South China Kitchen

I live less than 10 minutes from this location.  Yes, I live in the hood. I ordered food for pickup from this restaurant years ago and wasn't impressed.   On a Saturday night I was in the bed with a cold and wanted food.  

I placed a large order for delivery.  After placing the order with the Chinese woman on the phone, I thought I heard her say that I would need to come out to the delivery car t0 get my food.  I told her to cancel my order.  It sounds crazy that I would walk out of my house in any condition to pay someone for food they're delivering.   She then told me to open the door when he arrived.  

1 hr and 15 minutes later an angry little Chinese man abruptly tells me to come get my food.  I told him I will open the door.  He hung up the phone on me.  He called again, twice, each time hanging up and started hitting his horn.  

I opened the front door and turned on my porch light.  He eventually walks up obviously angry speaking in his native language.  I told him they should stop being greedy and pay someone from our community to deliver (Barneys on 111th) use African American young men who are very polite and not afraid of their own community.  

He ignored me.  He disrespected me.

I am begging you to not order from this restaurant.  He not only ignored me, he and his restaurant ignores and disrespect the people they serve.  There is an obvious lack of respect between the Asian and African American cultures.  Yes they have delicious food, but the food is cooked by people who HATE US.  

Is it worth it.  We must take a stand against racism.  We are worth more than this.  Of course, I will never go to this restaurarnt again.  But this problem is a pattern I've seen  played out in our neighborhoods.  I just never encountered it personally.  It was truly an eye opener.

The food is pretty good and they'll pretty much make anything you want. The delivery is fast and cheap. I definitely would recommend. Delivery can be a hassle (come outside, come to car), and they'll forget little things like free eggroll or pop with lunch combo so remind them.

Delivery chinese...   a godsend for this area.... one of the better delivery options we had when we lived in historic Pullman (one of only a handful actually).  They were quick... and the food was always as good as delivery Chinese food can get.  Not superb, but good.. and reliable.

The delivery drivers can be a little flakey in not knowing the area too well.  Nearly every time we ordered he'd call and be all "i'm outside" and i'm all "no you're not" and he's all "oh, I'm two blocks away" ...And then they wouldn't always want to get out of their car so they expected you to pick it up from them at the curb????  

They also have fresh fruit smoothies that are good.