China Fun

I will always follow restaurateur Meili Wu to wherever she goes. Formerly the owner of Oriental Kitchen in Pflugerville, I'll never forget when Meili opened her kitchen to the community during the Great Freeze of 2001, when many of us lost heat/water/power, and she cooked meals free of charge for anyone who asked. That's the kind of person she is, and I will never forget such kindness.Meili's China Fun is located a bit farther away from that original restaurant, and the menu includes some of the old favorites (sauteed green beans are a specialty) as well as some different options, but the menu seems much smaller than the Pflugerville version. One of the things I always loved about the original location was some of the "off menu" features like her family recipe fried chicken on Sundays -- not sure if that is available here, but I will look for it next time.Our food was generously portioned, arrived to our table fast, and tasted about the way I remember it. However, the service was a bit scant on a Saturday afternoon. I get the sense the restaurant has tons of take-out orders, so dining in (at least at the time we were there) was not a priority for the gentleman working. He just didn't have the best customer service skills. We had to ask for anything we wanted, like water, for example. (We were told to just help ourselves to bottled water from the case). I noticed with curiosity that each table is outfiited with a cooktop -- are these used? That would make for such an interesting experience. I look forward to returning maybe during an evening service to see what it's like when more people are dining in.

This is the best Chinese food ever! Very fast service. Clean dining room with a nice beer menu.

I've gotten take out from China Fun on several occasions. I've tried the cashew chicken and the chicken and broccoli- both generous sizes and tasty. Order has been ready on time and the pickup was a breeze.

Yelp gets it right again.Four stars.* * *China Fun is on Rundberg east of I-35 in one of the poorest neighborhoods in town.Little known fact: Poor neighborhoods have the potential of generating absolutely first rate Chinese restaurants.Because so few entrepreneurs want to open restaurants in lower class areas - those restaurants that do exist tend to get a lot of business.With the sheer volume of revenue that the business generates,Management can afford nice decoration, good raw ingredients and high quality chefs.China Fun fits this formula like a glove.* * *The first thing that you note on entering China Fun is that the restaurant is crowded.There are people waiting for take-out orders and lots of the tables are taken.A lot of these people are regulars.The owner knows the name of many of them - and they banter back and forth while waiting for their food.When I was there, there was at least one romantic couple sitting at a window table.China Fun is considered to be a nice enough place that locals think of going there for a hot date.* * *How is the food?I had a spicy shrimp off of the appetizer menu.I have never seen this dish on any Chinese restaurant menu before.I couldn't tell you if it was a regional dish that we don't see in the U.S.,or simply an invention of a creative chef.Either way, the dish was phenomenal.The shrimp is served in a spicy sauce with the consistency of a Bolognese sauce.I suspect tofu in hot chili sauce is a critical ingredient in making the sauce - but there are more ingredients as well to make the sauce more mellow.Then the cook adds industrial quantities of raw sliced onion.Onion makes up about 60% of the volume of the dish.The onion is like dried red chiles. It is too raw and too strong to eat straight up.(These are NOT 1015 onions. These are the small supermarket onions that have way more power and punch than the big onions.)The purpose of the onions is to flavor the rest of the dish and add a second element to the fundamental chili sauce.The dish works supremely well.This is actually a dish that would work just as well the next day.The longer those ingredients stay together, The more onion taste would go into the shrimp.I thought the dish was outstanding.My wife had an orthodox tofu and vegetable soup.There were a lot of vegetables.There was a lot of tofu.She says the quality of both of those were first rate.* * *Frankly, the neighborhood Chinese Restaurant they have on East RundbergIs way way better than the Chinese restaurant I have in my Yuppie neighborhood on the West Side.If you are ever in that part of town, you can get yourself a first rate meal.* * *P.S. I looked at some of the other reviews. John L. from Oregon says some of the unique dishes are Taiwanese.This makes total sense to me.

Picked up food to go tonight and I wasn't impressed. No one sitting in the restaurant at 7:00 should have been the first indication. The food was ready quickly. I asked the man at the front of there was a restroom and he seemed bothered that I asked. When we returned, another customer was asking him for a menu so he could order, I didn't catch the first past of the conversation, but the host replied to him "dude, I don't even know what you're saying." It was really condescending and unprofessional. He told me out food was ready, as I was getting the bags, I noticed there was a sign behind the counter that said, "stop pay, fuck you" with a counterfeit bill. While I understand that would obviously be infuriating, I don't feel like that was appropriate. The food was alright. Crab wontons were the best thing. Couldn't cut the chicken with a knife, super dry. Egg drop soup was good. Chicken and fries had the ketchup inside the box and the cup melted and ketchup was all over everything.Overall, the unprofessional host and sign, paired with the poor food, I wouldn't come back here. Really unimpressed.One entree, one soup and 3 appetizers for $70. No thanks.

Fresh veggies food is excellent! Don't sleep on this place it's delicious. Egg rolls crispy not soggy. Best Kung Pao I've ever had!

How in the world can you charge $15 for plain lo mein?! It doesn't say it's going to be JUST NOODLES and nothing else! I can't believe all of this came to $45 on Uber eats. Plain noodles that should cost $5. Dumplings that aren't Chinese style at all and surely are just frozen shipped from somewhere. The crab cheese puffs are supposed to have crab but don't but they still charge $12! What a rip off. Austin prices are insane for bad food

Love the food, we tried the rice and the noodles. Good prices and very kind service. We recommend it.

Food is so delicious and the woman at the counter was so nice! Will definitely be back and I love how cute the environment is in the restaurant itself! definitely a hidden gem

my family went here tonight, since we were craving chinese food and we wanted something open later where we wouldn't feel rushed. China Fun exceeded our expectations in every single way! the portion sizes were generous, the food was fresh and delicious, and the service was absolutely impeccable. we eat a lot of chinese food and this restaurant is definitely on the top of our list now. all of our needs were anticipated before we could even say anything. we are truly blown away at every single element of our experience. we will be recommending this to our friends and absolutely will be back!