China First Restaurant

Excellent service always quick. Best fried rice around doesn’t come yellow like most fried rice. And they have some pretty decent coupons

Ordered online from China First many times and had great food and service everytime (except bourbon chicken being overcooked). This time, order was placed at 7:32pm and didn’t arrive until 9:15 pm on a Tuesday night. While food was warm and tasty, order was incorrect. Both egg rolls for our combination meals were left out of the bag. Very disappointed – really liked this place. Not sure we’ll order again after this experience…

I usually order from here and have never had an issue. However, tonight my food took an hour and a half to arrive. My dumplings were cold and I was short changed three beef sticks, which was fine since they were significantly undercooked. I won’t be ordering from here for a while.

Typical Chinese take out, nothing special. General tzo’s is tasty but mostly batter, not much meat. Fried rice lacks flavor. Ordered on Xmas and was impressed with the quick delivery through seamless. Order placed at 720, delivered at 740 (estimated delivery time was 50 – 60 min).

I have ordered from this place quite a few times and always had a good experience. Tonight however, it took 2 hours to get my cold, burnt food and when I called to ask where it was they were rude rude rude. I contacted seamless to help me get a refund and because I was not willing to fish through the garbage and return the cold and burned food they wouldn’t refund me the money. These people are jerks and treat customers badly. Steer clear.

Finally received my food tonight after an hour and a half wait (I was told 35 mins) and its ice cold, also they’re closed for the night! On a Friday. Foods decent, standard Chinese, but rude when I called to see where my food was. There’s plenty of other good Chinese food place around. Will not order here again.

Fast service. I ordered through Grub Hub and I like how you can select the level of «spicy» with certain dishes on a scale of 1 – 5. I’m sorry but the hunan duck was horrible. It was overly greasy, lacked flavor (I ordered the spicy one and it wasn’t spicy at all). It was so bad that after one or two bites I couldn’t eat anymore. It went to complete waste.
On a good note, the general tso’s was great– better than most. I like how they use smaller pieces of chicken and the sauce was good without being overwhelming. The cheese wontons were also delicious. Good portion sizes and fast delivery.

Best food everyone that works there is really nice would eat there everyday if I could :)

Not impressed. Food was very bland, gen tso’s tasted funny — it almost had a BBQ flavor which was really confusing. Rice had barely any veggies. Won’t be back.

This place is AMAZING! Very nice customer service and DELICIOUS food! By far the best chinese food i’ve had in the area! I recommend this to all looking for a quick, foreign meal!

My go-​to Chinese food restaurant that delivers. Orders are always correct and they have very fast delivery. My favorite thing is the Fried Dumplings. :)

General Tso chicken is my favorite dish. They are very friendly and clean they truly appreciate your business. When we come in they greet us and saying chicken and broccoli. I guess we need to change things up but they say if it’s not broke don’t fix it. You can have them cater part of your dinner party. I speak about one language so I use that language to order my food. I don’t know name but the lady always converse with us asking how are we and how’s school and work. They also have a bourbon chicken dish it is good.

We moved back to Nutley a year ago… have done lots of Italian Food take out but have not tried any Chinese. Tonight that changed… We saw China First’s Ad on the Cover of the Shopper’s Guide. Looked it up on Unilocal and decided to give it a try! It was delivered quickly. came hot & in generous portions and was fresh &
delicious as well. We are happy to make this our GO TO for Chinese Take out delivery!

Love that they deliver to Clifton. One of the snowy days last winter my husband and I searched Unilocal for Chinese delivery. He came across China First. We decided to give it a try. Some of the food is very good, while other dishes just missed.
We love their Egg Drop Soup. We usually order the quart and share it (more economical). We also like to order a Shrimp Roll. These are tasty, but you’ll be lucky if you find two shrimp in there. There is usually one in each half of the egg roll. The hubby ordered one of the dumplings and really enjoyed them. My husband loves their Chicken with Broccoli, but I’m not a fan of the sauce and didn’t care for the larger chicken pieces (they seemed a bit fatty). So when we ordered from here the second time, I decided to get the Mu Shee Chicken instead, and that hit the spot. It’s a huge portion, so it usually lasts for about 2.5 meals if it’s just me eating it. It’s served with 8 pancakes, which is really great.
Like I said before, they deliver to Clifton, so that was huge for us. Their delivery times aren’t always the most accurate though. I’d say it’s about ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. But we’ve probably ordered from here 3 or 4 times now, so a little delay didn’t stop us from returning. Delivery is free with a $ 10 minimum order.
The prices are very reasonable and all of the main dishes we have tried are ample portions. It’s not my favorite Chinese restaurant, but it’s the best one I’ve found so far near my home that delivers. So, I’ll take what I can get.

Delivery thanks to GrubHub made it super convenient to try this place. An extra bonus: they have chicken dumplings! I’m such a fan of chicken dumplings but for some reason most Chinese places only do pork or veg… these don’t disappoint. We’ve had delivery from here several times now, all pretty good. The menu is huge, almost too many choices. The kung pao chicken is not my favorite, too much filler, not enough chicken. Otherwise, everything has been tasty, fresh and hot. Reasonably priced and with free delivery, has become our local go to spot for Chinese take out.

First and last time at China First…
Stoped into China First today, May 23, at approximately 4 p.m. and ordered food, primarily #70 vegetable lo mein. Brought it home, only to discover that I received dry, plain lo mein noodles with no vegetables, no sauce, no nothing. I called China First and they said that I specifically ordered plain old lo mein noodles. Say What??? I ordered #70 VEGETABLE lo mein… note the word VEGETABLE.
Suffice it to say that I will never be going back to China First.

I’ve picked up & had delivered over a dozen meals here. The food has been hot, tasty & reasonably priced. Deliveries were always prompt & the staff pleasant. Excellent rating.

Consistently my favorite regret.
This Chinese joint is solid. I have ordered food from this place numerous times and it has never disappointed me. Delivery is fast, food is good and you get your money’s worth.

China First? More like China LAST.
Placed an order for me and my wife two combo platters I was told the delivery would take 40 minutes and it too an hour and 20 minutes.
I called up and asked politely where our food was and no apology was offered just «the driver was out and he should be there in 10 minutes» That was over 15 minutes ago.
The food was fine for the money but they could really use a lesson in customer service. Won’t order again.

I’m surprised no one has rated this local Chinese delivery/​take out joint. They are a step above the regular Chinese delivery (and we’ve tried them all) in taste, freshness and consistency. They use nice plastic containers to save any left overs in. Also, a great homemade ice tea !