Lina Lee
Google
Wow. Why have I waited so long to try this place?! I’ve heard New China mentioned for probably close to a decade for their dry chili chicken/fish, pot stickers and other more “authentic” and/or cult offerings, but have never gotten food from here before. I ordered delivery directly from them and appreciate the $3 delivery fee. It can be cost prohibitive to tip $5 and then to be charged $4 or more for delivery as well. Delivery was estimated to be 55-65 minutes and arrived in 30ish minutes.
I am blown away by the quality of what I received and not by lunch special standards but just in general. That said, the fact that these lunch specials are so quality in each component, generously portioned, priced affordably, AND well packaged is amazing. I like to know how the hot & sour and wonton soups are at Chinese places because it’s a favorite quick meal pick up order for me, so had to check these out in my maiden voyage as well.
My order:
-Chicken with Mixed Vegetable lunch combo with chicken fried rice, crab Rangoon, and Diet Coke.
-Fish Filet Kung Pow lunch combo with chicken fried rice, egg roll, and Diet Coke.
-Wonton soup
-Hot & Sour soup
-Chicken hot & sour soup
Chicken with mixed vegetables- lots of fresh veggies including Napa cabbage which I love, and although the photo may not show it, there’s a lot of chicken. I was looking for a cleaner lunch option and this fit the bill. You could eat this every week and feel good.
Fish filet Kung Pow- I’m a sucker for fish filet but sometimes the dry options are too greasy for me. I wanted veggies and this is such a delicious dish and unique lunch offering! Fresh, delicious, generous. I would get this again for sure.
Chicken Fried rice - usually I just get white rice because the fried rice that comes with lunch specials is rarely any good. I’m so glad I decided to test it out. The rice is packaged separately and it’s not just rice fried with some chicken bits. BIG pieces of chicken AND vegetables.
Crab Rangoon - you get one Rangoon and it’s large and seemingly house made! There’s actual scallion pieces and other items mixed into the cream cheese, very tasty.
Egg roll - you get one in the combo and from the menu it looks like these are chicken egg rolls and have peanut sauce in them. I don’t think I tasted the peanut sauce because I usually can’t stand that peanut butter is a Chicago egg roll standard, but this was genuinely delicious and I didn’t suspect they were chicken either. The filling was moist and delicious.
Wonton soup - lots of veggies, big wontons, tasty filling, really good.
Hot & Sour soup - pretty good, would def get again. It doesn’t beat my favorite one from another spot, but it’s definitely up there. I wish Chinese restaurants in general would put less cornstarch in their H&S soups, this one could have less but definitely isn’t guilty of totally overdoing it.
I love that everything was packaged separately and not spilling everywhere in a styrofoam container. Excellent experience, looking forward to trying more from here in the future.