Chinatown Express

Very small restaurant, mainly order up to go. Enough kinds of Cantonese dim sum to choose and truly authentic and tasty. Really fair price to go.

The best wonton soup around! Delicious orange chicken and crispy chicken wings! Portion size is huge for the price. Service is fast and friendly with a welcoming atmosphere. Will definitely be back.

Hello to all our valued costumers.
At Chinatown Express in Echo Park we always strive to produce great food and pride ourselves with great customer service. We are family owned and have been serving great Chinese Food to the Echo Park community for over 12 years. We have seen friends come and go, start new careers, start new families, share a smile, a laugh, watched TV together, seen babies grow into young adults and old pass away and are very missed. We have established ourselves as part of the community that we love and to many, we are not just another chinese food place.
I would like to remind our customers that we do offer a great selection of «made to order» foods. We do operate a «fast food» restaurant. If the food on the table doesn’t look appealing there are always options to select from in our made to order menu. A good thing about our made to order menu is it comes out fresh and most orders are only $ 1 or $ 2 from the combo prices.
We are extremely sorry for those that have had or had a bad experience while visiting our restaurant. Our apologies. We do have bad days just like everyone else. Again, we are a «fast food» restaurant that is family owned and advertised as such. Please, do not think you will be stepping into a 5 star restaurant. Don’t see what you like? Step out and try us another time. Thank you.

Friendly and cordial staff (I think they are also the owners — husband, wife, and son).
Great price for fast food that’s good and generously portioned.
Tip:
If you want even more of a plentiful serving than they dish out routinely, wait for either the mom or pop to serve you. ;-). The son’s servings are not as impressive to a Chinese food glutton (like me).

Im shocked this place has 4 stars. First of all the tables were dirty. The food was awful as if it was reheated. My daughter ordered the fried chicken and the meat was pink not cooked properly. I will definitely not be coming here ever!!!

Been coming here for YEARS. I know I have said this in the past and I will say it again. I am an Echo Park native, that worked in the community supermarket that once was where Lassens and Walgreens are at now, Pioneer Supermarket for 8 years. I would come to this place for lunch when I worked at Pioneer and I still come for lunch from my new job, since it is located in Echo Park/​Westlake. I introduced my boss to it and she loves it too!
Well today I was completely upset and disappointed at this establishment. Their food is amazing, especially their orange chicken and fried rice and even though I’m going to miss this place my boss and I are going to cut the cord. I bought a soft drink and put it on the counter to sign my credit card receipt, unfortunately I put it on the edge of the counter (by accident of course) and my soft drink fell off. I picked up the cup fast put it in the trash and the Mrs. got a rag and cleaned it some up and called another employee to bring the mop… of course she was pissed, I could see it in her face. I thought after the clean up she would replace my drink, so I asked her, if she was going to replace my drink and completely ignored me! She ignored me! I brushed it off. It was then my bosses time to pay and she asked again, «are you going to replace her drink?» she said «no it was her fault, she can pay half price»… responding to my boss as if I wasn’t present! WTF! I told that’s fine, just know that you will lose a long time customer and a new (not so new) but consistent customer and earn yourself a bad review. That is horrific customer service. She will be losing a LONGGGG time customer instead of losing approximately 5 cents! Unbelievable. I have even used them for catering in my office before, which was an ok experience, they didn’t bring us any condiments and my office group was pissed, but I let it go.
I have worked many customer service jobs, I worked the Thrifty (now Rite Aid) in Echo Park as well as an ice cream scooper when I was a teen – when someone dropped their ice cream it was replace even IF it was their fault! I worked at Burger King (yes in Echo Park) as a cashier/​drive thru, again if someone dropped their food and/​or drink it too was replaced even if it was their fault. I worked at Pioneer Supermarket, and when someone dropped their eggs, their jar of pickles, salsa, whatever the *&$# it was that item was replaced as well.
Damn Cheapskates! I could have easily paid half price for another drink, but it’s the principle!

I’m getting sick just remembering what I saw last time I was about to walk in and order food to take to mom on my way back from the gym. 2 of their cooks happened to be loading a van with something, and I always imagined the cooks as clean since their in the kitchen cooking food. OMG, these 2 Asian men looked so dirty, and not from cooking, just absolutely disgusting, not only their clothes but their face, hands with dirty fingernails and greasy hair. I almost puked at the thought that they were cooking that food. I have bought food there before and I will never go back, never

If you like fast-​food takeout Chinese (and who doesn’t?) this place delivers the platonic ideal of the cheap, two-​entrees-​and-​some-​rice experience.

Theres nothing bad i have to say about this place! i love this place, the cheap yet pretty good quality chinese food & the service is unmatched in this area. I love the portions n the smiles. Dodger games are always on tv at the place! Loves it

First off, we went to this place based on the Unilocal reviews and we were not disappointed. The service was awesome. Right away, everyone in the place was super friendly. Even though it was a quick service Chinese place, people were sitting in the restaurant watching the news together. There was a police chase through a neighborhood. It was definitely a community feeling with everyone chiming in and commenting on the event. It was nice to have this experience when just visiting the area.
The food smelled great as we walked in. I ordered chicken wings, beef and broccoli and fried rice and chow mien. I think it was combo #1. It was so much food and so good. I had been craving yummy Chinese and this definitely hit the spot. I loved the environment, the food and the service. All around, this was a great spot and I would recommend it!

If you want humble service and moderate food then look no further! Orange chicken? chowmein? g

Honestly, f**king awful. I can’t believe this place got 4.5 stars. If you’re expecting anything resembling real Chinese food, move along. It’s basically a crappy Panda Express with fewer choices and shittier taste. And greasier too if you can believe it. The only way I can possibly comprehend this place getting 4 or 5 stars is because it’s cheaper than Panda Express and the clientele it attracts are oblivious to how crappy the food is. The orange chicken was mush, the broccoli beef tasted like leather. There were almost no vegetables to choose from with the combo special. White or brown rice was not available — only fake chow mein and flied lice. I didn’t even get a goddam fortune cookie. I was expecting more from Silver Lake hipsters and hoping this was a hidden gem hole-​in-​the-​wall. Turns out it’s just a cheap 1 star pile of turd…

They hook it up! I never leave disappointed! The people are friendly, the service is great, and the food is AMAZING!!!

For cheap Chinese this place was pretty bomb. Forget Panda. The dude there (owner?manager?) was super cool. Had Pawn Stars playing on the flatscreen which was a bonus (love that show). The food seemed fresh (er) compared to the other cheap chinese places I’ve been. Tried a few Chinatown Express’ scattered here and there and after visiting them I told myself never again, but had to try this one based on the reviews and cravings. Like a few mentioned, tried the BBQ Pork and the fried chicken with chow mein and fried rice. Did not dissapoint. Also was started coming down with something so had a craving for soup. Ordered the hot and sour to go for dinner and that was a winner also! The only downside is that it comes in one size and you have to wait (at least in my case) since they made it fresh. No biggie. Would definitely go back and recommend!

Came to Chinatown express to do my football Banquet. Ordered food on Tuesday food was promptly ready when scheduled today which was Thursday. They gave a great price and great quality of food. The people were very helpful and the kids were extremely satisfied with the food!!! Thanks for everything

Came to this restaurant due to the good reviews on Unilocal.I got all chow mein and orange chicken with teriyaki chicken. I wasn’t too satisfied this time because my noodles were super dry and the orange chicken too sweet. I guess I’m more used to Panda Express.
The lady serving was really sweet and she did give us a big amount.
So for the price you pay and the amount you get, the food is good!

Was in the neighborhood today and needed something quick and craved Chinese. Place had solid reviews so even though I decided that I was done with fast Chinese food establishments, I went in anyway. The reason I gave up these places was because I just got tired of the bad service and even worse food. No hello, no smiles, no you’re welcome, no thank you come again, but plenty of the fried rice with too many peas and carrots, pork and chicken with more fat than meat, cheap chopsticks… just got sick and tired of it all. I mean, how hard is it to make quality Chinese food, I don’t understand.
With all that being said, I walked in today and was greeted with a big smile, a warm welcome and a hello, what can I get for you today… i was happily surprised. I ordered a combo plate with all rice, grilled chicken and bbq pork. Was it the best? No. Was it the worst? No. It was perfect for what it was. I was hungry, I left full. They had a huge screen playing the NHL playoffs which was cool cause it gave me a chance to catch up on the game… btw, KINGS won the Stanley Cup, woohooo!
All in all, not bad. Place was clean, food looked good, bathroom was maintained but no paper towels, good service and even a thank you come again as I left. Would I recommend? Sure, if that was what you were in the mood for. But for me, I’m back on the no fast Chinese food restaurants for me diet… or at least until my next craving :)

踢屁股 means kick ass wok (in Google Translate Chinese.)
Chinatown Express in Echo Park is one of a few handful of places that you can order a solid vegetarian or vegan meal for under $ 5 in the area. I work at the coolest music venue in the vicinity. And although I am not from China, one of those trendy mail-​in DNA tests might prove otherwise because I love Chinese food.
I know every restaurant in this area and bypass everything on Sunset to get their $ 4 vegetarian meal with a side of rice. To give you an idea of how expensive restaurants are around the area, it costs less than a small chai at Sage Organic around the corner.
As for vegetarian and vegan options are concerned, this is my favorite Chinatown Express for what they offer. These have a really delicious stir-​fried green bean dish with black beans that they offer as the vegetable dish instead of the soggy vegetable chop suey that all the other Chinatown Expresses offer.
The only issue is that they will run out of this amazing stir fried green bean dish by around 6 to 8pm and will not make more. I’ve been meaning to add this place to my inexpensive vegan list, so welcome to the club.

Very solid café line style Chinese food. A nice mix of fusion with Tom Yum soup which was good as well as chicken lollipop things similar to what I’ve had in India.
Overall, the orange chicken was the best thing I had. Stellar. The chicken fried rice was also good.
I didn’t care for the noodles (drunken or lo mien) but everything else was bomb. A combo, an order of chicken fried rice and the soup came to about $ 23.
The owners are very nice and they do have a TV where I watched the 4^th quarter of the BNA playoff game. Love this spot.

$ 2 large boba drinks!!! I will never ever get over how great of a deal this is, especially since their thai iced tea is soooo good!!! The workers here are extremely nice, and the place is always very clean. Minus one star because the food is average.