Red Lotus Asian Kitchen
Red Lotus Asian Kitchen
a plate of food
a hand holding a fork and a bowl of food
a plate of food
a plate of noodles and meat
Black bean tofu Shanghai style
$10 order of fried chicken wings
a bowl of beef stew
Fried rice
a bowl of food
food
ramen and noodles, food
food
soups and chowder, food
Drunk chicken?
food, salad, salads
outside
Taiwanese Chicken
Most of the seating area.
Was so hungry that I forgot to snap photos before digging in. Fried rice with pork and Chinese sausage; mapo tofu; Thai green curry
outside
Rice cake with shepherds purse
The best fortune I've had in a while
food, ribs, bbq ribs
Ed S.
Jul 5, 2024
I had lunch today from Red Lous, on a carryout basis, and was very happy with the meal.I tried the Chicken with Hot Garlic sauce and vegetables. You have a choice of rice (i chose fried) and soup or an egg roll -- I had egg drop soup. The soup and rice were OK, but the main dish was really good -- hearty ingredients and a nice spicy kick.While I was waiting for my order, I had a chance to sit inside for about ten minutes. For a strip mall restaurant, I thought that the ambience at Red Lotus was really relaxing, with nice soft jazz playing in the background.Highly recommended, and I will be back.
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Jillian G.
Dec 29, 2023
Very disappointing. Not worth what they charge. I was most disappointed in the friend chicken wings. They weren't even full wings. I do not recommend this place.
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Julia T.
Dec 20, 2021
This used to be a go to restaurant for me pre-COVID but unfortunately I think they switched chefs and now the quality is mediocre at best. The 松鼠鱼 and 腌笃鲜 were relatively good. The sweet and sour sauce with fried fish paired well and the soup was comforting.However, many ingredients for the stir fry dishes weren't adequately cut, cooked, or seasoned... Meats were too chunky and of different sizes, peppers were undercooked, and everything seemed lukewarm. Our party of 8 ordered 10+ dishes and many weren't memorable. For the price and relatively small portion sizes I would look elsewhere for Chinese food :(The servers were nice but the restaurant seemed understaffed. I hope this is temporary and also wish that the kitchen steps it up, since the dishes here were quite good before.
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Karen L.
Jul 13, 2023
Always fresh and delicious. We go almost weekly! Family owned and run. Wish they had a place in Durham.
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Phares J.
Jul 2, 2023
Pretty good food and great service. Good place for lunch in Chapel Hill. Doing a good job coming back from COVID.
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Lucky 1 3.
Dec 20, 2021
Well, we're finally getting warmer in finding decent Chinese food. It doesn't even have to be good at this point. I tried the Mapo tofu and detected some spice in it which is better than most places and the vegetables appeared fresh so that was a plus. I also tried the sesame chicken which although I don't expect it to be spicy, it was very treacly sweet but a bit better than other places at least. The vegetable lo mein was good, lots of veggies though a bit over saturated with soy sauce. The lunch specials are really good with a choice of egg roll, soup or salad so you could do worse than a quick lunch here in this part of town.
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Thomas S.
Dec 28, 2022
Post Covid this place has radically fallen for any dine in consideration. Upon arriving I was greeted sternly by the hostess demanding my name for take out, calmly I replied I'd like to dine in to which she said sit anywhere, and went to help a takeout/delivery driver. A few minutes later she brought me a menu, having been several times pre-Covid I knew what I wanted to order and promptly did so. Service was slow, drink refills nonexistent, food was below what I'd come to expect on previous outings. Sadly another understaffed restaurant falling on hard times and failing as a business. They should close the dine in part of the venue to focus solely on their bland take-out faire
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Jane M.
Jul 13, 2024
We used to eat at Red Lotus a lot. After a break we decided to get dinner there last night. it was disappointing. We are vegetarian so always request soy "chicken" in our dishes. Soy chicken now puts the meal price in the shrimp category, two dollars more than real chicken. Really? So each dish was $16.95 and $17.95. When we opened our meal at home they had used real chicken in the curry dish. Not only charging us two dollars more than it should be but making it inedible for a vegetarian. The prices this restaurant are now charging are high and they need to be careful what they serve to people with dietary considerations.
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B F.
Dec 17, 2023
Every dish is wonderful - a perfect ending is Sesame Balls! Crunchy and sweet taste. The Velvet Chicken soup is second to none. Our favorite go-to for Asian food.
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Albert L.
Sep 26, 2021
I would much rather go to Shanghai Dumpling, which is like 10 minutes away from this place. I suppose if you're craving some generic Chinese takeout, it'll do, but if you're actually looking for real Chinese food, don't come here.I paid $38 for 1 soup noodle dish and another stir fry dish, both of which tasted nasty and the texture was pretty off too. The guy at the counter said the portions were generous, but it didn't even fill up the standard plastic noodle container that soup noodles usually come in.Not only that, but we found what looked suspiciously like plastic in our stir fry.
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