family to sit at while waiting for customers. Call in advance to order and you’ll be happier. If Unilocal allowed me to put ½ stars I’d go 3.5, but if you have a hankering for take out I’d say it’s tasty and worth it.

Fast, affordable (extremely affordable) and super tasty!
It happens only about once a year, and tonight, it happened… CHINESE FOOD CRAVING! I’ve only lived in this area for about 8 months so when the hunger struck for some super spicy sugary and crispy General Tso’s chicken, I was clueless as to where to turn!
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FOUND IT! Less than 3 miles from my humble abode, Hau Po hit the spot. All the regular standbys on the menu. The only thing I could really mention about the food is the crab rangoon could have been more cream cheesy, but I LOVE cream cheese (probably too much) so I may be bias.
Off to my cream cheese-​a-​holics meeting I go… stuffed and happy!

Obviously you’re looking for a certain thing when you order take-​out Chinese. You don’t want the restaurant to look too nice, too clean, or too welcoming. You want harsh fluorescent lights, old cardboard boxes, and a open cans of ‘whatever’ festering next to the deep fryer.
That’s what you get here.
The food is greasy and bountiful. I’ve been going here since I first learned to chew and it is exactly the same. Probably the best Chinese food you can get in Middletown and my personal favorite.