Had been seeing this Chinese restaurant for a while since I'm a frequent customer at joann's. Told my husband we should give it a try. Reviews looked good so why not.As soon as we stepped inside we were super confused. Apparently they have combined the Chinese restaurant with kickin seafood. So everything at the place is seafood themed. We were told they still have their Asian favorites on the menu.So we gave it a try.The orange chicken was good.The vegetable lo mein was good too.The honey walnut shrimp breading was undercooked, and the tails were still on the shrimp.The fried rice was just steamed rice with soy sauce so nothing to rave about.Good portions for price but just an overall confusing menu and experience.I think they should update their name so more people know what their primary food is.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 4
Glen Clawson
The food is always fresh made. Sometimes a bit slow but the wait is worth it.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Paul Truth
I came in and waited to be seated. I waited 10 minutes and nobody was there to get me a seat. I was the only one waiting. Nobody bothered to get me seated. I felt like a 3rd rated citizen so I left hungry.
Service: 1
Horizon H
Fantastic vegeterian options!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chip Dougals
Loved it! Delicious food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Christian Walter
Most bland Chinese food I've ever had.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Phil Kinsey
Great food and fantastic service at a good price!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jonathan Engle
I thought the food was great and well priced. My friend enjoyed their vegan options - I tried them and was blown away. Definitely one of my favorite local Chinese restaurants.
Vegetarian options: Awesome vegetarian and vegan options
Dietary restrictions: Awesome vegetarian and vegan options
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
David Miller
I went just to check out if this would be a good outlet for Chinese (I like to have options) and I was not disappointed.The food was very good—especially at those prices and the portions generous. While I went at lunch time the dinner prices were also very reasonable.The atmosphere was quiet and relaxed. Definitely a place I'll go back to.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sweet
Steve “Sweny”
Spent $70 on 5 dishes. 3 of these dishes were soggy. They are cooking frozen food and leaving the excess water in the meals. 1. $13 dishes should not be frozen. 2. I'm not sure why they think serving soggy food is acceptable. The beef was nasty, and the orange and General Tsao chicken were soggy and just gross.This was our first time eating here and it will be our last. Eating out almost anywhere has become overrated and a huge waste of money as quality and worth have gone down the drain.
Mock meats made with soy. The Generals "Chicken" was so-so, but the Mongolian "Beef" was FANTASTIC.
dalinkeiko
Mock meats made with soy. The Generals "Chicken" was so-so, but the Mongolian "Beef" was FANTASTIC.
Stac'ey Volden
The Fresh Beans with Beef was just that, "Fresh", we also had AF Chicken where the chicken pieces were big and the breading thin - crispy on the outside, moist and tender on the inside and again, "Fresh" and so nice 'n hot. We also got Sweet and Sour Pork and I asked them to replace the Sweet and Sour Sauce with their "Fresh" homemade Orange Sauce - YUM! and the last dish we tried was a Combination Crispy Noodle - exactly like my husband wanted it to taste when his Good cook Hawaiian Auntie would make it.Service was attentive and quick. Atmosphere clean and relaxing. Well done new owners: Emily and Bruce...thanks for keeping this a great place to eat like Kelly and Victor made it.
Gregory Martin
Dear reader, I will say I have been frequenting this establishment for many, many years. I have a long history of eating many amazing meals from China Kitchen. My wife and I actually tried all the Chinese restaurants in the American Fork area when we first moved here over eight years ago, and China Kitchen was by far the best--though, I purposefully use the past tense here, 'was'.Over the last year things have excruciatingly declined for China Kitchen. It was to the point we took a few months off, hoping things would improve. However, revisiting takeout from here this last time, I have to say I am done.I actually had to bring the tangerine beef back to the store. It was soggy, with undercooked breading, and practically zero flavor (to be technical, the corn starch was undercooked in the sauce leading to a pale, translucent appearance, with skimped amount of herb and spices to boot). Whoever is cooking there now should probably find a new job. It's a shameful crime because it used to be one of the best items on the menu.When I returned it, I showed them the mushy, carp-grey screed of 'food' in their (now smaller) Styrofoam container. They replaced it with another helping of the dish, which by the time I arrived home was only marginally less flavorless and mushy (note: prior to this year, the sauce and breaded meat portion were packaged separately with takeout to preserve crispiness). No one, including the kids, ate any of it.When at the exchange, I asked the woman working the front if things had changed, and she told me in the last year the restaurant had come under new management. This, I believe, tracks with when things precipitously went south.All the dishes are smaller now (this started before the current economic realities/inflation began). Prices are up. The food is objectively worse. At least every single dish I have tried in the last year is objectively worse than before. And, I have eaten here a ton.Before it was different. You knew a Chinese place was good when tourist straight from mainland China park their bus out front and take up half the restaurant (which I had seen in the past with China Kitchen). Now, however, I am afraid it is very dubious this will ever happen again.New management == cut-rate portion sizes of mediocre to terrible cuisine. It is just another run-of-the-mill "Americanized" Chinese restaurant now. My soul is a little crushed. Sadly, I will continue my search for that elusive Chinese restaurant that embodies the 'breathe of the wok'.I debated between giving one or two stars, but with how drastically things have declined I have to go with one.It is most unfortunate, but I won't be eating China Kitchen again.
S A
Plenty vegan options!! We got the vegan chicken chow mein and vegan Mongolian beef. They were delicious! The staff was very sweet.
Vegetarian options: A lot of vegan options such as mock chicken and mock beef
Had been seeing this Chinese restaurant for a while since I'm a frequent customer at joann's. Told my husband we should give it a try. Reviews looked good so why not.As soon as we stepped inside we were super confused. Apparently they have combined the Chinese restaurant with kickin seafood. So everything at the place is seafood themed. We were told they still have their Asian favorites on the menu.So we gave it a try.The orange chicken was good.The vegetable lo mein was good too.The honey walnut shrimp breading was undercooked, and the tails were still on the shrimp.The fried rice was just steamed rice with soy sauce so nothing to rave about.Good portions for price but just an overall confusing menu and experience.I think they should update their name so more people know what their primary food is.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 4
The food is always fresh made. Sometimes a bit slow but the wait is worth it.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
I came in and waited to be seated. I waited 10 minutes and nobody was there to get me a seat. I was the only one waiting. Nobody bothered to get me seated. I felt like a 3rd rated citizen so I left hungry.
Service: 1
Fantastic vegeterian options!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Loved it! Delicious food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Most bland Chinese food I've ever had.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 2
Great food and fantastic service at a good price!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I thought the food was great and well priced. My friend enjoyed their vegan options - I tried them and was blown away. Definitely one of my favorite local Chinese restaurants.
Vegetarian options: Awesome vegetarian and vegan options
Dietary restrictions: Awesome vegetarian and vegan options
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
I went just to check out if this would be a good outlet for Chinese (I like to have options) and I was not disappointed.The food was very good—especially at those prices and the portions generous. While I went at lunch time the dinner prices were also very reasonable.The atmosphere was quiet and relaxed. Definitely a place I'll go back to.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sweet
Spent $70 on 5 dishes. 3 of these dishes were soggy. They are cooking frozen food and leaving the excess water in the meals. 1. $13 dishes should not be frozen. 2. I'm not sure why they think serving soggy food is acceptable. The beef was nasty, and the orange and General Tsao chicken were soggy and just gross.This was our first time eating here and it will be our last. Eating out almost anywhere has become overrated and a huge waste of money as quality and worth have gone down the drain.
Restaurantji Recommends
Mock meats made with soy. The Generals "Chicken" was so-so, but the Mongolian "Beef" was FANTASTIC.
Mock meats made with soy. The Generals "Chicken" was so-so, but the Mongolian "Beef" was FANTASTIC.
The Fresh Beans with Beef was just that, "Fresh", we also had AF Chicken where the chicken pieces were big and the breading thin - crispy on the outside, moist and tender on the inside and again, "Fresh" and so nice 'n hot. We also got Sweet and Sour Pork and I asked them to replace the Sweet and Sour Sauce with their "Fresh" homemade Orange Sauce - YUM! and the last dish we tried was a Combination Crispy Noodle - exactly like my husband wanted it to taste when his Good cook Hawaiian Auntie would make it.Service was attentive and quick. Atmosphere clean and relaxing. Well done new owners: Emily and Bruce...thanks for keeping this a great place to eat like Kelly and Victor made it.
Dear reader, I will say I have been frequenting this establishment for many, many years. I have a long history of eating many amazing meals from China Kitchen. My wife and I actually tried all the Chinese restaurants in the American Fork area when we first moved here over eight years ago, and China Kitchen was by far the best--though, I purposefully use the past tense here, 'was'.Over the last year things have excruciatingly declined for China Kitchen. It was to the point we took a few months off, hoping things would improve. However, revisiting takeout from here this last time, I have to say I am done.I actually had to bring the tangerine beef back to the store. It was soggy, with undercooked breading, and practically zero flavor (to be technical, the corn starch was undercooked in the sauce leading to a pale, translucent appearance, with skimped amount of herb and spices to boot). Whoever is cooking there now should probably find a new job. It's a shameful crime because it used to be one of the best items on the menu.When I returned it, I showed them the mushy, carp-grey screed of 'food' in their (now smaller) Styrofoam container. They replaced it with another helping of the dish, which by the time I arrived home was only marginally less flavorless and mushy (note: prior to this year, the sauce and breaded meat portion were packaged separately with takeout to preserve crispiness). No one, including the kids, ate any of it.When at the exchange, I asked the woman working the front if things had changed, and she told me in the last year the restaurant had come under new management. This, I believe, tracks with when things precipitously went south.All the dishes are smaller now (this started before the current economic realities/inflation began). Prices are up. The food is objectively worse. At least every single dish I have tried in the last year is objectively worse than before. And, I have eaten here a ton.Before it was different. You knew a Chinese place was good when tourist straight from mainland China park their bus out front and take up half the restaurant (which I had seen in the past with China Kitchen). Now, however, I am afraid it is very dubious this will ever happen again.New management == cut-rate portion sizes of mediocre to terrible cuisine. It is just another run-of-the-mill "Americanized" Chinese restaurant now. My soul is a little crushed. Sadly, I will continue my search for that elusive Chinese restaurant that embodies the 'breathe of the wok'.I debated between giving one or two stars, but with how drastically things have declined I have to go with one.It is most unfortunate, but I won't be eating China Kitchen again.
Plenty vegan options!! We got the vegan chicken chow mein and vegan Mongolian beef. They were delicious! The staff was very sweet.
Vegetarian options: A lot of vegan options such as mock chicken and mock beef
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