Top’s China Restaurant

Tops has been one of my go to places for years. The chicken sticks there are the best I’ve ever had. They are a no frills place but you get high quality Chinese standards there. I always order the lo mein and ask them to make it spicy, which they always do. I recommend the chicken sticks, general tso, crab rangoon, and pretty much anything. If your looking for a deal, ask for the combo meal which comes with fried or white rice and some come with an egg roll. The combos are huge portions. I wouldn’t say this is an eat in kind of place but definitely good for carry out. They never take more than 10 minutes to complete your order. I think people that say they aren’t nice there are just culturally ignorant, they are awesome. Eat at Tops in Hopewell!

Went in during lunch, no friendly greeting, stood at the counter for quite awhile before being acknowledged, normally I would have left after a few minutes as I feel it’s rude and not very professional to have customers at the counter and not even bother to greet or explain that it would be a few moments before someone is available. It’s apparent they were readying orders that were called in already and didn’t seem to concerned about walk-​ins.
Finally, after 7 minutes acknowledgement comes and we’re asked for our order, the place is unassuming & divish, you grab your drink from a cooler that sits off to the side of the counter and pay for it with your order, we then took a seat to wait for our meal, not too long before she appears with the food, typical american chinese fare, fried rice (house) wings, shrimp lo-​mein, paper plates/​plastic ware, the taste was average, nothing special, it hit the spot for that moment in time, the entire experience was underwhelming, so much so I forgot to leave a tip, lol… just thought about how much I left, I wouldn’t return to this joint, there are many in the area that must have better customer service/​food.

Their chicken wings were really good, it had a curry flavor to it. Their jumbo shrimp was ok, kind of dry and no dipping sauce. The fried rice was also good. The price was average in my opinion.

They have gone up on their prices and the portions are smaller, even the shrimp fried rice has less shrimp in it than previous. Ex: chicken and broccoli combo which comes with pork fried rice and one eggroll is now $ 7.50. That’s too much for a take out place. The food is usually pretty good.

Fast service even at noon. I ordered 2 spring rolls, hot and sour soup, and Singapore chow mei fun. Everything was hot and very tasty. They have a few tables for eating in. Most of their business seems to be take out.

a little more pricey than i expected from the condition of the place but the food was good and they got our order right.

Good lord — I still feel the grease bomb after eating lunch here… five years ago.
This place hasn’t changed a bit. I stopped by thinking I would get something to eat — but after seeing the same set up, the same dishes, same menu, and same musty smell to the joint mixed in with caked in oil, I lost my appetite. Something about eating better food in DC a la Oriental East made me never want to come back here again. Granted, I have to give the joint credit since it didn’t kill me for the three years that I used to come for a bottom-​of-​the-​list dinner choice when I was too lazy to cook.