New Asia

this place is closed, and rightly so.

DON’T DO IT!!! We ordered from there during the afternoon, delivery. It showed up an hour later, cold an disgusting! Not to mention they charge an outlandish $ 3 delivery charge! I would recommend you stay far far away from this one! I know I will!
The only nice thing I have to say is that the delivery guy was nice… that’s it!

I had had a hit and miss love affair with late night Chinese food. I love lobster sauce, sweet and sour and anything chicken. This place can be the best or the worst. On a good night, you will want to write a five star review and do it again when you heat up the left overs. BUT, our Christmas eve food was awful. My god it was bad. Me being dumber than the average bear, heated it up as leftovers thinking I don’t know what, that it may be better the second time, NOT. Yuk. I called and got the usual apology and promise of better next time, we shall see.

FYI the Arlington location has been shut down for «repeated and serious health code violations.» I have no idea if the management of the other locations is the same… but you may want to check that out for the Cambridge and Somerville locations.

New Asia was highly recommended to me not long ago by my hairdresser, who I love as a person and my hair stylist, but may not be the best judge of really good Chinese food. (Lisa, if you find this, forgive me.)
I took a new route home one day that put me right in line with New Asia, so I decided to take her suggestion and grab some take out. The place was mostly dark, quiet and empty, except for the police officer.
New Asia apparently has a homeless person or two sleeping in its back entrance at night, and the officer was trying to convey to the owner, «You can’t leave your door unlocked! You’re near Alewife!»
The owner came scooting upfront when she spotted me. She was patient as I looked over the menu and finally placed my order for a combo meal of General Gau’s Chicken. I sat to wait for it. She went to the back again to continue being reprimanded by the police officer.
I didn’t like sitting and waiting for it. The place was not warm and inviting — its neon sign doing it no good at all. Maybe the cop thing wasn’t helping.
Luckily I got my food in 10 minutes, like the nice lady said, and rushed home to dive in with my chopsticks (after I dusted them off). Too bad I was quickly disappointed. The sauce on the chicken was super sweet — way more sweet than spicy, bordering on sweet and sour — the egg drop soup was ho hum and the egg roll was just not good. It may be important to note that I rarely eat Chinese food, and when I do it tends to be at the nicer, pricier Chinese restaurants, so this could just be a matter of my taste. But the only thing I really enjoyed was the crab rangoon. The rest went to the cat or the fridge, just in case I decide to eat the leftovers before those big disposal trucks come by for a pick up Tuesday morning.