Ardmore Asian Cafe
A small Chinese kitchen on East Spring Ave: pork dumplings, scallion pancakes, lo mein and fried rice, plus a Hong Kong wonton noodle soup. Pickup or delivery, and it shuts by early evening.
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The picks
- Ardmore Asian Cafe
- Asian Fusion Red House
- Asian Lucky Noodle
- China King
- China King
- Chong Dumpling House
- DanDan
- Dim Sum Court Phoenixville
- Dim Sum Factory
- Dim Sum Factory - Bryn Mawr
- Dim Sum Taste
- Dragon & Phoenix Express
- Duck Sauce
- East Star Chinese Restaurant
- Eastern Dragon
- Ginger Garden
- Golden Bowl Ardmore
- Golden Chopsticks Chinese
- Great Wall Chinese Restaurant
- Hong Kong Chef
- Hong Kong Kitchen
- Hu's Kitchen?
- Jasmine Asian Bistro
- Jasmine Asian House
- Jin Ding Restaurant
- Kowloon
- Kung Fu Restaurant
- Moca Asian Cuisine
- Mr China
- New China King Asian Bistro
- New star Chinese Restaurant
- Nice Chinese Restaurant
- Osaka
- Osaka Asian Cuisine
- Pak Yue Chinese Restaurant
- Panda Pavilion
- Peking House
- Peking Wok
- Queen Sushi
- Rice House
- Sang-Hi
- Sheung Garden
- Tao One Asian Cuisine
- Veekoo
- Wild Ginger III
- WIN WAH
- Wing Lee Cuisine
- Wok N' Roll Asian Cuisine
- Yantze Chinese Gourmet
- Yu Noodles
Asian Fusion Red House
Chinese and Japanese on one menu on Mt Carmel Ave: lo mein and hibachi dinners, a sushi bar, and a dim sum page at the front. Takeout and delivery, open until 11 on Friday and Saturday.
Asian Lucky Noodle
Ramen is the headline, but the menu keeps one foot in the Chinese-American standbys, General Tso's and sesame chicken included. The booth-and-wall-art room is a step nicer than its strip-mall address suggests.
China King
Chinese takeout on Pennbrook Parkway — pickup at the counter or delivery if you're within 4.5 miles of the kitchen. Fridays and Saturdays it stays open until 10:30 for the late order.
China King
The Chinese takeout counter on N Narberth Ave, cooking the classics from spring rolls to kung pao chicken for pickup and delivery. Dark on Mondays.
Chong Dumpling House
Dumplings lead at this W Main storefront — the site's own tagline is 'Bite into Joy with Dumplings Ahoy' — with the rest of the Chinese takeout menu backing them up. Open until 8:30 on weeknights and 9 Friday through Sunday.
Dim Sum Court Phoenixville
Dim sum on Bridge Street — dumplings, buns, and turnip cakes without the Chinatown drive. Go with people; order too much.
Dim Sum Factory
Cantonese dim sum on Horsham Road, dumplings and a long list of small plates without the drive into Chinatown. There's a bigger Chinese menu too if someone in your group won't do dim sum.
Dim Sum Factory - Bryn Mawr
The Bryn Mawr branch of the Tom's Dim Sum family that started in Philadelphia's Chinatown, cooking Shanghai and Cantonese dim sum. Soup dumplings, pan-fried pork dumplings and scallion pancakes.
Dim Sum Taste
Shanghai-style dim sum on West Gay Street, built around xiao long bao steamed fresh daily. The crab-roe soup dumplings come six to a bamboo steamer.
Dragon & Phoenix Express
Neighborhood Chinese on Fayette Street, geared for takeout and delivery. The order-the-usual spot for a Friday night on the couch.
Duck Sauce
Old-school Chinese-American on State Street with a Eurasian streak: prawns in walnut sauce, chicken lettuce wraps, and boneless spare ribs people reorder on autopilot. It's BYOB, so grab a bottle nearby and settle in.
East Star Chinese Restaurant
Neighborhood Chinese on Lancaster Avenue where the kitchen has cooked off-menu mapo tofu for a diner who asked. The testimonials on its own site are the tell — one swears by the lunch specials, another drives in from Newtown Square just to eat here.
Eastern Dragon
A Chinese-American takeout spot on West End Boulevard with a menu that runs long. Lo mein, General Tso's, and lunch specials that come with soup and rice.
Ginger Garden
Perkasie's takeout Chinese spot on East Walnut, with a sushi list running alongside the General Tso's and cheese wontons on the appetizer page. Closed Mondays; order online and it's pickup-ready.
Golden Bowl Ardmore
Hong Kong style Chinese on Rittenhouse Place, open seven days and set up for pickup as much as for the dining room. Crystal shrimp dumplings, roast duck, big bowl noodle soups, and a whole page of smoothies.
Golden Chopsticks Chinese
Neighborhood Chinese takeout at the east end of Main Street, open late most nights and later still on the weekend. Tuesday's the one day off; plan accordingly.
Great Wall Chinese Restaurant
Chinese takeout standby in the Collegeville Shopping Center, covering the chicken-noodles-soup canon. BYO if you're eating in.
Hong Kong Chef
Chinese-American takeout on East Broad, the lo mein and General Tso's counter you call when nobody wants to cook. Fast, cheap, and about what you'd expect.
Hong Kong Kitchen
Takeout Chinese on South Broad with the full canon on the menu: egg rolls, General Tso's, lo mein, teriyaki beef. The kitchen runs to 10 on weeknights, 10:30 Friday and Saturday.
Hu's Kitchen?
Locally owned Chinese kitchen on Lancaster Avenue, set up for eating in or carrying out. The counter leads with handmade pan-fried pork buns and braised beef noodle soup, and there is a points program if you order often enough to care.
Jasmine Asian Bistro
Chinese kitchen on South Easton Road whose menu reaches past the usual: Phnom Penh noodle soup and Angkhor Wat shrimp sit next to General Tso's and lo mein. Lunch specials run 11 to 3.
Jasmine Asian House
Locally owned spot on Main Street covering Japanese, Chinese, and Thai — sushi included, plus an all-you-can-eat menu for the ambitious. Lunch and dinner daily.
Jin Ding Restaurant
A Chinese kitchen on Conestoga Road running several menus at once: a dim sum list of crystal shrimp dumplings and roast pork buns, a Sichuan page of dan dan noodles and Chongqing chicken, and Peking duck under the chef's specials. Lunch deals Mon to Sat until 3pm.
Kung Fu Restaurant
Soup dumplings on Main Street, no drive to Chinatown required. Head straight for the chef's specials: Mongolian lamb and roast duck tucked into lotus-leaf steamed buns.
Moca Asian Cuisine
Dim sum and sushi share the menu with the Chinese standards, and the dining room takes OpenTable reservations. Mind the clock — Monday through Thursday the kitchen breaks from 3 to 4 between lunch and dinner.
Mr China
The Starr Street Chinese takeout standby. Order in, picked up hot, no ceremony.
New China King Asian Bistro
New China King runs the Chinese-takeout menu at 710 Lincoln Highway East in Coatesville. A standard bistro board, quick out the door.
New star Chinese Restaurant
Chinese takeout counter in the Glenside Avenue strip, just over the Wyncote line. The menu sticks to the standards: lo mein, egg foo young, mei fun and a page of chef's specials.
Nice Chinese Restaurant
Chinese takeout on Wallace Avenue, just off the main stretch. Lo mein, General Tso's, egg rolls, and the weeknight default for plenty of Downingtown households.
Osaka
Sushi bar and Chinese kitchen under one roof, so a single order can cover General Tso's chicken and a Downingtown Roll — tempura shrimp topped with eel and tobiko. The signature-roll list runs deep, right down to a Sunshine at Uwchlan named for the avenue out front.
Osaka Asian Cuisine
Chinese and Japanese menus out of one kitchen on Route 113, sushi bar included, in the space that used to be Olive Trees and the Santucci pizzeria. Open seven days, until 10 Friday and Saturday.
Pak Yue Chinese Restaurant
Neighborhood Chinese takeout on Haverford Road, with lunch specials from 11 to 3 that come with rice and a choice of egg roll or soda. The menu runs long: Hunan and Szechuan plates, moo shu, and a Happy Family piled with lobster meat and scallops.
Panda Pavilion
The Blair Mill Road Chinese takeout for General Tso's and Szechuan shrimp, built around the pickup counter more than the dining room. Open to 11 on weekend nights, which is rather the point of a place like this.
Peking House
Independent Chinese takeout in the Shoppes at Makefield Village, closed Mondays. The combo-plate canon is intact: chicken chow mein, broccoli with garlic sauce, egg roll and pork fried rice on the side.
Peking Wok
Chinese spot on Constitution Ave — this and Sheung Garden over in the Glenwood Shopping Center make up the whole of Perkasie's Chinese rotation. No website; it gets by on word of mouth.
Queen Sushi
Sushi bar and Chinese kitchen under one roof on North Keswick, where a bento box and a plate of sesame chicken come off the same lunch menu. Reservations go through a form on their site or by phone.
Rice House
Chinese takeout and dine-in from the Zhang family in the 201 2nd Ave development, cooking the lo-mein-to-General-Tso lineup from scratch. There's a steamed "Weight Watcher" section for anyone who wants the sauce on the side.
Sang-Hi
Korean-Chinese cooking at scale: jjamppong noodles in a spicy seafood broth, in a dining room that seats 180 with private rooms to book. It's the sibling restaurant of Salt Korean BBQ in the same plaza, and the portions are built for leftovers.
Sheung Garden
The Chinese spot in the Glenwood Shopping Center — Hunan beef, Szechuan shrimp, and moo goo gai pan on the menu. Closed Mondays.
Tao One Asian Cuisine
Japanese, Chinese and Thai cooking on Lancaster Ave, from a kitchen that sticks to what its owners grew up eating. Lunch runs Monday to Friday, dinner every night from 4:30.
Wild Ginger III
Thai, Japanese, and Chinese under one roof at Logan Square, the New Hope location of the local Wild Ginger group. The dining room opens at 4 on weekdays, but takeout starts at 11:30.
WIN WAH
A Chinese kitchen on lower Fayette Street working the takeout and delivery standards. The reliable answer to a night nobody wants to cook.
Wing Lee Cuisine
Chinese takeout on Easton Road, the neighborhood counter for lo mein and the standard order-in lineup. Reliable when dinner means not cooking.
Wok N' Roll Asian Cuisine
Wok N' Roll is the Asian takeout counter in the 314 Horsham Road plaza. Noodles and stir-fry for the nights nobody wants to cook.
Yantze Chinese Gourmet
Named for the Yangtze — "spelled differently, but similar," as they put it — and cooking since 1991 by their own count. Open seven days, with dinner running to 10 Tuesday through Saturday.
Yu Noodles
Sichuan noodle shop on East Lancaster Ave, built on Chongqing noodles, Szechwan beef noodle soup and pork soup dumplings. There is a cold noodle section too, and homemade mango pomelo sago for dessert.
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