Jin 28

I really enjoyed my order from Jin 28. I ordered egg roll-​rangoon combo (what a great idea) and Mala Crispy tofu (add broccoli) with brown rice. It was delivered very fast, food was still hot. The tofu was so very tasty and spiced to «medium» just right. Large portion, good value too.

First experience here was a takeout. Mongolian beef was so salty it couldn’t be enjoyed. I add salt to everything but this was ridiculous that it was ever served to a customer. $ 28 for two entrées was no bargain either. We would have had a better tasting meal from the Aldi frozen food section and a microwave.

First time lunch diners today. I got a noodle dish and hubby got sushi rolls. We both commented we really liked what we ordered. Mine had lots of flavor and portion was generous. Mine came with soup which was tasty. Hubby had soup too, I tried his and would have enjoyed either. Lunch specials are reasonable. We will be back and invite our friends.

Terrible! I’ll never eat here again!
I ordered the chicken pad thai, mild, and with no bean sprouts. I didn’t realize «mild» meant «totally flavorless» and that they don’t put any vegetables at all in their pad thai.
The chicken is very bland, as well, and oddly hard to chew… not just dry, it almost tastes like it’s some sort of super-​tough chicken breast substitute? It even looks rubbery.
The noodles are awful — they’re all like 1 – 2 inches long and totally stuck together. I ate a few clumps and gave up. It’s just gross; neither the lime wedge nor tablespoon of dry, clumpy peanut bits helped at all. The portion size is great, which is a huge shame because it means I’m just wasting a ton of food now.
The egg drop soup is thin and I think I’m tasting sesame oil in there. It’s not terrible, but I don’t want to finish it.
The crab rangoon is flat, squishy and tepid. Very oniony, but not awful. I’ll probably finish these since they’re tolerable.
One of my friend’s rolls had a hair on it! Ew!
Huge waste of my money, and I was hoping to treat myself today :(

As another reviewer mentioned, you get what you pay for. While shopping one Saturday afternoon, a friend pointed out this restaurant. She isn’t one to make decisions so when she does, I go with it. Menu looked good, and they had a lunch special. Done.
We both ordered the vegetarian lunch special. It supposedly came with soup, salad, and the sushi rolls. We got the salad, no soup. Ok, no big deal. The sushi came and it was dreadful. My friend didn’t even finish hers. It was chewy and flavorless, and no amount of wasabi or soy sauce could help it. We just were not fans and left unhappy. I’ll be skipping this place in favor of anything else in the area.

This place is basically a typical Chinese restaurant trying to boost the income by offering variety of different Asian foods where they aren’t, at all, good at. I can guarantee you that eating sushi in this place is a totally rip off.
Sushi is ridiculously small. All the ingredients are extremely small that you can’t even find them. It says white tuna, but where are they? it is not as big as pictures. It is so small. I’m sure they have a decent Chinese food. My rating is solely toward the sushi and the restaurant’s business strategy.
Hope that helps!

We ordered small Pad Thai, large Kung pao, miso and wonton soup, some sashimi and 2 rolls (crazy and crunch rolls). The pad thai tasted like it was made with tomato sauce not tamarind, kung pao had exactly 10 small pieces of beef, soups were ok, sashimi was not fresh, the squid was rubbery, and the rolls nothing to write home about. The Crazy roll was too loose and it fell apart. The soy sauce was extremely salted and the egg rolls that we got free with the coupon were dry and soft, like they were microwaved…
We won’t be ordering here again and my search for a good pad thai continues…

Muh. I eat here fairly frequently, but Jin 28 has been somewhat inconsistent lately. Kung Pao beef, panang curry and crazy noodles are usually good, but I went with old fave Thai cashew chicken today… blah. Sauce was weak and the pineapple was mushy and seemed straight-​up canned (at least veggies were fresh). Since this place isn’t incredibly cheap (app of crab rangoon plus the chicken dish was ~$ 17), it was pretty disappointing today, and I know they can do this dish better.
I know I will come here in the future out of convenience, but I hope I can expect the consistency that I always took for granted before.

Mediocre food, bad service. We had out of town friends with a 17 months old daughter. When asked for plain noodles with butter for her, the server said they could not do it and we had to order a soup with noodles instead. The Green Curry and the Panang curry were pretty much the same.

I used to love jin, but as of late, I am totally over them & have been boycotting their bitch asses! Seriously. I ordered my food and when I got there 12 mins later/​paid, that’s when they decided that it was a good time to get started on making my food. Ummmmm. F– and eff you.
All the employees were standing around socializing and guess what?! ZEROOOO other customers!!! During lunch time! On a Saturday. In summer. In downtown Naperville. Tells you something ain’t right.
Hey manager, make my day and turn my negative experiences into positive ones. BAHAHAHA that’ll be the day! No Jin employee gives a daayyyuuummmm
— — — RIP Jin28 — — –

This place isn’t for your college roommate who studied abroad for a year in Beijing, and now mocks your pedestrian affection for sweet and sour chicken. Your aunt who lived in San Francisco for ten years before her divorce and now claims to be an expert in wasabi won’t be impressed either. But Jin 28 does provide conventional Chinese food options that will quench your hunger, as well as better than average sushi, including my favorite, the Kamikaze Roll. The service can be spotty at times. Conveniently located next to Hagan Dasz.

We went for sushi at lunchtime. The sashimi was freezing cold, as were the salads. Premade, waiting in the fridge for customers to order it? That seemed the likely explanation.
The fish in the spicy tuna roll wasn’t going to make me ill, but the batch was set to be discarded before the next day (I sure hope so, anyhow). There was one piece of sashimi that had started to turn.
I may try the spot again, but definitely not for sushi.

How can every good Asian restaurant in Naper be closed for «remodeling»?? –Something just seems rather suspect about that… According to Grubhub, Jin 28 was my best/​closest option for Asian. With a small face and large hazelicious eyes pleading for tempura and miso, I caved. After having eaten here at least 6 times now, I find that each experience causes me to like it less and less, so I will review it now –before another experience whittles it away to a 1-​star.
Curry. –a gelatinous abomination. I’m quite certain it came from a jar. It had a «solid» feel to it and it clung strangely to the chicken and onions. I gag just thinking about it.
Mapo Tofu — Watery. And it claimed to have tofu and ground pork but there was no ground pork to be found. No flavor depth at all. All I could taste was jalapeño. A huge disappointment. My husband’s is definitely better and I once begged him to never make me mapo tofu again. –so take from that what you will.
Wonton Soup. –the tiniest wantons I have ever seen. Two in my whole bowl and they were each the size of a grape tomato. Mostly just watery broth full of julienne vegetables. I would never order that again.
Sushi –it was fine. The flavors were fine. But still «meh».
Miso –the dashi was a little weak and the tofu pieces miniscule.
Tempura was fine. I don’t know that you can screw up a fried vegetable. My kids jump on tempura like monkeys on cupcakes and Jin 28’s was no different. Everyone snatching the broccoli. We had shrimp in ours as well. Long, limp, skinny «jumbo shrimp». –«limp» anything is just a huge turnoff to me. So… a big no thank you.
It took care of the craving my child with the hazelicious eyes had, but I’m pretty sure my 6^th attempt was my last.

This is my first time ordering take out from Jin 28. I had ordered mini crispy shrimp rolls and the jalapeño spicy fried rice, added chicken to the dish.
I usually eat at phat noodles (shout out) for spicy fried rice, all the time. However, I decided to try this place upon someone’s request.
First of, the spicy fried rice are far different from the traditional fried rice that I have had with carrots, peas and other veggies. At Jin 28, their fried rice had big round jalapeño, green and red colored green peppers, white onion, and basil. The other ingredients that were included were fried egg and crushed pepper and of course white meat boneless chunks of chicken. The chicken was well cooked. I was impressed actually because the basil made it seemed really good with the flavors and for me personally it was not too spicy but still good to eat again. The rice were good quality not to tiny as in other places.
The second thing was mini crunchy shrimp rolls. These were eight pieces and the we’re just shrimp inside mini spring roll sheets and nope there were no veggies inside. The shrimps were cooked and lightly flavored, which made them yummy. If you eat when they are cold then the shrimp rolls are not too crispy so eat while they are hot.
Lastly, I was served with many sweet and sour sauce and soy sauce plus a fortune cookie.
Orginally, I had planned to order just spicy fried rice but ended up having to order extra because the Jin 28 has a minimum order of takeout of $ 10.00. However, there is no regret of ordering the mini shrimp rolls.
So far the first impression of this place for food was good.

This is my favorite sushi place in the entire world (okay, I haven’t been all over the world, but, you know). It’ll always be in my heart.
You seriously can’t beat a sushi place that offers options for $ 10 Mixed Vegetable Maki that ALSO includes miso soup and that salad with amazing dressing. AND if you go at the right time, they have happy hour as well, where everything is 40% off. That’s crazy amazing. And their food never, never disappoints. When I lived in Naperville, any time anyone wanted to get sushi, this was my first suggestion.
Even better, they deliver, and the delivery charge isn’t very high, so there’s no excuse not to tip this angelic company very well. This place is the absolute best and I’m currently dreaming of it right now.

Grub Hub’s pickins for my area are SLIM yall, but tonight I really really really REALLY needed Chinese food so I decided to chance it and order from Jin 28. Great success!
I was a little worried because the menu is extraordinarily varied and MASSIVE, and I always feel like ya can’t be good at everything, ya know? Like why does this restaurant do Thai, Chinese, sushi??? But I didn’t panic and pressed on — I ordered potstickers, orange chicken, the BBQ pork lo mein, and a philly roll for my husband and I to share. GrubHub estimated our wait to be 50 mins and I patiently (crabbily… I was hangry) waited for the food to arrive.
75 mins later, I was like turbo mega ultra starving and getting angry when our door finally buzzed. My husband went to answer the door to find a small Asian man running toward him shouting «SO SORRY SO SLOW TONIIIIIIGHT!!!» He thrust the food at him and off he went. Well, points for presentation, I guess.
The food was all packed neatly and smelled delicious. The potstickers had a weird texture (I’m used to steamed or pan fried, these were like straight up deep fried), but the sauce that accompanied them was delightful. The orange chicken was good, but nothing special. The bbq pork lo mein was DELICIOUS. Thick, well-​cooked noodles in a delightful brown sauce with assorted veggies and a generous portion of thinly sliced, well-​flavored BBQ pork pieces. I could have eaten just this as my whole entrée, but we were sharing, dammit. The philly roll was shockingly good for delivery, and I would totally venture into more exotic sushi selections for our next order.
The food here isn’t cutting edge or trendy or memorable, but it’s well priced, well portioned, fresh, and they deliver. On some nights, that’s all I need to be happy. I’ll definitely add Jin 28 to the rotation.

I’ve been ordering online from them for quite some time. I enjoy their food and the variety of menu items available.
The jalapeño spicy chicken fried rice is incredible! All white meat chicken (you can select different meats), slices of fresh jalapeño, and quality fried rice.
The pot stickers (6) were just okay. I’m pretty sure they were frozen and then deep fried. Parts of them were oily from deep frying but the edges were dried out like had been freezer burnt. The sauce that accompanies them is decent.
On one particular order, I had spent enough to get a free California roll (6 piece), so I gave it a go. I’ve graduated from the novice sushi rolls so I can’t say it was anything exceptional, but it was well made and fresh.
The Chicken Tom Yum Goong Soup was… different. I’d never tried it before, but I figured since I like almost all of the ingredients (chicken, fresh mushrooms [yuck!] in a tart lime broth and lemongrass, hot chili, lemon juice, cilantro and coconut milk) it was worth a shot. Not sure if it was the coconut milk (never had it before) or the lime broth, but my tastebuds wanted none of it. Sad, because this is a $ 7 soup as it’s meant for two.
The Sweet and Sour chicken is quite delicious; I love how they incorporate pieces of chopped bell pepper in the sauce. It gives the dish a bit more depth than the standard pineapple most places use.
The Orange Chicken wasn’t too bad. I found that it had the right amount of heat and sweet, and the breading was crispy enough (it softened a bit due to delivery, but I won’t hold that against them)
I’m eager to try their sashimi (I don’t know how well it would travel if I order delivery) so perhaps I’ll venture out some time to try some, as well as Kamikaze and Crazy Tuna rolls, and many of the Maki.

This one time, my mom suggested a lunch spot in Naperville I’ve never been to… whaaaaaaaat?! I need to up my game.
Jin 28 is great for a lunch date! They have a different special each day which is awesome. For 12:30 pm on a Thursday in downtown Nape this place was a pleasantly quite and relaxing find. Now mind you, it took forever to find a parking spot but I blame that on the holiday season.
My mom and I each ordered from the lunch menu — 2 sushi rolls which included your choice of miso soup or salad (for only $ 6.95!). With plans to share the sushi we ordered 4 different kinds: the avocado, salmon, sweet potato and crunch roll.
My favorites were the sweet potato and crunch roll, but all were pretty good! If you’ve never had a sweet potato sushi roll, definitely give it a try. It’s my new favorite anywhere I go. The miso soup was also delish. Sounds like something you can’t mess up, but oh you can. I’ve had some pretty funky miso soup in my day, so I’m happy to say Jin 28 does it just right!
This wasn’t the best sushi I’ve ever had, but I also ordered some pretty simple rolls and for the price it can’t be beat. I’ll definitely be back to explore the dinner side of the menu and try some specialty rolls. I feel a 5^th star coming in the future!

I had heard raving reviews of this place and being an endless lover of thai food dives, I hurried in.
The atmosphere was just how I prefer my thai venues, like an oddly decorated, southeast Asian cafeteria. My waiter was prompt and perfectly attentive! They had a massive menu with tons of options (even for my picky diet). I ordered my all time thai guilty pleasure, Pad Thai, no eggs with tofu! I was mildly disappointed when I receive my dish. The noodles were undersauced and underwhelming. The tofu was ill prepared. It was good enough, but who wants a meal deemed sufficient?
Perhaps their other items would be better. If I was in town longer I would give it another try!

Let me preface the fact that this was not the original restaurant that we were planning on eating at, but kind of glad that it worked out that we did!
Reading reviews … one thing in common, stay away, or even run away from the Pad Thai… GOT IT! Almost makes you want to order it to see why it’s so bad!
The kids meal is nice and inexpensive. A little on the unhealthy side. Wish they offered less fried options and like a veggie side of broccoli or beans or something, for 5 dollars, can’t really complain too much though.
Hot and Sour Soup — actually pretty decent here. No complaints and I am a hot and sour soup snob!
I ordered the chicken and lobster sauce. When I read that I could have chicken instead of shrimp in the traditional shrimp and lobster sauce dish, I was ecstatic. Sometimes I just don’t feel the shrimp, but want the yummy sauce. This was pretty yummy as well. It was missing something in terms of flavor, but it was okay.
My husband got the Lard Na. Huge plate, looked good, he didn’t complain, and ate his leftovers for lunch. He said it too was just missing something in the flavor, maybe a little more salt.
Either downtown Naperville is getting crazier in terms of how packed it is, or I am just getting older … hope it’s the not the latter, but there was no wait, food was decent, service was good, so if everyone else is booked, give this place a try. I can’t vouch for «bad» pad thai though … still makes me curious! HA