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    New 1 China

    3.3 (33 reviews)
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    Chicken Lo Mein
    John D.

    The Chinese food is decent enough for Asheville. The steamed rice is okay, I have found some places serve really overcooked long grain rice that is terrible. The rice here is acceptable. My go to dish is the Lo Mein. What I was brought up calling "Chow Mein". If you order Chow Mein in the South they give you a bunch of cabbage. I don't know why. I tried the Mongolian Beef. It was rather expensive at $14.50 and the meat was the typical cheap, over-tenderized beef you usually find in these places. It had a decent kick of spice. I'd probably go with the Mongolian Chicken in the future. The interior seems clean but could use a little updating. The service was quite friendly though. All in all a decent place for some cheap-ish Chinese food.

    Acceptable kung pao - lots of filler vegetables. Really sub-par pork egg roll.
    Christina M.

    Mediocre to terrible. We were lured in by a $12.99 mail coupon for two dinner special combos. They say you get what you pay for, and New 1 China didn't even get us that far. The rundown: Pork egg roll: flavorless. The ground "pork" is bright pink and has a borderline foul flavor. Tasteless vegetables. Standard crappy carry-out corn-syrup "duck sauce," gloopy Chinese mustard, and salt water "soy sauce" packets were little help. Not worth the calories. Szechuan beef - Total misnomer. It was about 2 onions worth of sliced onion, a few carrot slices, a couple snow peas, and a few strips of gross-tasting, oddly-textured beef in a sickly sweet - no - SWEET sauce lacking any spice or flavor. It almost looked like onions in ketchup. So gross. This seemed to be the same fluorescent red sauce that comes on sweet and sour chicken in crappier establishments. Awful (check out the nasty photos). Nothing Szechuan about that mess! White rice - freshly steamed, just fine Kung pao chicken - one of the better renditions I've had in Asheville, but that's not saying much. Although it was oily, the sauce actually included doubanjiang (spicy bean sauce) rather than the bland brown sauce doled out by so many other local places. Carrots and celery were fresh. Water chestnuts likely canned but OK. Peanuts kept their toasty crunch. The chicken itself was mostly white meat but had an odd springy texture. It could have been trimmed better. Bottled water - .$50 - no tap water available. Dining room: filthy. There are black lines of dirt and oil around the base of the table legs. It hasn't been mopped in months, I'd guess. More crud on the floor near the window. Hate to think what the kitchen looks like if they take so little pride in the area where customers eat. I would like to say I'll never return, but desperation for half-decent kung pao might bring me back for carry-out. AVL - come on! You can do better.

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    6 years ago

    I hate to give bad ratings but this place is terrible. The general Tao 's chicken was flavorless. All around bland food.

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    8 years ago

    Typical chinese place with one exception . The food is awesome flavorful. Been coming here for years for my chicken chow mein fix

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    11 years ago

    Love New China!! Service is fast, food delicioius, staff a pleasure. My "go to" place for ordering Asian food!

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    11 years ago

    The food is always reliably tasty! They are speedy with maximum 15 min wait. Their also really friendly.

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    12 years ago

    Chicken came out still raw, they tried to deny it and refused to fix it.

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