Li Chinese Reaturant

I am not sure what the deal is. A month ago the food was perfect, now it is horrible, new owner, new cook, who knows but DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. \\
YUCK!!!

We have ordered from here more times than I can count. It is our take out go to. The food is always good. The prices are good. And our order is always accurate. I would suggest the black pepper chicken.

MY NEW FAVORITE CHINESE RESTAURANT! !!! NOT… I left the following review yesterday and ordered $ 50 worth of takeout that night. To stay mistake would be an insult to mistakes everywhere.
Ate there when I found a menu in my door (which I hate). BEYOND pleasantly surprised.
I order from there CONSTANTLY and neither me or my family has EVER had a bad thing off the menu
Mai Fun is my favorite. AND… just like you can get a side order of egg Foo young gravy, at Li, you can get a side of General Tso’s sauce!!!
AND you can order online. I’ve been in a few times when just passing by and their children work there too. And they couldn’t be more pleasant
Would have been a 5 star rating but I still hate the delivery times… about 45 – 60 minutes and I’m right off Mascoutah Ave. .
Oh well, no one has it all, right? And I’ll take quality over an extra 15 – 30 minutes any day
So…we ordered food for 8 people. All the people that got fried rice, said it was horrible… like a big box of flavorless grease. One person, who hit extra extra hot Kung pal chicken, said it was to flavor and spice what rice cakes is to fat… I got my Mai Fun. It was someone else’s Fun. Because it wasn’t mine. Dumplings were HORRIBLE.
AND THEN INMADE THE MISTAKE OF CALLING THIS MORNING TO TALK TO SOMEONE IN CHARGE. THEY COULDN’T have cared less. And the height of their disinterest was that they would replace the food with $ 5 off my order if and only if, I ordered RIGHT THEN… today is the day before Thanksgiving and I’m running like 10 million errands IN MY CAR
I said all that to say this… I have no job but I’m willing to pay people NOT TO PATRONIZE THIS ESTABLISHMENT. That’s how strongly I feel about it.
Back to picking up my own Chinese with phone orders at the place off Carlyle by Schnucks

I have ordered a few times. A friend of ours recommended this place to us. The pan fried dumplings were small and dried out. The lo mein was really good. I ordered general Taos chicken. I ordered it spicy. It was good but not spicy. Hubby ordered szechuan steak and although good not spicy enough for us. My mom ordered shrimp curry now this was fantastic. Nice flavor. Big shrimp awesome! We ordered delivery and the driver brought her lil girl with her who handed us a free 2 liter of soda. Can I just say awwww. the people on the phone were polite and courteous. Definitely worth trying

I downloaded and joined thw Unilocal just to write this review. lol Food was ok. Horrible delivery Old white dude asked me what is my nationality. i replied im american??? and he said no ur ancestery. and he was giving me shit for him getting a wrong
?? Yeah good luck getting me or any of my friends to eat there ever !!!

We’ve ordered take out from here many times simply because they’re closest to our house and because the speed of delivery was unmatched. The first few times were really good. The last few have not been. At all. The hot and sour soup is great, and the steamed dumplings are very tasty. However, while the egg rolls are giant, they don’t have much flavor. I do like their crab rangoon; they’re a little on the sweeter side as opposed to the onion-​flavored side. I quit ordering their egg drop soup because it kept coming with yolky-​like, slimy lumps in it. The last time I ordered it, I literally had several tablespoons of this uncooked funk in the bottom of the container. I have issues with some textures, and that was just gross! My mom orders veggie lo mein, and she said she was done ordering it there. It just tasted greasy when I tried hers. My dad and I both tried a seafood dish the last time, and we both enjoyed it. My only issue was that it was nearly $ 12 for a bunch of baby corn and other assorted veggies. Yes, there was imitation crab and scallops, as promised, bu for $ 12, I expected it to be a little heavier on the seafood and less on the baby corn. It’s hit or miss.

Like most small Chinese restaurants, it does not take long for the service and food to go down hill. I read the reviews and most are all positive. However, looking at the dates of the reviews, show that the the place did well the first year of existence.
Today, we decide to eat here thinking it would be a good decision base on the reviews. How sadly mistaken we were with our choice. There was only one customer and she was seated closest to the door. I would know why shortly after ordering and finding a seat. The menu is small and nothing to be excited. The owners had their kids there playing video games in the dining area which was annoying. They all must live near by cause their kids bikes were outside and inside the restaurant. The worst part was a child behind the counter taking our order. We assumed this was because the child was the only one who could speak English. I should have mentioned to the owners about child labor laws cause he was the only one working the dining room. He brought our food out and cleaned the table where the other customer was seated. Oh and she left quickly when one of the kids ran around like it was a play ground area. I understood why she sat closest to the door.
Now to the food. Nothing exciting here! Very typical Chinese food in the metro east. I wonder why all the Chinese food taste the same on this side of the river. I go over to St Louis Grand BLVD and food there are so much better and authentic. I have this belief that all the Chinese restaurants on this side of the river are owned by the same Chinese clan.
This place should not be a restaurant. We told ourselves that never will we ever step foot in this establishment again. Their only positive is that the food came out fast. But then after thinking about it, how can the food be prepared so fast? Left overs and microwave!!!

I don’t really think this place deserves a five star rating unless your basing it on speed of service, price, and portion amount. As far as taste goes, yes the wonton soup was delicious and so was the sesame chicken. The Chicken Lo Mein was nothing to run their screaming for it was a little bland and I absolutely dislike their fried rice. Yes it has pork in it, i know you don’t get that in too many places, but it had absolutely no flavor what so ever.
The egg roll was ginormous, i mean seriously massive. it was just okay, i would not get again, but it was big enough to almost fill me up alone.
The portions were huge! I think it could feed four easy off one plate, so beware.
They have the standard pictures you see at any eat in and takeout chinese strip mall place. Take that picture and double the size that is what you get for $ 6.99, amazing deal.
i do know they say they have 25 plates for lunch for 5.99 includes soup, egg roll and a soda, if you don’t want a soda its only 4.99. I’m assuming the portion size isn’t much smaller than the dinner size according to the other reviews.
All in all i don’t really think i will come back here, it isn’t just my go to place. I still have yet to find that place in the metroeast, the closest i have came for chinese is House of Hunan in ofallon and Sala Thai for thai food.

Best Chinese in the area. The meat and veggies are very fresh. And they make the good crab ragoons. Very friendly and cheap.

When we moved from California, I was quite disappointed not to find good Chinese take-​out in the area. I’ve eaten and tried each one of them nothing comes close to real Chinese food until tried Li Chinese restaurant. They just opened a few months ago and always pass by when I go to Schnuck’s, and after trying it I’ve been hooked! Their house special fried rice is amazing, even better than the one’s I tried in well known St. Louis Chinese food. Give them a try, they’re the best in the area.
I wonder why Unilocal deleted my honest review. I am not a robot. Someone or a competitor restaurant flagged my review somehow.

Clean. The best in the area. Meats are fresh and people are friendly.

This place is a great little hole in the wall chinese resturant. There is nothing fancy about this resturant but the food is outstanding, the service is friendly and fast, and it is cheap.