Lan Wo Take Out Chinese Restaurant

This is our local take-​out place for many years. Great food! Must try vegetable fried rice, sesame chicken, and double cooked pork. As good as it gets! The BBQ ribs are excellent too! Meaty, but never dry. I also swear by their Won– Ton soup. Delicious!

Best chinese food in the area. A new place opened closer to our home, so we stopped ordering from Lan Wo. Decided to go back because the new place isnt very good. WOW. I have never had a dish with HUGE pieces of WHITE MEAT chicken like I got from Lan Wo. FANTASTIC. General Tso’s combo was loaded with these huge pieces of WHITE MEAT Chicken breast. Fried rice was tasty too. Egg roll was crunchy and tasty too. Hot and Sour soup was very good but a little too spicy. Fried Dumplings were Amazing! I wont go anywhere else again.

Lan Wo is my go-​to place for Chinese takeout. I’ve been going to them for years and find their food quality a little above average when compared to similar local takeout places, with typical prices. Their combination plates are a good deal (with pork fried rice and an eggroll with the dinner combo). I do like their pork fried rice.
I usually get the General Tso’s Chicken combo, which has been consistently good over the years. Recently I tried their Sesamee Chicken and was disappointed by some chicken pieces being dry and chewy. I’ve also tried their Shrimp With Lobster Sauce, where the quality of the shrimp can vary from time to time.
Other dishes that have been good here are Chicken With Broccoli, Moo Goo Gai Pan, and Pork Egg Foo Young.
As with similar takeout places, orders are prepared quickly: usually within 10 – 15 minutes of calling. I expect to keep them as my first choice for Chinese takeout for a long time.
3÷19÷2016 Update:
Sadly, I had to downgrade my rating from 3 stars to 1 after discovering that Lan Wo has multiple violations listed on the Suffolk County Health Department’s website (from a Dec 2015 inspection). I hope they fix their problems soon, so I can feel comfortable patronizing them again. Meanwhile, I’ve yet to find a local Chinese Takeout place with food as tasty as Lan Wo’s.

Okay the food itself is decent. The quality of the food itself is what kept me going there for a while. However, time and time again I found the service awful. I felt like they were very rude and acted like I was bothering them. Normally I don’t care at all how the service is if the product is good but it just did not make me feel good to give people my hard earned money for just chinese takeout food to get treated like that. Additionally do not expect to get any common utensils unless you specifically ask them for it. Regardless of if you spend over $ 30 on a meal.

This place is gross. They used mushrooms that fell out of a car onto the street and were run over. Used to work at proportions and witnessed it. They are filthy and unsanitary.

So far so good. A great place for take out Chinese food. Quick and hygiene.

I know, five stars for a chinese takeout place? Well, if five stars on Unilocal means «as good as it gets,» I don’t think I can give out any less. This place is as good as Chinese takeout gets. It’s in a strip mall. Alongside a laundromat, a karate place, and a salon. And it’s mainly hidden from the street behind the massive Kumo. But don’t drive by. The general tso’s chicken is the best you’ll find. Real, large chunks of chicken breast fried and sauced to perfection. I want to try something different, but 70% of the time I just report to the general. But everything else is pretty good too, and stands out from the millions of other takeout places in long island. I think their chicken wings deserve a mention as well, because they are actually some of the best wings you will find anywhere. Meaty and fried, with a subtle curry flavor and sweetness.
The lady at the counter is a bitch, but I think it’s just her demeanor and she doesn’t mean anything by it. Whatever, I don’t think she’ll ever read this anyway.

There sesame chicken is out of this world!

This is by far the best chinese fast food restaurant around. I have lived here 34 years and have tried many take out’s and feel their quailty of food is consistant and delicious. They always use white meat for their chicken and they have the best sesame chicken around.

Honestly, this place isn’t that bad. It’s your typical Chinese take out.
Egg plants with garlic sauce — too little eggplants for lunch special and too big chucks of peppers and onions. The eggplants didn’t have much flavoring. Won’t order this again
Chicken with Broccoli — Honestly, FJ’s make the best Broccoli. Idk what is their secret, but it’s good like any other Chinese take out
Hot and Sour Soup — Hard to say whether others would like it because everyone has a different taste as to how H&S Soup should taste like, but I liked it. It wasn’t spicy at all but it was definitely sour. They also have strips of beef inside which wasn’t bad. Free fried crackers or whatever you call it.
Americanized Chinese food isn’t an authentic cuisine to begin with, so don’t question or critique too much. but I do have to say that they didn’t give napkins. Closest thing to SBU.

Without a doubt the best Chinese takeout option available in this area.
Our food was hot and tasted very fresh. All chicken dishes at Lan Wo are made with big chunks of all white meat. The roast pork fried rice was way better than the RPFR at other Chinese places, as it was made with fresh veggies and huge chunks of pork spare ribs. The egg drop wonton mixed soup was really, really good. We ordered a quart, which included at least 6 huge wontons.
Anyone slamming this place for «rude» service needs to put things in perspective. It’s a Chinese take-​out place, not The River Café. You mean to tell me that other Chinese take-​out places roll out the red carpet when you order/​pick up your food? Get serious. They are trying to prepare your food in fifteen minutes, so excuse them if they don’t kiss your rear-​end every time you call.
Off my soapbox now. If you want good Chinese takeout, come here.

Been going here for 20 years, they are decent people but very RUDE. Food is ok but they are also very cheap so ask for things like forks and the like.

Great for stony brook university students because they have the dinner and lunch combo for cheap. Food isn’t too great. This is probably the worst of the four Chinese takeout places in this area which are LAN wo, king wah, Chung how and empire smithtown. Also I believe a new one just opened nearby but forgot the name
This place seems lazy in preparing their vegetables. They always slice it in huge chunks which if you do for onions makes it taste like onions which is kinda bad. Otherwise, it tastes like any Americanized Chinese takeout that you would expect. If you want some authentic food order from empire smithtown

All the Chinese take-​out restaurants near Stony Brook University are crap. The difference is that this one is the closest so the food should be relatively «fresh» upon arrival.
Lots of breading on the General Tso’s chicken and I did not appreciate the chewy, low quality beef with slippery overcooked string beans. Everything was piping hot but the chunks of meat and veggies swimming in dark glutenous sauce did not have any «wok» flavor.
Fried Chicken Wings were surprisingly tasty! Served in a foil-​lined bag, they are coated heavily (extra crispy) with a five-​spice seasoned flour.
BRACE YOURSELF…
They’ve stopped serving the student special.

I think this place has really good tasting Chinese food. I enjoy it very much. My favorite dish is the Hot and Spicy Shredded Beef. The other items they have is also good. I never had a problem with them. I know however they changed owners but the same cook is still present. Again this is where I get my Chinese food in the local area. I do not know what the other 2 review are giving this place a bad rep. Again my opinion and my thoughts on this place is good.

Disgusting food. Terrible quality even by chinese take out standards. They deliver without napkins of forks. I mean there’s saving money and then there’s being down right stingy as heck. Everyone in the area knows not to order from them. Should try ordering from King Wah or Tao’s instead. This place is one of the worst chinese take out places in all of long island.

I was staying at a hotel and needed a place that would deliver. This was awful. I ordered several different dishes– Vegetable & Bean Curd soup, fried bean curd, veggie lo mein and chicken with snow peas.
The good points: fast delivery, food was delivered hot
The Bad Points: Nothing tasted good. The ‘veggies’ in the soup and the lo mein were far from any traditional Chinese vegetables. The soup literally had peas in it. To add insult to injury, the vegetables were disgusting and I’m pretty sure from a can. The lo mein sauce was odd tasting, like someone had decided to just put a ton of black pepper in it. The chicken was not tender and the dish itself was more soupy than the soup.
I couldn’t recommend this place to anyone– even those I do not like. The place has been in business forever so apparently either I had them on a very bad night or this poor excuse for Chinese food is loved despite the flaws. Eat out of a vending machine rather than order from these folks.