China Renaissance

"To be fair I ordered out. It was Wednesday at around 5. To the lo mein guy...your saving lives out here. Perfect price 4 portions. It's so good uber eats is almost worth it. But ill be going in next time just to justify ordering more food."

"Best Chinese food in Cleveland! Our favorite is Walnut Double Delight and the Sesame Chicken, but everything we have tried is delicious! Our phone-in order is always correct, and ready for pickup as promised. Their food is always freshly made, most flavorful, and servings are plentiful. As a bonus, the people are extremely nice, and the prices are very reasonable. China Renaissance is definitely 5 star!"

"Wife and I have made this our new take out since moving here. The food has been perfect every time! Prices are very reasonable, but I did just call and place a order and go pick it up and pay for it."

"the restroom now had a large, red, OUT OF ORDER! (their exclamation point, not mine) sign on the door. I started looking over their very limited menu when a girl came from behind a new screen which gives a semblance of a hint of an idea that the front, ordering counter/tables area is separate from the back, storage/kitchen area.  I said to the girl, in a questioning tone, "new management?"  to which she replied that she has been there for about a year.  I know I have stopped in less than a year ago and the old owners were still there. It occurred to me that this was a completely different restaurant, as far as I was concerned.  With any new-to-me Chinese restaurant I visit, I have found that the only accurate way to assess the inherent nature of the entire establishment is to sample their egg rolls and won ton soup.  How they pay attention to the little items will indicate, to me, how the rest of their selections will be prepared.  So, before I waste my money on the more expensive items on the menu, I check the level of care the restaurateur takes with the more mundane, everyday items.  In this case, it was a wise choice; the operative word in my previous sentence is "waste." I ordered six egg rolls and two, large won ton soups.  [There is no size distinction for their soups on the menu, nor separate pricing therefore.  I simply asked for large and was charged double the menu price.] I paid for my order, [waited a bit longer than I should have had to, for so simple an order and considering the number of cooks in the kitchen!] accepted my bags and her thanks, and drove home. The $1.75 "Made with Chicken & Shrimp"  Egg Rolls: At first look, the egg rolls struck me as being on the rather small side, but maybe not. The shrimp are salad [smaller than a dime] size, which is entirely acceptable.  I found  three in one of my rolls.  I didn't dissect the others. The chicken is, for lack of a better description, pulverised.  I can't really describe it any better: it's not ground; it's not minced; it's not chopped; it's almost powdered.  The white stuff sprinkled amid the shredded cabbage and carrots and shrimp in my accompanying isolated picture of the egg rolls is what I take to be the chicken.  If it's not, I probably don't want to know what it really is. The rolls' overall texture was dry. For a brief moment, I considered that what I took to be pulverised chicken might, in fact, *be* sawdust!  I'm sure it wasn't, but they were just that dry. As to their flavour, I found the egg rolls to be quite bland.  None of the incorporated parts lent anything whatsoever to the taste of the whole.  Not even the cabbage!  I was glad of the duck sauce and mustard packets which were included in the bag; they were the only saving grace for the egg rolls. The 2 x $1.75 Won Ton Soup: As opposed to straight chicken broth, there seems to be some added flavouring in this soup.  It's almost a fishy taste, but whatever it is, it is not what one would customarily find in won ton soup. Considering this was supposed to be a large size order, you can see the skimpy portion of won tons which were included.  As it turns out, this was probably a good thing! The noodles in wonton soup are usually folded to enclose a small lump of some type of ground meat.  There was only one such lump enfolded into one of the noodles; the other two were plain, open squares of cooked won ton noodle dough.  And overcooked, at that. [Think lasagna that is boiled for 20 minutes.  Bleh!] Two things one can reasonably expect to find in won ton soup are some chopped green onion/scallion tops and a few pieces of julienned pork.  The onions were present but the pork was not. My overall assessment: Considering the overstaffed kitchen, I expected more attention to be paid to the quality of food.  If they don't care about the small items, then they're not going to care about the big ones, either. From my initial order, I WILL *NOT* be going back to China Renaissance!"