Chinese Kitchen - Little Rock: Friendly, Authentic Chinese Takeout with Home-Style Charm

As my dining companion at lunch today at Chinese Kitchen said, "This is the ultimate mom and pop place." The older couple, apparently husband and wife, who took our order and prepared our food could not have been nicer. We appreciated that they gave us bottles of water free when we asked for water with our meal. And when the man, who seems to do most of the cooking, brought our food out to us, he couldn't have been more congenial and polite. Given how nice the folks owning and running Chinese Kitchen are, I'd love to give this restaurant 5 stars. I can't do that in good conscience, though, because the food is at best only a serviceable highly Americanized version of Chinese food. It lacks much taste or finesse. There are better Americanized "Chinese" restaurants in our local community. But this is the kind of "Chinese" food many people in central Arkansas really crave, so Chinese Kitchen does a robust business, though it's primarily a take-out place with only three small tables for dine-in customers. Your food comes to you at those tables already in styrofoam take-out boxes, too. The calling cards here for some folks are the two dishes that incorporate fried chicken, warr shui guy and precious chicken. I had the latter, and it was okay, though not in any way exceptional. The batter for the chicken is overly salty, the vegetables served with the chicken are way too overcooked, and there's no hint of seasoning of any kind (e.g., ginger, garlic) other than salt. On the plus side, there were lots of chunks of fried chicken in my serving of precious chicken. So, great welcome and treatment by the owners-cooks, not much atmosphere, and unexceptional Americanized Chinese food: that's Chinese Kitchen.

Love this place. Food is excellent. Service is always friendly. Very clean.

Chinese Kitchen has been fantastic every time I've been. Highly recommend giving them a try, they are definitely one of the best--if not *the* best--Chinese takeout restaurants in the area.

Orange chicken was great. I don’t think they cook with a lot of sodium which is good for me because I always have to drink a bottle of water after eating Chinese take out. Wait was short and I think I was in and out in less than 10 minutes without placing an order ahead of time.

This is my first time to order pork fried rice noodles，It's really deliciousI will definitely give it 5 stars ，Please place your order one day in advance

People call things a mom and pop shop.All the time, but this is really a mom.And pop shop it is ran by two elderly folks that are the best people on earth. It's not much of a dining room.But the food is to die for when you want chinese takeout. They serve drinks in the can, so don't count on a large or something like that, but the food is well worth your time. The dumplings are out of this world and anything involving shrimp is well worth your time. I cannot recommend this place enough.