Mr. Chen’s

Good portions, clean venue, and attached to a mini Asian market! This is definitely not your American Chinese food, it’s much, much more authentic Chinese style, so don’t be like me and order orange chicken (bc you’ll be confused about the taste). Just order something authentic and be pleased with your food. It’s not amazing, but it is pretty good. Free refills of rice, and they have fountain soda.
Service is pretty good. I was surprised that they didn’t have attitude when my crew and I walked in 30 mins prior to closing. The mini market attached to the restaurant has all the typical knick nacks, candy snacks! Hehe and little bamboo stick/​trees to add some fung shuei to your home, or, in my case, mini cell of doom.

Agree with all the other positive reviews; a solid Chinese experience with an attentive wait staff and visible owner/​manager. And they had (really good) boba to boot!

The food is excellent. The American waitress is a complete idiot. When I decided to order pork lo mein she decided to tell me that that’s the type of meal I should get at a strip market Chinese restaurant. then she told me I needed to venture out more if I’m going to a Chinese restaurant. I really don’t appreciate a waitress telling me what food I need to order and what I need to do with my personal life. If she was actually Chinese I may have listened to her recommendation

I got food poisoning from the chicken that I ate at Mr. Chen’s. My colleague also got food poisoning. My co-​workers have been back multiple times without an incident, but I’m not taking my chances!

I didn’t eat at their restaurant, only looked around at their store. Store seemed to be stocked with common Asian stuff, clean and no weird smell. Probably will try their food next time I’m in town.

My expectations for Asian cuisine may be too high for this city.
It was good, solid food.
The attached Asian Supermarket is a treasure trove.
Cleanliness: very good
Service: Meh (It was later in the evening and the staff seemed bored, on the phone a lot and watching sports on the TVs) They were quite friendly though.
Food: Here is where I’m torn. It was ok. For this area and US (outside China Town) it is pretty high standard I guess.
Overall: Recommended. (We will be back to try some more)

The person who loves sweet and sour chicken and crab legs at a buffet is probably not going to be a fan of Mr. Chen’s. That’s okay, whatever mashes your taters.
Mr. Chen’s is more on the authentic side of Chinese food. I came here alone one day on a whim and decided to be unreasonable and order two huge entrees. I got the eggplant with pork and the tofu and intestines. Both were really good. I preferred the eggplant dish because I LOVE LOVE LOVE eggplants. The intestines dish was not as spectacular but still good. It had more tofu than intestines and is a Szechuan style dish and am not a huge fan of the spices but I plowed through and inhaled all the intestines quickly anyway. YUMMY intestines!
The food was pretty good and the service was really good! Especially for a Chinese restaurant! Bravo for them. The owner (presumably) stood around looking at everyone like a proud father watching his children scarf down food. It was slightly unnerving but I was too busy eating to really be bothered.

So bad I dumped it all in the garbage after just tasting this awful «food». I purchased the Chicken and Vegetable along with an order of Pan Fried Dumplings. Dumplings were mushy on the inside, tasted as though the Dumplings had been frozen and then pan fried, disgusting. The Chicken and Vegetable had this weird gelatinous stuff stuck to the chicken. I did actually risk taking a bite to taste it and now I regret that decision. You have been warned, stay away from this awful dive. Worst and totally unauthentic Chinese Restaurant in Alabama in my opinion.

A group of us went here and almost all of our 8 dishes came out cold. I was not impressed by the flavor at all either.

We stumbled upon Mr. Chen’s en route to Panama City. What a gem! The food was excellent. We had Sauteed String Beans, Steam Buns, and MaPow (sp) Tofu. All were wonderful, leading me to think that everything here must be good. I’ll be stopping at Mr. Chen’s from now on.

Our last experience left much to be desired, but our waitress this time… AMAZING!!!
We were promptly seated and our drinks came out almost immediately. We ordered General Chicken, Pineapple Shrimp, and Sweet and Sour Chicken. We also ordered a hot and sour soup & an egg drop soup. These soups came out within minutes with fried wonton. They were fresh, hot and delicious.
Our waitress made a mistake on our order and promptly fixed it!
Everything from this place is amazing! Our entrees came out fast, fresh and hot! Try any one of them and you will not be disappointed!

This is a Taiwanese restaurant in the Montgomery. The restaurant is a grocery store plus restaurant. It going to difficult for them to run out the material since they have the grocery store on the side. They have claim that they the biggest oriental market of the area. I can see not many people will be competing since there not much Chinese in the area.
The restaurant side has great food. Tonight we have order the Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, Beef Shank, and the Morning intestine. The intestine is cook with Szechuan spicy sauce, scallion, and soft tofu. The food is served over a hot pot. Be careful if you reach the food in the soup sauce. They are temperature hot all time. Please let it cool down before eating or it will burn your tongue. The beef shank is Ok due to it marinate sauce. I personally prefer it to sweet sauce over the sesame oil. The best dish is the spicy beef noodle soup. It came with braise beef serve with chop pickle veggie. Their beef is also close to shank area carry minor tendon. If you braise it correctly, it is very soft and it breaks easily with your tongue press the meat in your mouth. This is how good they are. I can come back to this restaurant to have this dish only.
The restaurant is just across the Eastdale Mall. You will not miss it if you are travel at US 231. They have good traffic since some of the customer shop their grocery there and kill two birds in one stone with grocery and restaurant.

Greasy and salty Chinese food. Americanized in every way. Drowned in sugar and soy sauce no thank you. Haven’t had Chinese food in about 3 years but entire family opted to eat plain brown rice with seaweed and kimchi at home while the Mongolian beef and noodles slid into the trash can. That’s how bad it was.

This Chinese restaurant was the worst place I have ever eaten. I took my family there for a dinner while we were on the road going to South Carolina. That place was half empty so I figured that the food would be good. I was definitely wrong there were no crab legs the peanut butter chicken was old and cold, there was no white rice, there was no sweet and sour chicken, there was no ice cream for dessert, and the waitress why’s everybody is as if she was the sheriff of a prison breakout. I do not recommend going here to eat.

Awesome hole in the wall! In the corner of a mall lot that doesn’t have a lot of traffic, so it’s easy to pass by as a regular Chinese place. The restaurant is attached to an awesome little Asian market that we walked through after dinner. Very friendly and helpful staff seated us quickly. We had delicious crab rangoons to start, very fresh and flavorful. My wife had orange chicken and fried rice that smelled citrusy and was enough for two to share in itself! Was also great leftovers the next day. I had chicken lo mein, also very good and light, with a large serving as well. We loved the food and the service was really what put this place over the top for us. Highly recommended!!!

Service is very friendly! The food was served piping hot and fresh … we started with hot green tea and egg drop soup to warm us up on this cold day … I had the Beef lo mein, the noodles were so good and comforting.
I will definitely be back to try something different.
Their adjoining market is also wonderfully stocked!

My friend and I had lunch at Mr. Chens’ Chinese restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama. We ordered our main course from the lunch menu and also ordered the steamed bite size pork dumplings as our appetizer. So we both literally had one dipped in their soy sauce dip. After I had my first one, although I thought it kind of tasted funny, I didn’t think much about it and just went ahead and ate it. Then when my friend started to eat her second one, I got another one and opened it; looked at the meat; and, OMG!!! it was raw pork! I was so concerned about food poisoning and I asked the person in charged to look at the food. She apologized and offered us not to pay for our meals — she literally offered anything she could. However, she blamed it on their runner picking up the raw appetizers and how busy they were.
I was so angry and disgusted, I did not even touch my lunch after that. Well to finish the story, unbeknownst to me, she asked my friend to pay for half of what we ordered. Really!!! Anyhow after about a day, I had food poisoning! Two strikes from eating there; I definitely won’t be back for the third tIme… Horrible! First time, the food was soooo salty, tasted like everything is mixed with soy sauce and teriyaki sauce, then now this, raw pork dumplings! If y’all are not convinced that this may happen to you, just be aware that when you order your food, especially when they are busy, looked at it very closely.

This is the worst bubble tea I have ever had in my life. It was like liquid diabetes. I could barely taste anything besides the sugar, and there was enough sugar for about a gallon of sweet tea. I could feel my pancreas cringing in horror and my kidneys crying out for water, my mouth turning itself inside out in the vain hope of escaping the overwhelming sweetness and keeping my teeth. I ended up not able to drink this. Why, why so much sugar? Why so much sugar as to make sweetness into a punishment?
Have I mentioned that the tea was too sweet? Yeah. It was too sweet.
My review is for the tea only.

Price is so inexpensive concidering the amount
Taste is autentic and above average:3.5 out of five
Amount of each dish is very huge.

Excellent. Very fresh. Easily the best Chinese food I’ve found in Montgomery. Try the chicken with black bean sauce and the small buns.