Kai's - Kingston

Tried this place for the first time and was impressed!!

TLDR; if you like salty food and you're not picky about Chinese food, give it a try.Staff is attentive for a take out place and friendly. The son/grandson is adorable and a delight. They definitely do mostly takeout as there are only two booths available. There is a restroom, though we did not use it.The food was OK. Relatively standard American Chinese takeout; IYKYK the distinction.The main issue is that everything meant to be savory is too salty. You lose the flavors of the beef, oyster sauce, hoisin, umami etc. in all the salt. So if you like salty food, this place is good for you.The beef we ordered was velveted nicely. Perhaps a tad too long, but still better than undervelveted. It's too bad the flavor of the beef and sauce was lost in the salt.The General Tso's chicken sauce is excellent, and the crunch on the freshly fried breading was good (we ate in, so it didn't sit). However, this was overshadowed by the quality of the fried chicken as it was mostly breading on a lot of the pieces.I wasn't expecting deep fried dumplings but they were OK. The dim sum (siumai) was better, though also very salty. We did not end up liking the szechuan dumplings at all. They seemed undercooked and weirdly mushy, and served with too much salty peanut sauce that drowned out any flavor the dumpling filling would've had.

Not a place you go to sit down at but what good Chinese is? and this is some of the

The people here complaining about the General Tso chicken really need help, they make the best General Tso chicken around, it's always crispy and never had a problem with it, the people making the bad remarks I bet never ate there, they just post bad remarks.

I went there with my little bby boy and they where so nice and welcoming !!! The place was so clean and the food was amazing my new favorite Chinese restaurant ! Plus the food was made very quick ! Will be back Kid-friendliness: Very kid friendly