New China Cafe

They are cool people. Authentic Chinese food. Watching them on the woks is amazing. It's the only place I'll go to in Merced for Chinese food

We purchased for chow mein and rice noodles not Mongolian beef had no taste at all. Chow mein is not that good either. Don't think that was the best was the right amount to very disappointing. I think we're gonna have to try another restaurant instead of this one.

Ok, so we went back since 2022 and have enjoyed several meals there, until tonight. My husband nailed it. Everything tasted the same. Orange chicken was the exception. Pot stickers were tough. Shrimp fried rice was not mixed well, a great deal of it was white rice, and I found three, count them, three shrimps in the pint of rice. The egg foo young tasted, well, odd. The fried prawns were overcooked, the entire dinner costing $83.00 went in to the garbage with the exception of the orange chicken. Sad. There was a new cook . . . maybe the difference?

The food is absolutely delicious, would recommend going however keep in mind there weren't that many staff so the service is a bit slow but they were all really sweet and considerate, it's a very cozy ambience, would recommend going here during non rush hours! Will definitely come back! We got: - fried wontons (gave us a lot, did not skimp out at all)- potstickers (very well stuffed, definitely got our moneys worth) - orange chicken + fried rice + chow mein (well seasoned) - Thai tea- Iced tea

Sweet and Sour Tough Chicken" was it? weird corn flour like batter on butterflied Shrimp " Very exspenice" won't order ever again.

Got seated immediately, not a large crowd but a few parties. Make sure to bring a jacket because it seemed like it was freezing inside. Order included: hot and sour soup, orange chicken, lunch special with sweet and sour chicken, lunch special with general chicken, lunch special with kung pao chicken, lunch special almond chicken, lunch special broccoli beef. Lunch specials came with the entree and chow mein (either regular noodles or could have them fried), wontons, and fried rice. Hot and Sour Soup: very hot when it came out (absolutely loved that!), spicy, and delicious Orange Chicken: nothing too fantastic about it, they had a great crisp to it which I haven't had from other Chinese food places, so I appreciated that.Sweet and Sour Chicken: nothing too fantastic. Wasn't that sweet or sourGeneral Chicken: one of my favorites, had great flavor, had a similar taste to the orange chicken but with more flavor, and had a lot spicier to it (wasn't too spicy, definitely a milder spice flavor)Almond Chicken: nothing too fantastic, the chicken was cooked well and the sauce was good Broccoli Beef: great flavor, beef was cooked perfectly so it was nice and tender, and the sauce was delicious White rice was white rice, as good as you can expect it to be. Fried wontons: loved them! Had a great crunch with the addition of all the other food.Fried Rice: alright, not a big fan of fried rice in general, but were good. Chow Mein: absolutely fantastic! Loved it so much, could eat that as just a plain meal. Had great flavor and all the veggies were cut to a small perfect size to help add to the flavor. Definitely one of our favorite places to eat! Service was great, and our drinks didn't stay empty for long (it got busier as we were waiting so they did get empty at times, but nothing too bad considering the busyness of it.) Our waitress was great with making sure we didn't need anything and that we were happy. Can't wait to come here again! Also absolutely loved that they have the lazy susans on the table, and would fill the soup bowls on it and then turn it around so we could all get it.

1/4/2025, via DoorDash I ordered 6 items to consume while watching Saturday Night Football on my day off. The food is acceptable for a valley restaurant is my assessment.

I haven't been here in 50yrs...came as a child and the owner used to make me a cheeseburger when it wasn't on the menu. Have talked about trying here for over a decade since we bought back on this side of the county...well V-D Day was the night to try it! Chow mein as I remember as a 5yr old with crispy noodles! Have never found it anywhere else! We will be back!

Well let start by saying we should learn from our mistake, I thought so but I gave them another try. All around if you where stuck on a desert island and that's all you had to eat, it's not to bad with extra soy sauce and sweet-and-sour sauce and yes on everything. But to night, middle of the week Wednesday we gave it a try, just didn't feel like cooking. Well we learned our lesson, we will be cooking from now on. My wife bought the meals to go, rice , chow mein sweet-and-sour chicken. Well if your a Star Trek fan, then you know how disgusting Klingon meals are, there is one dish called Glock, live moving large wet worms. Well tonights chow mein was there, my God it was wet and wilting. Yes wilting noodles, with hard ham. gag double gag. Rice was wet to, don't know what they where thinking , wet rice. The cook must have received his or her cooking credentials from the cooking school of Helen Keller. Now the sweet and sour chicken, it was more like sweet and sour crust pieces, there might have been 3 or 4 pieces of chicken in the whole dish. Here that Helen Keller school again, they can't see what there serving or hear the people gagging. But rest a sure I won't be back, unless I end up on a Desert island.

Went to new china today, I don't know what happened but it's not the same. Maybe they got a new cook or something but it wasn't good. I had the general chicken combo it didn't taste right, maybe different seasoning? It has been great forever, until now. Not even the tea was good.