A Buffalo mainstay that's all too often forgotten, May Jen does American-style Chinese Food in the manner of a sit-down restaurant. The sweet and sour soup and crab rangoon are the best in the city. There's a reason May Jen has been open in the city for nearly 40 years, survived a fire and survived Covid in the face of a wave of newer, flashier cuisine. They get it right. They've added some popular Thai dishes and similar over the years, and they get those right too. But that sweet and sour soup. Once you know how it's meant to taste, you'll never look back. read more

We pre-oredered a large variety of dishes to take home yesterday. Classical music (Bach, I think) was playing as my wife discussed what we wanted. The food was ready when they said it would be, and I think it is the best Chinese food I have ever eaten. Will gladly return. read more

Very clean restaurant where you can dine inside or just have take out. Service was fast and owner was very friendly. If you order using the app Toast, you can accumulate points towards to obtain discount rewards. Egg foo young- Choice of protein.. Pattie's were not greasy and decent amount of shrimp (my choice of protein). Would've like if the gravy was thinner and not so thick Singapore rice noodles- Throughly enjoyed the curry flavor, and appreciated the spiciness was at a level that was enjoyable to me. (You can choose spice level) Fried rice- typical fried rice read more

May Jen - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York

In my opinion outstanding food, everything was excellent. The sweet and sour soup. Unbelievable. The staff was very nice. Everybody was very polite. The tables were well set so you could have a conversation without someone else. Overhearing the most pleasant music. Very relaxing. Made meal even better I would definitely go back again read more

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This is one of my favorite places to have lunch or dinner at when I'm near Buffalo. Its been far too long since I've been here. It's a cozy little place; warm and welcoming. Lunch prices are very affordable, in fact, cheaper than a lot of places that I've been too. Lunch meals include a soup, and white or fried rice. It's a good size portion, its sure to fill you up. Service was wonderful. He was very helpful and we had a few good conversations with him. I highly recommend May Jen. They've been in the community for over 40 years. read more

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I am a Pad Thai aficionado, having had the dish in many restaurants in the U.S., and abroad. Although my wife and I have been long-time take-out customers of May Jen we never tried their Pad Thai until we dined it. WOW! It was easily the best Pad Thai I have experienced! The noodles were light, tender, supple, and seasoned perfectly; there was an excellent selection of greens; and the chopped peanuts -- de rigueur with Pad Thai -- were chopped nicely small. And as one who enjoys spicy food I requested extra spicy, and that, too, was perfect. Lastly -- and a surprise -- the portion was quite large, easily enough for two dinners. Do try their Pad Thai -- yoiu will not be disappointed! Errol Craig Sull read more

Green curry with beef may be the best thing I ever tasted. This place is consistently awesome.

May Jen did not disappoint as the food was tasty and fresh. The small dining room is bright and clean. They do have a nice lunch menu that runs about $10.75 for a combination meal with a choice of several soups, a main course ( such as tangerine chicken or sweet and sour chicken) and egg fried rice. You can add on am egg roll for $1.75. Our waiter was very friendly and pleasant . Our meal ended with a complimentary fortune cookie. A couple things to note: there is no complimentary tea, but several choices of beverages to order and parking is best down at the plaza just past M&T bank. As there is no street parking directly in front of side of restaurant as it is on a corner. They do have a couple of off street parking spaces on the divided side street for quick order pick ups. The food has always been tasty and this time did not disappoint. read more

Glad to see May Jen is back! Best chinese food in Buffalo imo, everything is homemade and delicious, go for the ginger garlic chicken and the thai basil fried rice, other favorites are any of the dumplings and the lo mein read more

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I knew as I was eating the food that it was going to make me sick. No sooner did I get into my house that I puked my brains out from this food. It must've been 10 minutes later. I would stay away from this restaurant 100%. The food didn't taste good when I was eating it but I still did eat it because it's expensive --and I paid the price. Beware this was just tonight. Stay Away. read more

The crab Rangoons are the best. Just love the place, I've been going there since I was in high school 37 years ago. The serve it fast and friendly. Even the owner of 40+ years is there to greet. read more

The best Chinese food by a mile. Why is there a minimum amount of characters for a review?

They are chronically understaffed at lunch. Takeout orders take an hour. Food is tasty, but I'm not sure I will continue ordering.

Delicious! Clean place, friendly staff! Great for lunch or dinner. Good prices too. There is parking on the side street, two lots behind the building. In nicer weather they have tables on the grey brick patio too. read more

Very nice ambience and the food is excellent. A bit more expensive than other Chinese places in the area tho. read more

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The best Chinese food in Buffalo. Not fancy but sooo good. And Mrs. Leong is amazing...she runs a tight ship, and it shows in the quality of their food and service. It feels good supporting a local, family-owned business. read more

Wonderful as always. We did takeout for the first time and the food was almost as good as eating there.

Horrible, do not waste your money! Had it delivered thru Door dash and they gave me wrong size duck sauce, I paid over $6 for a pint, they gave me 1/3 of a cup if I am lucky and door dash wouldn't reimburse me, the wonton soup was flavorless, and the Happy Family was disgusting!! It was super sweet and heavy on the ginger. The spicy chicken rolls were dry and flavorless, gross!! read more

A bit pricier, but so worth it. Fresh real delicious food. Love the tofu dishes and handmade Crab Rangoon are the best! Will always go out of my way to order May Jen when I'm craving Chinese. read more

Cool little Little gem Buffalo serving the most delicious Chinese food. Blink-and-you'll-miss-it, so keep your eyes wide open for this place. Our server, Tom, was the friendliest and most engaging person. He really made the night relaxing and fun. They are a small place and require reservations as well as your vaccine card or excelsior pass. This contributed to the safe environment. I had some of the best wine i've ever had with their Cabernet Sauvignon - highly recommended. I had dim sum for the first time, and I was not disappointed. We ordered the crispy beef, which was good and the Cantonese triple delight, which was even better. Everything was hot, fresh, and flavorful. It got a little bit noisy with multiple tables being seated and chatting, but it added to the fun of the ambience. It's an intimate place, great for dates, and we will be back. read more

I was really looking forward to having dinner at May Jen. Myself and two friends were greatly disappointed. Our waiter was very pleasant and the restaurant was very clean. Thats where the complaints end. Our food was cold and the egg roll was like it was deep fried 10 times. The wrap was so hard and crispy, it was inedible. The garlic chicken was also very hard. I can't believe they received any good reviews. Don't think we will go there ever again. read more

Pick up times are never accurate. Waited almost an hour past the due time for food. Food was okay, sauces tasted like they came from a jar.

The place is small, but can seat about 50 people. Lunch time was busy and the one man serving/ hosting kept a happy demeanor, even as he ran around. The hot and sour soup is not super spicy and has a little heat on the back palette from the red pepper flakes. The crab rangoons come with a peanut soy sauce that actually tastes better than the normal orange gloop sauce most places serve them with. The General Tso's chicken has a tangy sauce that's not super spicy, and it is liberally slathered over the dish with a large portion of rice to accommodate all the chicken. The chicken was over the top breaded and actually had chicken in them!! A welcome surprise. I enjoyed this meal very much and hope others will look past the unappealing exterior to find this gem read more

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Best food in town won't get Asian food no where else .Delicious fresh and satisfying , leftovers are good too the next day .

In all honesty, the food here is actually delicious. My brother and I ordered over $50 worth of food just to try everything. The fried rice was delicious. The dim sum was much better than I expected, and the sesame chicken had a great flavor. Even the egg rolls had good flavor. I was overall impressed with the food. I was not really impressed with the service. I will give them slack - it was a Friday night and they were busy. (Mind you, when we arrived they weren't busy... they got gradually busy as we sat there) But they only had three people working, and our waiter would disappear for up to ten minutes at a time, so our refills on water and the like never happened until after we had eaten all our food. Also, he kept forgetting things... I felt bad for him, like the checklist in his head was all jumbled together and he kept trying to rearrange it. But he was nice, and by the end of the meal I was just cringing, wanting to get up and just help him with ANYTHING. The dining experience took us an hour and a half, when it definitely shouldn't have taken over an hour. I was feeling antsy and very much ready to go by the time our check had been placed down. I enjoyed the food, and the people tried to be friendly, so I will definitely be ordering from here again. Err, but I'll probably stick to takeout. read more

May Jen - Pork fried rice! - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York

I went here for lunch on Friday and it was awesome. My friend and I were left completely satisfied. I kept talking to my boyfriend about it the rest of the weekend and in the same week I scored a double play at May Jen's. My boyfriend really really enjoyed our general T's & also got the signature dish: ginger garlic chicken. He loved it! Best Chinese food we have had in Buffalo. They use better ingredients. The prices may be a few dollars more but the quality is 100%. I also enjoyed jasmine tea with our meal. Everyone was nice. The place is clean, and someone was shoveling the snow to keep the sidewalk snow free. They take pride in this establishment. read more

May Jen - This soup is incredible! Hot & sour! - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York

My girlfriend and I have eaten here many times. This family owned and operated establishment always provides a warm and friendly atmosphere. The food is always great! One of few places in town that have legit Cantonese offerings read more

So, my dad has an addiction, but in a good way, to the cuisine at May Jen. I tried to remember the last time I has Chinese food that didn't come from the ubiquitous paper and foil containers and it had been a long time. They used to have an outlet on the famed Elmwood Avenue back in the day, but now, you must get thineself to Kenmore ave to behold their awesomeness. I don't mean to sound over the moon, but this isn't assembly line throw together the sweet and sour whatever, but stuff done with some care and made to order, presented as if it is something, because it is. I heartly recommended affording yourself some Tangerine Chicken and an Egg Roll (Pork) and a fine ale (I opted for that longtime Chinese favorite Sam Adams). They do some take out, but it is a restaurant first and a take out source second. That may sound nitpicky, but that actually does matter. May Jen is one of the few Chinese food places where you actually do see people eating, in the restaurant, off plates, at a nice table. I did take home a plastic container...with the remnants of my entree. And it was good, but the treat was doling some off the pedestal they serve from onto a plate to relax and enjoy food prepped well. And I did, stomach made the happy sounds to prove it. Go. now read more

May Jen, how you have failed me. I grew up sitting in your booths, noshing on my chicken and broccoli. I had the nast-nasty-nastiest dinner there the other night. The "crispy beef" was deep fried into pieces of mealy grizzle. My chicken in garlic ginger sauce was sweetened with the unpleasant tang of corn syrup. I was just, um, repulsed. We started with the pu pu platter--ugh! Overcooked spare ribs, no flavor "chinese" chicken wings, a passable dumpling and some weird terayki skewers. Poo-poo, indeed. read more

Ordered the dinner combination Kung-Po chicken to go. It came with fried rice, soup, and an egg roll. The hostess was friendly, and my takeout order came out really quickly! It was on a slightly more expensive side compared to other Chinese restaurants, but the food tasted pretty good. read more

May Jen - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York

This is such a great Chinese take out joint. Anytime I want this type or food on the go, it is always May Jen! White meat chicken is so refreshing among these parts and this alone is why I love coming here. I haven't tried too much here but enough to know I have never had anything remotely bad. Because I get this on occasion, I usually go for the more "Americanized" dishes but have ventured into the wild a few times. With this being said my go to is their delightful tangy and sweet sesame chicken. I recommend it without the spinach though. I also get it with vegetable fried rice, an egg roll, as well as their excellent hot and sour soup. My combo above is offered for their lunch special which is until 3 on most days. I truly love this place, I have been coming for years and recommend it constantly. read more

I feel like this place could be pretty decent if it was in the right neighborhood. My beef hor fun tasted close enough to what I was expecting which was a pleasant surprise. They can keep serving their General Tso's to the general public, but I think they can actually cook real Chinese food back there and if I'm to guess, I don't think too many ppl order that. Their biggest problem is they're in a location where they'd need lower prices to compete w/ the piece of shit that is China King. They could get away charging what they do in Amherst or Williamsville but being next to a college campus/in the middle of a ghetto, I think they need to knock off a few dollars off each dish. Also, there are high school/college looking kids helping run the place making for an very inefficient (aka non-Chinese) take-out experience. read more

May Jen is still fantastic. We ordered take out from here recently, Nothing too complicated - just ginger garlic chicken, general tso's chicken and beef with broccoli. It is pretty normal "american chinese" but it is way better then most of the fast food places in the area. I love the ginger garlic chicken especially, it is light and the chicken is much better then fast food chinese which is usually what we get. It's a little pricier then the normal chinese food we order, but definitely better tasting. I wish it was still on Elmwood, I'd eat there more. read more

This placed used to be my favorite American-chinese restaurant in Buffalo. Visited there after two years, and I'm sorry to say that their quality has deteriorated a lot. We tried pork omlette with fried rice and Singaporean rice noodles. Both the dishes were oily (read greasy) and under-seasoned. A big disappointing for us. read more

May Jen - Pork omlette and fried rice. - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York

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I looked to my trusted Twitter followers to recommend me some great Chinese food. I received an overwhelming response to try May Jen. A quick google search revealed they had a website (+!!) I was sold. I called to order my food for pickup. The woman on the phone was friendly and answered my questions about menu items. When I arrived to pick up my food I was surprised at how nice (although entirely outdated) the dining room was. It seems like it would be a nice sit-down restaurant. I ordered my favorite take out dish, beef chow fun, which is something you can't always find. My fiance got a combination dinner of fried rice and sweet and sour chicken. His meal also came with some wonton soup and an eggroll. When I got home and started eating I was immediately overcome by the joy of satisfaction. The chow fun was some of the best I'd ever had, the vegetables were fresh and crispy (peppers, onions and bean sprouts) and the beef was of very good quality, no gristle! My fiance was not as pleased with his meal, which is disappointing. I have some other restaurants on my radar but I will long for the beef chow fun... mmm. read more

Love it here - it is a sit down type of Chinese restaurant, with some of the best general tsos I have had. The restaurant is on the smaller side, however it was quiet when we were in there so there was no problem getting a table. The prices are a little on the higher side, but the service and the food was excellent so didn't have a problem shelling out. Overall, great experience and will return. read more

Quality Chinese food. Not greasy. Tried the walnut prawn - delicious! Dish was close to $20 but you get a good amount of jumbo prawns. First time I've seen this dish in Buffalo (had it several times in California chinese restaurants). Zucchini chicken also very tasty. Owner came over to say hello and ask how our meal was- nice to see concern, respect for customers. Will surely be back. My family has enjoyed this restaurant for many years. read more

Good.....not great, but certainly good enough that I'll return. I used to eat here long ago, but then for some reason just kinda forgot to go back. Then last night was in a "Chinese mood" and while thumbing through the good ole "Entertainment Book" my memory of the place was stirred.... and I'm glad it was. Two of us dined on soup (wonton for me and pork and shrimp dumpling with spinach in chicken broth for him). Both were good and there was lots of stuff in our bowls. I hate when there's just one tiny, sad wonton doing a back float in a sea of broth. My only complaint is that the broth could have been hotter. The shared pork eggroll was perfect.... hot, crisp, and full of yummy goodness. Brought back happy memories of my UB undergrad days when I'd grab a couple for lunch in between classes. Onto the entrees....again shared: Vegetable fried rice was a tad sticky, but had lots of great, crisp veggies including (my fav!) snow peas and lots of big stalks of broccoli. The stir-fried ginger garlic chicken had lots and lots of nice white chicken, but we both agreed that the sauce was a bit too sweet and not spicy enough. The best entree was the Hunan beef. Lots of crisp veggies, tender beef, and a wonderful, spicy sauce. We both loved that dish! The serving sizes were huge (we brought enough leftovers home for another complete meal) and the service was good (even on a very busy Friday night). I hope I remember to go back! read more

I was just reading other reviews for May Jen... Hmmm maybe I don't eat Chinese food enough to know really-quality stuff, but I don't mind this place. Dined there last night (for the second time in a few months) and was pleased with the experience. Our waiter was very friendly and helpful. Our food was ready in a jiffy and it was quite delicious. I recommend the steamed veggies with chicken... a healthy option, and they give you enough for another meal. My gf went with the tangerine chicken, which tasted good... though very similar to General Tso's. Again, i could very well be WAY off on my review b/c i don't get Chinese that often, but i thought May Jen was pretty good. I'd love to hear from anyone about similar or better Chinese in Buffalo. Thanks! read more

The General Tso's chicken has great heat and also tastes fresh. I've been to several Chinese places and have had similar dishes that taste like frozen chicken pieces refried. It's tender and getting it for the lunch special is worth it. I wouldn't get the fried rice as the side cause it was bland and looked sad. I usually get this dish because it's always delicious and consistent read more

May Jen - Lunch Special: General tso's chicken with veggie fried rice. Chicken was really good but the rice was bland - Chinese Near Me - Amherst, New York