Hunan Star

My family and I order here all the time, and it is one of our favorite Chinese take out joints ever. The service is wonderful, the prices good and many excellent dishes. We recommend the beef broccoli lo mein (I have never even like this dish before, but it’s great here with very tender beef).

I love this take out joint. There are two tables for dining in but it’s mostly take out. The lunch special menu is huge with about 25 items all priced under $ 7. The portions are a little smaller these days but the flavor and value is still there like it was in the past when I went there more often. Very friendly owners.

If you read this before going/​ordering, please remember:
SINGAPORE NOODLES, POT STICKERS.
Each of the two dishes above is on par w/​any competitor in the entire Chicago-​area. I struggled with 4 or 5 stars because of the lack of depth in the menu that I can attest to, but to give 4 would essentially penalize them for making my 2 favorite dishes so well, I haven’t even considered veering elsewhere on the menu.
The pot stickers are huge, w/​just perfect thickness to the wrapper and a juicy flavorful pork filling. Discovering Hunan Star was the perfect remedy to the prior North Evanston/​Wilmette pot sticker destination’s closure (Wah Mei on Linden).
Singapore noodles are just no brainer 100% perfect score on value, 95%+ on flavor. The portion is huge. It is the traditional baby shrimp and BBQ pork protein combo w/​a healthy amount of sliced bell peppers.
The matriarch owner is so sweet and always there handing you order w/​a smile. Please, somebody tell me their pot stickers aren’t great. If you’re out there, anywhere, please speak up!

Love the food!!! Chicken fried rice, orange chicken, and the egg rolls are my favorites. The service here is great, too. Very friendly people make the phone ordering/​pick up process so easy.

Tried this place after years of parking next to it when I shopped at TJ Maxx. I tried the Singapore noodle from the other reviews. It was definitely the right choice. It tasted just like the box meals from Chinatown. The only thing I took off a star for it was a bit on the pricey end. I know the owners need to make money, but this dish could probably have been a few dollars cheaper.

This place is great. Great quality ingredients and always consistently good. I love the owners. They are so pleasant. I’m going here even today cuz I’m craving their egg rolls and egg drop soup. Yummy.

Surprisingly decent for a fair price.

It was so bad, I thought the garbage disposal would refuse the 85% of the meal I gave it. $ 23 for Mongolian Beef — which was awful — and two egg rolls — which might as well have had shredded paper instead of vegetables — and that thing they called a Kung Pao Vegetable entrée, which made up for its lack of flavor by completely forgetting that vegetables need not come out of a frozen bag.
There’s a laundromat next door, and I’ll need to get some bleach there and put my taste buds on Sanitize setting.

Good food, not great. But for the Evanston area and the lack of good Chinese restaurants, this is a good local place. I like the veggie egg foo young, egg rolls and the kung pao chicken. It’s a total dive looking place but there is always a line of people waiting for their takeout. Order ahead to minimize your wait and lessen the time sitting in the ambience of a 1960 Chinese takeout store. There is one table where you can eat in but no table service. There are some counter spaces too along the windows if you enjoy looking at the TJ Max parking lot or the dry cleaners. Then there is also Golf road. I can go one forever. The very frienly and accomodating lady that runs the store is the owner and has been running it for years.

Me and the family have been ordering food from Hunan Star for over 20 years. The food has been consistently delicious and the owner (May) is very warm and friendly. She knows us by name and remembers our favorite menu items. I’ve tried other Asian restaurants in Evanston, even the pricey ones, and none can compare.

I actually like this place a lot. I’ve been to several Chinese restaurants in the area since I’ve been here in the area. The worst of the all is ENG’S. I FOUND a hair in my daughters food and when we called to complain we were given the run around. So I’ll never go back there again… I’ve been to Bejings on Lincoln Ave too expensive the food is good but way overpriced. Hunan Star is very good in my opinion, it’s reasonable and the owner is really nice. I’ve gotten several different entrees and they have been very good. I lived in St. Louis for a bunch a yrs and the Chinese food the is equal to known. So I say that to say Hunan Star is very good I wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true.

This is my 3^rd time eating from this restaurant & it will be my last. The price of the food is very reasonable but, the food is sooooo salty I’m unable to finish.

This place sucks!!! To start, my coworker had a basic request to have the sweet n sour sauce from his lunch menu order put on the side, apparently this is a difficult task because the lady there expressed to him that this is impossible to do for his order and if he wanted the sauce on the side then he’ll have to do a large order and pay extra. Then my request to add meat to the lunch special fried rice, which by the way only comes with egg n onion, was denied even after I expressed I was willing to pay an upcharge. She then stated like my coworker, if i wanted meat added I would have to order an additional fried rice.
Now to the food, my coworker ordered chicken n broccoli, which comes with half a head of broccoli n only 3 small soggy strips of chicken… I on the other hand had the Mongolian beef which came with a whopping entire onion mixed with my tuff beef… the sauces were OK, nothing special especially if you count out all the flavor the MSG gave them, but with out it I would have never been able to muscle down my bland meatless fried rice, I’m sorry but in all my years of eating Chinese food I’ve never had so many chunks of old bottom pot white rice in with my fried rice… after this experience I would never go back… frankly I’m disappointed, for I was hoping that this was the grease spoon joint for me…

Hunan Star has made it hard for me to want to go anywhere else for Chinese takeout. This place was recommended to me by my boss and I have never had a bad experience. Singapore noodles and Spicy Tofu with pork (Mapo Tofu) were on point and the serving size is very generous. Have had their egg foo young and curry beef lunch specials and have been very satisfied. My coworkers have said great things about the sesame chicken and the Mongolian beef.
And let’s talk about the egg rolls: perfectly crispy, excellent fillings, easily tops the list for me of any Chinese restaurant.
Service is fantastic: the lady who answers the phone and works the counter (I believe she’s the owner) is the sweetest person in the world.
Would recommend to anyone in the Skokie area. I have pretty high standards and this place has yet to disappoint.

Ich. Don’t need to go there again. Sorry nice people, but not great food. Maybe it was an off night.

Love this place! They have great lunch specials too! Mongolian chicken, and egg foo young are too of my favorites!

It is so surprising to see how many did not like this place. I am very very picky about my Chinese food, and this place really was fantastic.
I ordered the Singapore Noodles; they were juicy, and full of flavor that didn’t overwhelm, Mongolian Beef; that was mostly beef, which is so rare to find, usually places are mostly veggies, and it was yummy, Chicken Fried Rice; the rice was moist and the chicken tasted fresh and flavorful, and Sweet and Sour Chicken; not my favorite, but it never is anywhere I go, it was still very good, and my boyfriend who ordered it, loved it! And finally the Eggrolls; so tasty and crisp with that fresh out of the oil taste, the ingredients in the Eggrolls made them even more fantastic.
The service? I spoke with the sweetest lady, and she was helpful with suggestions and very proud of the food, and why shouldn’t she be?
All in all, I have to completely disagree with the people who have a bad review, because this is my third time ordering from here and never once was the food bad or just mediocre. They must have gone on an off day.

The people running this place make ordering Chinese food enjoyable… and they’re even nicer when you pick up.
The food is consistently tasty and the best local option we’ve found sense leaving the city.
If you’re looking for good American Chinese takeout… give this spot a try.

Ordered the Sesame chicken, Empress chicken, crab Rangoon, fried rice and chicken wings. WORST FOOD EVER!
There was mixed reviews. Was hoping for the best, but was very disappointed.
Couldn’t tell the difference between the sesame and the empress. No flavor besides a salt like flavor, but without the salt like flavor. Yes, you read that right. I have never experienced that. Is that what MSG is?
Fried rice taste old and probably just refried to order.
Never again!
If you want some of the best Chinese food near this area, then you owe it to your taste buds to try Beijings on Lincoln ave in Lincolwood. Good prices too!

Wow, I just threw out over ½ of my meal. What a waste. :(
I JUST finished eating like 30 minutes ago. Ordered the sesame chicken lunch special and was very disappointed, would never re-​order.
1) The chicken was very soft, not coated/​harder as it is typically served but rather doughy/​soft. The pieces I did eat, I couldn’t cut into the chicken because it was mangled white/​dark meat and was disgusting to look at. (turn off)
2) The rice had no flavor. Like really, no flavor! Never had such bland rice.
3) The veggie egg roll had a «freezer» type taste (and smell) to it. I’ve had alot of egg or spring rolls in my life and never have they had a taste remotely close to it.
Funny thing is I just had the exact same thing on Sat in the city (Pilsen area) and it was night and day. I will never eat here again!