This really is as good as it gets for a casual Chinese place. Delicious, fresh and affordable. This place has it all. I got a little advert in the mail for the place that had the takeaway menu and some coupons on the back. We decided to order 3 lunch specials around 11:00 am and got two orders of the Mongolian Beef and one of the Szechuan Chicken with fried rice and egg drop soup. We asked for delivery and told them we had a coupon, paid with a credit card over the phone and were told it would take 35-40 minutes for them to arrive.\n\nRight around 11:40 they arrived and delivered the food. We tipped in cash and opened up the food. The food arrived in individually packed meals kind of like Pei Wei, with the rice and meat all in one box. The egg drop soup was packaged separately and they were huge! This was no small serving of soup. We also got 3 fortune cookies and plastic utensils, soy sauce packets, and napkins. These were all thoughtful touches I appreciated.\n\nThe soup was a 12 oz container packed full to the brim. The soup was a clear golden broth full of swirls of cooked egg. There were no vegetables or chunks of tofu, just eggs mixed in the broth, but it was great. Very comforting. I doctored mine up by dropping 2 tbsp of frozen peas and a tiny bit of soy sauce into it and since the soup was very hot, it cooked the peas to the perfect consistency in a few minutes.\n\nThe Mongolian Beef wasn't like any Mongolian Beef I have ever had (you know, the typical sort of crispy meat in that dark brown intense sauce with green onions) but it was still very good. A fresher flavor, due to the sliced onions, bell peppers, and green onions that were mixed in, and not as caramelized or crispy a flavor but more subtle. It tasted more like a homemade version of Mongolian Beef which was a nice change. The veggies were all crisp and flavorful and the beef was tender.\n\nThe Szechuan Chicken had lots of veggies like baby corn and bell peppers and a spicy sauce. It was very nice too. Portions of meat to rice are generous and could satisfy a light appetite for two meals.\n\nThe fried rice is awesome, with tender grains of rice, lightly flavored and very fresh tasting and dotted with vegetables. No hard grains or weird textures which might be indicative of old rice being reused. Nothing we ate had the intense saltiness I usually associate with Chinese food, either, which was a wonderful plus.\n\nThe food was all tasty and the bill came to $16 including nominal delivery charges after our 15% discount coupon. $16 for lunch for three people, delivered? It's an absolute steal! The food is tastier and in bigger portions than most Chinese places, and I'll be ordering from them again and again. They have this ridiculously huge family feast thing for $33 that I have my eye on. I've been to NYC many, many times and thoroughly enjoy the high quality Chinese takeout one can get delivered there. I never thought I'd be able to get the same experience here in AZ, but with Gold Chef I can!
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