QQ Express

A good place to eat if you are a nerd belonging to the Engineering College, only having less than 30 minutes between 2 classes in the noon but get sick of Ginger Roots and Subway. Food is really mediocre and cannot really count as REAL Chinese food. Though, I do like the Curry Chicken Rice there. Also, I do like the sir and the madam who run the QQ. They are very enthuastic and nice people :)

If you’re looking for realllllly good Chinese food this probably won’t be your first choice. But if you’re a college student on a budget, like I am, you’re going to LOVE this place. They give you SOOOO much food for really cheap, and it’s definitely better than the dining hall Chinese food.
I get the General Tso’s chicken every time. It is so good, and I always have some leftover for the next day.
The service is always quick and friendly.
This place is the perfect college student restaurant!

This is my favorite Chinese food spot on campus. I don’t even bother with ginger root. This place just satisfies my chow mein fix and there’s always no issues with blandness which I tend to come across in other restaurants in this same category. It’s also a really good price for the amount you get! 4 stars only bc sometimes food isn’t as fresh as I’d want it to be.

Lets see. Service sucks. Food is alright. Prices are fantastic. Music is weird. What more can I say?
It’s not going to be the best chinese food you’ve had. It’s CERTAINLY not going to be served with a smile or a hint of dignity. But you can get a LOT of food for under $ 8 and it’s at least 99% edible (I found a pretty rotten looking carrot bit in the fried rice, but other than that, it was A-​OK)
I’ve been here a few times. Most recently, I had the peanut butter chicken, pepper chicken, and the general tso’s chicken. General Tso’s chicken was the highlight of the meal and was very tasty. Peanut butter chicken was one of the grossest things I’ve ever eaten. There is nothing inherently wrong with it — it was just WAYY too sweet and tasted like it was coated in sugar. Pepper Chicken was pretty good. I’d overall recommend the General Tso chicken though — it was very flavorful.
I ordered it over a bed of fried rice — which was almost tasteless. I much prefer it to their lo mein, however.
Overall — not the best Chinese restaurant; not by a long shot. If you’re on campus and looking for cheap eats and don’t feel like venturing over to State Street — QQ to the rescue!

QQ Express is one of my all-​time favorite places to go for comfort food. Their lunch and dinner meal price is definitely worth it. However, unless you order off their menu, the food is by no means «authentic Chinese food.» But it is great Chinese-​American food. My favorites are the general tso’s chicken, thai peanut chicken, and the string beans. Their portions are super dense and really filling. If you’re not STARVING, 6 – 7 dollars is definitely good for two meals.

Excellent food at an even better price! I’d recommend the black pepper chicken and the General Tso’s. I opted for lo mein over fried rice, and was pleased it wasn’t as greasy as other place’s tend to be. It’s a cute little space right on campus, and I am happy to have finally tried it out!

After what felt like ages working on a project, we walked our of CS to go get a sub. But I realized I needed something hot and spicy on this frigid and windy evening. And also cause I was super hungry. So we went to QQ. And boy was it hot… and spicy… and filling. I couldn’t even finish half of my plate! Pepper chicken has to be the best option there. Didn’t really buy into the Peanut Butter Chicken. Almost akin to pineapple on a pizza.
It didn’t taste bad, actually it tasted pretty good but boy did it make me loathe myself afterwards. All that oil and sodium…
Go here if you’re hungry and want a quick greasy meal.

They play weirdest Chinese songs I’ve ever listened to since I was born.
Food is acceptable and location is great tho.

The peanut butter chicken is my favorite! I wouldn’t call it quality food, but for quick Chinese food, I choose this place.

in good price, but serve horrible Chinese fast food. and the background music is so weird. Won’t go there again unless I can’t afford others.

They have good chicken. Lacking delivery options. Staff is concise and speedy. Great for an in between classes meal.

Quick, cheap Chinese food. I’ve only got this when I’ve forgotten lunch at home and I don’t have time to go somewhere better for food. It’s certainly not authentic — the flavors are highly exaggerated, but it’s not nasty.

It’s so bad that it’s good, so wrong that it’s right.
Admittedly a fat-​packed grease fest, QQ will disrupt any sort of diet you have going on. But when they serve up this mean of a peanut chicken, there’s no turning back.
Yes, the workers are impatient or, put more kindly, efficient, but this is often a plus on days where I’m looking to grab a quick bite between classes.
In terms of the food, my favorite is for sure the aforementioned peanut chicken. It’s deep fried chicken that’s then coated in a strong peanut butter flavored sauce, so what’s not to love. Also classic QQ is the Ma Po Tofu. I appreciate tofu preparation at places like these considering I am a failure at making it taste good at home. Their version is a tad spicy and certainly hearty in the protein department.
They’re generous on the portion sizes, and the food is cheap and stick to your bones tasty. QQ, you’ve got a fan.

My mistake. I thought this was the QQ on Sherman Ave. I have never been to this one.

A place that’s been around for a few years now. I used to go there with a Chinese friend and co-​worker of mine pretty frequently, and had quite a number of nice dishes including steamed egg and roasted duck. Many dishes are greasy, including the ‘main course’ of stir-​fry noodles or fried rice. So despite being a huge fan of noodles, I opt for their white rice for almost every visit.
I find their dishes to be pretty decent actually, though I really wished it wasn’t all that greasy. So for that reason I would say select your food wisely, or eat it over multiple meals. Some of the better items I have had in addition to those mentioned earlier are the peanut chicken and their gigantic meatballs. Their beef, tomato and egg stir fry is pretty good too.
QQ is an alternative to Ginger Root for Chinese food in terms of location, being just across the street. It gives you a wider selection of items at the comparable price. If you are looking for some variation on campus and don’t mind the greasy food or the occasional cravings, this is something to consider.

This is a Panda Express type restaurant (order white/​fried rice or low mein and two main dishes moving down the line and you walk away with a styrofoam container) but with way better food and more of it.
I have been here many many times and have rarely been disappointed. I’m pretty sure I have tried every dish but my favorites are the lo mein, green beans, and peanut chicken.
During the school this place is packed at almost exactly noon so its best to show up at 11 or a little later in the day (1 – 2) to avoid the rush.
The staff may come off as a little gruff at times but if you go enough you’ll know that isn’t really the case. They seem to be like most people, generally friendly but have their grumpy days. So don’t be offended if they seem to be hurrying you along.
The food can be a bit heavy/​oily so don’t be afraid to space out the frequency in which your visit or save half your meal for later (I know how hard that can be!), your stomach may be thanking you later!
Please bring back the vegetable delight with tofu that you replaced with mushrooms! I don’t have any hankering typically for tofu as it is a flavorless gelatinous mass, but in the vegetable delight it was very delicious. However, sometime in the past year or so they replaced the tofu with mushrooms and the dish does not taste nearly as good (perhaps they did something else as well…) which is too bad as that was a delicious lighter option.
So in summary, this place gives you lots of food for a good price and is a nice place to grab a quick lunch.

Great place for a really quick lunch and in my opinion MUCH better than Subway next-​door. I work nearby, and I often go here because in 2 minutes and for $ 6 I get a rather large portion of tasty Americanese food. I also like that the default isn’t steamed rice but you can choose from a base of steamed rice OR lo mein or fried rice in case you’re not overly interested in the healthiest possible lunch… Which BTW, if you want healthy, maybe don’t come here because it’s pretty greasy — I’m a fan!
I’d give it 5 stars because it lives up to what it is — quick and cheap Americanese food. However, I think it could have more flavor and some of the dishes could be more spicy. After the first few bites it does tend to get a little one-​dimensional. A little soy sauce and some sriracha goes a long way though :).

My new favorite lunch spot. I was in and out in under a minute and got a ton of food for under seven bucks! The fried rice and chicken was on point!

If I were ever going to write a one word Unilocal review, it would be right here, and that word would simply be «Eww!». But I won’t do that here.
The one time I went to QQ, it was on a Friday night while I was doing late night grind for my job. I needed some edible fuel, and remembered that QQ is the closest place that’s actually open and isn’t Subway. So I go down to the steps, and come in and see a nearly empty restaurant, with two employees just staring me down. All of the food was before me, as it was just in heated trays, much like what you would see in a food court. At this point, I was considering walking back out to the surface, but figured I may as well trudge on, since I have no other options. So, I look through the options, and come to find that as a vegetarian, I have one option: The tofu. I ask for it to go, and get it in the usual plastic bag and styrofoam box. When I get back to my office, I look in the bag, and a large portion of the sauce was just seeping out of the box, onto the bag, and soon after my desk. I get that mistakes happen, but still, it’s a bummer.
Now that I have the food and am situated, I start eating. It doesn’t take me long after to chuck ¾ths of my meal in the garbage. The tofu tasted so slimy and bland, even with the MSG filled sauce packets, and it smelled slightly rancid. The noodles that came as a side were really stiff and dry, like they were cooked for maybe a minute. It takes A LOT to get me to throw non-​spoiled food away, but QQ managed to do the unthinkable. Hats off to ya QQ, because I might’ve needed to vomit in said hat if I actually finished that meal.

There’s this movie called Big Trouble in Little China. Kurt Russell plays a truck driver with a mullet and a best friend that owns a Chinese restaurant. I know the movie is set in 1980s San Francisco Chinatown, but I like to think that it’s actually QQ Express.
QQ is quintessentially Chinese American. This isn’t the Chinese American at the mall, but Chinese American with loud ladies yelling «next?!» over and over through a busy lunch service. There are steam trays full of food, but they’re constantly being emptied and refilled. It’s not appealing to Americans. They are unfazed. The lunch line is full of fobby* kids and engineers. None of them care, or, if they did care, knew how to express it.
The food is kind of the same way. Chinese American. I watched a youtube video about Asian parents complaining about things. «American food is too sweet». This food is definitely too sweet. I wonder if someone in the restaurant could put together something amazing, but since I only have thirty minutes between classes, I will never find out.
*Sorry

Peanut chicken was great. Crispy chicken on the outside, tender on the inside. Delic!

I’ve always wondered if QQ Express was related to QQ Asian Buffet. But either way, although it doesn’t say much, QQ Express is better than QQ Asian Buffet.
The food here is okay at best. There are more authentic dishes here than at QQ Asian Buffet. And like its all-​you-​can-​eat counterpart, the food here can be greasy, but at least it is really cheap, so that’s a plus. The other good thing is that if you’re in a hurry, you’d be able to get your meal pretty quick here. The owners chose the correct business name because express is definitely an applicable description for this place.

Why is there a sign in the bathroom prohibiting visitors from flushing toilet paper? There’s a wastebasket full of poo. Not cool.