My boyfriend and I have ordered Chinese food from several places in Astoria and it remains the least type of food we order because it's usually so disappointing. We have a go-to place that we'll walk to but when it's Polar-Vortexing outside it's Seamess.com to the rescue!
This is EASILY the BEST Chinese delivery place we've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. Again, I'd like to stress that we don't order Chinese food often, maybe about 3 or 4 times within a time span of 19 months...but this weekend we ordered from here because we wanted to try a new place and reviews looked really positive on Seamless (much more so than here on Yelp, lol) and we were so pleased with the quality of their food that we ordered from them TWICE this weekend - Friday and Sunday. Granted, not all was sunshine and butterflies...but here's a run down:
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What we ordered (being creatures of habit we practically ordered the same thing each time with only minute changes, haha!):
Boy: Spare ribs with yellow pork fried rice, cold peanut butter noodles and an egg roll.
Moi: (Friday) A quart-sized Won Ton Eggdrop soup and a scallion pancake and (Saturday) another quart-sized Won Ton Eggdrop soup and this time a small order of Sweet & Sour Chicken with steamed white rice and the sauce served on the side (I find it keeps the chicken crispier and I like to use sweet & sour sauce as a dip).
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The boy's spare ribs were juicy, delicious and perfectly charred. He enjoyed the rice and was pleased that It was a pretty huge serving...I mean EVERYTHING was very generously proportioned. I ended up making grilled cheese sandwiches the next day for at-home brunch using the spare rib leftovers and each of us had a side of re-warmed scallion pancake; even the next day the ribs were DELISH!
The cold peanut butter noodles were really awesome and flavorful. The noodles tasted fresh and hand-pulled, no idea if they were but still - it was delish. The boy scarfed it all up, I had about 2 fork-fulls since I A.) Had my own food to demolish B.) I'm still a little weirded out by cold noodles, I mean I like them and can see the appeal, however it screams out COLLEGE DAYS to me and I was always finicky about cold food - that includes pizza, haha.
My eggdrop Won Ton soup was pretty fantastic. The won tons at the place by my house in Jackson Heights are better quality (thinner wrapping), more pork-filled and bigger - but I've never had won tons in an egg drop broth and so bringing the two together was a huge win in my mouth. The fail here was than there were only 3 won tons in a QUART sized container. I mean WHAT?! I get at least 4 or 5 bigger ones when I order a SMALL at my Jackson Heights go-to place. Yarg. Half a Yelp star off here...it at least was delicious.
The scallion pancake was for me the only really disappointing part of our order and the reason I didn't order another one for our second round with these guys. It was SUPER thin, SUPER crispy, SUPER oily and had no layer of substance. It was just like fried crispy skin. NOT at all what a scallion pancake should be like. Half a Yelp star off here and thus 4 stars. I could teeter-totter around 3.5 - but fast and friendly delivery makes this place a solid 4.
Next time I'm going to try their dumplings...they even have chicken ones...My advice though - avoid the scallion pancakes. read more