Mr Chen’s Hunan Palace

The best Chinese food in south Florida, can’t understand why is not 5 stars from everyone, started with egg rolls that are made fresh, the spare ribs are meaty and fall off the bone and the house special fried rice is the bomb. We also loved the all their specialty dishes. The food reminds me of WoHops in NY is my #1 spot for sit down Chinese food.

Large dining room, big menu. Food is average at best. The service is not great either. There is better choices in this area.

Holy cow! Didn’t realize it could be so bad. So let’s start at the beginning. Ordered a mai tai… Yikes! I’m not sure if such a thing exists but it tasted like it may have come from a mix. Next up chicken wings. Aside from being greasy they tasted like your basic fried chicken wings from the grocery store completely devoid of any Asian flavor. The fried dumplings were filled with pork however had no flavor whatsoever aside from the ginger sauce that we drowned them in with the futile hope of improving them. The special was a whole fried crispy fish prepared in a hunan sauce. The fish was very fishy tasting (ugh) and very dry. This is a dish my husband and I typically really enjoy. I took one bite and could not eat anymore. On the bright side the fortune cookie was nice and fresh and the tea was good! Our server was friendly and efficient.
As you can well imagine I do not believe we will check this place out again. Décor is tired with a plethora of plastic flowers, clientele are 99% seniors, and the silverware and serving dishes appear old and worn.

I’ve been told that you can’t find good Chinese food in South Florida. I’m sorry it say Mr. Chen’s does nothing to dispel that notion.
We came at the recommendation of an elder neighbor who warned us that although the crowd was going to be on the older side, the food would be good nonetheless. Not a problem for us — we’re there for the dining experience and we have elder parents as well, so not an issue. He was right about the crowd — average age must have been 75 so if you are looking for a fun vibrant environment this is not the place for you unless of course you are joining your grandparents for dinner.
I don’t want to come across as overly negative so let’s start with the positive. The staff, from the hostess to the waiter were friendly. The hostess was actually hot (for those that pay attention to such things ;-) and Johnny the waiter was attentive and prompt. The hot tea was just right and the fortune cookie hit the spot, The egg roll was the best thing we had that night. Quite literally everything in between was not.
The décor as tired and tableware seemed as of it were from a different era (mid-​battle of Midway is my guess).
Our maitai’s tasted chalky. The replacement Old Fashioned needed sugar and lacked orange zest, or bitters or both for that matter.
For appetizers we began with friend chicken wings which tasted more southern fried than Asian. These were followed by fried pork dumplings which were notably devoid of any flavor.
The special of the evening was whole fried fish, which was either overcooked or caught when General Tsao was at the head of his army. Although we ordered white rice as an accompaniment, fried rice was delivered and it too lacked flavor.
Unless you are really, really hungry (or missing your grandparents) you are probably best served dining elsewhere.

Came across Mr. Chen’s by chance after we left the ophthalmologist’s office in the plaza. From the outside it seemed like your run of the mill ordinary Chinese takeout.
When we opened the doors it was like we were transformed into an old world Asian paradise of retro Chinese décor in a sea of dragons and ornate tapestry that would impress the most discriminating critic. We were greeted with a pot of tea and large crispy noodles to tie us over before ordering our lunch special. i ordered the beef and
broccoli with brown rice w/​light brown sauce while my wife and mother-​in-​law ordered
the shrimp special. My beef was so tender it would have even satisfied The Emperor
of China. And i suppose their shrimp was equally flavorful.
After dining in an atmosphere of décor and ambience with a meal
that would satisfy and impress the most sensitive palate, we decided that it
would be a capital idea to take 3 more home to serve for dinner.
And that’s exactly what we did! So far so good; thus i give kudos and 4 stars!

Enjoyed my hot and sour soup as well as shrimp and asparagus with garlic spicy sauce on side! Great service and loved my egg roll too! I am living here now and will go as a regular customer!

Ok for dinner with grandma not a date night experience.

I feel this place has gone down in recent years. It is not bad, but not that great — nothing tastes fresh, and the service can be downright rude at times. I would have given this three stars four years ago but not now. It simply is not that great a Chinese restaurant for the local area.

I’m still on the toilet (Day 3)!
Terrible, should have trusted my instincts when I walked in place. Looks like the place hasn’t had an update since the 1970’s. I was the youngest customer in the place by 40 years.
The service was OK but the food was not FRESH. I got a simple wanton soup with my meal of shrimp with chicken and rice. (One of my fav. chinese dishes)
The wanton was ok… but when the entrée came out you could tell there was nothing fresh served to my table. I tried others at my table as well.
I ate half my plate and surrendered… Bad Idea. The shrimp was obviously the tiny frozen kind and the chicken was hard to find and not tasty at all.
My stomach has been in shambles, working on day 3 now. Good Luck with this one…

A good «traditional» ny style Chinese take out good served to you at a table. Service was good but somewhat abrupt. Food was tasty and portions were big. The kept flowing throughout the meal. Worth the trip

Uhhhhhh StumbleUpon this place while working and I said why not I haven’t had Chinese in months… well it was just aiight nothing to brag about I had general tso chicken and they covered my plate with onions, broccoli and green bell peppers but little chicken.

No Good — went there last night — worst crab rangoon ever — this place is awful!!!

Taste of NY chinese take out at Florida prices with the ability to sit there and eat. Staff is friendly and prompt.

A favorite Chinese Restaurant in South Florida. Close to home and we love love love the Chicken with Brocolli with white garlic sauce as well as the House Chow Fun Delux with shrimp, chicken and beef. YUM! Mixed soup wonton and eggdrop, egg roll and spare ribs are a must too!
Wish we could have everyday. Filling and sooooo goooood! Our home kitchen away from home.

This place is truly great. The service was good. The atmosphere was not above average. The place was packed though we were able to get a seat right away. The crab Rangoon was really really good. The filling was fresh flavorful and thick. Chow mien was a little mushy but flavorful. Chicken was above average quality. Beef Low mien was made from what tasted like home made noodles. the flavor was great and not overly oily. Wonton soup was a little salty for me but I’m a little salt sensitive. Overall it was a good experience and I’ll be back.

This is my great uncle’s favorite Chinese restaurant. I have no idea why he likes this place. Every time we come in to town he takes us here. He generally orders the shrimp and rice dish of sorts.
Service is nice and quick but that’s about it. I generally get cashew chicken that comes with a soup and egg roll. Nothing really stuck out for me, sorry. This is like every other Chinese food restaurant, can’t a guy find another place like this and not as dull?

Brians review was pretty harsh on mr chens, he’s not far from wrong but I think he blew it up too much. When I wrote years about about mr chen’s it was top 5 in it’s hay day, but time has not been good to chen’s. Consistently, year after year this place in fact has declined from a 5 to a 2 rating. I’ve always been hoping it would make it’s come back but it hasn’t. The staff is, ok… the place is pretty nice… the food, has lost a lot of it’s flavor and… what happened to the big portions. My latest time at chen’s was disheartening for me… long wait, average at best staff, decent food, and small portions. Unfortunately this will be the last time I will try it for maybe a year and a half. I really hope this place turns it around… I really would give it a 1.5 but they only go by full stars, I gave it a half star more for memories 10 years ago when I was little and when it was king

After a long road trip we wanted to order something for dinner. My sister has been constantly telling me about this place. I am not a fan of Chinese food but decided to give it a try.
After checking their website I decided to get the combination dinner. We were all starving and we figured we should order as much food as possible. (wrong idea). Each combination dinner comes with Soup, Egg Roll, Fried Rice and a Fortune Cookie (Best Part). For the soups you have a choice of Egg Drop (umm the name freaked me out), Hot & Sour (how can someone eat something hot and sour??), Vegetable (Should have chosen this one!), or Wonton Soup (I had this one it was OK. but such a weird soup. It has strings of pork and one noodle. We had to add a bit more ingredients at home to make it taste better.)
My main course was the Beef and Broccoli. I try to stick to something safe when I eat Chinese food. It was good. Taste like every other place I have had beef and broccoli at.
Service was quick. We ordered it over the phone and in 15mins it was ready. Prices are reasonable. This place is a bit hidden. It is located in a plaza near the hospital. Never seen it before and I live a min away.

There are good Chinese restaurants, and there are bad Chinese restaurants. Mr. Chen’s Hunan Palace is so bad, that they really should be forced to apologize to the Hunan province for abusing its good name.
Located in a medical building adjacent to Delray Beach Hospital and a gaggle of retirement communities nearby, the clientele is either elderly or on their way to the hospital to work or visit patients. (The proximity to the ER may be a blessing.)
On a weekend evening, the service is so slow that you almost might miss dinner altogether, which, given what they plopped down on the table on the night that we tried it, would have been a blessing indeed.
Hunan cuisine is not as spicy as Schezwan, but it should be flavorful. Lots of sauces with subtle seafood flavors, like lobster sauce, shrimp sauce.
Hunan is old school: Egg foo young, chop suey, that kind of thing.
We tried a few of the standards. The Egg Foo Young was greasy and the brown gravy on the side was flavorless. The «spicy» Hunan Chicken was spicy by retirement home standards, but tame enough that, pureed, it could pass for baby food.
The fried rice wasn’t really fried, so much as it was coated in a non-​salty soy sauce that gave it a little color and no flavor. The bits of chicken in the fried rice were could have easily been obtained from prehistoric chicken samples from a natural history museum: They were dry, bland, and close to petrified.
The only winner of the night was the house special won ton soup, which had a couple of scallops in it and pretty decent broth.
If you’ve had a recent lobotomy or a stroke, and you’re not picky about things like flavor, AND you have about three hours to get served about 30 minutes worth of food, then I would say you could do no better than a visit to Mr. Chen’s.

Wow, I haven’t rated Mr. Chen’s yet?
So, my grandparents (like the grandparents of many others) live out in Delray Beach, and I go visit them a couple of times a year. Everytime I’m there we have to go to Mr. Chen’s because I like the food way too much. I always order the same thing: Shrimp with Lobster Sauce, white rice, mixed soup, egg roll. The egg rolls are so big and fresh, the soup is to die for, and with the main course… the shrimp are so fresh and the sauce is quite flavorful.
The service is good but not great, but that’s not why you’re here, right?