Give this place a try! The service was wonderful right off the bat. The employees that helped us were very helpful and kind. The food was delicious, we got there around 7-7:30(?) so it was dinner. The portions are pretty big, so expect to be well fed! Their menu is very big, one of the biggest menus I've ever seen with many options. I had the pineapple chicken and my husband had chicken fried rice. We started with a little bowl of soup and a mini egg roll, along with steamed potstickers for appetizers. The ambience was very good as well, the music was pretty quiet and overall a comfortable time. I would recommend 10/10, I believe they deserve more customers. read more

Great treasure hidden in a little strip mall. Food was amazing at good prices. The hostess was amazing and very helpful when choosing what to get. Also HUGE portions! read more

Amazing , large portions Chrstina good service. Great clean dining area. Good price for portion read more

Dragon House East - Sesame Chicken - Chinese Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

Had a great experience. Food was good. Service was better! I ordered chicken with broccoli and my husband had orange chicken. Both came out hot and delicious. read more

The food is delicious -accurate-hot and ready in 10 minutes plus the service is friendly each visit!

Incredible food! Incredible service! The inside felt traditional and very quaint. The food was reasonably priced for generous portions. Need to keep coming here for sure. read more

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I ordered the sesame chicken and Mongolian beef to share with family, and nobody could eat the chicken as it tasted Bad. I had to throw it out. I believe it was spoiling. read more

absolutely terrible . the worker was force feeding me (then proceeding to charge me for it) also wanted to charge me dinner prices during lunch time . tough pass on the mystery meat read more

Food was fresh and quite hot when received. Generous servings without gorging your pocket

I've order to go food from here a few times. I can't find my go to meal yet. I ordered the pineapple chicken last time. The sauce was pretty good. I got an egg roll and a crab rangoon and both were tasty. They said 10 minutes to pick up, i walked in and she had it in here hand. So they are quick, I don't think it took me 10 minutes to get there. the gal that checked me out was chatty and friendly and efficient. I;ll keep trying to find my meal of choice there, then they won't be able to get rid of me. read more

Dragon House East - pineapple chicken. I've already started eating when I remembered to take a picture. - Chinese Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

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I was nervous at first to try Dragon House East but after a short time the service was very prompt and friendly. Dragon House is a hidden gem read more

We have eaten here for years. The prices are higher than most, the portions are large and for the most part we've been satisfied. However, we will not frequent them again! We recently placed an order for 6 meals. i Ordered online and paid as we normally do. I left a tip which I felt was more than fair for the driver inspire of him getting lost and being over the hour in delivering our food. shortly after I received a call from the restaurant asking me why my tip wasn't at least 10%. Our bill was 130.00, my tip for him delivering was more than adequate to drive the few miles to deliver the food but I agreed to her charging my credit card at total if 13.00 to avoid them doing something to my food. We will never eat there again. When we eat in the restaurant we've always left a 20% tip for the service. To call and ask for a higher tip is just not acceptable and they've now lost a frequent customer Tami S. read more

I am gonna have to give this place a "meh". The main was great worth going back and seeing if they can redeem themselves. The problem lies with the sides. The fried rice was full of peas and carrots, I ordered it with no vegetables, it was explained to me when I got there to pick up our order that it comes pre made with veggies. The spring roll was cold And oily. And the egg drop soup was bland. I ordered 2 generals chicken dinners and a sweet and sour dinner. It was honestly enough food for 9 people. I can not stress this enough the main was amazing! No complaints at all about the chicken dishes! read more

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Whenever I'm on my "Fat-Boy-Shit"!!! That's "My Spot"... The combination Lo Mein with the supersize wonton soup and the pot stickers with the hot oil, Shit, tell me I'm not on my fat boy! Since 2015 read more

I had a great experience here! The food is very goo, especially for the cost. The portions are also great. I did not catch our servers name but she was so helpful with the menu and overall a very nice person. I also really love the decoration in the restaurant. read more

Love this place always good always on time, unfortunately everyone I order I never get my drinks. Ordered yet again tonight and no drinks. ‍ I tried three times now so I'll probably order from somewhere else. read more

I've been eating Dragon House food for longer than I'd like to admit. As a special treat we used to order their lunch when I worked downtown. I've always appreciated the tasty food and it's certainly plentiful. I usually have enough for 3 meals. read more

We regularly order from Dragon House. For 10 years it's been our favorite Chinese. I've never had cold food, they've never once messed up our order, I've never had rude service and the drivers are always very friendly. We even order oddly like "Mongolian beef, $3 extra beef and please keep the rice noodles in a separate container." Sesame chicken is great, General Tso's chicken is good, the best crab Rangoon and egg rolls. My husband loves their fried pot stickers. read more

Dragon house has to be the worst tasting Chinese food I have ever experienced, I ordered the sesame chicken and every single piece of chicken had a rubber texture and couldn't even be chewed. If I could give this place a 0 star I most definitely would. I wouldn't doubt it if there food is rotten read more

I order from Dragon house east, and when i got the food, the bag was filthy, rice wasn't cooked and customer service to fix the issue was terrible as well. just a horrible experience. read more

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Bad delivery service took 1.5 hrs to get to the hotel and food was bad did not taste good or look appealing

This is the second time we have taken advice of people telling us the food was good. We ordered an appetizer platter, the beef and shrimp were burnt to start and found the sweet and sour to have a very distinct taste of vinegar as did the sesame chicken which was spongy not crisp. In all fairness some of this is subject to taste but burning things is just bad. On a side note we also got onion rings and they were good hence the 2 star. read more

We're in Des Moines for work & staying in the east side downtown. This restaurant pulled up in our Uber eats app for Chinese food with 4.0 star so we ordered from them. We got their combination fried rice & the shrimp & beef chef's specialty. The food was bland, there's no spice in it. No salt no nothing. The meat in the fried rice doesn't taste anything at all. It's BLAND. So since I also got that beef & shrimp chefs special and that has a sauce I figured I'll use the sauce & mix it with my fried rice. Same thing it's bland. It's like they run out of soy sauce or garlic or onions that you use to sauté things in. read more

We love their food, I would have given them 5 stars.....but they seem unable to get delivery orders right! You order 2 white rice, you get one white and one brown. You specify "No Soup" they still send soup, just 2 different kinds. You order 2 crab Rangoon, they send one. It's kind of ridiculous! read more

When I lived on the east side of Des Moines, we always used to come here or get delivery. The great part is they do deliver literally all over the metro! My favorite dishes are the empress chicken and chicken lo mein. The rice is decent and the soup is decent. Not the best Chinese I've ever had but definitely crave once in awhile. If your on that side of town and are wanting Chinese, make sure to check it out! read more

Just spent 36$ to toss it in the trash! Got sesame chicken, crab Rangoons, egg rolls and paid an extra 4$for lo mein. I did carry out everything is already cold and I live right down the street. Re heated it but it still taste like it sat out all day. The lo mein has no color and no taste like they forgot to add the seasoning. Extremely dissatisfied and won't be back! Wish I could give 0 stars read more

VERY disappointed! This has to be the worst Chinese place in all of Des Moines. I ordered for delivery. I got the Mongolian Beef meal it came with 8 tiny pieces of beef and I mean when I say small they where the size of a quarter. it came with soup which was okay, but very bland, it also came with an egg roll, which was also very small and not just small it was cold on the inside. I'm pretty sure they freeze these and re heat them and Because I got delivery I had to order at least $10 worth of food so I added fried beef wontons they were nothing but chewy breading I didn't even find meat in 2 of them and the other 4 the beef was so small the pieces were the size of my pinky nail I promise I am not over exaggerating. If I could up load that picture on here I would. My total for this sloppy mess was $17 with delivery fee and tip. I will never be eating here again. **** ADDED A PHOTO OF MY BEEF WONTON read more

Dragon House East - My fried beef wonton! this is literally how much beef they put in all of them except for 2 of then had nothing at all in them. - Chinese Near Me - Des Moines, Iowa

We frequently order delivery from Dragon House East. Usually, it's good or at least acceptable. (They aren't really consistent.) Tonight, out of the 3 meals we ordered - 2 of them contained spoiled ingredients and had to be thrown out. We have spent a considerable amount of money ordering from this restaurant, but now I think we have to stop. Which is sad, because there are no other Chinese restaurants that deliver to our house. read more

They don't answer the phone when I've called the last few times for ordering thus I ordered online. I obviously ordered a variation of what I intended to order, my mistake. I took the delivery order back to them. It was a bunch of noodles and left it there and they wouldn't give me a refund or even offer to correct the order. First and last time for terrible customer service as I've always ordered from them w/o issues. I talked to the manager even... she didn't care. It's awful! read more

First time trying this place I was going to have them deliver our food but it said it would be about 50 minutes so I decided to do pick up since it would be ready within 20 minutes. I'm pregnant and very hungry! My husband went to pick it up alone since our baby had just fallen asleep, he messaged me that they had given our order to someone else and now we had to wait another 10 minutes! He still hasn't arrived! Not sure how the food will taste but at this point that doesn't even matter to me. read more

Food was garbage wife and kids got lo mein no sauce undercooked noodles egg rolls soggy the fried rice didn't even seem to be fried might as well been steamed rice and worst of all the beef and onion a couple tiny slivers of beef with a giant pile of onion. Worst of all I call to at least get a new order of beef and onion as im not happy paying 13 dollars for a pile of onion and the guy who answered says oh ill talk to my chef and thats it no offer to bring a new one or a credit for next order pitiful will never get food there again! read more

Fast delivery and pick up is ready in 15 minutes. I recommend the Beef broccoli or mu shu beef.

My favorite food is Chinese-when I moved from the Central Coast of CA- I needed to find a Chinese restaurant that 1-delivered 2-had fresh veggies in their recipes3-didn't fry everything(meat/poultry)unless it's supposed to be fried-egg rolls- I found these folks & their food is great! Consistent- I have never had a bad experience in 13 years- I tried I can't tell you how many others. I usually get their chicken cho Mein Fun- white rice noodles with veggies -I am also found of their shrimp & vegetables- I have eaten here but I usually will come and pick it up-you don't have to wait long-pleasant atmosphere. read more

Went here for lunch and it was almost empty. Service was good and food came out pretty quickly. Food was dang good. Had an authentic Asian food feel to it. Would definitely go again for supper. Also the meals are not too pricey for the quality. read more

I place my order online at 7:04 p.m. said that of my order would be here within 45 minutes to an hour. I called the restaurant 45 minutes later. they proceed to tell me that sorry we did not get your order but it's right here we can start making it and get it to you within 45 more minutes. I'm hungry just wanted my food to not be told I have to wait another hour to eat my dinner. Ugh poor service and no dinner read more

What a disappointing meal. Never again Dragon House East, your duck was Crispy because it was burnt, The shrimp toast had a rotten seafood smell to it and my other item was just wrong, the Hot and Sour soup was gloopy from to much cornstarch and bland and the eggrolls just sucked. Thank you for helping me waste $32 of my money. read more

This is by far one of the worst meals I have ever had. Used their on line app for the first time which was easy and convenient. We ordered the following: Crab Rangoon ( dried with hardly no filling and was hard as a rock) Friend Wontons ( hard as a rock, had to use all your strength just to break it in half) Chicken Sautee (dried and looked like it had been sitting there for a few days) Was charged for extra sauce which they never put in the bag. STAY AWAY!!!!!!! read more

I placed my order at 8:30pm and received a call at 9:51pm that they had just received my order and hadn't even began it, then the lady said that they will be closed so the driver would be delivering it in his own car and asked about a tip, I said you have a $2.00 service fee and I put $2.00 on the card (also I tip cash at my door depending on delivery) she said that is a very little tip. I reminded her that I placed the order over an hour ago and they were just now filling it, not to mention since when is a tip mandated? This is based on service and I find it very unethical that anyone would ask about a tip especially knowing that they misplaced my order. The food arrived at 10:20pm they didn't put my drinks in that I paid for and my daughter refused to eat it because of the poor attitude on the phone she was worried they spit in it. Their was no apologies for their mistake and no thank you for our business. I of course couldn't call because they were closed and as of today 11:30am they haven't called to tell me they forgot our drinks that I paid for so I am assuming they used that as a tip without my consent? read more

I've ordered here about a year now and order pretty often and the quality has gone down hill and I ordered extra meat and told them I want beef not chicken said please and thank you and when it got here guess what I got Chicken! read more

We have always enjoyed this place before but lately the last 2 times we have ordered food to go, the food has been way salty, they gave us the wrong soup(I asked for egg drop and was given hot sour) nasty. I always order an order of crab rangoon it was barely warm. Even when I was told it would be 15-20 minute wait I always show up before the time and my order was already there which leads me to believe the food is NOT cooked to order. We ordered Beef egg foo young and the vegetables were hard as rocks and food was mediocre at best. It ysed to have beansprouts in it mow it has cabbage. I am sad about these past few experiences. When I called to order the phone rang and rang and when answered I was put on hold. Always before there was an older gentleman there to handle things..I am wondering if ownership has channged or if he is on vacation. I probably wont be back. read more