China Gourmet - West Orange

My family has visited this restaurant for over 20 years, and this restaurant has consistently good food. We prefer this restaurant to other Chinese restaurants in the area and in NYC Chinatown. Our favorites are the beef pan roasted noodles Hong Kong style and the salt-baked squid. We also enjoy the Auberginen-Casserole, sizzling beef, and moo shu pig. We often go as a family, but we went with groups of 10 at times for special occasions. We usually go for dinner, although we also occasionally go to dim sum. The staff is pleasant and polite.

I've eaten over 20 years in this restaurant. Some might remember when they had jazz evenings and fish lived in the fish tank. Both sides of the restaurant and the bar were filled with customers. It was a real place. Both the food and the atmosphere were great. Unfortunately things change. Jazz is long gone, and they are no longer sitting on the side of the restaurant where jazz was played, I assume because there are fewer customers. But the food is surprisingly still quite good. The shrimp fried rice, one of my favorites, is very, very good. I can tell you that the quality of beef is very good, not hard and chewing, like other places. The vegetables are always fresh and delicious. While there are fewer servers now, the remaining employees are pleasant and always accommodating. It is a good place to go for Chinese food. I eat often. When you look around, it seems that many of the places I have gedified over the years have fewer customers. I believe the result of a changing economy and that people have become more aware.

This restaurant is a few blocks from our house that makes it super comfortable if we want Chinese food. Do a favor. If you eat when you eat there in the regular night, make sure you have for the small red menu and not the regular standard large menu. The small menu is the good authentic Cantonese cuisine, the overwhelming wins over the standard 'brown sauce on everything' standard American Chinese Food Fare. Also note dimsum weekends that if you do not want to hike to the Queens is as good as dimsum as you will have in Jersey. And hey, if you're Asian, let the chicken feet die!

Good authentic Chinese food without MSG on most dishes. Dim sum is one of the best in the West Orange/Montclair area. Definitely worth a repeat visit. The service is attentive. Quick and fast.