The restaurant has amazing and elegant dark furniture and remarkable and unique decorations all over the walls, great seats and upscale looking place, however, the beauty of the place is tempered by the less than average customer service. My food was placed on the table...without a word from the waiter, shocking. I will not be returning to this place.More

We stopped here before a football game for lunch. There were 2 tables with no hostess or wait staff in sight. Apparently one person is working the dining room. She seated us after waiting for awhile. We ordered two combination lunches: Fried prawns (3) in...very thick batter, with stir fry bay shrimp lo-mein (surprisingly delicious), and a spring roll. Beef with broccoli (very good), chicken fried rice (average), and a spring roll. Both came with egg flower drop soup that is over starched and thick without much flavor. The spring roll is just cabbage and a few shredded carrots. No taste and gave up after half. The waitress brought us tea, which we didn't drink. Had to ask for ice water. She took our order, brought our food one combination at a time, and brought our check/bill. Never checked back. She was very busy talking to the prep staff, dishing details out about her husband and gossip. Obviously she didn't take her job too seriously. Our bill came to be $27, with taxes and tipping. Probably won't return unless every single restaurant is closed on the Ave.More

I took my mom and my sister's family here for dinner as everyone was used to Chinese food. It was a choice of convenience as we were in the area, but the place exceeded our expectations. My brother commented on how authentic the cooking was,...and my mom approved too. I would visit again next time that I am close by.More

It's never a good sign to walk into a Chinese restaurant in a busy university district at lunchtime and find the place empty while neighboring businesses are bustling. My dining companion and I sought out China First based on information from the Yellow Pages stating...one could order salt-free sauces. This was appealing due to some dietary restrictions at the moment. The waitress looked at my companion as if she were from another planet, and the best the restaurant could offer was a heap of steamed vegetables, no sauce. I ordered one of the two set lunches, which included two heavily battered fried shrimp, a heavily battered chicken-thing with bright yellow goo ladled over it, a fried egg roll, and two thin slices of "BBQ pork" atop a small mound of fried rice. It was marginal by any stretch of the imagination. Total lunch bill for two was $13.20. Cheap, bad food. Nuff said.More