Gainesville China Inn staff have always been consistent in providing generous entrée servings of Kung Pao Chicken, and other entrée options. One entrée usually offers one to two servings. The flavors, and tastes are excellent. The service prompt, and available on a timely manner for take out pick up. Simply call China Inn ahead direct at 703-754-9986 with your order. Reasonably price option for your next meal time!! read more

China Inn - Kung Pao Chicken - about a third to a half of one order for $14.25 - Chinese Near Me - Gainesville, Virginia

This was always are go to but our last meal was a real disappointment. The vegetable spring rolls had almost no veggies. It was all wrap. The fried rice was flavored with soy sauce but there was nothing else in the rice. Nothing. Just rice and soy sauce. The Kung Pao Chicken was just blah. Not even edible. Ended up tossing the rice and chicken. The Won Ton Soup was excellent. read more

Placed our order on a Saturday night. Maybe they were busy, but...EVERYTHING in our regular order was just off. I spit out the first bite of my egg-roll, it was a soggy, pasty, tasteless mess. I don't mind paying the $1.50ea up-charge for fried rice. I DO MIND only getting white rice sprinkled with soy sauce--no onion, no garlic, no egg, no carrot, and not a single frozen pea. The Szechuan green beans were overcooked instead of crisp and tender. Both protein dishes were fine. I can't justify spending $62.00 for food, half of which was inedible. It was certainly not our usual experience with China Inn. I can't even blame the delivery service, they were at our home in 5-minutes from leaving the restaurant. read more

Ordered delivery. Food arrived Luke warm; to be expected with delivery. Food was bland. No distinguishing flavors between the different meals (General Tso's chicken, chicken Lo mein or chicken fried rice). It was not bad , it just wasn't great. Make sure you have soy sauce- you will need it. On the plus side: Egg rolls were a classic! Took me back to my childhood days with crispy egg rolls filled with cabbage and ground beef. read more

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I just tried China Inn for the first time since moving here and it was delicious! I got the egg drop soup and Mongolian beef. The food portions were very generous for the cost and had tons of flavor. The staff was also very kind. I will be ordering from here again! read more

Came in for a late lunch. Quick service, friendly staff, great food. Very clean seating areas too. Definitely plan on visiting again next time I'm in the area. read more

Good food, friendly staff. Quick and efficient. No complaints here. Quality Chinese food at a good price. The egg rolls are very tasty, crispy, hot, and delicious, and affordable. read more

My family has been visiting since 2003. Very nice staff and the food never disappoints.

China Gate is our go to for carry out Chinese food. Courteous and fast service. Food and portions are good. Reasonably priced and parking is in close proximity of the restaurant. read more

Picked up order Honestly I've done better with TV dinners Hot and sour soup: probably from a can by the taste and consistency and they just added unprepared tofu served with not home made crispy noodles Egg roll: again from a freezer and not even fried up right General tso chicken with fried rice: was a compliment to the tv dinner people I really wanted this place to not suck read more

China Inn - General Tsos lunch special with fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Gainesville, Virginia

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It's okay. The crispy beef was over cooked (almost burnt) but the rest was... okay. Not great but not bad. We are still searching for the perfect place. read more

Great prices and the food is good . They have good customer service and treat customers with care.

My first visit will be my last... I ordered off of their website... the lady told me when I arrived that the website is wrong as far as prices go... the prices are now very high for the quality of food. My total was 50 dollars. I paid for a pu pu platter (12.75) and a 6piece crab Rangoon (5.45) The crab rangoons tasted like they had been sitting and were double fried. They was no filling in them hardly. The pu pu platter- only thing I have to say that was good was the teriyaki beef sticks. My shrimp tempura was not cooked all the way through, Still batter. I ordered as well, the orange chicken and general tso chicken and it had a weird taste to it. Nothing was flavored. And my husband got "fried rice" with his orange chicken and it was bland. Nothing in it. Honestly looks like it has just soy sauce in it for color. read more

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The food was terrible I ordered shrimp egg foo young I did not see any vegetables any onions the egg foo young was very fluffy which I like but it appears as though they're using something like cornstarch worse egg foo young I've had in my life read more

China Inn - Shrimp egg foo young - Chinese Near Me - Gainesville, Virginia

Good it's perfect! Price is fair! If you are looking for a good and familiar Chinese restaurant, I totally recommend this one! read more

We enjoyed last nights food very much. Got a bit of everything. Pu platter, lo mein, Gen Tsao very spicy, in a good way. Pork dish was yum. For delivered, this was the next best thing to all day cooked meal. xie xie read more

I'll preface this by saying nothing was innately wrong with my experience. The pluses and negatives balanced each other out, and my not so secret Chinese food snob kicked in on me. There will never be Chinese food comparable to back north for me, but this was subjectively OK. Pros: order came fast, hot, and packaged well. Meat in triple delight was not a questionable consistency - the shrimp were huge! The pork in the lo mein was high quality too, not the stringy little pieces. They were clearly chunks of bbq pork. Cons: the brown sauce and lo mein left a little to be desired on flavor. Now, toss some of your favorite sauce on it and it is fantastic. Better to add than wish you could deduct, but I was super pumped to see brown lo mein and not bland yellow noodles, and it was missing a certain sodium element I guess. So I would order again, it was still superior to many places around here and maybe I'll find my go to dish and update! read more

I'm from San Francisco and have had some of the best Chinese food in the country...I have tried ALL the local Chinese restaurants and can truthfully say, this place is one of the top Chinese restaurants. Only minor issue, in my opinion, the Mongolian beef can use a little more flavor in the sauce. All the beef was tender and had a good taste. Pork (bbq pork) low mein was very good as well as the bbq (char siu) ribs..very tender and meaty..this is my go to in the Gainesville/Haymarket area. Don't really understand why there is no dine it though, a little disappointing. read more

DISCLAIMER: Yes Kevin, this place serves "Americanized Chinese," NOT true Chinese cuisine! :-) I got an order of food from here to go last week - an order of Hot and Sour Soup (with crunchy noodles), Spring Rolls (with a side of House Chinese Mustard), and Kung Pao Chicken (extra spicy). I placed my order from the car on my way home so that I could pick it up and head right home. It was about 7-8 or minutes after I ordered the food that I arrived - they guesstimated about 10 minutes while on the phone. I went to pay my bill with a credit card - and the guy charged me $31 for something that was only about $11! I pointed this out, he seemed confused, so a lady behind the counter took charge and refunded the transaction back to my credit card. Then another guy started to hand me a bag of someone else's food. Once again, the lady caught the error. I sure hope this is not the norm service-wise for this place. I will say that when I got the food home - it was pretty good. Soup was tasty, the Spring rolls were yummy - the Chinese mustard was potent! I was choking and experiencing that deep nasal headrush, a sure sign of some powerful mustard! Just the way I like it! And the Kung Pao was pretty good as well. read more

China Inn - Chinese Near Me - Gainesville, Virginia

Still in COVID protocol; good doesn't have much flavor. More than likely, will not return.

Ordered here for the first time tonight. There is a lack of good Chinese places in Gainesville so we were wanting to try a new place. I thought everything was very good!! Will order from here again! read more

Best Chinese food we have found in NOVA since moving here. Fried rice is our favorite! Staff is friendly and so kind.

First time here. Ordered shrimp chow fun $10.50. It was good but very oily. They only put shrimp and onions (no veggies). FYI, there's still no dine in. It is take out only. read more

China Inn - Shrimp chow fun $10.50. Good but very greasy. Lots of oil underneath. 9/25/11. - Chinese Near Me - Gainesville, Virginia

Always fresh, always delivered promptly, with care, and always delicious, China Inn is my go-to delivery. MY PICKS : Steamed dumplings! I also recommend the sesame chicken, beef with snow peas, and spring rolls. Let's not forget the free crispy Fortune Cookies! FLAVOR: Unlike some other Chinese restaurants, albeit, very tasty, China Inn serves each entree with a different flavor profile. QUALITY: The food is always warm and the bottled drinks, allways cold upon delivery. STAFF: Always quick to answer, helpful, friendly and accommodating. COST: I've spent close to the sane amount of money on fast food deluvery that is devoured and is, indeed , fulfilling in the moment. For a skosh amount more (a few dollars), Including, a tip, China.Inn delivers 2 entrees entrees, 2 steaned rice, 4 spring rolls, 2 drinks, 2 cookies with condiments, plasticware, and napkins are delivered CARE: No messy spills. Each entree is sealed in separate, reusable containers, sauces in a separate mini cup, sides placed in a wax paper-type bag, all carefully placed into a sturdy brown paper bag, reinforced in a plastic carrying bag, with ample leftovers to enjoy again. FOOD: Five stars STAFF: 五颗星 Wǔ kē xīng Thank you, China Inn! read more

Pretty good Chinese Takeout. Egg rolls: shy on the filling, but good flavor. (4/5) Crispy Beef: great. (5/5) Mu Shi; "mu shu": (4/5) General Tsao chicken: flavor, amount of batter, crunch, and tenderness, great (4.5/5) Combination Lo Mein: (3.5/5) I would go again. My other spot just closed, so I was pretty satisfied. read more

Subsequent visits were disappointing because of sour past vegetables in the dishes. Too bad.

I love China inn! We always get the general tso chicken or shrimp and it's always hot and yummy when we get it! We're even going there tonight for my moms birthday dinner! Great Chinese food! Try the sweet donuts too! read more

Considering the price, this is definitely worth it. Their moo shi chicken (all white meat - ask for it) is the best I've ever had. We stick to conventional dishes but we have sampled maybe a dozen and there is only one that was just okay. Sesame chicken - highly recommended. String beans and eggplant - very good. The people are polite and the orders are always ready. They are only doing carry out now and are being careful because of Covid. Our credit card was handed to us sandwiched in a piece of paper! read more

The bottom line is the quality of the food and, if you want to sit down to eat, the service and atmosphere. China Inn is consistently good in both regards. I usually order take out, but I have eaten there with others a few times and found the atmosphere warm and comfortable and the service excellent. Regarding the food, China Inn's dishes are a cut above the rest in the Gainesville/Haymarket area. The Sha Cha Beef I ordered tonight was excellent. The portion was generous, the beef tender, the veggie ingredients awesome and the sauce outstanding. Regarding the service. I generally am able to pick up the order in 10 to 20 minutes, and if I'm told 10 minutes the order is ready when I arrive 10 minutes later, etc... The menu offers excellent dishes, appetizers and soups. The crab rangoon comes with plenty of the rangoon, which is rare with other restaurants. The usual Wonton, Egg drop and Hot & sour soups are offered, but they have some other soups that provide a great change of pace. Things cooked in oil, such as the donuts or wontons, are great; not soaked with oil that should have been changed a week ago as is the case with many other restaurants. If you like rice noodles, try the China Inn Rice Noodle dish, which has a mix of beef, chicken and seafood. Excellent! And if you like scallops, the scallop dishes use large, fresh, tender scallops. The shrimp dishes are great. The Szechuan String Beans are a tasty veggie alternative. I've had many of the dishes on the menu over several years and keep coming back, and I love to order from China Inn when entertaining because everyone is always happy. If I by chance try another place I always come back to the go-to place: China Inn. read more

First time ordering from here using Uber Eats. Uber couldn't find a delivery driver, delaying the food for about an hour, so I expected it to arrive cold (no fault of China Inn). Not only did the staff wait over an hour past closing time for the driver to arrive, my food was still hot when it got here (I did offer to pick it up but they were going to wait for the driver). AND the entire order was correct! I am more than impressed and will definitely be ordering here again in the future. read more

My fiancée and I absolutely LOVE China inn!! The food is always nice and hot and the delivery always comes very quickly. The food is consistently flawless, we order from here almost every week now! read more

I really just wanted to let everyone know that China Inn never restarted table service after the Covid restrictions ended. Personally, I prefer fresh Chinese rather than take out. What a shame as I used to love this place. TAKE OUT ONLY!!!!! read more

This is my son's favorite Chinese food. He has gone everywhere around and prefers this. The only reason I gave this a 4/5 is because they won't accommodate my shellfish allergy in any of their dishes so that I can eat with my family. read more

This was unfortunately the worst chinese food I have ever had. I am a Chinese food junkie and will even eat it cold for breakfast. This meal was inedible. We ordered a bunch of apps, soup and 4 entrees, after a few bites we all collectively decided to put the food in the trash. read more

Good place to get take out in Gainesville/Haymarket. They're quick and minus once when they over spiced an order really consistent.

My go to Chinese place. Fast, fresh and reasonably priced. Can't go wrong with China Inn.

I have been to this restaurant twice now, once dining in, once for pick-up. It's neither a terrible restaurant, nor a good one. For me, the litmus test for americanized chinese food is the quality of the General Tso's Chicken, and the fried rice. Unfortunately, China Inn is uninspiring on both accounts. It may have been an off-day, but the general tso's was accompanied by such a strong smell of vinegar in the sauce as to take one's appetite away. I have come to expect less-than-quality chicken from most chinese restaurants, but on this occasion, it was hard to tell whether it was indeed chicken at all. The fried rice was stale, as if it had been sitting under a heat lamp for several hours. That being said, you could do worse. The occasion that I dined in, I had a much better experience and the Sesame Beef I ordered was not bad at all. read more

I cannot believe how awful this food is! By far the worst Chinese I've ever had. Two bites of every dish and I threw it right in the trash.

We ate there last weekend, the food was ok. Not great, not bad. For appetizers we got an order of steamed meat dumplings and crab rangoon. The dumplings were rather small and the wrappers were very thick. They tasted fine. The rangoon was also very small, but the filling wasn't as sweet as some other places and my wife liked them. I guess we just felt a little ripped off, their prices were the same as every other place in town but the portions were under-sized. For entrees we got kung pao two kinds and general tso's bean curd. The kung pao decent, not great but not bad either. The bean curd was cooked perfectly to my wife's tastes but the sauce wasn't like any general tso's we've ever had, it had a hint of ketchup taste which was really wierd. read more

do not eat the shrimp from here my boyfriend got the shrimp and broccoli and it made him very sick I got the Mongolian beef and it was good i don't think the shrimp was made properly read more