I decided to try this restaurant because of the options provided and the food looked great from other people's pictures. When I walked in, I saw signs that said $9.99 and to pay first. They only accept cash. They asked me if I was dining in or taking to go, and gave me a tray with a container with white rice. Since there were many food choices and everything looked appetizing, I took some time to decide what to get. I'm not sure if that annoyed the employees serving the food because I felt watched and judged. I felt like they gave me smaller portions than other people. The service was not the best, which is understandable, it's pretty cramped in the serving area. There were some tables and chairs but they got taken pretty quickly when I went, so I took my food to go. I opted for the soup. The food was okay, but it was nice to try this place once. read more

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Recommend this place if you like affordable Chinese takeout and a variety of dishes that could fill you up. Like how it's written outside, it's pretty straightforward -- 4 choices & a soup. Come here with my family for a super filling cheap eat once in a while when I'm in the Flushing area. The people adding the side dishes into your box are pretty attentive and I've never had a problem with getting the right choice. The side dishes are super flavorful and filling. It is takeout quality and the food is greasy, like other people mention. There are definitely better quality food out there. But then again, for people who can't afford to spend a lot for meals and want something decently yummy -- this is great, even a lifesaver. Portions are generous and resemblant of a Chinese meal at home with rice and sidedishes, a sense of normalcy despite turbulence. I embrace it and I think they're doing great. I personally think the meal is quite good when it comes together at the end. The rice helps to counterbalance the grease. read more

Overall, it was a filling meal for $9.99, but it wasn't a pleasant experience. I disliked some of the workers there. They were somewhat rude: one of them answered me impatiently and proceeded to give me a noticeably smaller portion. Around a minute later, she noticed me trying to get her attention and decided to turn away and ignore me. Someone else ended up helping me. I went around afternoon. It was fairly busy, but there were still seats available. I ended up getting takeout. read more

Great Food Good Chef. $8 for 4 items + rice + bottle water. Bento Box Fish - not fishy it is fresh Pork feet - no hair, no smell. tender. Sesame chicken - Crunchy. Pork chop - no smell, soft and tender. read more

Best place for a cheap and variety eat in flushing!! Their price is $8.99 now for 4 choices + rice or 5 choices no rice. Comes with a free water or drinks sold separately. They serve lots of veggies, meats, noodles, fried rice, etc, highly recommended!!!! Definitely great for a lumch or dinner when youre too lazy. read more

JR Restaurant - a takeout container with rice and meat - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

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A friend showed me this restaurant over ten years ago and it has changed for the better since then. It is like a Chinese buffet food court where you first pay $7.50 to get a tray and a take out plate. Customers walk around the buffet station to select 5 dishes or 4 dishes+white rice. There are lots of options from veggies, tofu, beef, chicken, shrimp, fried rice, and noodles. Before you leave, you bring the tray up front and they will place it in a plastic bag with a water bottle. One of the best cheap eats in Flushing. The restaurant can get crowded during lunch hours. read more

JR Restaurant - Now it's "five choice and water" - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

It was a desperate moment of hunger. Newly moved in with nothing unpacked and too hungry to think, I got out the escalators looking for food. And then I saw a sign, a poor misspelled sign offering 4 choices of food and a soup. I went in to see how the operated and what options they had. The options includes oily, oily, and some more oily. Oily #1: Stirred fried shanghai bok choy. Very bitter. Oily #2: Deep fried beef. Soggy. Oily #3: Deep fried Tofu. At least it wasn't going bad. Oily #4: Some sort of red chicken. Not too bad. Oily #5: Soup. Mmmm. MSG. *Funny note - For the old man before me, the cashier lady asked him if it was to stay or to go in Chinese. She looked at me and asked me in English. read more

JR Restaurant - The actual name of the restaurant (Biandang wu, or Bento-ya, aka Lunch Box), and the tiny English name on the right side - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Tried to rip me off and refused to refund my money: Server was spooning small portions (smaller than usual today and I know this because I come here frequently). The customer in front of me asked for more. She gave it to him. When the same thing happened with me, she refused to give me a little more. Then she denied giving more to the previous customer. I demanded my money back and she said no. The manager came and told the server to give me more food. The server insultingly put one tiny piece of chicken onto my tray. Then the manager packed my food. Absolutely disgusting customer service. Never coming here again. Don't support businesses that treat their customers like shit. read more

A popular and busy spot at Flushing downtown. You'd see the long line from inside all the way to the street during the lunch time every day. The dining area is always crowded, while majority of their customers ask for takeout. The meal is $6 for rice + 4 dishes + 1 soup. So you cannot expect the quality of the material is very high, but the chefs here do great job to make the dishes tasteful. read more

JR Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

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4 choices and a soup for only $5.00. There is a similar place to this one in Manhattan's Chinatown too. The food here is basically cheap takeout quality. It is greasy, quickly prepared, with lower quality ingredients, and with msg. But, that is to be expected at these prices. The offerings are the usual sesame chicken, beef with broccoli fare. This place is for those who seek sustenance only. read more

an excellent chinese restaurant one of the very best in long beach. especially for food & service. read more

JR Restaurant is one of those restaurants which I call a Chinese Feeding Trough. Bountiful amounts of food is laid out for you, and you pick four items and one soup for a mere $4.75. Chinese restaurants like JR which offer "four dishes and one soup" are very popular and probably offer the best ratio of food amount to cost that you can find in the Chinese community. They have a tendency to shut down cheap Chinese takeouts because the Chinese takeouts just can't compete. So what kind of food do they have? Think greasy, starchy, fatty, fried, roasted. Basically the kind of food you get when you are thinking to yourself, "ah, fuck it." Which was kind of the attitude I had one night a few months ago during the infamous freak tornado that passed through Queens. Traffic had shut down, it took me an hour and a half to get back to Flushing from work, and I was soaked from head to toe. I was starving and JR was the first restaurant I noticed, so I walked in. The interior of the restaurant is very simple. There is a counter on the right side where you pay and the cashier gives you a tray to put food in and some disposable utensils. The centre of the restaurant is where all the food is laid out, and there are two or three servers who will scoop you the food items you want. They have white rice and fried rice, and a few different kinds of noodles. Vegetables like broccoli are available and they're practically dripping in oil and grease. And of course, there's also a plethora of meat selections, many of which are chicken. "Jefe, what is a plethora?" I decided to have four different kinds of chicken. Yes that's right. Roasted, BBQ, deep fried, and... I forgot what was the fourth kind of chicken I had. I love chicken. I also had some fried rice. The four items you choose does not include the kind of rice you get, so you actually get a rice and four items. I skipped the soup because there were two big pots that contained what looked like MSG water. The food is a little dry because they are not cooked for an order. But they were all sufficiently meaty and greasy, and filled me up nicely. Basically, JR restaurant and other "four dishes and one soup" Chinese joints are not places you'd go for any kind of "dining experience". They are places you'd go when you are hungry as hell and you want that food quick and you want it cheap. There're probably less than five minutes between the time you walk through the door to when you have sat down and you're shoveling food in your mouth. Good times. read more

JR Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Very CHEAP food! While in NY, I came here twice for my dinner. It's because I am too tuckered out from adventuring. NOTE....DO NOT DRINK THE SOUP. I don't ask for it, I will just walk past the lady and say "no thanks". Food is okay, but I'd only come if i'm starving and need lots of food for a small amount of money. read more

JR Restaurant - Yum - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Sometimes I really miss family dinners where we gather round elbowing at the table and the meal is centered around rice and a bunch of various dishes which we call soong. The koreans have their banchan but we have our soong. Not necessarily one entree and one starch but a bunch of so called entrees from dishes with fish, meat, stir fried veggies, steamed or stewed items or leafy greens speckled with garlic and ginger accompanied by a bowl of soup either before or after your meal. Those meals for me have increasingly become few and far between. That is why I like these so called "lunch box" places like JR restaurant where for under 5 bills you can get 4 items with rice and soup. They offer a variety of items like black bean pork or deep fried chicken wings, crispy sweet n sour chicken, fish fillets, curry fish balls, bricks of firm tofu, steamed egg custard sprinkled with scallions, stewed eggplant, and other traditional chinese dishes great for any person who likes an assortment of dishes in one meal. They also have that strange fruit salad that a lot of chinese places seem to favor with the melon and cantaloupe in that milky mayo dressing. Your meal comes with a healthy portion of rice or fried rice if you wish or you can tell them you just want noodles which are the typical lo mein or mei fun rice noodles instead. This place is cafeteria style where you line up to pay first and get your tray. For me its usually "white rice to go" and hand the money. Then you walk along the buffet (direction doesnt matter people try to skip you amyway) trying to get the attention of the women with the tongs behind the counter reminiscent of those old lunch ladies of when you were a kid. Same demeanor too. The back of the buffet are the exclusively cold dishes and mostly vegetarian when you just want to be healthy and have some cauliflower or crunchy steamed broccoli or you can be adventurous and try their special cold salads with cilantro, chive and tofu. Or go old school with diced peas and carrots with baby shrimp. Great place for that undercover choy lover. After a whirl around the buffet with your 4 items you can pick up your container of soup. This soup is mostly a cabbage seaweed soup not to everyone's taste but it'll do. During the summer time they have a special chilled herbal tea that they keep at the bottom of the fridge. Its bitter and not sweetened but it is good for a change of pace when you don't want warm soup on a hot day. My chinese parents used to say that if it tastes bitter it must be good for you. This place is a lot cleaner than a lot of other lunch box places and is a favorite with the local immigrant workers and senior citizens who seem to gather here as a would be community center to meet their friends. Good thing there is ample seating or you can always bag your stuff to go but tell them before u pay. Come here if you can't decide what you want to eat and have a taste of a bunch of things. This is not a five star restaurant but definitely a filling meal for a cheap price. read more

JR Restaurant - Four items lunch box w soup - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Choose 5 for $5.25! Great deal. You can choose to either dine in or take out. I find that taking out gets you more food on your plate. Pros: -LOTS of variety. So many meat and vegetable choices. -They serve brown rice if you don't want white. Or you can pick fried rice or fried noodles. -Comes with soup. Cons: -Hm, 2 of my co-workers got stomachaches shortly after. I was OK. Don't know what happened there. read more

Great tasting for the price, hey what do you expect? Got eggplant, pepper onion pork steak, tofu, and beef with broccoli as my 4 choices with brown rice and a soup. The food was on the oily side, so definitely not suggested as a healthy meal choice ;) read more

What a disappointment this place was and here's why: Atmosphere: I don't know if they have air conditioning, but if they do, they weren't using it today and it felt like I was eating in the steam room at the gym - not that I have ever actually eaten my lunch in the steam room at the gym! Bait and Switch - The sign outside says 4 "choise" and soup for $5.25 but when you get inside it becomes 5 choices and soup for $6 Honesty: They hand me my tray with white rice on it and then while in the food line, I find out the rice counts as one of my choices. Hey JR, you gave me NO CHOICE...nor by the way any soup! Service: One of the rudest least caring staffs I have seen in my many years coming to Chinatown. Even my awful mispronunciation of the tones in Mandarin could not make them smile! Food: Meh..Luke warm and not very flavorful (but two stars as it was edible) Don't look for a second visit update because there will not be one! read more

Okay...where else are you going to get 4 choices of entrees served with rice and soup for $4.95? Not many places offer this. This style of dining is apparently called Chinese "lunch box" fare. I opted to not have rice so I can pick 5 choices, for $4.95. I rather have noodles than rice. Just a personal choice. Is it greasy, yes. I just ask them to take it from the top and ask for no sauce. I saw a tray of chicken that just came out...it was pretty tasty and fresh! So be on the lookout for new trays of food coming out of the kitchen and follow it. Here is a rule that you can live by going to these "lunch box" places. If it looks dry and looks like it has been sitting there too long, especially fish, AVOID! My boyfriend learned that lesson!! The trick to eating "lunch box" fare is finding decent entrees. I eat "lunch box" fare a lot because it's cheap eats. Don't expect gourmet eating when you eat "lunch box" fare. Just expect fast cooked food made from scratch at cheap prices that will be greasy. It is what it is. "Lunch box" fare is geared towards the working class. FYI, no gratuity needed here because there is no table service. read more

JR Restaurant - Confusing signage - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

1st time here & every worker is speaking Cantonese/Mandarin. Was craving Chinese food & it was only $5.25 for this meal w/ a cabbage soup. Soda = $1. Food is buffet style & delicious~ :) 2nd time here & the small containers are 25 cents each, fyi, if you want to take the leftovers... read more

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Lots of vegetarian options, you could get a container filled with whatever you wanted for a low set price. It was nice.

Cheap, filling, lots of options, nasty attitudes from the staffs there. You get 4 choices with a soup for $5.25. You can even skip rice and get a noddle as a dish or skip that as well and just get all 4 dishes. Lots of options to pick from. And unlike other reviews on here, I find this place has lots of healthy vegetarian dishes. And I usually come here to only get the vegetables. I figure the price is too cheap for me to be eating some mystery meat but you can't go wrong with just vegetables right? For those who aren't afraid to try their mystery meat, they have tons of options, chicken, beef and pork, cooked in all different styles. The people working there are always miserable and mean. But I suspect they have an attitude with me because I speak Chinese to them...I don't think I've ever seen them giving attitude to someone who speaks English...or maybe their English are just too poor for them to have an attitude... Whatever it is, this place is cheap, easy and convenient. A much better bang for your buck than other fast food restaurants read more

Chinese food is a crime. Well at least the stuff that you get outside of an Asian neighborhood. We've all had the drunk or hangover munchies for Chinese and then regretted it. Both by how meh it tastes and the act of praying to the Porcelain God afterward. I have to start off my saying that you're in Flushing, you can easily find better food. Food basically as cheap actually. Duck sandwich stand, fried bun/dumpling stall, spicy wonton. All places you need to know. Check out my other review for them. However, if you're really in the mood for a lot of food for $4.75, then be my guest. I decided to come here since I was starving, had to wait for a bus, and heck, at least it's a review for Yelp. The things I do for you guys... You walk in, pay for $4.75 and their give you a plate of rice. You get a choice of four different dishes and a soup. Dressed like a whitey as usual, the lady pointed at the fluorescent orange chicken, assuming that I'd dive for that. However, I'm on a diet and also know better. I instead choose the more authentic looking dishes. They also give me a soup and I sit down to masticate. The pumpkin was simple and tasty. The soft tofu was a bit gloppy and boring. String beans are string beans. The hard tofu and liver wasn't bad. For a novice, I would choose the most unappealing or unfamiliar dishes you see. For those who know me, I'm more Long Island Jewish than lox on a bagel, but I still grew up on authentic Chinese. While the flavors aren't perfect, at least you get somewhat of a taste of what it's like to sit down at a Chinese family dinner, at under $5. And at least for portion is huge enough for two people. Then again, I would I realllly recommend this place. Not really. Then why write a lengthy review you ask? Two words: Mental masturbation. read more

I actually had no idea this place had a name other than its semi-notorious name that explained all that the restaurant was about, "Four Choise" [sic]. This place is a subject of jokes for many of my colleagues, and it comes up every now and then when someone talks about having a "quick and cheap" lunch. You pay $4.75 at the cashier that gives you a seemingly familiar foam tray for those who grew up in the states. It may actually remind you of the times when you knew, you're going to be walking down a single file line with your tray and talk to the lunch ladies to plop you some shitty stuff they call food on your plate. Well, it's pretty much the same situation here, only it's a free for all and no one gives two shits about a single file line. If I had to talk about the food: the amount you'll end up is ridiculously abundant and you probably won't be able to finish it. Not because you're a pansy and can't finish your share of food, but because of the amount of guilt it brings you, the amount of grease you'll feel stored in your stomach, and the feel of your arteries clogging every spoonful you dare to intake. The taste is mediocre, but what can you expect out of $4.75? You definitely get what you paid for. Absolutely the worst "choise" for lunch if you're planning to go back to work or study afterwards. The combination of warm grease and the exorbitant amount of carbs will put you at a spell that'll have your body completely incapable of operating. This spell, we come to call "food coma" will rain down on you and it'll continue to pour until you treat it with some Red Mango. read more

i miss the old ghetto version of this place, down the block, that closed down, and is now a Quickly. the food looked better there for some absurd reason. i miss the flies roaming around my food while i hovered over the buffet. anyway, good times come in cycles i guess. i'll just have to wait for the Quickly to dissaparate. i've already done my incantations. it's just a matter of time now. but just like it's now defunct predecessor, you basically pay for a tray and soda at the cashier, then saunter over to the island in the middle of the restaurant and point at the hot or cold items that look appealing. if you only like one dish you can get it four times if you want. which helps if you are anal like moi. then grab the watery soup, soda, and you're set!! only $4.75 AND you get a place to sit. that's pretty awesome. cheap food AND a clean table?? now that's priceless! note: $1.00 extra for drink **** it's tasty if you're hungry =) read more

JR Restaurant - haha christmas tree - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

I actually eat here quite often despite my inner soul telling me not to. The food is fine. The service is simply point and go. Shared tables. Price point is $4.99 per lunch box. Lunch box = 3 choice of toppings over white rice or fried rice. I've had the opportunity to eat it both fresh and as a take out the following lunch. This is where the food quality definitely is a contrast. Eat it fresh never as a day late Chinese take out. It is not THAT KIND of take out and it will spoil easily. But it is definitely a better option in terms of price and satisfaction over places like Mcdonald's next door or $1 skewer stick. read more

This place is cheap and convenient for a meal. The price rises steadily. It's now 5.25$ for 4 choices, rice, and soup. The food is definitely not top quality but it's decent. Come here as early as possible for more healthy/non-oily, fresh, and more choices! You also have the choice of asking for brown rice now! read more

JR Restaurant - Healthier options at earlier times. - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Why all the bad reviews? I love this place! 4 choices and a soup is a lifesaver for when I'm broke and hungry. Sure everyone in there is rude by american standards, but it's a slice of China in USA, complete with curt attitudes. There are staple dishes and some variety every day, everything in there is pretty yummy. If you're looking for gourmet, this is not the place for you. If you're looking for a big portion that can be broken into 2 meals and satisfy your hunger, this is the perfect place. Its not for the picky either; while you can pick what you want on your plate, the ladies use the same ladles for most foods so the sauces from different dishes are on them and your food gets piled up on top of each other. But I always feel like I hit the jackpot when I can get my favorite combo- fried rice, glass noodles, seaweed knots, mapo tofu, and tomato eggs! read more

It's a pretty good deal for 5 items and a soup just $4.75, if you want to get the most out of it , dont add rice. Its good for 2-3 meals trust me , you dont want to eat the whole thing at once. A lot of choices, just have to be smart to pick which ones are edible. Its called Lunch Box if you are looking for the sign. read more

I got no option so it's showing 1 star or else it would be 0 star, honestly the employees are extremely racist, if they see "Chinese" people they give you nicely sort out piece of meat or portion of food. I have been going there for quite long cause my mom likes the place even though bad service always. I never complained bout anything till today when this server lady gives me a piece of fish on my plate and while I am looking for something else she takes away the fish and breaks it and gives me a small piece back , It upset me so much that I told the manager and she talking like nothing happened and gave me cash back. This is so disgusting how preference discrimination exists and managers don't do anything to make upset customers feel good rather en give nonsense explanation "o it's just a fish" that's what the lady manager XIU MEI CHEN said, horrible I don't think after this experience I or any of my family will visit there cause they are blunt racist not that I pay less then any other of their Chinese customers, extremely rude read more

JR Restaurant - RACIST LOCATION TO EAT - Chinese Near Me - Flushing, New York

Wife and I like it well enuff that we will probably go there every time we go to BJ Wholesale. What a deal for $4.75!! We liked the taste. Not fantastic but well worth the price. I enjoyed the soup. I usually feel funny after a lot of MSG and I could NOT detect any at this place. None of our selections seemed greasy. Selection will narrow down late in evening to maybe half of what is available during daytime. Went there last year with wife when I had a coupon for free three months membership at BJ which is also on Roosevelt avenue. This place is at one end of #7 train station and BJ at a few blocks past other end of station. Went again this week to redeem another free membership coupon at BJ. Coupons are found several times a year on BJ site. read more

I had been here many times. This place only sell lunch box food. What do I mean by lunch box food? Basically, you pay $4.75. You get 4 dishes, soup, and rice. This place is good in that it has a lot of varieties of dishes for you to choose from. The place also has table and seating if you dont want to take your lunch box to go. read more

I usually get my lunch box from skymall. I stop by this location because it is snowing out. The place has a convenient location and available seating. That is all the positive that I could think of. There is a large varity of food selection but the quality is just downright horrible. The food is poorly seasoned and I tasted some grain when I ate the food. Sand? Was the food clean? Maybe I can lie to myself and believe it is big pieces of black pepper. I didnt even finish my lunch box before I threw it out. read more

I came here once. That time, I ordered two chicken dishes. While I ate there, I saw there were several TV's.

Came here to grab a quick bite. Didn't know about opting out white rice for an extra dish. May try that next time. Yes, do plan on coming back although food was greasy and services was soso. Grabbing those ladies attention was the the hardest part because half of the time they are chatting to each other! But lunch filled me up and it's cheap. read more

Sunday, March 1, 2015. I am picky, but this restaurant food was good. It is not self serve, the ladies scoop for you and were very nice. It's more authentic chinese taste than most American style chinese food. "A" rating from Bd of Health, it was very clean. Don't know about old remarks, but today was fresh and clean and tasty. A little heavy on the oil in some recipes. Rice noodles were lovely, lo mein a little bland, spicy tofu yummy, marrinated chicken juicy, string beans crunchy and tasty. Go there...you will see for yourself. $5.25 for 1 rice or noodle dish, then add 4 more items and then chicken broth with bok choi. Huge portions. Good luck getting a seat, it was busy, in the snowstorm too. We took out, drove 20 minutes, then ate. The food was good, not fabulous, but good, clean, fresh and cheap. read more

I thought it was called Four Choise and a Soup. It's cheap, decent, and the dishes seem to change up a lot, so you may well be surprised. The have kimchi as a side dish, if you feel like it. read more

Its now $4.95, tax included. Best lunch box in Flushing. Beats Corner 28 or that other one close from it. You get rice or noodles + 4 sides & 1 soup. Very little wok ash and greasy. thats about the down side. read more

This place is awesome for the price and the decent quality of huge quantity of food. For $4.75, you can get 4 sides (pick from 20 something different sides), and a huge portion that can actually feed 2 people. The business looks good and i guess that's why the foods are generally fresh and hot. Seating is not very crowded, and okay clean. But the food is a bit greasy. read more