China Taste

Delivery was great and pretty fast, food was awesome. The orange chicken is the best we have had in Florida. Bourbon chicken was a little dry but great flavor and the pork fried rice egg rolls and wonton soup were all great. We live just outside of where they say they’ll deliver to but they still made the delivery, all for a great price. My only real «complaint» is that the guy who took the order was somewhat rude and a little impatient.

Everything was perfect .i love this place so much .Food is very fresh, very good service , just like friends.

Good food ccompared to all other chinese in the area. Nice people and good prices, very tasty.

My bf LOVES China Taste. It’s been our go to spot for a long time now. Personally I’m not a huge fan, but I’ve realized that there’s nothing in Sarasota in terms of Chinese food that I’m a huge fan of.
The food is fresh, but they have had their off nights (we go a lot to notice differences). Service is great!

They deliver.fast. I must live close to one because it came in 15 min. They remember if you like things spicey. Try the Szcewarwan dumplings… little gyoza.wonderful. You have to ask for chop sticks. They don’t come with the order. The house fried rice has so many whole shrimp and other goodies. Love it all.

Had this place delivered to my door! For some reason almost no places in Sarasota do that and none that have been even close to edible!!! Then comes CHINA TASTE! DELISH!!! so good!!! The pork lo mein was so garlicky and good and the soup was amazing! Even the crab rangoon, a guilty pleasure of mine was way better than like 90% of places I’ve tried. My advice, eat there!!!

Decent Chinese but not fantastic. Bourbon chicken was to dry. Need to work on their fried rice.

I have eaten at China taste two previous times without any incident. The food is decent Chinese takeout. This evening I had an unfortunate experience which I felt strongly enough about to share with the Unilocal community. After I ordered my food I asked for a cup of water which is a pretty standard request for any restaurant. The woman behind the counter asked me «it’s just tap water, is that ok?» which should have been my first sign something was wrong. I didn’t expect bottled water for free. What happened next I could not have anticipated in my wildest dreams. She handed me a Styrofoam cup and directed me to fill it myself in the public restroom sink. When I confronted her about the fact that this was unsanitary she did not understand why or how. I should point out that this was a different employee that I have encountered there in the past. The Chinese couple who I usually see working there are always quite accommodating and have never done anything as strange as this. After a brief discussion with the woman behind the counter I seriously question if she has a valid food handling safety certificate but I will leave that up to the agriculture department to determine. I personally will not return to this restaurant as the result of this unfortunate experience but you may wish to do a little research of your own before you dine there.

Hard to find a spot in Sarasota for authentic Chinese that you can sit, eat, and enjoy. This spot is all about the take-​out. If you hope to have a combo meal, then you will enjoy.

Very nice Chinese take out I found so far in Sarasota. I always get Singapore noodles and Eggfu Young there

Call for pickup gentleman who answered the phone was very rude and short with me I told him to cancel my order and to never nevermind.

I got vegetable fried rice, which most of the vegetables were freeze dried type. The mushrooms were also. Not fresh at all. The chicken and broccoli was swimming in oil and the chicken was not cooked all the way. Very soft «chicken»? Also thin shavings of what looked like chicken fat. I threw that out entire dish. It looked like 4 people working. 3 were sitting in front of the resturant and 1 cooking.
Very disappointing.

For a while, this restaurant served reasonably good, tasty Chinese takeout… not the best in Sarasota, but good enough. They had good sized portions at very reasonable prices. Well, the portions have stayed the same, but my recent lunch was bad enough that I actually threw it out and had a sandwich instead. The hot and sour soup was neither hot or sour in fact it almost had no taste. with undercooked pieces of bamboo shoots that were still partially hard. My chicken in garlic sauce, ordered «very spicy» (which was repeated back to me) had no spice and even worse, no flavor… it was essentially chicken with some vegetables in brown sauce. I don’t know if I caught a bad day… but read the other reviews… I’m not alone. Try at your own risk…

WORST food I ever had. Maybe it’s because I’m from NYC where the best Chinese food to be had is there. But maybe it’s because all dishes we ordered were just tasteless, the stir fried green beans were limp. On the check out line at the local supermarket I heard the same comments from another unsatisfied customer.

Wow! Not only is the food exactly what I expect for American Chinese food, but the service is second to none. Tonight, I went in and ordered take out. After I got home, and fed my dogs, I opened the bag and realized that one of my dishes was wrong. I picked up my cell phone to call them (not to complain, just to let them know that I received someone else’s food!), there was a knock at my front door. It was the gentleman that I placed the order with, bringing me the steamed dumplings that I ordered! The strange part is, I always go in person for take out, whereas my husband calls in for delivery. He’s actually out of town today, but they did attempt to call his cell, to fix the mistake before delivering it to me! Thank you China Taste for going the extra mile. You far exceed my expectations when it comes to great customer service!

Aside from my initial review of «China Taste» here in Sarasota back in June of last year. I’ve continued to order «Take Out» at least once every two months or so. I always make my orders via their website which is pretty good in a basic manner. My only beef (pun intended) is that there isn’t an option to first log in before having to select ones full order before payment.
Also the last 2 times I’ve ordered «Bourbon Chicken» via the website. I’m getting delivered a «Bourbon Pork» instead it sure doesn’t look or taste like chicken to me. Besides their «House Special Fried Rice» is mediocre I would avoid it. I have yet to taste a Chinese Fried Rice that is excellent in Sarasota. I’ve only had the pleasure at two eatery’s in Miami over a decade ago.
Other than that the steamed dumplings are excellent as an appetizer. Much like «Denise A.» recommendation the «Moo Shu» was an experiment on my part independent of her review. I ordered the Vegetable variety and it was delicious and the portion sizes were great.
A unique kudos as a minor detail their sales receipt of my take orders. Always comes bilingual in Mandarin Chinese and English.

THEY DELIVER, are Vegetarian friendly and can understand technical requests over phone (no communication issues).
I’ve had bad chinese all over the country (especially in Pittsburgh and Olympia), and this place is not bad AT ALL. In fact, it’s my favorite in town, even over overpriced big name places like The Drunken Poet (although Poet is Thai fusion and not Chinese).
I always get the tofu general tsao’s. They are little firm squares of crispy bite size popcorn style tofu in the sauce… EXCELLENT! $ 8 or so. Ask for it to be EXTRA crispy.
The mixed vegetable dish has a sauce that really pops with flavor, not greasy and veggies are not cooked to death. $ 8 or so
Both entries above come with white rice and when I asked them if I could sub white rice for veggie fried rice, they easily understood and completed the order correctly! special request was $ 2.50 but I gladly pay that for awesome flavored veggie rice over basic white rice. Plus, they DO NOT USE EGG in their veggie fried rice! How wonderful! There is nothing worse that being vegetarian, ordering a veggie dish, only to realize the cook used meat products in it.
The delivery was fast too!
When I think about the places I have spent $ 30 on around the country for Chinese food, this one excels above and beyond. If you think this food is bad, you must have unrealistic expectations and/​or have never had poorly executed chinese food.
You can do a lot worse and pay a lot more in this city, trust me. The food is very good, the prices are perfect and the delivery is fast. The pictures do not

For a typical «take out» Chinese restaurant, I thought the quality was much better than usual. I ordered 3 things and all were the way I like it. I have experienced SO much poor quality Chinese food recently that this was a nice surprise. I will be back again.

This is a great menu and delivery service. I don’t know why Unilocal doesn’t list it as delivery but it has prompt and friendly service. (Please tip the delivery drivers!)
If you go to their website, you can order right online, pay for it with a card, and even include special notes.
I ordered their Mu Shu Vegetable, which is very hard to find, and it was excellent and a huge serving! I like to get extra rice pancakes with it, so I just typed in «extra rice pancakes, go ahead and charge me for them», and that’s what they did for only a dollar. I also requested plasticware and napkins — its very cool to be able to write them a note. Next time I would ask for extra plum sauce, as I like a lot and it was a small container. Their fried rice was very tasty too.

For what it is — it was good. We didn’t feel like going anywhere tonight so we ordered for delivery (even ordered on line — total plus). It took about an hr and the website quoted 45 mins but again we didn’t want to go anywhere and it wasn’t super late.
One thing my boyfriend and I liked was the option for small or large. We were able to get a few things since we ordered smalls. We had spring rolls, sweet and sour chicken, beef Choy mein, chicken chop suey, pork fried rice and beef and broccoli. Everything was still nice and hot. The only thing I didn’t care for was the chicken chop suey but that is probably personal preference. All this was under $ 30 with the $ 1 for delivery you really can’t go wrong !!!
Overall I’d definitely order from there again. Good food — I’ve definitely had worse Chinese for a whole lot more money.