We were craving Chinese food after visiting a distillery, so we ordered food to go via the Toast app. I got the soy chicken kung pao while my husband tried the regular chicken kung pao. Loved that they have many vegetarian options to choose from. Service was quick and my order was ready for pick-up as soon as I arrived. We did not dine in, but the restaurant appeared clean inside. The portions were large with reasonable prices for the tasty dishes. read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Large portions of soy kung pao chicken with rice - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

My friend and I came here for dinner. It looks like a takeout place but there are tables and booths you can sit in inside. We did the steamed dumplings and bbq ribs as appetizer. They were SO good! For entree, I did the Yang Zhou Fried Rice and it was so so good. You get so much food too. It was delicious!! The waiters were really nice too. Will def come back! read more

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What a great place to grab some lunch! They have counter service for to go orders or you can sit in the restaurant to enjoy your meal on house. I enjoyed the casserole noodle soup with chicken and it was a huge portion. I could've easily shared it with another person and still had leftovers. The broth was delicious and a little spicy and the chicken and bok choy were perfectly cooked. I had the steamed vegetable dumplings for an appetizer and you could really tell that they were made in house and fresh. Service is super quick too! If you want a casual spot for lunch or dinner, or just to grab some takeout, would recommend Ming Dynasty! read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Steamed Vegetable Dumplings - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

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What an experience! We ordered from the authentic Chinese menu, and their spicy whole fish was incredible -- the perfect blend of heat and rich, authentic Chinese flavors. I also loved the braised beef with cabbage, which came in a generously spicy and flavorful broth. They even let you choose your spice level, from mild to extra spicy. The service was wonderful. It's a small family run restaurant with familiar lunch specials options but also varieties of authentic Chinese cuisine. Highly recommend! read more

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I ordered takeout and arrived to a relatively spartan shop, but one that appeared to be running with high energy. My order was ready quickly, and I had an abundance of vegetarian dishes to choose from. What I ended up with was a pretty straightforward dish with a savory spicy sauce and some high quality tofu mixed with peas and carrots, like a typical Americanized ma po tofu. The portion size was a massive container of the sort you don't usually see anymore. Not fancy, but it hit the spot. My dumplings weren't impressive, being mostly dough with not enough of a vegetable filling for my liking. Still, the basic Chinese takeout with good vegetarian options is something that isn't as easy to find as I would like, and I could easily see coming back here and getting something as good or better than what I got. read more

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Best Chinese restaurant in the C'ville area. I'm so sad to be moving away from this wonderful restaurant. People are always kind and food is always 10/10 read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Crispy Beef and Sesame Shrimp - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

We got the egg drop soup and the triple delight. It was awesome. We ordered to go. Every time we go we know it doesn't matter what we order it will be fantastic. We love this place! read more

Great food and good service. The Tibetan noodles & the casserole noodles are the best. The dishes listed under the "authentic Chinese" section are really good. read more

Huge portions, plentiful vegan options, reasonable prices! Vegan Chinese food is hard to come by so this place is a gem. And don't let Yelp fool you, Ming has been around forever - just in a new location now. The complimentary hot tea is awesome. They have soy "beef" and soy "chicken" in addition to tofu for vegan options, and a whole section of the menu dedicated to these. The beef is a little better than the chicken, to me, but both are really good. I had the general tso vegan soy chicken and while the chicken was crispy and awesome, the sauce was definitely lacking flavor and spice. It tasted more like grocery store bought sauce. That said, we went with a group of 10 and all the other sauces I tasted were awesome. (Cashew nut dish, Szechuan eggplant). I can't wait to go back and try something else! Food came out fast and service was great even with our large group. They weren't too busy aside from takeout. As for atmosphere, it's nothing fancy but clean and newly renovated. read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Veggie spring roll - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

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I recently dined in here and was pleasantly surprised. The service was excellent (and very fast!). I ordered the triple delight, which was delicious. I was just looking for some Chinese food and my expectations weren't too high, but I enjoyed my time here. I don't normally give five stars for anything other than an exceptional experience. I'm giving 4.5 stars but rounding up because I'm not sure if they could have executed any better than they did. read more

I am pretty surprised to see any bad reviews about the Ming Dynasty restaurant. It's as good as we've had at the prices they charge which are reasonable. Although you won't have wait for service they are very busy. I think that says all you need to know about the quality of their food. My only bad experience was I order to go once and the portions were small and on the bland side but other than that this a good restaurant that we eat at often. 5 Stars especially when you consider the price.​ read more

Very nice find just north of Downtown Charlottesville. Dined in for lunch . I had kung Pao chicken lunch . It was spiced perfectly. Perfect blend of peanuts, diced veggies and chicken . Sauce was splendidly spiced. Wife enjoyed her crispy szechuan eggplant . The crunchy exterior melded well with the creamy inside of the eggplant. She usually hates spicy sauces but was impressed by the spice level. We ordered the vegetarian soy chicken and mixed veggies in szechuan sauce to go for our daughter to enjoy after work. We will definitely return on next trip through the area CLOSED ON SUNDAYS read more

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Once upon a time Ming was an old school Chinese place with lots of decor, big round tables, and a big lunch buffet. It always hade the most extensive vegetarian Chinese menus in the city. The food was solid American Chinese food with a rather big menu. Not much of the regional Chinese specialties you find in a bigger city but if you wanted Lions Head Meatballs, this place was the only option. I guess the original owner has now passed and the new post-covid Ming Dynasty has emerged. Now in an odd, sort of raw strip mall location a bit further north up 29 across from the mall, Ming now focuses on delivery. No room for a buffet in this place, it now feels like a pretty barren Chinese take out place with a bunch of Tibetan Buddhist paraphernalia to spruce it up. The couple that owns and runs this place alone now are very nice and hard working. It is an economic model of success seen all over the US but whew it just lacks style. We ordered some sweet dishes with both meat and veg. Egg rolls and hot and sour soup. Everything was super solid American Chinese food. I like the quality of the meat. I like that even with the smaller menu, the veg options are still there. So while dinning in is more like feeding than dinning I am glad Ming still is around in some form. read more

We ordered Chicken Lo Mein, General Tso's Chicken, Crab Rangoon and some Egg Drop soup. The Lo Mein and Rangoons were pretty good. General Tso's was bland, without the signature sweet & spicy flavor of that dish. There's an option for the dish to be made with all white meat and the quality of the chicken itself did seem better than what's often found in typical Americanized Chinese food. Very little broccoli though, and that's almost my favorite part of the dish! The egg drop was acceptable but not great. I went to the restaurant's web site and ordered there, specifically to avoid using DoorDash (which charges higher prices and I've had problems with before). When I placed my order, however, I received a message that my order would be delivered by DoorDash. Boooooooo. The DoorDash app ended up taking the delivery driver to the middle of nowhere, 20 minutes from our house. Overall, it was about an hour and a forty minutes from the time I placed our order to receipt of dinner. read more

service was good but for the price we paid the food was ehh, crab rangoon's didn't have barely anything in them could've just been chips at that point and the general tso's was flavorless. wouldn't recommend compared to other places sadly read more

I like this place but this visit it took 45 minutes to get the food and the crispy chicken had so much sauce it was like a soup. Just not that good. Hopefully it will be better the next time Update on Kung Pao left overs- appears the crispy chicken and Kung Pao chicken were the same thing but Kung Pao had nuts in it. Same taste and soupy texture. Very reluctant to try Ming again. Food was underwhelming and terribly long wait. Had high expectations. Maybe caught them on an off night. read more

Food was eeh. Not good or bad. Ordered two orders both extra soicy and got mild food. Also they shorted me a white rice order. Not sure what else to say. read more

We decided to try the newly opened Ming Dynasty. We are so glad we did! It is a clean restaurant (restrooms too!) with many choices and friendly and attentive staff. Appetizers were tasty. I ordered warm and eggy egg drop soup served with wonton strips. Salty (in a good way) and cooked just right edamame. An extra bowl for the edamame pods would have been helpful. Fried vegetable dumplings were yummy and I loved the texture. Would recommend dipping them in their yummy duck sauce. Crab Rangoon was fried to perfection and contained just the right amount of filling with a nice balance of cheese to crab (not overly cheesy like some I've tried.). Hubby was disappointed I like it so much and he had to share (he is used to getting it all to himself). Smaller appetizer plates would be helpful. Orange chicken arrived and it was so pretty! Broccoli was crispy, sauce was good and chicken was delicious. Not overly fried or fatty chicken and was fried in clean grease. My hubby ordered General Tso's all white meat chicken both served with steamed white rice. Ended our meal with our fortune cookies! It was steadily busy with takeout and other inside diners the whole time we were inside. Would definitely come back! Probably our new favorite Chinese restaurant and those are hard to find in this area! read more

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Charlottesville needs more Chinese food options and this is a good one. We finally stopped in, after talking about it all the time, since they moved here, from just south of 250, on 29 and I regret we did not stop in sooner. For appetizers, we both started with the egg drop soup, edamame, fried vegetable dumplings and crab Rangoon. The egg drop soup was kinda bland, but nothing a little soy sauce couldn't fix. The crab Rangoon, is easily my favorite I have ever had. A lot of times, there is just sooooo much cheese, but this had the perfect amount. Even my wife liked them and she usually does not. The vegetable are usually the opposite, my wife likes them and I cannot stand them, but these were really good, so much so, that we split them pretty evenly. For the main course, I ordered the General Tso's chicken, all white meat and my wife ordered the orange chicken. Both turned out great and were very flavorful. The broccoli was cooked perfectly for me, with just a slight crunch to it. This is our Chinese restaurant now and will be our go to from here on out. read more

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Impressive portions for this town, that earns the 5 stars. Highly recommend the traditional menu in general and the pork in particular

Lunch combos were all reasonably priced for big portions. I loved the tofu. The Szechuan peppers were very spicy. The restaurant had a family friendly ambiance. Good service. read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Hunan Tofu - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

I've been here several times. The food is just ok and the people who work there are rude and dismissive. The last time, which will be the last time, I was there I got up to go to the restroom and when I came back the waiter had cleared the table. Half of my food was on my plate and I made no indication that I was done. When I raised concerns, the server said he would knock off 10%. I expressed that I wanted the rest of my food and he ignored me read more

They're super sweet people. Great food. Lots of vegetarian options if you don't eat meat.

Great restaurant. I loved every second of my time here me and my fiancé had a blast and the food was amazing. Great service and I love the space. read more

Go get some! The casserole noodle soup is amazing. The service is fantastic. I suggest eating in. Go! GO!

Food was decent-good temp, good flavor on the combination rice. Only concern: General Tso's Chicken could use a little more spice. Service was friendly-we were out of town and they were hospitable. read more

We had a pretty poor experience here on Christmas Eve, possibly it wouldn't have been quite so bad on a less busy day. Even so, the quantity and quality of the food itself was not great. Sesame chicken was lacking in sauce and several large pieces of broccoli stuffed in the bottom of the container took up like 10% of the serving. The Szechuan beef was like 80% vegetables. The pork fried rice had respectable amounts of meat in it, although looked suspiciously similar to the beef so I kind of wonder if they just ran out of food and were throwing random things in cartons at a certain point. For $40 I expect enough food to last us at least 2 meals and we ate pretty much all of our entrees in one sitting. & No fortune cookies :( As for the customer experience, maybe it's our own fault for trying to have Chinese on Christmas Eve, waiting til dinner time to order knowing it'd be busy, and for still ordering online when they couldn't even answer their phones but it took an hour and a half extra for our order to come out and the order numbers were being called out at seemingly complete random so there was no indication of how long the wait might be. I had to feed my kid impromptu chicken nuggets for dinner and put him to bed by the time my husband got back with our food. Some Christmas Eve. read more

The food is still first rate. The service is excellent with a Tibetan flavored ambiance. I eat here often and highly recommended it. read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Combination Fried Rice - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia

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I love this place. Super friendly and hilarious staff. Food is on point and when something is spicy, its actually spicy. Huge variety of food that is masterfully prepared. Prices are ok. read more

Did take out. Was OK. Nothing great. Crispy beef was good although not very spicy and the sauce was very sweet. Needed more carrots and celery. Pork fried rice was good as well. Not greasy although it could use more pork. Ming Dynasty is not the best Chinese restaurant in town but it's far better than many of the others. Prices were a bit high; portions about normal for a Chinese restaurant. Would I return? Maybe. As I said, it wasn't the best but it certainly wasn't the worst either. read more

I ordered chicken with string beans. This was an entrée dish listed under poultry. So, I don't think I'm being unreasonable in that I was expecting chunks of chicken mixed with string beans. Instead, the dish was 95% string beans with very small crumbles of chicken intermixed. It was tasty but very unsatisfying, especially for the price. read more

This restaurant is the best restaurant to go to I've been going here for years, they have the best food and services great scenery as well and perfect for the whole family read more

My daughter and I both ate and were full for under $20.00. That's almost impossible nowadays. The food was slightly greasy, not the best Chinese I've ever had. However, the staff was friendly, the prices are absolutely affordable, and there is enough room in the small restaurant to feel comfortable sitting in and eating. read more

Very good food I tried ko ping chicken. I haven't tried any other foods. They have tea for everyone for free.

We haven't eaten here in years but it has changed. We don't know if they were having a bad night but we know we will not be ordering here again. They misplaced our order by giving us all vegetarian when it should have only been half. The dumpling skin was like bread. The shrimp shell was still on the fried shrimp making it uneditable. The only good things in our order were the green beans and efficient delivery. We might have not chosen the best options on the menu. read more

One of the best options for Chinese and vegan options in Charlottesville. Love their food and customer service.

I only rate great restaurants and Ming's is one of them. Beats out all the rest and has sitting areas. Simple minimal restaurant and fast. But what sets it apart is the taste. Each plate you order has its distinct characteristics. Want it spiced up, be careful. My fav is shrimp fried rice and general Taos chicken. And my wife says 5 stars on the hot and sour soup. Ming's easily beats out the competition! read more

Your typical cheap Chinese food. I did think it was a little over priced for the portions but i would go back again. Great when you want quick Chinese takeout. read more

I arrived late before closing. The rice was fresh and the Hunan Chicken was delicious.

The best place for Spicy Whole Fish in Charlottesville! The Chinese broccoli is perfectly delicious, and the service is friendly and efficient. So very glad to have these guys back! read more

Ming Dynasty Restaurant & Lounge - Spicy Whole Fish with a side of Chinese Broccoli. - Chinese Near Me - Charlottesville, Virginia