Tried this place after hearing great things about the North Aurora location from work. Â Mediocre at best. Â Heard the crab rangoon was amazing...it was soggy as if it was either microwaved, or sat out a while. Â The Mongolian Supreme wasn't too bad. Â My wife had cashew chicken, and it was fairly flavorless. Â She did say the veggie egg rolls were good. Â The chicken fried rice was flavorless also. It had the physical ingredients (sprouts, onion, etc) to be tasty, but lacked teriyaki/soy sauce...something to add goodness.
Review Source:The food was pretty good, haven't been there in years. Â Wait staff friendly and the dining room was about half full. Â I would rate the food good, the service good, the staff good, parking good. Â The interior of the resturant is funny, pink and greenish blue?? Needs to be modernized but otherwise a nice place
Review Source:We have been visiting East China Inn at this location for more than 5 years. Â My kids have grown up eating from their lunch menu since they were babies.
We don't visit for dinner very often, but go monthly, sometimes more often for lunch. Â I think they give generous servings at lunch as we almost always have leftovers to take home.
The eggrolls are really good and we prefer their chicken noodle soup over the regular egg drop, wonton and hot/sour.
Online ordering = check.
HUGE menu = check.
Reasonable prices = check.
Quality food = check.
FAST delivery = check.
This place has it all. It's not a Chinese Kitchen though - there's just a certain taste that CK has in Naperville that can not be beaten.
We have relied on this place often for our egg roll and east china fried rice cravings. Their chop suey - all kinds - is actually pretty good.
The delivery service is very fast - I have never waited more than 30 minutes for my food. They are not right down the street for me either - just about 5 miles away.
The only problem here - like most Chinese food places - the person that takes your order is generally rude (does not say thank you, hello, answers the phone with a stern 'what do you want', etc.) I don't care too much about the quality of the service over the phone - the food makes up for it.
If you're looking for a nice person to order your food from and have some sort of 'luxury' personality - take a step back and look at yourself... you're ordering take out Chinese food. Food that most people crave when they're hung-over, or having a lazy Sunday. This is not Mortons, Shaw's, Hugo's etc. I only make that comment for the tools that live in Oakhurst and feel that the world revolves around them - generally the people that have their head so far up their ass that they don't know what mediocre means and that it's ok that something is not served with a doily.
Wow, talk about way off track.
East China Inn - good food, fast delivery, online ordering, good prices. You can't find anything better in this area - it's a great place.
A staple of our lazy-not cooking on the weekend-attitude...especially following a night of drinking and poker playin. Â We lived minutes from this restaurant for 4 years before trying it...I was a little scared of its quality being that it is in a dirty little strip mall...where buying our beer from the neighboring liquor store was ok, but eating from...not so sure. Â
The first time we tried it (on a Saturday for lunch), it was very busy. Â Many of the customer's appeared to be local White Eagle Napervillians...groups of ladies, whole families with grandma-gramps-mom-dad-and kids, etc...
The lunch specials were reasonably priced, plentiful, and good. Â I hate when I got to a Chinese restaurant where the egg roles suck, but theirs were good. Â I like spicy dishes and got the schezwan shrimp, it was also good. Â My husband likes pork fried rice and ONLY pork fried rice. Â He said it wasn't as good as his hometown "rice house" but it is sufficient and better than anything he has ever had since living in the Chicagoland area. Â Â
We frequent the East China Inn for take out regularly and it is reliable. Â When I don't get the schezwan shrimp, I get the shrimp fried rice and like it very much. Â For an extra buck, I get the large and I am able to eat it for like 2-3 meals...usually what I need when I am hungover...
As far as the blandness of the fried rice...I don't feel particularly strong about it...my husband likes dark fried rice (I can only assume that he likes it with alot of soy sauce); however, I like how East China Inn serves it and I usually put only a little soy sauce on it, if any. Â Obviously, blandness is a matter of preference that can be solved with packets of soy sauce.
Dang, I thought I was going to be the first to review this place. I have had great Chinese food. One of my good friends growing up had the hook up, because his dad was an amazing Chinese chef. I gave this place 4-stars because it's in a place I wouldn't expect to find palatable Chinese food, let alone pretty good Chinese food. The crab rangoon is great and so is the Mongolian beef. Many things I've tried here are good. I would say my fav is the BBQ Pork fried rice. mmm. So, if you're in the area, then check it out. If you live in Chicago... well, if you're hungry...sure. Otherwise, wait until you're back closer to Chinatown. heh.
Review Source:This place has the best crab rangoon. Plus they deliver and are nearby if i want a pickup.
I'm not any chinese food expert but i've had BAD chinese elsewhere and I really love this place as our go-to delivery.
It's just not great if you dine in. the atmnosphere is horrid and it seems to take forever to get your food. you should just order takeout and then sit at a table to get faster service :)
The food here is ok, being Asian, would expect more but it would be based on the clientele they are serving. Â Portions are average to small. Â Taste is not bad but nothing I feel I couldn;'t get somewhere else. Â New to the area, will definitely try other places to sample. Â This one would only be a fallback. Â Service is good so that is a good starting point.
Review Source:I guess I'm the odd man out on this place because I LOVE it. Since I moved out of the suburbs a few years ago I've been unable to find a standard Chinese place I like as much as East China Inn. They serve the ONLY vegetarian eggrolls worth eating as far as I'm concerned; they are big, have a lot of flavor and almost seem too good to be vegetarian because every other veg eggroll is so terrible.The  Szechwan Bean Curd is excellent and the fried rice is pretty decent as far as Chinese fried rice is concerned (I like Thai a bit more). The sesame chicken and General Tao's chicken are quite good.The portions are huge and reasonably priced as well. If you live in the area or are passing through for some odd reason, I recommend checking it out.
Review Source:Stay away from the fried rice, it's bland and flavorless. The entrees, while not spectacular or remarkable in any way, shape or form are not objectionable.
If you're in the area and craving Chinese, I guess they're alright, the service is fast and the staff are pleasant, but generally speaking I'll hold off.
I didn't have a very good meal here, but my friends thought it was ok. Â It tasted as though a large quanity was made at once, and I got my plate after it had sat too long - vegetables totally wilted. Â My daughter likes it because of the great fish tank, and she gets perverse pleasure watching those poor damned lobsters.
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