New Number One

Reviews

• Kenya M.

  star star star star star_border 3 June 2026

  I have to give this at least 4 stars for as often as I go here, tbh. It's right up the street from my job and I frequently lie to myself about not needing to take lunch to work. New Number One is similar to most of the other take-away Chinese places. They deliver but it's super slow. I love the spring rolls and the chicken on a stick.

• Sandy J.

  star star star star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  New Number One? So what happened to the original number one- if i searched yelp, could i find a regular Number One?? Anyways, portions wise, 15/5 rating.., taste was 3/5, cuisine quality: 4/5 you get enough for literally 2-3 meals worth. Dinner specials are 7.95$ and filled to the brim with cheap fried rice, your saucy American Chinese food, and choice of an appetizer which in my opinion were better in variety compared to the typical general tso chicken, sesame chicken, etc. this is a take out place and great for those who love American Chinese take out food- that's the cuisine it is. It's not Chinese food, but it's pretty good American Chinese take out.
  Accept credit card and cash btw.
  
  Menus are those trifold paper menus with over 60 combinations of beer, chicken, shrimp, pork, with your typical mugu gai pan, mushu, sesame, etc sweet savory salty combos. Service is relatively fast- it's this tall random white guy who fries the spring rolls like a total bro and a Chinese family who seem to run this place. Parking lot is small but it's take out, so you're not aiming to sit here for long to eat- it's cold from outside air coming into the joint in winter, so you're probs gonna go home to eat anyways.
  
  So your 7.95$ include a choice of steam rice or pork fried rice. Choice of appetizer and then your main course.
  
  Pork fried rice- it's yellow rice with like maybe very very small bite of pork every 2-3 Bites- very dilute pork and very dilute frozen veggies. Tasted good with the necessary grease but just mostly rice 99% and pork garnish.
  
  Appetizer choice was interesting- I recommend the beef skewers that were actually quite generous and not dry and over cooked or too tough. Fried scallops- it was some flour scallop mixture with the flaky outside hash brown like outer edge- I'm not a fried foods person but if you were a fried junkie, you'd like this. Other options were chicken teriyaki, and etc
  
  Sesame chicken was pretty good- crispy and not soggy with the adequate sauce. The shrimp cashew dish wasn't as impressive too me- it was some watery saucy thing with lots of canned chestnuts and corn.  
  
  Overall if you want cheap take out food, this is the place to go: 4/5. People ding this for not being authentic Chinese and it's not- it's its own subcategory called American Chinese take out. Simple as that. And for that, it meets the criteria and doesn't do a bad job.

• Justin H.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 22 May 2026

  Served undercooked chicken. Refused to admit chicken wasn't cooked. Did not care about possibly getting customers sick. Refused to do the right thing and refund entire meal.
  
  We have ordered takeout from here many times without issue before today.

• Steven O.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 19 May 2026

  Most bland and flavorless Chinese food I have ever had.
  I got the Beef and Brocccoli lunch special with Wonton soup.
  Had to add 5 packets of soy sauce to kick it up !  Same goes for the soup !!!

• Jacob L.

  star star star star star 12 May 2026

  You get home late from work, no food in the fridge, nothing is open because it's Rochester.  You check your grubhub options and all you see is a generically named Chinese take out place.  It's your only choice this time of night.  You check the fridge a second time, still no options there.  Back to grubhub...you're highly skeptical about this Chinese place so naturally you check yelp and your heart drops.  Your fears are confirmed, 2.5/5 stars.  You never take a risk on anything less than 3/5 but again you have no choice so you bight the bullet and order your normal american Chinese staples.  45 mins later your food arrives.  It comes by way of the restaurants delivery car with a lit up roof sign (a rarity when ordering from grubhub) and strangely the driver is a smiling bearded round white guy who looks like he listens to Grateful Dead - not what you were expecting, but not a bad look for New Number One.  You get to your couch, start up your pre-selected late night dinner Netflix, it's 11:00pm and this is the moment of truth.....AND THE FOOD IS BOMMMMMB.  Omg what? Perfectly crispy and sauced.  Generously portioned.Nothing missing.  Not a hint of any of the issues from the other reviews on here.  I JUST ORDERED IT AGAIN A WEEK LATER TO BE SURE AND AGAIN BOOM IT'S AWESOME AND THIS TIME IM SOBER!  Seriously, give this place a try and let me know if I'm just crazy.  I'm highly critical of Chinese take out and twice now this place has not disappointed.  Speed, Flavor, Cheap, Huge portions.  Just WOW. THIS IS NOT A JOKE.