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Ratings of Chinatown Express

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3.5
(1,922 Reviews)

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Location & Hours

Family-run Chinese joint serving handmade noodles (spun in front of the window) & dumplings.

746 6th St NW
Washington, DC 20001

Recent Reviews

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Mar 2024
I was stoked to try this place after seeing all the positive reviews of authentic duck. I ordered the duck noodle dish and was horribly disappointed. Not sure if we just got the tourist treatment or what, but I got 4 pieces of duck and 3 of them were solid bone. It was BAD. They table next to me had a beautiful half duck, and I'm pretty sure they just threw in whatever they didn't serve to that table into my food. Egg drop soup also tasted like water. My partner's fried rice was good but one good fried rice dish doesn't make the $50 bill any easier to stomach. Hope you have better luck because most of the food looked really good.
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Feb 2024
Great place, but I hate the fact that they add bones to the soup. Like, it just kills the vibe and I am unable to focus normally on eating the duck. The staff is awesome, quick and on point. Atmosphere is great if you dont consider the smell of dry duck
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Feb 2024
Simply don’t go there. Not only poor food, service and atmosphere, they served stale food.
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Feb 2024
Took the family hoping to relive a great experience of an authentic Chinese restaurant my wife and I enjoyed back in 2011-2013. They did not open at “10:00 AM as posted on their door and online. But we told our kids it was worth the wait and walked around a few blocks exploring until they turned on their lights. We then ordered hoping for the best. Much to our disappointment, the food was horrible. I had “fresh” noodles with roast duck. The noodles were absolutely not fresh, and the chunks of duck were mostly gristle, bone, and rubbery cold meat that had been cooked on some previous day. I just removed the chunks of duck, which were not what I consider edible. I tried to salvage the meal by just eating the noodles. The noodles were oddly hot in the middle and cold in parts, and salty. Each member of my family had similar experiences - food that was hot in some places and cold in others. No one finished their plates. The only best part of the meal were the spring rolls, which tasted ok. The bathroom was “out of order” and apparently had been for a while. Guess they didn’t care about customers enough to just call a plumber. Our waitress also stood and just stared at us for the last five minutes. Which was just weird. Overall, a place that at once been “amazing” a decade earlier was, quite honestly, gross and disappointing. And for a family of five with two small children, cost about $100. It wasn’t worth more than five bucks, which was the cost of the spring rolls. I will not be going back, as everyone in our family agreed that Panda Express is cheaper, closer, cleaner, has working restrooms, better service, and simply tastes much better.
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Feb 2024
absolutely terrible, no english, no flavor in the food and it smells so bad in there.
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Feb 2024
$20 for brown lo mein noodles with absolutely zero flavor. How is this place busy?! Do yourself a favor and just go Panda Express. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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Chinatown Express is rated an average of 3.5/5 stars across various online platforms.

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746 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20001