Hula Inn is that reliable Chinese take out place that you can pick any dish and be impressed. Our favorite dish has turned out to be the beef chow fun. The beef is very tender and melts in your mouth. The noodles are cooked to perfection as they're chewy and filling. I would say to order directly from the website as there are several deals and specials that can get you a sweet and sour soup (also quite delicious) and perhaps other goodies. read more

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Overall, pretty good but not great. We ordered carry out, so we can't comment on ambiance. I think the delivery was contacted out and the person left it near the front door without knocking. The good part about the food was that it had some spice. Some Americanized Chinese food is pretty plain. This food had a good amount of spice without burning our mouths. The not-so-great part is that the food was a little mushy and overly breaded. The shredded beef was not crispy. The orange chicken was overly breaded. The spring rolls were soft and not crispy. They seemed to be a little undercooked and doughy under the outer shell. Overall, the food was pretty good, but not as good a a couple other carry out places. The good news is they delivered to our home. read more

I came here in the morning and order the egg foo young while I was waiting for my son next-door getting his haircut at the Barbershop I ate one egg foo young while I was waiting in my car I did feel sick after eating it for some reason I don't know if it was because it was too much grease in it but once I got home I decided to share it with my daughter and my son. While, my daughter was sitting and eating hers. She found a roach inside of her egg foo yong. Very sickening and disgusting. I never had this experience before eating a Chinese restaurant and I will never come back and eat at this place again. Worst experience ever. read more

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Ordered here for the first time and extremely disappointed! Szechuan Spicy chicken was full, I couldn't still taste the flower and super salty. General Tso chicken was so bad, the chicken was so hard and bready. The lo mein with chicken was flavorless probably the only 2/5 dish. Scallion pancakes were dripping of oil, yuck! Tofu was again bready and flavorless and beans were 2/5. Never again! read more

Picked up food for dinner for the first time here and pretty disappointed. I don't think you can go wrong with chinese takeout but the food here is so salty. Every single dish we got. The restaurant itself is also pretty rundown. Unfortunately we will not be coming back. read more

We ordered General Tso Chicken with steamed white rice and Beef with broccoli. Both were delicious! When I picked up the food - the lady working was friendly and had our food waiting! read more

The food was not good at all. I had the shrimp with mixed vegetables and all I could really eat were the shrimp. Also the spring roll was not flavorful. Will not be going back! read more

Food was really good for a fair price. Was disappointed that the fried rice costs extra and doesn't come with anything in it, just plain rice. I ordered online for in-store pickup and there was no indication for wait time at all, but it was ready when I got there. I would order again. read more

Peaking duck was awesome!! Haven't had one in like my time! It was good quality for delivery!

Mixed feelings about this place... it's like your typical 90s small town "Chinese" restaurant. Chinese in quotations because it's as Chinese as Panda Express. It definitely hits a spot but you'll be sorely disappointed if you're expecting your 2020s authentic Chinese food in the DMV region. I ordered a Beijing black bean paste noodles and Peking shredded pork and what they cooked up was unrecognizable. That said the taste was good if you don't know what you're getting, and my white husband and toddler son loved it . Their wonton soup also had the thickest skinned wontons I've ever came across but it was so reminiscent of homemade egg noodles soup it was oddly satisfying! Overall if you need some American Chinese fill this is your place, but if you want authentic Chinese food stay away! read more

Had lunch special -- a lot of food and OK taste. Most customers appeared to be doing carry out business. Food arrived quickly. Ambiance was meh. read more

One of the better Chinese restaurants in the area. I really enjoyed the chicken lo mein, it was wasn't too oily like other places and had a really good ratio of noodles to veggies (not too many veggies, which is my preference). The hot and sour soup was spicy for me but I'm also a whimp so it was super spicy. I'd order it again though. Definitely want to try some of their other items! read more

I have tried the food twice with different dishes. I'm not impressed. The eggrools were mushy inside, as were the spring rolls. I ordered the Kung Pow chicken with extra celery and no peanuts. What I got was not that. It was a chicken dish smothered in brown sauce and heavy on the sauce. It's not spicy at all. The best thing there is the fried rice. That's it. I won't order from here again. read more

Food was dry and not good. We ordered the cumin beef and not only was it horrible, we found a piece of metal wire in the dish (see picture)! Thankfully we saw it before someone ingested it! Will never order from here again! read more

Hula Inn Chinese Restaurant - We ordered the cumin beef and it was horrible and not only that, there was a piece of metal in it. - Chinese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

Great value and excellent take-away!!! We have been customers for many years. Always friendly and courteous read more

The rating fits this Chinese delivery restaurant well, and that is okay with me. Delivery was quick and the food had a nice flavor to it. The Wonton soup was kinda bland, which was a letdown for me, but the Kung Pao chicken was good as was the Lo Mein. I also got two egg rolls which were both really crispy with plenty filled in. Not disappointed with them at all. In general though it is strictly okay and nothing to get worked up over. It is still hard to find good takeout chinese here and still trying to find that one elusive take out joint that does it right. Will I ever find it in this area? I do not know. read more

This is our "go to" takeout when I am visiting family in this area. Meat is tender, veggies are crisp (in a good way), and the seasoning is just right. Everyone liked their dish, and we keep coming back for more. If I had to be super picky, I wished it were a little less pricey. read more

The hot and sour soup was the best $1.90 OF MY ENTIRE LIFE. Will be coming back ASAP . Perfect comfort soup !!!! Also got the combo chow fun. Mouth watering!!!!!!!! read more

Hula Inn Chinese Restaurant - Hot Sour Soup - Chinese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

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I'm incredibly impressed with this place. Living in Herndon my entire life, this was never he ideal place for take out. Moving to Cali for 3 years and coming back, I found all these good reviews so I thought I would give it a try. It's literally around the corner but I felt delivery in this cold was the best option. The food was here in 10_15 min. It was all delicious. Nice packaging, quick service, good food. It's good Chinese food. Nothing magical but def worth ordering again. read more

Cute little restaurant! Came during the lunch rush but were able to get a table quickly regardless. The curry chicken was delicious and has some undertones of coconut - highly recommend! read more

Hula Inn Chinese Restaurant - Curry chicken - Chinese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

I think the owner changed, the new person's attitude is pretty bad. I got delivery couple times before without problems. I just called and the new owner/person was literally complaining "wow you live so far ( Reston, 15 mins drive from the restaurant) , how can we deliver to you?" And then she was venting about she never even heard of the zip code, definitely way too far blah blah. Bruh......like seriously? read more

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Great food and great customer service.Food is fresh and fried rice is made how it should be.

Short and simple review today. I used to consider Hula Inn mediocre but I would still order delivery or carry-out from there often since I live less than a mile from there. That was the past. This year, the restaurant was sold to new owners who have made many positive changes. First of all, the restaurant itself has gotten a facelift. They removed a wall that made the previous restaurant feel tiny to open up the space and make it feel much larger. They also added lighting which makes it feel more warm and inviting. The TV that used to sit behind the bar is now on the wall in the dining area which is a nice change to further boost the dining experience. Then the new owners changed the food. Many of the original items on the Hula Inn menu remain there, but several new options have been added such as the noodle soups. Some items were removed (like shrimp toast which was one of my favorites) but overall the entire menu is better now than before. On top of that, the quality of the food itself is much better. I admit that several of the items taste much better now than they used to (for example their Kung Pow recipe is much more flavorful now). Overall, it's still a small restaurant that isn't going to blow your minds by any means, but it is much much improved over its previous iteration. For quick, cheap, convenient Chinese food, it ranks right up there with almost any other restaurant in the area and has just earned the top spot for my lazy weekday dinner option. read more

I have yet to find a "go to" Chinese place around this area. To be honest, they're all lackluster including this place. The soup is terrible. I've had multiple types- egg drop, hot and sour, chicken and corn- all simply horrible. Even the crispy noodles aren't good. Every dish has been a little worse than the one prior. Why do I give them two stars you ask? They have amazing twice cooked pork. Seriously- the best I've found. Also they don't charge a delivery fee. Silver lining review. read more

This back in the warehouse area on Ox. The gentleman who answered the phone was friendly. My daughter was happy to find that they had egg rolls. Most places have just spring rolls, Hula Inn has BOTH spring rolls & egg rolls. My daughter firmly believes that egg rolls are superior and these were excellent. We also had their bbq spare ribs. I don't know where they got these ribs from, but they were fred flintstone size. So freaking big! They very tender and juicy too! Got the combo seafood fried rice, pineapple shrimp fried rice, and chicken fried rice. The pineapple shrimp fried was very clean tasting, not overly seasoned, it really let the pineapple shine. The Chicken fried rice was fresh, did not need any extra seasoning like soy or duck. The chicken was not dry. There was a lot of onion though. The seafood fried rice had lots of seafood, shrimp, scallop, crab. They did not skimp on it. It was also not overly seasoned fried rice. They really wanted to showcase the seafood, but the hubby wished there was a little more seasoning to it as it really wasn't very fried ricey. We will definitely be back to try more dishes. read more

The food was delicious! Ordered combo lo mein, young chow fried rice, salt & pepper squid, and bbq ribs. I would probably give 4.5 stars if I could. The deduction would be for a few "surprises" that weren't in the menu descriptions. Our first surprise was that the young chow fried rice had tomatoes and iceberg lettuce in it. Every time we've ordered young chow fried rice from other places, it has basically just been combo/house fried rice without soy sauce. Thankfully, the tomatoes and lettuce were easy to pick out. The rice was still flavorful, had lots of other meat/veg, and wasn't dry. It really was delicious (without the tomatoes and lettuce). The other surprise was that the salt & pepper squid didn't have any "pepper". It did have fried onions and these multi-color "chips" that were interesting. Kind of like "pop chips". They tasted fine, but they were chewy, as if they were really stale. I'm not sure if they were actually stale or if they're supposed to be chewy. Either way, the calamari was good, and that was the most important part. The only other complaint was that it was pricey for the serving size. Speaking of prices, I recommend ordering directly through their website. I overpaid quite a bit by ordering through a delivery service, which I realized too late. Plus, there are a ton more menu options on their site vs. the delivery service. Will definitely be ordering from them again. read more

Amazing food!! Szechuan stewed fish and mapo tofu are amazing if you want something authentic!!!

Hot and sour soup was so spicy no one could eat it. General Tso's chicken and crispy shredded beef were good. Kung Pao chicken had a strange taste and people ended up with upset stomach who ate it. read more

I don't like doing this, but I Just ordered a fairly large order, and threw pretty much the whole thing away. The general tsos chicken wasn't chicken it was parts of chicken, like the parts you trim off, all the fat and ligaments and skin and just a mushy slime ball it wasn't breaded it was completely inedible, every single bite. So the whole thing went in the trash. We also got beef on a stick, wasn't fully cooked and smelt kind of like BO. Next we got pan fried dumplings, also tasted and smelled rotten and they were the size of tennis balls, when did dumplings turn into giant meatballs rolled in thick dough??? The chicken lo mein looks harmless, but the flavor isn't right and brocade all the other items were so bad, I couldn't get myself to eat that either. The sweet and sour chicken was edible by my kids and the crab Rangoon was tolerable, but I basically just threw $60 worth of food away. I won't be back here. Soooo disappointed. read more

I used to like this restaurant and ordered many times. However tonight's dish portion was way less than before. Only about 1/3 of previous size. I understand the inflation has impacted every restaurant and the owner has their rights to raise the price tag. I suggest the owner just raise the menu price. Please don't make an entree like an appetizer. I will not come back to this restaurant again. read more

One and a half stars would be relatively generous. I feel like I'm betraying my heritage for knocking a place whose front of the house is run by real live Asians, but wow. Even with charity points for its awkward location in a small strip on a side truck route, walking in and smelling stale urine despite a sign stating "No Public Restroom" sort of set the tone for the whole visit. No problems with service; a little too long to clear plates occasionally despite being able to count the number of tables on your fingers, but very attentive with opening questions and water refills. $7 lunch buffet. You almost don't get what you pay for: one stand of about eight or ten hot trays and two soups. At first glance the pupu options looked the most appetizing, but the cream cheese in the crab rangoon tasted slightly off despite a decently done wrapper, and both the spring rolls and eggrolls were uninspiring in flavor and filling. The illusion of acceptability continued with the sweet and sour chicken with the lightly puffy exterior but slightly tough, almost freezerburned meat within. The egg drop soup was palatable, though the fried wonton noodles on the counter and a dash of finely ground black pepper at tableside practically make this a highlight. Triple delight and general tso's chicken went fast, leaving behind the unsightly tiny nuggets of hunan chicken for the other carnivores. Fried pieces of bone-in chicken were a tad a underdone at the core, yet perfectly crisp on the outside. Barbeque beef dumplings are rightfully hard to mess up, though greasier than necessary. Curry chicken was almost delightful after everything else tried, without help from the mushy fried rice. Fried donut balls were way too sugary on the outside. Poorly flavored squid-shrimp-celery stir fry. At this point I didn't care to try the hot and sour soup. Sorry but no one who's had the real deal would eat here. Won't be back when the highlight of the lunch was the super kawaii zodiac placemat. read more

This place was pretty grungy. I washed my hands after I left.. the interior was dingy and everything looked pretty outdated. It was only 7 bucks for their lunch buffet, and the food wasn't too bad. Okay who am I kidding- even as far as cheap Chinese joints go, the edibles here were extremely salty, oily, and guaranteed to make for a fun night of heartburn. Not to mention my boss and I were the only people in the place (should've been hint #1 to ball out), and the wait staff managed to neglect filling our water glasses several times. Something about this place just screamed "1990s" to me... it was like the Quantum Leap of chinese food. I'd probably say skip this place, unless you're low on funds and feeling ballsy :x read more

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Hula Inn was where my husband courted me 20+ years ago when under different ownership. It was great but that maybe sentiment talking as much as how good the food really was. I do think it was good though. We decided on a whim to see if they could deliver to us now that we are a little further away and they do! I was really looking forward to my General Tso Tofu- which was great. My husband's shrimp egg fou young was also. But the pork dish was horrible! Greasy, full of something chewy I can't identify. The best thing about it was the cabbage. Otherwise I would have given Hula Inn a 5. read more

I wish I could say I loved the food here, but I can't. The people working there are phenomenal, so it pains me to write a slightly negative review about their food. But it was pretty disappointing. However, if you like overly Americanized Chinese food, this would be a great place for you! The "fried rice" was just white rice with soy sauce, no lie. No egg, no veggies. The sweet and sour chicken and general tso's shrimp were presented in a rather unusual way too. The proteins were in a separate container from the sauce. At first I thought this was exceptionally clever so the batter didn't get soggy, but after trying it, it just wasn't as good as when it all gets mixed together and the flavors soak in. It reminded me of serving macaroni separate from the sauce, which is a big sin to me. Also, there was too much breading on the shrimp and they were shaped into rings, which wasn't at all optically appealing. I felt like I was eating a shrimp donut and started dipping them in the separate container of sauce like I do with a cookie in coffee. I looked incredibly American eating it that way. But I did it because I wasn't keen on their general tso's sauce. It was tangy, but there was no heat to it. The shrimp-o's tasted better without it. Maybe that's why everything was served separate from the sauce... read more

Hula Inn Chinese Restaurant - Shrimp rings?? - Chinese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

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This rating is for my lunch today. Hula Inn is always a go to place for my coworkers and I when we don't want to step out for lunch. We call for delivery. We like this place. Today, boy am I so in love with my meal. I ordered Singapore rice noodles with chicken and a hot & sour soup. The noodles were oh so DELICIOUS! I ate every strand of noodles, every piece of chicken, and even the onions too. The dish is perfectly seasoned. The amount of curry seasoning used was just right. The hot & sour soup was definitely cooked with tender loving care. Every spoonful of soup is like a perfect marriage. Well mixed and cared for. Unlike when you tried other hot & sour soup you can taste the vinegar the restaurant used to make the soup taste sour, but Hula Inn, they use more than just vinegar (if they use vinegar at all). My stomach is full and my taste buds is happy. Now, I just hope I don't fall asleep. read more

Hula Inn Chinese Restaurant - Lunch portion: Singapore rice noodles with chicken. - Chinese Near Me - Sterling, Virginia

Very good food. Best Chinese food in town. I love their Lo Mein, Kung Pao chicken and orange chicken.

This is the 1st time I ordered and it's THE BEST Chinese restaurant in Herndon VA!! Our company ordered delivery for a working meeting, and ask for the recommendation: Salt & Pepper jumbo shrimp, crispy shredded beef, Double cooked pork w/garlic sauce, Mapo tofu, General Tao's chicken, Beef stew noodle soup and Singapore Mei fun. The food delivered promptly, the customer service is VERY friendly and cooperative . The food is tasty! I will highly recommend this restaurant read more

Best Singapore Noodles I've ever had anywhere. Request "extra spicy" to make them even more tasty. Great flavor, loaded with meat and piled high in the bowl. Yummy! read more

Fast and courteous service. The best Singapore noodles in town! Several restaurants around here only put one meat or seafood in their Singapore noodles, but theirs include shrimp, chicken, and roast port. The beef chow foon was pretty decent, too. Added bonus: the price of these 2 dishes are a few dollars cheaper compared to other restaurants. read more

Food was fine but we used a dumb coupon for some free soups when ordering online and somebody called an yelled at us for using them and said they wouldn't honor them. Lame, especially given there are a dozen places just like them within 5 miles of here where we can take our business. We've ordered there multiple times and they lost our business over two dollars worth of hot and sour soup. Congratulations! read more