Lee’s Chinese Restaurant

Asian restaurants have been falling like dominoes recently — Great Wall Mongolian BBQ, Eastern Empire and Kim Hei have all shut their doors. That leaves us searching for new places. We like the Mandarin, but it’s spendy. So I was pleased to find some favorable reviews for Lee’s.
We did takeout recently, going with some old favorites — orange chicken, broccoli chicken, potstickers and special fried rice. All were good and freshly prepared, but everything except the potstickers was bland. Chinese cooking often stands out through nuanced flavors — garlic, ginger or spicy peppers. Very little of that was evident, even with the orange chicken. The potstickers had an unusual spice that wasn’t horrible but wasn’t exactly pleasing, either.
In summary, I think we’re still looking around, but we may return to Lee’s to try some other dishes before making a final decision.

This little hole in the wall is a hidden gem! The food is all fresh and delicious, every time. I found this place a few years ago, and it is now one of my favorite little restaurants! My two favorites are their Garlic Chicken and Wor Wonton Soup. I love this place!

We love this little hole in the wall! Favs are hot and sour soup, king pao chicken, deluxe seafood and chow fun. All very clean and fresh tasting. Prices very reasonable

Great food. The place could use an remodel but we order our food to go.

Roaches were recently seen in the restaurant. Been a customer for many years; would not go again!

The service here is far beyond ANY service I’ve received at ANY other establishment! One word for the service — SPECTACULAR! The food was also pretty good! The walnut shrimp is definitely my favorite and I love how much sauce that is given when you order the sweet and sour chicken! What makes me come back is definitely the waitress that served us — friendly and attentive. She told us that she does not work Wednesday so I will be going back when she is serving! A++

This place is great! Been here twice in one week… my new chinese restaurant! Love the sweet sour pork, orange chicken, egg foo young, egg rolls… ill be returning soon. Oh… waitress is very nice and polite. I love the original vintage feeling of this place, and very clean.

This place is definately a hole in the wall,
But let me tell you something, the food is FRESH and its real chinese food. It beats mings dynasty down the street forsure. I ordered a take out the other day, (shrimp fried rice) and walnut shrimp. You can tell it was fresh and there was alot of effort put into it.
This place is a must try!

I came here the other night with my two friends for dinner. The food and service has slipped since I have been here.
My friends both got the combination dinner. They liked the food but it wasn’t as good as it has been before.
I got the Crab filled won tons. They were really bad. They were way over cooked and very difficult to eat.
Our waitress was the only one working that night and she was very cold. She almost seemed annoyed with us. She didn’t refill our drinks and stayed away from us most of the time except to bring us our food. The whole time we were in the restaurant there was only one other person. They had a lot of take out orders so I’m guessing this is mainly a takeout place.
I’m sad to see this place slip but from what I’ve had before I would hope it would stay the same.

Our whole family visited on Friday night and the restaurant easily arranged a table for 8 adults and 3 children. The hostess/​waitress was polite and relatively attentive (most likely because our table alone was more than three times the number of people already in the restaurant).
I’m not out to ruin this business, but I’m pretty sure that the four year old at the table could cook better food. Every dish that had chicken in it was battered and deep fried; the vegetables in the fried rice were clearly frozen peas and carrots; and we must have ordered the very last of the bok choy (which was probably going bad), because there were no leafy greens, only the white fibrous stalks. Everything was doused in thick sauces that were either filled with salt and/​or sugar.
However, If you’re over your food budget, and your stove, microwave, and oven all stop working simultaneously, this might be the place for you. But even a starving college student would probably do better to buy a pack of ramen and a bag of frozen peas & carrots and head to their friend’s dorm to use their microwave.

I don’t understand all the bad reviews. I have been coming here for about 5 years and it beats any other Chinese restaurant within a 5 mile radius. It isn’t the greatest in the world but it has some very solid dishes. The lunch specials are a great value and if you ever see the Mango Chicken on the specials board, try it, outstanding!
The sauces are a bit rich and sweet but that is the way that they roll.
Good place to get $ 25 worth of take-​out and have it for a few days.
The Tsingtao Beer compliments this Chinese food like no other. Very solid place with good bang for the buck. I’ll be going there for at least another 5 years.

delicious and plentiful
lunch special today was great!
hot and garlicky almond chicken
two fried prawns (perfect)
sweet n sour pork (crisp n yum)
rice and noodles too!
all for under $ 10
thank you for rocking it!

The place is very tiny and kind of hidden. But you know what, this place serves solid Chinese food and for a very affordable price!
What more can I say tho? For a quick lunch this is the place to go, but definitely not the place to take someone on a date :) Place is old and kind of run down but food is cooked well. Can’t complain about that.

Solid Chinese food. Although typical Chinese menu and food, I thought the flavor was some of the best in the area. We had the Hunan Beef, Mongolian Chicken and Won Ton soup. All tasty. We’ve been living down the street for years and just discovered. Wish we would have tried the takeout sooner.

This place is hit or miss. But the inside is fairly dirty at least the carpets need changing and I had been there twice before and would rate it 6.5÷10 but this last time I visited about two weeks ago my buddy and I went on a Saturday at 2pm and we were the only ones in the establishment. We walked in and sat down. The women at the front was on the phone, so we waited. And waited, an the. Waited some more. We were jus about to get up and walk out when after 10min she came from the back still on the phone but at least brought some water. About two more minutes lapsed and she finally took our order.
Yes the food here tends to come out with syrupy sauce and this time was like my sesame chicken was going for a nice swim. I mean they looked like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. Anyways I prob won’t be coming back ever. Oh and by the way. The woman who was on the phone was the only person there and YES SHE COOKED THE FOOD TOO. SO NEVER AGAIN.

To me, most Chinese food is the same! This is as good as most and better than Panda! Good spot when your regular spot is closed. Give it a try.

order to go
lunch menu of fried rice w\ walnut shrimp
and order some crab wontons
flavor was bland, tasteless, and it all tasted like food from overnight
crab wontons was not creamy at all rather with onion.
parking is very narrow and cramped

Ohmy, if anyone has gone here lately based on my past review, let me just say I’M SO SORRY! What happened to this place? Has got to be under new ownership…
Ordered the crab rangoon, I had craved since my last review… not so good. Lot of imo crab and a chunk of onion or two. My General chicken was drowning in syrupy sauce, I had got the pink syrup from the rangoon on my plate so put that off to the side, thinking I would get a clean one… No I was, I guess, supposed to eat of the serving dish of General chicken, wasn’t even offered steamed rice. Remember when it just came with your food? Ah, the olden days!
My husbands garlic chicken was swimming too and his fried rice and chow mein had the «burnt Wok» taste that causes us to scratch any Chinese restaurant off our go to places…
Lastly, the place is filthy, dirty classes with our Sapporo, the soy sauce container… gross… just eww
Very sad… we really enjoyed past visits here :(

Lee’s continues to amaze me. Every time we pick up our to-​go order, or the few times we’ve eaten there, it seems like the type of place that could go out of business… small restaurant, aged décor, pretty empty. But according to a friend who lives nearby, Lee’s has been at that spot for years… let’s hear it for take-​out business! :D
Consistently good food; all the «standard» Chinese items– fried rice, chow mein, eggrolls, BBQ pork, etc.- are delicious. I really like their egg drop soup when we eat there. The inexpensive combo plates fill you up. Plus I like that they have no problem with me requesting things like no bean sprouts in the chow mein. Keep it up, Lee’s!

This place is not that good. The wife and I was in the neighborhood and got hungry. So we Unilocaled for Chinese food and this place had some great rating. We figure we would try it out. So we went on a hunt for this place. When i say hunt I mean hunt. This place is hidden in a parking lot that is off the main road. It is is a huge empty parking lot. If we didn’t stop to recheck Unilocal for direction. We would have missed it. The lot was a bare as a desert. I think the only two shop that was still in business was the massage parlor and this place.
When we got there we were greeted by a voice that came from behind a divider. We were told to seat ourselves and so we did. There was only one other customer that was in there. It was very strange. The décor of the place was not very asian like, it more like a mosh pit of Chinese trash. The table was sticky and the chair was not very sturdy
We order three different dinner combination. B, C, & D and all was not really good. The food is really bland and didn’t seem clean at all. I barely ate a third of my plate because it was so nasty.
Honest to God. This food made me bloated, gassy and made me had the run, the rest of the night.
So, if you don’t mind the runs, dine here. It supposedly was rate top 100 Chinese Restaurant in all of the USA.