Chen’s Village Restaurant
156 Granite St, Westerly, RI, 02891
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Address :
156 Granite St
Westerly, RI, 02891 - Phone (401) 596-8339
- Website https://www.chenswesterly.com
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Opening Hours
- Mon :11:30 am - 9:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Dinner
Parking : Private Lot
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Quiet
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : Yes
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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Allison W.
If I lived closer, I would eat here at least twice a month - as it is, I enjoy at least one meal here every time I visit the area. The atmosphere is casual (think jeans,/khakis, t-shirt/polo shirt), and seating is available with either booths and tables. The prices are also reasonable. What I love most about Chen's is the food ... although the drinks aren't bad, either. (Personally, I always get the Rangoon Ruby, while the others in my group always choose Fog Cutters, Mai Tai's and the House Specials.) The dark brown duck sauce is the BEST. A thousand times better than the pale washed-out version in most other Chinese restaurants. For those familiar with the area, Chen's version seems to be the same recipe that was used in the old China Village that was in downtown Westerly (now out of business) . Also, Chen's seems to use another old China Village recipe for Sweet and Sour Chicken - I've stopped bothering to order that dish anywhere else because it's never as good. Thick, sweet, honey-yellow sauce over fried chicken and pineapple chunks ... mmmm. But I'm getting ahead of myself. For appetizers, choose the Wonton Soup. We always order the tureen that you serve yourself from so we can scold each other for taking too many wontons or peapods or mushrooms .... We also usually get the Spare Ribs and/or Chicken Wings - both are excellent when dipped in the brown duck sauce for a sweet/salty combo. For the main course, we typically each order something different. Everything is presented in oversized portions on serving dishes, so it's easy to share with others at the table. Also, white rice is served the same way. We always leave full, but I should also mention that we have never left Chen's without multiple leftover containers! I already mentioned my favorite, but Happy Family, Dragon & Phoenix and Orange Chicken are among the dishes frequently selected by others in my group. Just don't forget to save enough room for the fortune cookie at the end of the meal!
(4)Katharine S.
We used to love Chen's...the food and service were great. But the last few times we've been it's been bad. The first dinner we received spoiled shrimp in our dish...the waitress was very apologetic and quickly returned with an alternate - but it was seriously off putting to be served something that was so clearly spoiled. And there was no apology from a manager, which would be expected in any restaurant. We also did a take out order that included crag rangoon...there was no filling in the rangoons and the rice dish was sticky and old looking (much of the rice was hard and shrivled). The service has also slipped...no longer as friendly and welcoming as in the past.
(2)Christian S.
I love that this place has a full bar and has a enormous selection of tropical drinks - Sadly this is all this restaurant has going for - The food is utterly terrible! We ordered vegetable mushu, general tsao chicken and shrimp, and egg rolls, and plain rice. Dishes were extremely huge and generous - Veggie Mushu was very strange - Veggies(consisted of cabbage) were smothered in Hoisin sauce (gross) and the traditional Mushu pancakes were replaced by flour tortillas! General Tsao Chicken was mediocre at best - shrimps were overcooked. Even the white rice we ordered was terrible - its tastes old. Maybe we ordered the wrong thing -as my wife swears by the shrimp fried rice and spareribs. Take my advice - DO NOT GO HERE = if ever you are in Westerly, RI and have the hankering for Chinese food - its bad bad bad
(1)Traci A.
This is pretty mediocre food. Decent crab rangoon but that's about it. If you want pretty good Chinese food locally go to Lucky House (now in Hopkington, one town over from Westerly).
(2)Michelle C.
I can't believe this place has received such bad reviews. This is literally my FAVORITE place for chinese food anywhere! The brown duck sauce is amazing and so much better than that orange stuff you find at most places. The egg rolls are large and filled with cabbage, celery, shrimp, etc and go perfectly with the duck sauce. The wonton soup is delicious - large perfectly cooked wontons, with huge chunks of pork and bok choy. One of my favorite entrees is the chicken and broccoli, a simple dish but one that many chinese restaurants can't deliver. Chen's version comes in a thick dark brown sauce with super crisp broccoli and tons of chicken. Another favorite of mine is the chicken low mein. The noodles are unlike any other low mein out there larger and thicker but with a great texture. The low mein has an abundance of crisp veggies and is served (like most of their entrees) with pork fried rice, which is also always delicious. If you are looking for great chinese food in westerly, look no farther than Chen's. The prices are reasonable, the portions are large and the food is always great!
(5)Carrie C.
Since we've seen the picture of the hanging meat on the fence right next to the dumpster that was uploaded to yelp itself; my husband and I can no longer bring ourselves to eat here. That picture is clearly the back of the building as you can see the apartment house behind it, we drive by it everyday, no mistaking that one. Eww.
(1)Emily B.
My husband and I eat there quite a bit!! The food is good and best of all it comes quick and cheap and you get a lot of it!! The lunch specials is a good deal. You really get a lot for your money!! I had one of there mix drinks once, and I don't think it was made right-they put way to much alcohol in it. Other than that, we really have had no bad experiences there!! The food, service, and value are good!!
(4)Antares S.
Not quite as good as their sister location in Wakefield, but in a pinch, it is OK. Portions are enormous and you definitely get your bang for the buck. The Chen's Special's here aren't quite as potent as the Wakefield version, another feather in their cap.
(3)Kathleen V.
Walking in right away told me i should've been walking out. But unfortunately my 5 year old son was ravenous after we had gone bowling, or I certainly would've. The restaurant is desperate for a makeover. You can painfully see that no money ever goes back into the business itself. Red flag. The place was empty. red flag. Our server looked dirty and tired. Actually grossed me out.. Filthy finger nails, uneven pigtails, and her face still soiled with lastnight's mascara..Sad. We ordered one egg roll, crab rangoons, and general tao chicken. While we waited, she brought us the fried wafer like noodle things in a 100 year old wooden bowl.. gross. served alongside duck sauce. We were almost through eating them when she returned to our table to offer us another serving of them, explaining with a look of disdain that, "those were old". She was just killing it! lol. Then our food arrived extremely fast, even fast for Chinese food. Subsequently our rangoons were ice cold inside, as well as our eggroll. Gen Tao chicken was mediocre but at least it was hot. I wanted to send the cold items back promptly. But I wasn't able to do so because our server never returned to the table to be sure we were satisfied. She had simply disappeared. She finally surfaced just as we finished. I caught her up on the crappy meal. She obliged having the Rangoons removed from the check, but protested she couldn't do anything about the eggroll because it was half eaten. My son loves them, as I barely stopped him from devouring it cold! For the price of an eggroll they couldn't rectify. PATHETIC. Im also 8 months pregnant and shouldn't be eating anything undercooked. The best part of the experience was leaving. It was a huge disappointment. I ended up tipping 20% because I felt bad for her. Never again.
(1)Andrea D.
This one's for the tourists and transplants. I've been assured many times that people from the area originally love stale bread with their Chinese food and Chen's in general and ... I don't know. If you're not from here, I'm here for you: The interior is either hilarious or sad, depending on how you look at it. It was clearly once a chain restaurant, since gutted but barely retouched, and it has that "sagging and indifferent local restaurant" vibe all throughout. The natives like it enough to keep it open, as you can tell from listening to conversations between customers and wait staff during a dinner rush. Every time we went in while the restaurant was quiet, there was a forlorn regular at the bar, which probably means something. On our one sit-down visit, the drinks were strong enough to make me not care about the ugly, bare, almost surreal interior. As an aging millennial, I'm highly skilled in ironic appreciation. The food was fine, good enough to make us start ordering takeout for sheer convenience. Our first encounter with its takeout was all right. Not as good as what we got in the restaurant, but -- low expectations. The second order I chalked up to a mistake. The online ordering worked okay, the food was ready when we came to pick it up. Parts of the food were soggy and way too sweet, but things happen. The very last time, we tried ordering through the website again. Now, the service at the counter was never stellar, but nothing I haven't come to expect from the non-tourist side of Westerly. Dead-eyed teenagers looking bored, adults who look uncomfortable when spoken to, everyone avoiding eye contact. Roughly what you'd expect from service at the local Walmart, but whatever, it was just takeout. It's fine until something goes wrong. When we came in after waiting the usual 20-30 minutes at home, they had us pay for the order and asked for us to wait a couple minutes more. No big deal. This time, that wait stretched well past the half hour mark, with occasional half-hearted apologies from staff who seemed to feel personally inconvenienced by our presence. It turned out, the order had gone through online, but no one had ever started working on it. Most restaurants would, at minimum, let you know upfront what kind of mistake had been made. Better restaurants comp parts of the meal or throw in something extra to make up for an absurdly overlong wait. The Chen's staff gave us our food and dismissed us like guests who'd overstayed their welcome. And then, the food. I'd decided to try something easy and uncomplicated, so I ordered orange chicken. Basically chicken nuggets with orange sauce, but I was tired and who cares. My husband ordered some combination plate or other. His food was indifferent, though bizarrely dry for something theoretically freshly made. Mine, on the other hand, was ... just chicken nuggets. We looked for my rice and sauce, but all we found was a hunk of partially stale Italian bread, wrapped in a paper towel. I honestly thought someone had misplaced part of their lunch in our bag. Obviously, I called the restaurant, and -- Look, I'm not a screamer or a stomper. I've worked in a lot of service positions and do my best to cut everyone a break, even if they're exceptionally bad at their jobs. But this was one of the most baffling phone calls I've ever been on. They were right about one thing -- I did have sauce. Someone had poured it around the edges, leaving it to pool in a hidden sauce swamp in the bottom of the takeout container. It hadn't occurred to me to dig through a pile of dry chicken to find a sauce swamp. My bad. When I claimed we'd never received bread in lieu of rice from Chen's or any other Chinese restaurant in America, the women on the other end of the line argued with me with such disproportionate passion that I can only assume their bread was crafted by a beloved and recently deceased grandparent. My strategy of not raising my voice and trying not to channel difficult customers I've dealt with myself usually works pretty well on the phone, but Chen's was ready to fight me about bread straightaway. It was the strangest thing I've dealt with in an already weird little town. The best part was, I couldn't end the phone call. I don't like to hang up on anybody, but they would. not. stop. I finally had to tell them that, yes, I appreciate that this is how they do things, but that it was unusual and they would probably have more complaints from non-locals in the future. Yes, I understand, this is how it works at Chen's, but there's nothing more to talk about, I would like to get off the phone. No, next time I won't do anything differently, because there likely won't be a next time, but thank you. The sauce, when I found it, did not taste at all like orange, had a weird, burnt aftertaste, and was so sweet it could probably have been crystallized into hard candy. The rice came from my own rice maker. Enjoy.
(1)Samantha L.
Always takes a while for food to come out but once you get it the wait is 100% worth it! Staff is pretty friendly but not overly enthusiastic which is a bummer but definatley a good place to have Chinese in town!
(4)Michael V.
I've only gotten the chicken and brocoli and it is really good. The fried rice is about average. The inside of the restaurant is a little dated. Service has never been a problem. I'd go back for this dish
(3)Brian P.
People who know me know that I am (with good reason) a Chinese food snob. I wasn't sure what to expect walking into this place, which is clearly an old Denny's or iHop or something like that. Our server was a bit clueless when it came to the menu, but that seems to be the norm lately. I'm not sure which cocktail my girlfriend ordered, but it was very good. I ordered a 'love potion' which was made with rum and fresh bananas! Now on to the food.. My girlfriend ordered Chicken and vegetables, which was very good. I ordered (and I won't pretend to remember what it's called on the menu) duck, which was basically covered in Chow Mein. I love duck and at first glance didn't want to have to dig it out of the celery etc, but it was REALLY tasty! The fried rice was some of the best we have ever had. Check out Chen's..you'll be glad you did!
(4)Brian V.
I'm originally from the west coast & I was told to come here for authentic east coast Chinese cuisine. I certainly was delighted by Chen's. It offered something I wasn't used to, & I was very pleased. I order the #19 which is the Chicken chow mein combination plate. The flavors were original & the sauce was fantastic. The egg roll was a decent size & complimented the meal beautifully. I will definitely be returning to Chen's.
(4)Foodie K.
Food is just OK. The fried rice leaves a lot to be desired. It's heavily sauced and dark brown, missing something, the hot and sour soup lacked any pork slices for flavor and too much with a "filler" and Gen tso's is heavily breaded, not much meat. Too many fillers. The Peking dumplings appetizer are always the best. The only other dish worth getting is the house special chicken. Anything else there is lame. Quite disappointing, as I have been going over the years hoping it would get better. But the worst and not pleasing to the eye was the OLD wooden bowl the chips arrive in. (Pictured) scraped, chipped, dirty, burnt look. Couldn't cost much to replace these. I don't get it. The staff at the counter or waiting on tables can be abrupt and not personable.
(2)Kristine A.
Ok, let me start with, I am originally from the west coast. So I am used to a totally different brand of Chinese food. Mostly Cantonese. The food here is spot on for the average, run of the mill place in Seattle. Portland or SanFran. One thing they have is "boneless fried chicken and gravy" which is so similar to Almond fried chicken back home. Just order it with a side of almonds and you'll think you're home! (for you midwester folk, it's Detroit or Ohio ABC" Also, they are the ONLY place around here with BBQ pork "strips" instead of those weird boneless nuggets they have at all the other places. I didn't try anything other than the fried chicken and sweet and sour chicken, bbq pork and spicy duck. All were great. I can't wait to go back and try more. If they added almonds to the fried chicken and gravy (and maybe served in on a bed of iceberg lettuce) it would be perfect.
(5)Francine M.
This was such a disappointment. The general tso's sauce didn't have the distinct flavor you usually find. It was just gooey though it had some spice. The chicken was so over breaded. The dragon Phoenix was the general tso's and a shrimp dish. The shrimp were small uncleaned and either frozen or canned not fresh and flavorful. The sauce was ok. I had been here years ago and the place is exactly the same just more run down and dated.
(1)Agnes A.
This is the best Chinese restaurant I have ever been to all over the country. Anytime we are within 100 miles we go there. Love their Chow Mein and General Tso. Wish we could get the recipe since we live in Philadelphia PA and Chens is in Rhode Island
(5)Sarah S.
Best chinese food I've ever had in my life. I grew up in the area and moved away for college and nothing compares to it. I always get the general tsos chicken. Also the duck sauce is amazing and made in house (Not that orange one in a packet).
(5)YL X.
Chen's has really improved and extended their menu with some of my new favs (meifun and ho fun). i still love the gentso ck. best around. The owners are a very nice family and the waitresses are very helpful when you can't decide what to order. The prices are very reasonable and the portions are huge! You always get leftovers for the next day :)
(5)Sarah B.
I also can't believe this place has gotten bad reviews, as this is my favorite Chinese place. The service has alway been great, the food is always brought in on good timing and everything. My favorite thing to get is the pork fried rice with chicken fingers, or teriyaki, or egg rolls. It's always clean, cool, and in the summer busy. Like I said, I can't believe the bad reviews and the whole picture thing (never take anything for granted, it might not have been Chen's or the meat hanging could have not had anything to do with the food they serve- Westerly is known for their soupy (which is hanging seasoned meat). I'm just saying don't believe the worst unless you see it for yourself. I haven't had anything but good experiences at Chens. It's a little expensive, but that's it.
(4)Jon B.
With 5 Chinese restaurants in a town of 15,000, choice is not a problem. The food here inst bad, its just not interesting or particularly tasteful beyond what you would get on every other corner in NYC. Tonight's issue has more to do with the manner in which they handled what I would consider a simple problem.. Here is the problem.. I get an order of chow mien every so often along with other stuff for the kids.. I like the chow mein.. It reminds me of a place in NYC I once frequented a lot. Problem is, twice in 3 weeks I got home and found no noodles in the bag. Not a crisis.. we all make mistakes.. I didn't say anything last time... but twice in 3 weeks spells a consistency problem. I call the restaurant and tell them my order that I just picked up 15 minutes ago was again absent the noodles. I also mention an order 3 weeks ago was the same. She suggests, "come back for the noodles". No, the kids are attacking the bag and I am not into driving back for noodles. I then suggest she just remember me and owe me a free chow mein the next time I come in. She responds, "I will give you a bag of free noodles, but I cant give you a free chow mein". So now I am getting a little aggravated.. "What might I do with a bag of noodles" I ask. Silence. I wait.. more silence. I then say, "tell ya what, for $4.75... I think the best solution would be for me to go to one of the other 4 Chinese restaurants in town"... silence... Unbelievable.. lost a regular customer because you were too cheap to do the right thing.. would it have cost you .85 cents worth of product? See ya Chen's! ******** UPDATE: Went in the other night for a quick dinner... left saying to myself; never, ever again. I am done with Chen's and terrible service..
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