After long hours of shopping at the Desert Hill Premium Outlets, you'll find plenty of dining options. Five Guys, Blaze Pizza, a few food trucks, and one that is sure to entice all the massive number of enthusiastic Chinese shoppers, China Max. Its basically a few steps below Panda Express. My bro-in-law apparently made a decent choice with the fried lemon chicken. Wife and I split a 3-item combo of fried rice (dry), teriyaki chicken (sweet), sautéed cabbage (okay), and a spicy squash and zucchini dish (okay). The food is edible and on the salty side, and since no one got sick, 2 stars. My niece got the hot and sour soup and threw it out after a few sips. Only come here if you insist on having something resembling Chinese food. As the sole Yelper in our group of five, I was kicking myself by not using Yelp beforehand to influence our lunch decision. A Yelper must always lead! read more

China Max - Located in same food court as Five Guys. - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

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Everyone needs to calm down here. I had China Max and I thought it was totally fine. It's a mall food court and people need to alter their expectations. For me, China Max is reminiscent of Chinese food in any mall food court. I actually prefer it to Panda Express because it is a mom and pop shop. I thought the food was just as good as Panda Express and I honestly prefer it. Generous serving sizes and low prices. Typical food court Chinese food - definitely not 1 star. read more

This has got to the the worst Fast-Food Chinese I have eaten in about 20 years! ONE STAR! The restaurant is located in the Dessert Hills Premium Outlet food court. The food court is somewhat small, since they only have 4 food vendors at this location. I originally decided to get the 1-choice plus noodles/fried rice combination for ~$6.50. The servings are SMALL and CHEAP! I literally got a tongs full of noodles and a scoop full of orange chicken. It was served on a flimsey takeout plate. I realized that the portions were so small, I decided to (wrongly) order a second choice option to my meal for another $1.50. I added the spicy fried chicken, and the owner added 2 pieces of wingettes to my plate. For $8.00, here is the small plate that I got (use the size of the small jalapeno to judge how little the food was)! http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/o0CttwwbxM92m9HVH0ytzQ?select=CcBBZ02QVN5aXgCJ3Edjfg#CcBBZ02QVN5aXgCJ3Edjfg The noodles were typical of any fast food Chinese places. Noodles were oversalted with absolutely no flavor. The chicken was itsy-bitsy pieces of chicken deep fried with a LOT of batter. Little flavor. Surprisingly, the spicy fried chicken was tasty, hot, and fresh, but TWO pieces @ $0.75 a wingette? Come'on! Service was pretty bad. The owner who ran the restaurant was at the cash register. She got pissed off at me when I said I didn't want to order a small drink for $2+. She didn't keep eye contact with me, because she kept on looking at the security monitor that was placed next to the register (she was watching her workers in the back cooking the food). Food Grade: D- Service Grade: D- Worth the Money grade: F Overall Impression: D-/F read more

China Max - RIPOFF! Small portions and expensive! $8+ a plate of two choices. - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

Not much selection to pick from The fried rice is not evenly mixed and just salty The noodles have no flavor at all, just taste raw The side dishes are drenched in seasoning Never go here, please It's better to go to Panda Express read more

Cold food. This is exactly why you don't eat at mall food courts. Service non existent, did not look very appealing, my egg rolls were greasy, tasteless and not fresh. Ok prices, but poor quality and not worth eating. Pretty much any other food option here is better. read more

I honestly don't know how this place is in business... went here for lunch and they only had 3 meats to choose between. I ordered the chow mein, orange chicken, and black pepper. The orange chicken was so fried and tasted like it had been sitting there for hours, I almost broke my fork trying to eat it. The chow mein was so bland and cold. I later went home and had to immediately hit the bathroom.... if you know what I mean. Now my stomach is in knots. read more

The worst "Chinese food" that I've ever eaten. Don't go here. Noodles taste horrible and Orange chicken was also horrendous. read more

The food was so disappointing, no taste on the vegetables, tasteless fried rice, the worst part is I found HAIR in the noodle, I just wasted my time, money by eating from this bad quality restaurant read more

Bad layout of food not much to choose from. In the food court and next to them was a pizza place that had signs ( Cash Only) do that one was empty. The five guys was doing great and a sandwich place was ok. read more

Rice and orange chicken all super hard to eat, The vegetables after cooks stay too long that are already soft. I wait 5mins to pay because no cashiers here. Terrible experience. If you wanna try Chinese fast food. Just walk few mins to Panda express. Do not come this place. read more

This is the most awful Chinese fast food place I've been too. At all cost DO NOT EAT here! Food was terrible. I know it's fastfood but DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE!. I ordered Orange chicken which was mostly breading, 70% breading and 30% chicken. I don't think chicken is so expensive. Orange chicken was full of breading and it was so bland just like their fried rice. How can someone mess up a simple fried rice. If someone messes up a simple fried rice, that just tells you what kind of food they're serving. Don't tell me I didn't warn you. They also charge 50 cents for a cup with ice, seriously!!! read more

If I can put ZERO stars I would... Rude customer service... The owner was on some "you buy now" stuff. Clearly he hasn't been in the states that long. We ordered a 3 item combo and our plate was too full so we asked him to put the 3rd item on another plate. He refused to do it and wanted to charge us an additional fee. He was acting like he'd die if he gave us an extra flimsy paper plate. And then when we left I was sitting down and I saw these to little kids walk up to him and ask for quarters for their dollar and he straight blew them off. Like looked at them like they were crazy. This guy is just ignorant, and won't last in the real world. read more

China Max - The rude employee - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

Don't be fooled by the crowd of Chinese tourists waiting in line here. This place has one star for a reason. Ok, I get it, you're a shitty Chinese fast food place at the outlet mall. You're not aspiring for greatness. But China Max is awful. My broccoli beef was INEDIBLE. I literally spit it out as soon as I had one bite because I did not want to get food poisoning then drive all the way back to LA. You'd be better off strolling over to In N Out. Eat here at your own risk. read more

China Max - Orange chicken and broccoli beef combo. See the piece of beef I spit out to the right because it was so disgusting. - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

The most gross Chinese food I've ever had. Everything is super over cooked mush (vegetables) and tough and dry (meat) while soaking in a liquid that tastes of pure MSG and nothing else. STAY AWAY. read more

China Max - Overlooked "soup" of mushy vegetables, tough meat and salty liquid. - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

Horrible. Food is dry, flavorless, poor quality. I was hungry and was put in a position where this was the only option available. I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone, even if its the only place open and you are starving. Im surprised they are still in business, although I wouldn't be surprised if they closed soon. read more

China Max - Horrible. Disgusting. DO NOT EAT HERE! - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

Listen to the reviews, folks. The eggroll looked nothing like the picture and was puny. I'm pretty sure it was vegetable too. They also wouldn't give any cups of water, which is unheard of, and said they were only selling bottled water. I know there's not tons of choices in this food plaza but I would avoid here, if possible. read more

Little variety and very expensive. Worst Chinese food ever. I asked for,a water cup with a large drink purchase and they said no. They don't accept Amex. read more

China Max - people sitting at tables in a restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

We ordered 3 entree combo and the third item was put on top of the whole plate with only 3 small pieces of chicken so sloppy! When we kindly asked the server to add more chicken she was very rude and said "if you want more hicken order something else." read more

China Max - Chinese Near Me - Cabazon, California

This place has terrible food. Noodles trash. Chicken trash. Rice trash. Soda is trash. But pink lemonade was bomb. Always a go to.

Do not waste money, the worst Chinese food I've tasted the employees are so rude the soda tastes like dirty water do yourself a favor and never eat there. read more

Garbage servicers, rude, unorganized order line, garbage food, taste unrealisticly bad, food poisoning.

All I have to say is the noodles were soggy the orange chicken contained no chicken and the teriyaki chicken tasted more like pork than chicken. Not one thing on my plate was good. I threw my food away didn't even eat, and just took it as a loss. read more

The food had no flavor, the chicken with zucchini was overcooked and very dry, and the portion was insanely small for how much they are charging. Stay away. read more

Do not bother eating here. The food is terrible. Dry and no flavor. If I could give negative score I would.

I would give negative stars If I could. This place makes panda express look like gourmet food in comparison. Threw out 80% of my plate cause it sucked so much. read more

The food here is bad! I should've checked the reviews here before we bought the food. Hope my kids don't get sick from these food.....

If I could give this place negative five stars I would. I came to this place because I was on my lunch break and I am new and u familiar with the Cabazon mall so I went to someplace close to the store I work at. I was craving Chinese food. This food was horrible. There was a long black hair in my fried rice, which was disgusting. The only thing good was the beef, the broccoli was too soggy, the orange chick was too hard to eat, as if they cook it, sit it out and then cook it to reheat it. Will never be back here, a true waste of $8 read more

I very rarely ever write or comment anything bad about a restaurant or fast food, but this place made my decision easy. The food is NOT good at all. Noodles, fried rice, and mushroom chicken. The chicken tastes like it's from horrible frozen TV dinner. The rice and noodles had little to no taste at all. I can only hope the owners read these comments and make major changes! Eat at 5 Guys next door. read more

Nothing is good here. Yuck. Chow mein has no flavor. Orange chicken is over cooked. So much regret.

Worst chinese food ever. There was a thick black hair in my beef and broccoli, and when i took it back to them they gave me an attitude to give me my money back, btw i have blond hair, and the way that lady looked at me as if that hair was mine. Disgusting.....!!!!! read more

Horrible ! Food was hard and smelled different . My son who is 5 years old loves Chinese food, had it and he said it was very hard . And now he has food poisoning and this was his last meal! never going there again!! With all these reviews they should close down. Or improve their food. read more

All I have to saw is no Bueno. No flavor, sad excuse from Chinese food even when it appears Chinese people are cooking it. It is apparent that corners are cut with seasoning in this place ! Avoid read more

I have nothing but good Comments on this place the food was great Service was even better the lady was so Polite she let me taste the food before purchasing it.. I orderd the Kong pao Chicken with rice it was Delicioso & after we were done eating they were nice 2 go checj on us 2 see if we liked it & daughter even got some Chocolates read more

it tasted like shxt! and it is expensive! $9.69 for 3 items? who the fxxk do think you are? don't have to believe me for that! if you would like to try what trash tastes like, come here please! 0 star!!! read more

Worst food ever! They should be shut down. No taste at all. Plus they give very little food. Terrible. Starving might be a better option.

This food stinks! Me and 11 of our relatives went there and all the food tasted bad! From the orange chicken, to the black chicken pepper, and also it smelled horrible! The Orange Chicken was kind of burned. I had to go to get a hotdog to get the bad taste out of my mouth. They gave us only one or two chicken pieces of cowpow chicken and the same for steamed broccoli and those pieces costed a lot (stingy). ITS A RIP OFF!!!!!! This food must have been what was clogging all of the toilets! This place doesn't deserve to be is such a beautiful outlet! read more

Horrible just horrible food. If you try Chinese food from a place like that, you obviously don't expect it to be authentic, etc. But that was just so horrible. It's a kind of a place that serves you almost literally an orange chicken with no chicken in it. I understand you guys are located in an Cabazon outlet and you don't rely on return customers, but this is just so wrong. I tried it and I wasn't feeling too well so I was thinking maybe it was just me but still just out of curiosity I googled this place on yelp. And even I was in shock 20+ 1 star reviews says it all. read more

Very Rude customer service. I tried to order a 3-item combo & requested if she can put the 3rd item on a separate plate. But the Asian lady continued to put all the 3 items on 1 box meant for 2 items & pressed the box hard so it can be closed. I asked her why did she do that. I told her that she mixed them up & messed up the flavor. She replied, I will have to charge you $5.99 if you want an extra plate. I got confused for the moment & thought she was joking. lol..But she was serious..For real, $5.99 for a cheap paper plate!!! Seriously, this lady/owner must be out of her mind...No way I will pay $5.99 for as extra paper plate....I cancelled my order & walked away and I'm glad I did...Based from the reviews here, their food sucks anyway... read more

If I can give it 0 star, I will. Worst dining experience ever. The food has no favor, the fried rice is not fully cooked.

This is the worst Chinese food ever. If you are so hungry and must have Chinese food, just order the plain white rice with soy sauce. Nothing else is worth eating. read more