Captain Chen's Gourmet China

We’ve ordered from here three times now, and the food is centrally quite delicious. Like with any Chinese restaurant, some type of description would help for foods (e.g. the shredded garlic pork has some carrots but no other noticeable vegetables), but that’s only because there are so many variants on dishes. The hot and sour soup is lovely as is so much of the food here. Be warned: the Hot Pepper Beef with Black Bean Sauce has a very good flavor…until it doesn’t. The punch of those full-seed Serrano peppers is overwhelming. This may be authentic, but the heat was sometimes breathtaking (coming from someone who quite likes spicy food) and the meat was scant. If you’re looking for your American version of a Chinese fix, this restaurant is the place for you, but this dish is not.

First experience here. Our order was filled correctly and arrived on time, but the food was really some of the worst we’ve had. Eggs rolls were microscopic and tasted like the fry oil was old, the General Tso’s Chicken was slimy and breading was translucent because it had been made hours and hours ago. Soup didn’t taste right either. Only thing that wasn’t bad was the rice, but it’s rice.

Went to try the new Gourmet China today. It's not the same menu as Captain Chen's but it's got some really good dishes. We tried three dishes - Sichuan diced chicken in spicy sauce, double cooked pork belly and Sichuan noodles. I was so happy that each dish was really good. And the food was actually spicy. I LOVE spicy food. Can't wait to go back and try more dishes. The young man that was our waiter did a good job asking if we needed anything and made sure we had refills on drinks.

Real authentic "classic" main land Chinese food. This is probably one of the most culturally authentic restaurants in the area. You will NOT FIND fried rice, egg rolls or sweet and sour chicken or anything close to what you would find on a buffet or Chinese take out. You wont even find sticky rice, dumplings or hot sour soup but you will find classic egg drop soup! This is classic Chinese food using tripe, bone in chicken and beef bone. I was thrilled to find pickled radish in the soup and found the chicken in red pepper sauce to be spicey but not hot. The tripe was flavorful and soup delicate with soft flavor and seasoning. And the steamed rice was the best prepared rice I have ever had but note, you have to ask for it as a side. Calling all foodies and adventure eaters!!!