Dragon Palace
“First thing is…all you can eat onion pancakes, hot-n-sour soup, rice porridge, and dessert mung bean and tapioca soup "tang shui".”
“My favorite options are boiled beef in hot oil (so delicious), cumin beef and basil chicken.”
“My mom was with me the first time, so I let her handle all the ordering.”
Dragon Palace
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Yum!! For a Chinese place I dunno why but I've always been a fan of Dragon Palace the food never fails to be anything less then amazing!!! I don't like American Chinese I like authenticity and Dragon Palace has it!! It's BYOB the food is very well prices and it's ambience is fine too. Listen it's not takeout it's clean fast service! Got my food under 10 minutes. Free soup and scallion pancakes is a plus in my books!! I was just sad they didn't have the hot pepper to my favorite shredded chicken and long hot pepper dish 🙁 until next time……
1,Peking pork (fine)
2,garlic sauce with egg plant (good)
3,fish fillets with special spice sauce ! (Good)
4,shrimp with special hot and green pepper (shrimp is not fresh) don't order !
5, side order White rice ( not good ) using cheap rice !
Only two stars this time !
Store open since 1987, menus is cheap , most the customers is Chinese ! Need a lots of improvement this restaurant ! Thanks for your attention !
Went here for dinner at 8pm last night, and we were the only table there. Ordered 3 dishes which all came out super quick: Cumin Beef, Bamboo shoots with pork, and stir-fried string beans. Cumin beef was lacking in cumin and the beef was over marinated and processed with baking powder that it lost some of the beef texture. Bamboo shoots with pork was under-seasoned, and the string beans were overly tough/old which made the veggies very stringy and hard to chew.
When we arrived, they had their typical scallion pancake, hot & sour soup, millet congee, and taro dessert. The scallion pancake was deep fried and not pan-fried, the hot and sour soup was watery. By the time they brought the check over, they already took away the taro dessert! As the only table there, they could've given us the heads up that they were taking it away. Supposedly the sides are removed by 8:30pm, since they close at 9pm (or so they claim), but they didn't tell us that ahead of time either….what's worse, the hours on the door says they close at 9:30….not 9pm. Maybe they just make up their hours as they go. We were out the door by 8:50, and they refused service to the 2 other people that were coming in.
It came out to $35+tax for the 3 dishes, with a cash discount. Been here several times, the service is definitely lacking every time, the quantity was just okay for the price, and overall left a lot to be desired.
You should never judge a book by its cover and that is definitely the case for this Sichuan restaurant. The strip mall and location aren't the nicest but the food is legit.
This place gives you unlimited scallion pancakes, and hot and sour soup to go with your meal. Not only that, the food is well priced and comes out fast! A group of 8 ordered 8 dishes and they all came out in less than 10 minutes. We came around 530pm so they weren't too busy yet.
I had to mention that they were insistent on our group of 8 ordering at a minimum of 8 dishes. We originally ordered 7 and they were insistent. This is probably because they want people to order more instead of eating scallion pancakes lol. That's the only con I've experience about this restaurant.
Plenty of parking in the strip mall and service overall is good.
Food is good, but some dishes are too oily or too salty for my taste.
One of my favorite Chinese places in Edison so far. They serve primarily Sze Chuan dishes, which are usually spicy, so let the waiter taking your order know in advance if you would like it less spicy instead. Something I find unique to Dragon Palace is that they have a free flow section in the middle of the restaurant that offers two types of soup, the signature sour spicy soup and the heathy grain soup. On that table you can also find freshly pan-friend scallion pancakes which are nicer than a lot of other places that charge for them. At the end of your meal, stop by the table again for some dessert – delicious yam sago soup, my favorite!
Now on to the dishes, I love their tofu. It's served one a hot plate lined with an omelette. The presentation of the dish draws me over instantly. One huge square sofu fried till crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, topped with seafood, vegetables and light sauce. It's the perfect balance to the other spicy Sze Chuan dishes we usually order. Another must have for us is the green pepper chicken cooked in red hot pepper, as well as the spicy tofu fish. We've had issues with the chicken in the past in which there would be occasions when the chicken was served overcooked. Usually the chicken would be tender and juicy if done correctly, in which the dish would be perfect.
The free flow station of soups, appetizers and dessert is just the icing on the cake, and for me, especially the sweet yam sago dessert, seals the deal for making the trip out here.
Decent reliable Chinese food – I mostly takeout. The Mie fun is great and so is the schezuan tofu.
Delicious authentic Chinese food, with many perks and a few negatives. This restaurant is located on Oak Tree Road in Edison, on the side of a small shopping center. It tends go be busy on weekends, but there shouldn't usually be a wait for a table.
The inside is quite well-decorated. It looks like a typical Chinese restaurant: several 4-6 seater tables and a few large round tables with lazy susans at the center. The inside is dim, but clean and neat. There's a table at the center of the restaurant with complimentary all-you-can-eat appetizers/dessert: large pots of soup (porridge, hot and sour soup and sweet taro soup) and hot, yummy scallion pancakes. On that note, the complimentary sweet taro soup and scallion pancakes are absolutely delicious. The taro soup is sweet, hot and tasty–have a bowl for dessert. The scallion pancakes are crispy and hot, better than the ones at most Chinese restaurants and those aren't even free.
As for the food, the dishes are classic Sichuan style with sharp, strong taste. The spicy dishes aren't that spicy, but I'm big on spice so that may not be the case for most people. The lunch menu is pretty reasonable, but the dinner menu is a little pricey (note: on weekends, lunch follows the dinner menu). On the dinner menu, main entrees are $11-18 while smaller dishes, like noodles or fried rice, are around $7-10. The portions are sizable, and you get a large complimentary bowl of rice.
There are a few downsides though. Although one of the servers was very nice and accommodated all my requests quickly, in general you have to go out of your way to get things done. Servers won't be checking on you once all the food is on the table, so make requests when you're seated, when they come to take your order or when they're bringing dishes. Second, you're required to order at least one dish per person, as in if you have a 5-persons party you have to order at least 5 dishes. Lastly, the menu is completely in Mandarin Chinese. There may be a small English menu, but the main menu is only Chinese characters. This wasn't a problem for me because I could read most of the characters and I was with my parents, but obviously this could be a big problem for those who don't know Chinese.
Overall, a fantastic authentic Chinese restaurant with great dishes and delicious complimentary pancakes/soups. If you dot have a problem with the downsides–as I didn't–I definitely recommend this place as one of NJ's best Sichuan restaurants.