Good food and lots of it. Pan-fried noodles come out in a cast iron Skillet. The veggies and the pork mixture comes out in a bowl. The customer gets to mix things together. read more

China Express - Pork and pan fried noodles - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

Love the Pepper Steak and Pork Chow Mein. But my absolute favorite is the fried dumplings. The sauce that comes with the dumplings is different and I like it a lot more than other restaurants that have dumpling sauces. read more

I would love to eat here again but they've been closed. I drove up last Tuesday within their posted business hours and they were closed. Today I called first and got their answering machine after two rings. Bummer. I hope they're OK. If you guys are OK, would you please update your business hours for your fans? read more

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Great food and friendly staff. Loved the yellow curry and Pad Thai. Prices are reasonable.

Went with a group of people. Food service was good and most of the food was good as well. One of our orders were messed up but was fixed quickly. The main complaint was from the pad thai because it didn't taste like pad thai and the noodles were overcooked. I had the green curry with chicken, thai tea, and cream cheese wontons, and I enjoyed all of them. I'd eat here again. read more

This place has the best pad Thai dish in town. If you order in, you do have to wait a while but it's SO worth it. Highly recommend.

Today China Express advertised a lunch combo plate on Facebook for $14.99 from 11:30am to 1:00 pm only. After taking the order and waiting for the food to be cooked, the cashier returned to charge for the food. Their card reader stopped working and they could only accept cash. So they lost a sale, and lost two customers that buy a lot of Wor Wonton Soup during cold winter months. A competent owner/manager would have given the food for free since it was their fault for not being able process cards because they did not properly maintain their equipment. Businesses can use those losses as a tax write off. Bad business decision. Never punish your customers for your own failures. Also, always charge for the order immediately to ensure that you can process the payment before you cook the order and cannot receive payment and waste a customer's time waiting for the food to be cooked, and having to walk out empty handed. This way if your equipment does not work, the customer does waste their precious time waiting for nothing. read more

in town for the weekend to see family and asked the locals where they recommended to eat, Majority recommended this restaurant so we went and I'm so glad I had the courage to ask strangers about their recommendations. Shout out to them and this restaurant for being so delicious and a delicacy Indiana doesn't have to offer. Staff is very friendly and very helpful with the menu. Amazing prices and portions. Bring ya family read more

China Express - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

They never answer there phones and they don't deliver don't know how they going to stay in business ‍‍

Ordered Jalapeño Chicken the other day. All I got in the carton was a ton of vegetables, and barely any chicken. Barely. Enough to fill two spoonfuls of chicken. The rest was just extremely oily peppers, onions, water chestnuts. Outrageous. They were skimping out on the chicken. read more

I got food poisoning from this restaurant and instead of offering a refund and an apology they told me to go to the hospital and get a doctors note for a $19.00 refund. They had the audacity to tell me that's the law and didn't even offer an apology! The girl who answered the phone was very accusatory and said "how do we know you're sick from here" I said "it's the only restaurant/new food I ate" and she still didn't even apologize! Screw China Express and their disgusting food and even more disgusting customer service! read more

The food is the best in town, super fresh, the service is amazing , family owned business they are all amazing . The whole place it great .

This place must have Changed owners, because the hours on the door, the house in yelp, and the actual hours open are all different!! Very frustrating. They're supposed to re-open at 4, and I'm writing this at 4:20. No note on the door. No workers in sight. read more

We ordered several dishes and we enjoyed each one. When I ordered I was informed my order would take about an hour to deliver. We had no problem waiting that long. When we received our order it was missing an item but the restaurant corrected their error by immediately sending out the missing item for delivery. We will definitely return to this restaurant when we are back in town. read more

Also known as "China-Thai Cuisine" (you will see a sign) It's a solid Chinese-Thai place in Ridgecrest considering the price, location, and menu offerings. It most definitely will not have the best or most authentic Chinese-Thai food, but given the lack of Asian restaurants in the area, it's a nice place to stop & eat. We did the --hot & sour soup: decent, not authentic, can adjust spicy levels --cream cheese fried wontons: surprisingly good, one of my favorites --chili basil w/ shrimp: spicy...not bad --silver noodles w/ veggies --eggplant & chicken All were decent and had large portions for the price. I would come again if I'm ever in the area! Tip: Order online here https://www.chinaexpressridgecrest.com/s/order Pick-up orders are usually ready in 30-40 minutes. You will NOT get a text/call saying that your order is ready. read more

China Express - three plates of food on a table - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

Order the chix noodles it was really good and it came with white rice. Place was nice quiet clean and lowkey. I will try it again.

Always great food! Even on busy nights they deliver quickly. Everyone is always nice and accommodating.

Ordered f ood here over a year ago, wasn't impressed so didn't come back until last week, trying to give it another try, my mistake. I do want them to be successful, so I'll give some advice on how they can improve and hope they'll read it. I ordered 4 dishes below. 1) Wor Wonton soup: the soup tasted like vegetable water and I have no idea what they stuff the wonton with but tasted like soy bean. The wor wonton should be stuffed with grounded pork, shrimp and black ear mushroom cook in chicken broth. You can have baby bak choy outside and skip the rest of the ingredient if you want to save money. 2) Home Pan fried noodle: this is one of my favorite dish yet they ruin it. The sauce was dark and watery, the broccoli was over cooked and dark looking, and the fried noodle was kind of stale. This is how it should be: For noodle, don't use the chow mein noodle because it's too big. It should be the thin egg noodle. The broccoli should be boiled in water (with a small about of salt) to keep it's green color but need to take it out quickly. If you want to save time, boil the cabbage first, then add in the broccoli when the cabbage is cooked. For the sauce, don't use oyster sauce but use chicken powder. Need to add more starch powder to thicken the sauce. 3) Chow mein: even the chow mein didn't cook right because it just didn't smell nice because they just had soy sauce. I had to stir fried sliced onion until it's cook, then add in the chow mein so it smell better. I added a little sugar because all I could taste was the soy sauce. 4) Pad Kee Mao: I told my husband there was a Thai dish and he was like "which one"? He was eating it. If you can't tell the dish you are eating is Thai food, I don't know what to say. It just smelled like Chinese food, not Thai. I don't cook Thai food so I can't give much suggestion here but at least put a little more basil in it so it doesn't smell like Chinese food. I really hope the cook read this and make some modification/improvement to their dishes. You can't be lazy when cooking food for people because not only people won't come back, others won't come to try it out. read more

The food was really good, my family ordered take out and the food was still hot once we got home. Can't really complain service was good, and it satisfied our craving. read more

My Yelp search for dinner in Ridgecrest guided us here. The service staff were friendly, the Thai Tea was very good and our choices of sesame chicken and silver noodles stir fried were pretty decent. With the exception of the chicken egg foo young, we've had much better, quite a tasty meal. Overall, a good choice for Chinese & Thai food when staying in Ridgecrest. read more

China Express - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

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Great Thai food. Had Green curry a chicken coconut cream soup and pot stickers. More than two hungry people can eat. Delicious. read more

China Express - Nicely remodeled China Express. - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

Heard the food was good and they had a buffet, but the dinner buffet is ONLY Friday and Saturday nights, I hate it when my taste buds are locked and loaded for massive quantities, then have to behave... On the bright side, the soup of the day was great, kinda like egg drop with chicken. My main course of Orange Chicken was generous, delicious and came with lots of rice on the side. Waaaaay better than most all the fast chains serve. I might not have room for yogurt from the counter in the back, but I'm gonna try. read more

China Express - Orange chicken was right on! - Chinese Near Me - Ridgecrest, California

Food is good but service is not good. The owner wasn't nice at all and they charge for extra soy sauce.. last time eating in this place.. it's not the same and they're never open.. owners was the pleasant person to meet about the issues with our food.. next time I'll go to Panda Express. read more

I ordered delivery to a hotel room. They didn't include cutlery with the order. When I called, I was informed that I needed to order cutlery when I ordered. This food may have been the best in town, but the whole "order cutlery policy" Left a bad taste in my mouth. Never eating there again. read more

Food and customer service was beautiful the delivery time and service was awesome I will be eating here exclusively it's definitely worth trying read more

People are really nice and professional who own this business. The food is good. I would recommend it over Panda Express any day

In terms of food - this place is one of the top in R/C! Their lunch buffet is always hot, fresh, and extremely fast. I have been in and out of there (walk in, to go buffet at lunch) in less than 3 minutes before. Their plates are abundant and the food is always super delicious! I would highly recommend this place to anyone in R/C! Outside of the food part, the owners are very involved in the community. The owners sponsored the local High School Baseball program and were one of the first businesses to do so this year. Their willingness to support local community sports programs in very indicative of the character of the business owners. Small things like their sponsorship in our small community mean a lot to our student athletes and our sports programs. This level of community involvement makes it easy to recommend this business to anyone! Good food, good people! What else can you ask for from a business? read more

BEWARE Lies about ingredients in their food. I asked if the veggies had butter or animal product and the waitress stated just oil. I believed her and consumed it hours later, I am sick. When I called to clarify how they cooked them so I can see why Im sick. The waitress admits to having chicken broth in the item she clearly stated earlier did not. Then the owner gets on the phone and lies saying he changed the recipe. Unbelievable. read more

I'm used to east coast Chinese food so usually I'm disappointed when I order it on this coast. Got the egg fried rice and it was tender and tasty. I could have made a whole meal out of just the rice alone. The fried dumplings were crisp and flavor was nice. Po-po platter was good. 1 beef stick 2 bbq ribs 2 fried wontons 2 Rangoon a spring roll and a foil chicken packet. If you were going to share it - there isn't 2 of everything. The food was more than surprisingly good. Small family owned place that used to be a take out buffet kind of place. Next time I'm in the area I will be coming back. read more

We ordered online, for delivery. Our order was perfect! We received our food and it was still piping hot! They have the best orange chicken in town! Recommend the Hawaiian fried rice, must try! read more

Very good food. Been coming here since they were on Balsam St. Awesome go to place for great Thai food.

I'm from Bakersfield, and have had enough orange chicken in my life to sink a small ship. This place has the best orange chicken I've ever had, hands down. It's like if chick fil a chicken nuggets, and orange sauce had a baby. White chicken meat with ever bite, and the coating is crispy. 10/10 would recommend. Also the fried rice is fire, so are the potstickers. read more

What has happened to the quality of their food? We have eaten there for two years and the food has been excellent. Tonight it was terrible. The hot and sour soup was so salty we threw it away. The lemon chicken was like lemon flavored batter. The spicy green beans were old and over cooked. Did they fire the cook and hire a wannabe? Almost $50 in the garbage. read more

Friday evening at 430 we went in. Didnt know they had a buffet, so declined to order until we looked over it. When we decided we would rather eat entrees, it took 3 passes of the wait staff to get menus. Egg drop soup was delicious. Too much for one. But there was no inquiry if it was a cup or bowl. Chicken chop suey and brown rice. The chop suey was amazing...but the rice was omitted. Teriyaki beef stick and wontons. Both tasty and hot. Beef egg fu yung. Not much fu yung Lots of veggies. Rice omitted. Yes the restaurant was busy, but not so busy that the server didnt have time to review the ticket to make sure everything was received. We had to remind the server we never received rice. She. never offered to adjust the ticket. It's a bummer we got Ala carte items for entree prices. Not a deal breaker, as the town is not overflowing with restaurants, but didnt like missing 1/2 of the meal. read more

The food here is so good! I love their curries, kung pao chicken, and jalapeno chicken. My son says they have the best orange chicken. And now they have online ordering available! We were missing a small part of our order so I called to let them know. Fantastic customer service and we couldn't believe how fast they were back to deliver the missing items. Very impressive! read more

We love China xpress! This is our go to for a quick lunch buffet. The food is so good and fresh and the staff is great. To go is also yummy, we love this place! read more

Overall: 4/5 - A good Chinese place to satisfy any craving. Quality: 4/5 - The lunch buffet is great, but a bit on the pricier side. This is made up for in the deliciousness of the food, however. The curries are quite good, along with many of the noodle dishes, but some of the meat dishes lack inspiration. Cleanliness: 4/5 - Generally pretty clean, but the tables are sometimes dirty. Environment: 4/5 - Some interesting, but nice decor with plenty of seating. Can get quite loud at times, but is a nice group spot. Service: 4/5 - Typically the service is on point, but there have been drinks forgotten. read more

Great Chinese food and the price is not that bad if you go during lunch. It is always fresh. Their service is quick and friendly. Their portions are always more than what I can eat in one seating so I save some for dinner and again it still taste fresh even after I reheat it. Their yogurt/ice cream is not bad either. Great tasting flavors and a fan favorite with my family. :) read more

Love this place as stated in my other review, but was very surprised to see they DON'T Deliver anymore. Like what the heck. Honestly, very poor choice on their part. Less money and im sure they'll loose alot of buisness. Out of all the restaurants here in rc, very little deliver. We would choose China express on busy week nights or the weekend when having alot going on and now they are no longer a place we can call for delivery. You can call and do takout however or dine in, if thats something you choose to want. read more

Visiting out of town on Friday before President's Day. It's a Chinese/Thai buffet served cafeteria style, but was not slow. Salad, fruit & dessert are self-serve. Everything looked & tasted nice. The chicken dishes (green Thai curry, orange, and fried) stood out. Even one plate is enough. They have (rite-aid quality) ice cream & yogurt you can buy. Servers are noticeably more helpful/courteous than in most Chinese food buffets. Parking is a little tight, so pack into one car. Keep up the great work. read more