China King
4301 S National Ave, Springfield, MO, 65810
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Address :
4301 S National Ave
Springfield, MO, 65810 - Phone (417) 889-7888
- Website https://www.chinaking.org/
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Quiet
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : No
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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Sunthosh P.
Great chinese take out. Their non-fried dishes are amazing! The service is quick and food is ready within minutes. Recommend the chicken with broccoli. Egg rolls are tasty.
(4)Chanelle G.
The General Tso's Chicken, Orange Chicken, and Coconut Chicken are all delicious! The Coconut Chicken is the same style chicken that you get with S&S, but comes with a creamy coconut sauce to dip it in. Amazing Crab Rangoon and the best egg rolls, too!
(4)Gage C.
Customer service is horrible I wanted credit because the food was nasty and I wanted to give it another try and I got hung up on absolutely deserves 2 stars
(2)Lisa M.
Love their orange chicken and pineapple chicken. The rice is very good and crab rangoons are out of this world good!
(4)David T.
Consistent excellent food. I grab China Kin for my team about once a week, and they always have a great meal. I have a vegetarian on my team and they make special considerations for him without complaint.
(5)Bill M.
This is one of your "run-if-the-mill" fast Chinese restaurants that seem to be abundant in every state. The interior isn't much to be desired, but they never are, and the menu is identical to the rest, featuring the most common Chinese-American meals. The crab Rangoon was really good. I had the sesame chicken and it wasn't bad. I'm wasn't a huge fan of the fried rice but it was alright. My wife had the lemon chicken and it was really weird how they cook it. They bread it like a fried steak or something. Anyway, this place is fine if you want some Chinese food for a decent price.
(3)Amanda C.
So over the holiday weekend I returned home and cashew chicken is always on the list of must-haves when we visit. The Springfield cashew chicken, which is not much more than fried chicken with gravy, cashews and green onions over a bed of rice. Don't judge me. I love it. I grew up here and it's comfort food to me. So I have my favorite spot that I've gone too for as long as I can remember but the trouble is, it's way out of the way. So I thought I would be adventurous and try to find a decent spot on the south side of town. That is what bring me to China King. Honestly, when we arrived I didn't notice the hip hop music at all. Maybe they changed that, or maybe I didn't notice because I secretly like some hip hop, but don't tell anyone. We both ordered the Springfield style cashew chicken. But after looking over the menu, it seems this place may have some really legit Chinese food dishes. I'm not a fan of Cantonese/Chinese cuisine so none of it really looked good to me but there were plenty of people here enjoying a meal that didn't include chicken and gravy. What I liked about this place is you can have crab rangoons with your meal instead of the typical egg roll. Food arrived to our table piping hot. Took one bite of the crab rangoon and was super happy. I just knew this place was going to hit the spot. I think these crab rangoons are better than my typical place which is saying a lot. They were sooo good. We ordered another 8 of those to share. One bite into my cashew chicken and the joy left the building. This is not good. Not good at all. The chicken was extremely overcooked or had been under a heat lamp all day, the "sauce" was nothing more than soy sauce and the rice had little pieces of fuchsia pink meat bits throughout that were super dry. I cannot identify that meat and it was a real turn off for me. The Springfield cashew chicken gets a huge fail from me. I'm sure if you are looking for more traditional Chinese food, this place would probably hit the spot, but for the Springfield comfort food search, skip this place altogether. Unless you stop in to grab an order of crab rangoons. Our total bill was around 25 bucks after we ordered the extra crab rangoons.
(2)Jodi M.
China King is, by far, my favorite Chinese place in town, and having moved to the area from the west coast, I consider my standards to be fairly high for this type of food. It's run by a very nice young Chinese couple, and the food is always hot and fresh with crisp veggies. For the Cashew Chicken lovers that reviewed this restaurant previously, Cashew Chicken was invented Springfield MO. It is not authentic Chinese food. (It is on the menu mainly because people constantly ask for it ) Take my advice and ask for a recommendation at the counter. They will cook you up something spectacular, and don't forget the crab Rangoon. It's excellent!
(5)Eric R.
China King is okay, but nothing to crave or write home about. The previous review comments about the offensive pop music are spot-on. Why in the world an Asian family thinks I want to rock out to Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Rhianna, etc. while I wait on some crab rangoon is, quite simply, beyond my comprehension. The food itself is okay. The crab rangoon is actually really good and the pastries come stuffed with the mixture. This is more of the sweet/creamy variety, so if that's not your cup of tea then you might not want them. I know a lot of people prefer them not to have even the slightest hint of sweetness. They use yellow rice, so when you order a rice dish your initial reaction might be "What the... why the heck is my rice yellow?!?" It's okay... the rice dishes are probably the best thing on their menu in my opinion. Yellow rice isn't evil, it's just different. Everything else on the menu which we've ordered (been a few times as we live literally 45 seconds from here) has been hit and miss. One time something will be really good and the next time it will be below average. I'd like to see more consistency and my visits here will slightly decrease (if not disappear altogether) since another Asian place I really like opened up about a mile away. It's not a bad choice but it probably won't knock your socks off either.
(3)Julee L.
I am shocked this place doesn't have better reviews. I realize Springfieldians think of Chinese food differently then the rest of the world, so that could account for the bad reviews. Note...this place does not use MSG and uses fresh ingredients which might taste odd to those who have eaten MSG and processed food their whole life. I absolutely love this place!! I consider myself an extremely hard person to please when it comes to food, and I have lived in several cities and eaten at many places and in many "china towns" in large cities and this place seriously makes better quality Chinese then any other place I have been to. The food is prepared with a freshness that other Chinese food is lacking. They will make things anyway you like if you ask them. For vegetarians, this is a dream. They use fresh, (not overcooked) vegies, and will substitute any meat dish with tofu if you like. Ask for a side of hot oil. They make it homemade, and it is amazing. Vegie fried rise is perfection!! All other chicken dishes I have had there are perfect as well. Their version of "Springfield" cashew chicken in my opinion is much better than typical cashew chicken all the other Springfield places make. Also, there are a few different China Kings in Springfield. I am thinking that the other bad reviews may have actually eaten at a different location, which is not the same food at all, they just happen to have the same name. Be sure to go to the one on National across the street from Price Cutter, just south of Republic road.
(5)Sarah B.
As you make your way through the doorway, trashy pop music offends the ears. You move forward to the counter through a dinning room that is neither off putting nor exceptional. You will firstly notice a couple dozen or so blown up images of popular dishes lining the wall above the kitchen window. The images, while printed slightly off color, are generally appetizing looking. During my first China King encounter, I was seduced by the image of the cashew chicken. This dish usually doesn't wet my whistle, but the picture looked so promising with it's abundant display of vegetables and dark rich sauce... But appearances are deceiving as hell my friends! The sorry cashew chicken I received had chicken pieces that were breaded like onion rings, and didn't work with other aspects of the dish. The dish was lacking my highly anticipated vegetable heap, and it was served in an offensively thin overly soy saucy pool. This liquid was missing the complexity and density that I have experienced at other Chinese eateries. Probably the biggest let down of the meal was the unappetizing caution-sign-yellow rice that was dotted with red hot like pieces of what I am told was pork. Rice and pork should never come in these colors... To top it off, the rice was room temp at best and the tough little pork niblets were so chewy and cheap tasting that they ruined the rhythm of the rice. I couldn't get past my inadvertent association of the pork bits with canned dog food. Somehow after such a pitiful example of cashew chicken, I came back again after the shock had worn off. I ordered the Moo Goo Gai Pan, which is a dish I normally love when it is prepared at my treasured Chinese Chef. This dish did have a fair amount of vegetables, but they were a little canned and old looking. The sauce was thin, but overall it was acceptable in flavor. Again, the dish was accompanied with a loathsome hill of radiation yellow rice which was flecked with the dog food "pork." But god the worst part of this dish was the hellacious chicken. It was pasty white and so lifeless that it still looked frozen. Despite being thin, it had a grisly texture, and was actually a little stringy. I think this meat must have satisfied the absolute lowest requirement for consumption or even classification as chicken. Somehow these unappetizing bundles of grotesquely oversized chicken wads looked like miniature versions of U.S. states. I shudder now just recounting it... After these two experiences it seems pretty clear that one should avoid the chicken dishes. Also, one should opt for steamed rice instead of their confetti like fried rice version. This is a shame, because fried rice tends to accent the stir-fried dishes so nicely, but here it's just not worth it. I get the impression that China King is excessively cheap with their ingredient purchasing, and the quality of their food is suffering severely. They can clearly prepare things properly, but lets face it, if you polish a turd, it's still a turd! The only thing making me even consider a two star rating is that the beau once had some pretty satisfactory wok friend lo mien noodles here. But I struck out too hard on my first two experiences, and it will take an awful lot to get back inside to try my luck again.
(1)Doug R.
Yet another stop on the southest of the South side Cashew Chicken tour. You'll have to keep your eyes open for this one though. Its located across Nat'l and Price Cutter, right next door to Hinode. Initially, it appears to be a bit of a step up from its shabbily appointed Chinese joint brethren, at least in comparison to China Star. Here you get neato hanging modern lamps, new tables and chairs, and a back-lit menu board with pictures instead of lettered choices. Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that this place is just merely newer than other places. Some highlighted curiosities: an American map that is packing-taped to the wall, large Chinese style eagle mural, and my favorite, a motivational plaque-thingy w/a bald eagle that has a word like "destiny" or "power" underneath it. Evidently this place also poses as a part time day-care center for the workers' kids as there are skateboards, balls, and other toys all around (literally). But enough! Food Time! After a little difficulty communicating our order we ended up with the Cashew Chicken with a side of won-tons, and the Shrimp-LoMein (Not sure whose side the lang. barrier that the fault lies here; I blame the gross egg rolls for making me always need to adjust combo meals.). Buyer of CChicken be warned: the actual plate looks NOTHING like the menu picture. And yes, this is a big deal. The menu pic looked great; sauteed chicken with nice vegetables on a bed of greens. Instead we got beer-battered (appearance was of bb anyways) chicken, a dome of un-fresh, yellow rice, and a side of soyish looking sauce. This dish at least spared us the MSG overload of China Star, but still did not work that well. The oddly breaded chicken was OK, but really did not have a strong chicken taste and became quite gross and soggy once it sat in the sauce a bit. The rice, while including bits of pork and onions, was stale and overall bland. The sauce was a lightened soy sauce, that was actually pretty subtle. As a whole, the dish just didn't work for me. It wasn't awful, just not that good.The chicken ultimately did not have a great taste to it when combined with all the elements. The large shrimp lo mein platter, however, was a mountain of noodley goodness with some pretty decent sized, medium shrimp, although two of them were not cleaned properly. Pay attention to your shrimp people! But overall, that dish was pretty good w/green onions and cabbage, but a tad greasy. The wanton platter is a really good deal for $3. You get nice, lotusy looking wontons with pretty big pieces of spiced meat in them, and they are well cooked. It also comes with a classy, styrofoam cut full of bright red sauce. This instantly triggered a Proustian memory. "I've had this food somewhere...BUT WHERE?" Then I remembered. HAPPY f'ing CHINA. Its the same food. The same spiced pork. The same neon red sauce. The same yellow rice with reddish pork. I was unawares until this moment that they were affiliated. So. There you have it. Debating on the stars here. The lo-mein was great, especially piping hot. The chicken was unique I suppose, but not that great. The wontons were pretty good, especially for the money. I didn't care to watch a young child run around like all hell was breaking loose, sliding underneath chairs and scooting buckets all around. I also didn't care to hear the stupid 95.5 music mix (if you work for that station, you are part of the problem) fighting with the loud TV playing Anime. I also noticed that there were two dish tubs FULL of dirty dishes above both the trashcans and we were the ONLY people in the place eating. SO. There you have it some more. I'm not in a great mood remembering this now... so 2 stars!
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