Dragon City
Dragon City
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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Pretty good diced chicken and shrimp that I haven't had in a while. However for a lunch menu item, it missed some of the incentives that makes it a lunch. I didn't receive a beverage and egg roll/or soup that usually accompanied with lunch foods at any Chinese restaurant. At $7.20 this was the most expensive Chinese lunch meal without the extras.
Dragon City is located in the corner of Co-Op City shopping center, next to a Sleepy's mattress store, a jewelry store and Liberty Travel and adjacent to Red Lobster. The restaurant offers authentic Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine; this line really means nothing to a common man, seeking instant gratification from your standard fare of Chinese take out.
Food is ok. I've had beef & broccoli, chicken & broccoli, lo mein, and plenty of standard items you see on a take out menu. The only thing of importance is that it has 8 booths, with either yellow or faded orange/salmon (forgive me, I felt color blind when I ordered today) benches. In a shopping strip mall, it's hard to compete when you have a Chinese food buffet, McDonald's, Popeye's, Burger King and Applebee's all in the vicinity.
IFHTP 3
The first thing that struck me, as I walked in at about 6:00 to put in my order, was the cleanliness of this place. The only thing you could smell was the food being feverishly stir-fried in the kitchen.
I placed my order, which included Shrimp Toast, for me a good barometer of quality. If it is dark, oily and smelly, the other food usually follows. In this case, it was golden brown, virtually non-greasy, due to a napkin in the bag (ancient Chinese secret?!?) and fresh tasting.
I also had fried scallops and General Tso's chicken. The scallops were sweet, and the general Tso's was well-made, with a decent crunch to the broccoli, and crisp skin to the chicken nuggets.
A very good take-out place. I will go back!
Eh, it works.
It's infinitely better than Jade Palace in Section 5. Here, the food actually tastes like food–particularly the actual CHINESE dishes. Sadly, most take-out Chinese joints 'round here don't like to go much past their chicken wings, but this place pays attention to their cultural roots. Singapore Mei Fun is quite tasty, as is the Chow Fun.
It's a standby, so I go there pretty often, I'd say.
But, the decor and sometimes sketchy cleanliness is a bit of a detractor.