China Express

This place offers many affordable menu items, but the quality tends to be very poor on a consistent basis. It doesn’t matter what you order here, more often than not; it will be dripping with grease (Chow Mein/​Fried Rice) or dried out (Fried Shrimp/​Egg Rolls) from the heat lamps. Eat here if you must, but use the utmost discretion in ordering, one bad choice could lead to a not so happy tummy :(

You get what you pay for. Quality is not so good, staff are okay I prefer people to tell me if I have to pay more for substitution of chow mien for rice, I thought rice was cheaper? Anyways it’s a good place if your in a hurry.

I don’t understand why there isn’t a ZERO stars choice? This place is horrific! Not only was the lady serving the food rude, but refused to give me and my coworker our money back after finding hair in our food! And yes, in two different orders! They have kids running around the kitchen and no one is in hair nets. They threw our money at us finally after 30 minutes of yelling and laughing in our faces. Yikes, why are they still open?

They serve YESTERDAYS food the next day. they try to hide the old food under new batch. but its OBVIOUS… GROSS!!! and they use STYROFOAM which is ILLEGAL.. I will report the use of STYROFOAM to the city of Oakland restaurant regulations! The STYROFOAM melts when u microwave left overs. so your EATING STYROFOAM. I think that can probably cause CANCER?! spread the word…

How this place is still open is beyond me. Health hazards everywhere. Disastrous food.

. I wish I can put a 0 star but I’m not allowed too.
So I came in for lunch at around 1045 in the morning. First thing i saw was the cashier sneezing into her hand and touching the food utensils and putting stuff jn. She didn’t even wash her hand. This sucks that this image will be in my head because every time i do my laundry I would come and get my Chinese fix. This is just my two cents on my experiende. I wouldn’t be coming here anymore.
Out of sight out of mind guys. Enjoy the food here.

Me and my boyfriend were sick after eating here even though we didn’t eat much because of how greasy the food was.

Not bad. Great when your on the go. I really don’t have complaints. I’m not going to lie, in Oakland chinese have a tough competition. Considering this is located in an area where there are amazing places to eat its a 3 but probably a four not considering this is in oakland.
O and catch up with the times! Needs to accept debit!

So I’ve noticed there are lot of «$ 1.50 a box» little steam table Chinese restaurants in Oakland, but this one just might be one of my favorites, most definitely.
I have to say that, when you consider how nice the service here was with how surprisingly clean the interior of this restaurant is, and ESPECIALLY when you factor in how yumtastic everything tastes with how CHEAP it all is, it’s definitely safe to say I’m a fan.
We had leftovers of fish, a little tofu & veggie stir fry, and a ton of noodles after two big boxes of food totaling $ 8.60. They were lunch today. Mmmm.
We’ll most definitely be back to this Chinese food steam table restaurant.

chinese express is one variant of chinese food take out. they offer «chinese food to go, 3.15 up». chow mein, and fried rice (3.15) are the entry level entrees. they have many ready made entrees on the steam table that you can point to, grab and go. usually, it’s mostly chicken, chicken, some beef and some veggies (broccoli, eggplant, green beans) options.
sampling:
–chow mein +egg roll + entrée (3.75)
*egg roll: nice, greasy, fresh tasty fried piece of all cabbage egg roll.
*oily thick noodle chow mein, not so appetizing
*broccoli beef: broccoli barely cooked, beef tender but with strange sweet addictive taste (baking soda, corn starch, msg, salt, sugar and secret spices). strange taste, beef not recommended.
chinese lessons (mandarin)
happy new year (²⁄₁₄) xin nian kuai le
year of the tiger. hu nian
red envelope hong bao
happy new year, xin nian kuai le
give me a red envelope gei wo hong bao
chinese (cantonese)
happy new year kung hay fat choy
lucky money is coming li si dao lai
(to me)
note: red envelops (lucky money, li si, hong bao) are distributed by older married people to younger children around chinese new year to symbolize a happy new year.