MJ’s Chicken & Rice

Good quick Chinese food. They also customize the amount of spiciness. For what it is, the price. It’s amazing

This place had such great reviews, and maybe I need to give it another chance but not sure I can…
My boyfriend was craving Chinese food, and being new to this side of Dallas, I looked up places nearby and found this had excellent reviews, so he picked up an order to go and brought it home for us. I had him get me sweet and sour chicken with fried rice because that’s usually my «safe» go-​to option when trying a new place. I mean, it’s basically chicken nuggets and pretty consistent across most Chinese restaurants.
Well for starters, when I opened the box, the chicken was completely smothered in the sweet and sour sauce. This may seem obvious given that it’s sweet and sour chicken, but I’ve never had the sauce served directly on top of the chicken when it’s ordered for delivery/​carry out, and even when dining in, it’s typically served on the side or as a nice drizzle or light coating to keep the chicken nice and crispy. So not only was my chicken drenched and soggy, but it was also NEON RED! I was afraid to even take a bite at first, but my sheer hunger and desperation for protein made me push through.
To be fair, the flavor of the sauce was fine, but I still couldn’t get over the bright color and soggy breading. Oh, and the fried rice — sadly bland and underwhelming. Perhaps their other specialty rices are better (versus the generic side rice w/​meals), but considering how something so simple and a standard staple at most Chinese restaurants could be so far off, I’m not feeling too encouraged to give it another try.
Oh, and my boyfriend (and other reviewers) did say that there appeared to be several non-​Chinese items, so perhaps they are better at those? I dunno…

In a nutshell, this place is primarily a Chinese sit in and take out strip mall joint with random chicken items like chicken tenders and fried catfish/​shrimp. You’d think that by the name, this place is all about chicken, and while it does have many varied chicken choices, like all your staple chinese restaurant chicken dishes (general tao, sesame, orange, sweet and sour, cashew, etc), there’s also at least six different flavors of wings, chicken tenders which are battered in fish fry batter interestingly enough. And don’t be fooled into thinking they don’t have other proteins, because they have a slew of pork and beef chinese dishes.
Prices are cheap (wings at $ 1), nightly specials for $ 5.99, and the portions are huge. Everything was hot and tasty. I got the combination fried rice as my side, and it was pretty good. Certainly above average for chinese take out because it had a lot of chicken, beef, shrimp, and water chestnuts. The general tao’s chicken, however, was 3 stars. Nothing spectacular but would do again for the price and convenience if I am ever in the area again and need a guilty quick chinese food binge.

I love this place! You can not beat the price! You can choose between fries and rice when you get the chicken strips. The lady behind the counter ALWAYS knows which one I want. Once, I wrote down on a piece of paper «french fries» and asked her which one I wanted and she just KNEW!!! I truly love this place!

Went there after Target and didn’t expect much! I got the Mr. Noodle and it was awesome! The veggies were super FRESH and I elected to go with the spicy and I did not regret it! It was piping HOT! and I literally drank the remaining soup juice!