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China Place
Categories: Restaurants Chinese Restaurants Japanese Chinese, Japanese [Edit]
3141 Broadway(between Tiemann Pl & La Salle St)
New York, NY 10027
Neighborhood: Harlem
(212) 749-8888
- Nearest Transit:
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125 St (1)
125 St (A, B, C, D)
116 St - Columbia University (1)
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 11 am - 10 pm
Fri-Sat 11 am - 11:30 pm
Sun 12 pm - 11 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
24 reviews for China Place
24 reviews in English
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Review from HL H.
Brooklyn, NY
10/27/2011 1 Check-in Here
Thank goodness, I paid online and said I'll pay tip by cash. The food actually came WAY faster than I expected which was less than the hour. The guy was of course not talkative. I gave him a tip of $5 bucks on less than a $15 bill and he still seemed disgusted. Wah??
Anywho I got the sweet and sour pork and a shrimp eggroll. The sweet and sour was basically flavorless and not appealing. The shrimp eggroll you don't even taste the meat! All you taste is cabbage.
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Review from Carrie P.
Manhattan, NY
9/25/2011
The food is mediocre but we've been using them because they accept credit cards and we rarely keep cash on us. DO NOT USE A CREDIT CARD HERE!!!! I had two orders within five days and wound up being charged three times...twice for two different amounts on the same day. I called them and the manager said he runs the receipts at the end of the night himself and that sometimes this happens. Would I please wait one week and see if it came off. (This was the FIRST warning..."it happens sometimes"??? He's obviously doing something wrong.) Well, it was fair to wait so I did.
I called him a week later when the amount still hadn't come off. He was obviously annoyed with me and got very short on the phone.He kept insisting, "I do nothing illegal!" over and over. I replied that I understood that but there had been a mistake and it needed to be fixed. (The amount was $36.20 and had come directly out of my checking account...I wasn't happy.) He insisted the credit card company had looked into it and was working on the $20.00 mistake. I reminded him that it was $36.20 and he started getting even louder with me. We ended it with him giving me his cell number so I could send him a screen shot of my statement that clearly showed the three charges. I sent it to him and waited two days to hear from him. When I didn't hear from him, I texted him (since I always called at a bad time for him, his words...) asking if he had a refund for me yet. I waited another day and STILL did not hear from him. Hence, my reviews here.
If this is how he conducts business at this restaurant, STAY AWAY! There are MANY better places to get good Chinese food from. This place has neither good food nor good business practices. -
Review from Claire V.
Updated - 12/21/2011
They just installed a new awning and an exterior door, to prevent cold winter air from entering, so I assume the chill is fixed.
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12/16/2011
Probably 2.5 stars, but everything was ok. I've worked a couple buildings down the street from… Read more »
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Review from Dom P.
Manhattan, NY
Not so bad but also not so good. The basics are worth a go... Try the items on the small window menu
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Review from Christopher J.
New York, NY
12/15/2011
I ordered from this place using seamless web. It took an hour and forty five min for me to get my food. I called after waiting an hour and I was told "it would be there in a few mins" ...it came forty five minutes later. My little juicy dumplings were dry and crusty. The house special lo mein, tho I had requested to spicy, was very bland and extra greasy (even by bad chinese food reaturant standards). The only reason I gave it two stars is that miraculously it came piping hot after 1hr and 45mins from placing the order. There was absolutely no apologies or explanation as to why it took so long what so ever! If this place had the last morsel of food in the entire state of NY, I would start eating my left nut before I ever would order from them again! You've been warned!
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Review from Alex G.
New York, NY
2/8/2011
My roommates and I have been struggling to find a good Chinese place in the area. Naturally, as we all tried different joints, we developed separate preferences and turf wars started and so on and so forth, so one day for lunch, we decided to all order from China Place.
Since we got our food delivered, I can't speak to the quality of the actual restaurant experience, but our food came very quickly and they didn't charge us a delivery fee (delivery is free for orders between 100th-145th Sts). It's a little more expensive than places in the area (really, a little--about $1-2 more for a lunch special), but the product is very good. I had a nice, crispy General Tso's Chicken with some very good fried rice (hard to find in Harlem) and standard wonton soup.
Reheats well and they give you noodles and fortune cookies, which you also don't really find in Harlem (why?!), which is about as much you can ask for. -
Review from Dimitrios D.
New York, NY
10/24/2010
Panda Garden a few storefronts down is much better.
The steamed shrimp dumplings here were mediocre (yes, they're probably all frozen anyway, but these were noticeably not as good).
And my main course (some "sea" scallops in chili sauce), was pretty terrible. It tasted like they just took some frozen scallops, dumped them in a pan with some frozen peas and onions, and then smothered them in a weird, gloopy red sauce. Oh wait... that's EXACTLY what they did. And did I mention the jar of garlic they distastefully dumped in as well? -
Review from Chelsea D.
New York, NY
6/20/2010
I wish I could give it two and a half stars, if only because the lunch specials are cheap but involve a huge amount of food... but the food isn't that great, hence the two star rating.
The fried rice is mostly miss... and never actually tastes fried. Today, my fried rice had clumps of untouched white rice spread throughout. Not so tasty. The wonton soup can be kind of tasteless, but the chicken with broccoli is good! The brown sauce totally covers some of the blandness of the rice.
Also they give out fortune cookies, which makes me happy as the places near my apartment don't do that, so lame. -
Review from Topher B.
New York, NY
6/5/2008
I give it 3 stars. Notable considering that the other Chinese places around here don't even deserve 1 star.
I've ordered from them twice now, and was impressed that they stored my address from the first time.
Speedy, decent Chinese food. Huge portions. Tasty gyoza. Good dumplings. Arrived piping hot in 10 minutes. -
Review from Irene F.
11/10/2007
Meh. Decent enough Chinese, they have sushi courtesy of Hana Sushi next door I guess? I ordered recovery food on http://delivery.com, got me some general tso's chihuahua (mediocre, but lots of sauce) and I dug the brown rice for no extra charge option. The best part of my meal was the lychees! One order is about $2, and has a huge container of lychees on ice in syrup. Very generous portion.
The sushi was beyond mediocre, but I only had the eel cucumber roll (kinda hard to fudge that one up though!). Delivery took almost an hour, but the food was still hot when it arrived, so I guess it kinda balanced out! -
Review from Charles T.
New York, NY
9/8/2010 1 Check-in Here
Sort-of inexpensive, sort-of Chinese food. Being from Chicago, I've perhaps come to expect a different level of quality and taste having been spoiled my Lao Szechuan and others in Chinatown, but this place was surprisingly subpar given the cost.
I was charged nearly $8 for a plate of calamari that was nearly raw, unforgivably tasteless, and incredibly rubbery. What's more, it was supposed to be seasoned calamari, yet I detected not even the slighted hint of seasoning.
I should have just stuck with McDonald's down the block. -
Review from Chad V.
New York, NY
7/24/2010
This place is what it is. Cheap delivery chinese.
Sushi is less than average. Still order from time to time as it's convenient online. This was before I found "Thai Season" delivered. MUUUUCH better sushi.
Also, the delivery guy will always call and tell me he is downstairs, (5th floor walk up.) Nice try dude, I'm not walking down the 5 flights to pick up the food you are supposed to deliver to my door. Walk your ass up, and i'll give you 25%. -
Review from Scott L.
2/23/2011
Even for a $6 lunch special with free drink, this place is bad. My chicken lo mein had barely any chicken in it. It was greasy and unappetizing.
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Review from Megan M.
New York, NY
2/13/2011
So I ordered chicken lo mein and the chinese cabbage, its typical greasy chinese fare but that's what i craved. The two stars isn't so much for the food as the service, and it was a delivery. The delivery driver called me to come down stair and on my way down (which probably took two minutes MAX) he apparently called my phone again...... Oh when I finally got to the door he shoved the bag in my face and walked away, very rude.....
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Review from mari a.
New York, NY
Updated - 5/29/2009 1 photo
So I took the advice of fellow helper and ordered the lychees.. OK. So what is the deal with the prepoked hole in the lid of the lychees? Several places do this. It makes it IMPOSSIBLE to get the lid off the of container w/o shooting liquid all over the place. If i want to suck the liquid out of the container via a small hole (which I don't), let me poke my own hole. Yes, great deal, but bad execution. Plus, liquid leaks out all over the rest of the food!
I also ordered the "I like eel" roll.. took a chance on it with no description since it was "for eel lover." It was pretty mediocre, and I've uploaded a picture so no other yelper gets sucked in. It was basically 4 pieces of a fat eel/avocado roll wrapped in cucumber and topped with eel sauce. Not worth $8.50, if you ask me. For $10, Saji's has 4 pieces of eel sushi and an eel/cucumber roll (6pc), a much better deal for eel lovers.
Also, the fried rice I got the second time around was half-fried white rice.. like they just threw some white rice in the wok and didn't bother to fry it all the way.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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2/21/2009
Decent. I was expecting a lot worse. I've had the General Tso's, some appetizers and the Pad Thai. I… Read more »
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Review from D M.
New York, NY
1/30/2011
Terrible, bland food. Three dishes and not one with any flavor. Soup was just hot water with vegetables. Not a light broth....water. Genreal Tso's sauce - bright red, thin and sweet...no spice to it. Simply bad.
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Review from Steve H.
New York, NY
11/11/2010
Horrible service. for good, inexpensive food, go a few doors down to peking garden.
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Review from DeMarus A.
New York, NY
10/7/2010 1 Check-in Here
Pan-Asian, with lots of grease. This place is loaded with mediocrity. However, it has provided respite in many late night cravings for sushi and fried rice simultaneously. Stay away from the Pad Thai. China and Japan they've got down. Thailand on the other hand needs some work.
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Review from Jennifer E.
New York, NY
9/18/2010
The food's OK. I have ordered delivery a few times just because I didn't feel like going out to get takeout.
Have to say though, the main reason I won't order from this place again is just that the delivery guys are kind of rude. They make a big deal out of standing there counting the tip, which just kind of bugs me because I tip pretty darn well. The first time I ordered, the guy actually came back and knocked on my door after the delivery and said, "This tip??", pointing angrily at the receipt. I had given him 15 percent but apparently he'd read it wrong -- he looked again and said "oh" and then just turned around and left. Kind of embarrassing because I had people over that night.
Plus, twice the delivery guy has stood at my doorway and argued with me about why I don't have "more light" (I DO have a porch light, and I'm a tiny little woman, not some big scary menacing dude or something). :)
I get dinner delivered because I do NOT feel like drama that night, people. :)
So, no more from this place. Empire is just as good for my mediocre, greasy-but-kinda-tasty Chinese food needs. -
Review from Miguel M.
New York, NY
1/19/2010
When it comes to chinese food i am pretty easy to please but this place was horrible. i could not get over how my food tasted reheated. The rice also had old taste to it. My friend ordered sushi and regretted it dearly as we both noticed the worker at the sushi with his finger knuckle deep in his nose and then with no gloves handle some of the sushi. Just Plain EEEEK!! all around.
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Review from Lily W.
New York, NY
10/30/2010
Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! Avoid at all cost. I swear that the dumpling I received would bounce it is so tough and rubbery - the scallion pancake was burnt on the outside and raw inside.
The man that answered the phone when I called to complain had nerve enough to tell me that this is what traditional Chinese food tastes like.
Well, as someone that has attended traditional Chinese banquets, I beg to differ.
This was the worst food. Horrible, awful inedible. Order at your own risk -
Review from Crystal F.
New York, NY
12/18/2009
Ugh. So I tried a new Chinese food place. Big mistake. The food just...wasn't good. I ordered chicken & it was really stringy. I guess they're not using a good quality chicken. I ordered calamari & the smell of fish hit me as soon as the food crossed the threshold. Ummm...yuck.
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Review from Chris S.
Manhattan, NY
3/20/2011
The four stars is comparing this place to other chinese delivery places like empire szechuan, etc. It is a relative-to-other-chinese-delivery-places four stars. The thing about this place is that reviewers ARE right when they say that it's better than your usual chinese. The reason yelpers are complaining is because they order--from this place that aspire to some crazy ambition of serving "real chinese food"--the generic type stuff like General Tso's chicken and lo mein, the type of dishes that this place is in fact is "bla" about. China Place is almost close to the authentic-like Hong Kong places in Chinatown. Almost. What to order? Roast Duck. Hands down. That is if you like duck and you're not afraid of oil. Order a quarter or half roast duck and a separate white rice and you've got yourself a good, authentic Chinatown meal. (The duck over rice will give you much less meat for the money.) Order yang chow fried rice or sausage fried rice. The steamed little juicy buns--a kind of meat dumplings--also decent. They got to me late but even cold, you can tell the stuffing inside the dumpling is a cut above the usual CRAP dumplings. I would also give the "Shanghai Cuisine" section of the menu a try. All in all, this is your place if you live in the area and like roast duck.
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Review from Andrea L.
Washington, DC
5/16/2008
Some of the worst Chinese food I've ever had. The fried rice - somehow they managed to make it tasteless. And the other people eating it commented on that, too. The egg roll looked good from the outside (crispy) but the filling was tasteless also. The general tsaos was ok.
A friend got tofu kung pao, took one bite, and said he couldn't eat it. It tasted like dish soap. And a second person agreed. Only my friend who will eat anything managed to eat it.
I would never order here again. I love West Place on 123 and Amsterdam - their lunch specials for $5.25 with soup/soda plus rice and entree are a good deal, and their food tastes good.
