Great place! Same people who established Koyame, and sold it, if I have been correctly informed.

Kung Fu is superb!

Best Hot and Sour soup I have had in or near the Villages!

Wonderful service and very clean! It was a pleasure to eat there!

When the restaurant is crowded and dishes turn over quickly buffet can be good. Find veggies at ichiban nice and crunchy.

We love Koyame! It's is consistently delicious! They same people have worked there since we have lived in TV. Kung Fu is good also.

"Americanized" Chinese is found everywhere including Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou where it is loaded with enough msg to swell anyone's legs.

"Authentic" is a word beloved by food snobs who would recoil from much if it when they saw the exotic animals and body parts on the menu.

Forty years ago I was living in Beijing and eating Chinese food at nearly every meal. I loved the food. I’ve also had wonderful Hong Kong style Chinese food in Hong Kong. But there are a lot of food districts in China. In my opinion, south Chinese cooks don’t really know how to cook Chinese food from other areas, even if they are very good at making their own food. I know New York has some outstanding Chinese restaurants, but definitely not all of them! I’ve had mediocre meals in Chinatown. I’ve also had excellent dishes from tiny restaurants in small towns. It really comes down to whether the place has a good cook at that time, not to how fancy the place is. (And a lot of the cooks in Chinese restaurants may have real Chinese cooks, but that doesn’t mean they were trained as cooks in China. Many were not, but instead learned to cook here because they needed a job.) Some dishes, like General Tso’s Chicken and Moo Goo anything and LoMein anything and spring rolls and potstickers (remember Chop Suey?) may taste good, but they are popular American dishes, and not really Chinese. If that’s what you order, I’m not sure I can trust your review. But maybe I’ll try it.

You may think Chinese is Chinese, and where a cook learned doesn’t matter, but what really matters is what the cook grew up EATING. For example, a cook from Shanghai may know a lot about how many Shanghai foods should taste and so know if he is getting that taste when he cooks, but if he hasn’t spent a lot of time eating Szechuan food, he may make it without knowing how it is really supposed to taste. It’s a bit like going to, say, Applebee’s (where I’ve never eaten) and ordering a Philly Cheese Steak or a Hot Pastrami on Rye or Gumbo or even New York-style Pizza. The food may arrive at the restaurant in a single serving plastic bag frozen or is made by a chef who has never tasted the real thing. Consider that in New York a thousand delis make hot pastrami on rye, yet some are much better than others. Same with pizza. Ever gone to London and ordered a Big Mac at McDonald’s? (No, I haven’t either, but I hear that McDonald’s food in England and France and Japan, etc., don’t taste much like what we are used to. That’s partly because the cooks don’t know what the dishes are supposed to taste like.)

I mostly carry out Chinese food. Cheng's is my favorite as it's quick, well packaged in stay hot containers, and quite tasty. King Fu Chef is also very good and just a notch below.

We were in the area of Koyame last week and decided to have lunch there. Hoped it would be good like the old Koyame but it wasn't. I ordered my favorite, Hot and Sour Soup. The soup had decent hot but not a hint of sour. The Sweet and Sour Chicken didn't have much chicken in it. Can't wait to try Kung Fu Chef.

The wife and I like Chengs, Kung Fu Chef, Koyame and even Panda Express. All slightly different but all tasty. Sometimes good, sometimes not so good. But we keep going anyway.

People "from NYC picky about Chinese food"- then first thing mentions a dish (Gen Tso's chicken) that is completely American, is not a Chinese dish.

NYC people believe their own BS.

LOL

Please do not generalize. Having said this some of the Americanized Chinese dishes we have had are still rather good.

And after going to China about a dozen times think I am qualified in my opinion

Agreed!!

We just closed on our Villages house early May from NY. KungFu was just as good as NY Chinese restaurants.

Also found we love NYPD pizza. We are thinking they must have the water shipped in from NY.

I agree about a buffet, however they have raw selections and a person that will make your stir fry with everything that you may want to add. (Veggies and protein) While they are cooking I go over and get my hot sauce off the buffet. My only complaint is that their mirrors and windows aren’t clean.

While we liked Kung Fu, we found NYPD Pizza to be trash. No better than frozen Sams Club pizza.

Hard to find pizza that is as good as NY here. Napolino is the closest we have found. Have been getting more Calzones as that is easiest to make well.