Big Apple
Chinese · Arverne
About Big Apple
Located in Arverne, Big Apple is a neighborhood favorite serving lunch and dinner with a focus on comfort food and small plates. We offer convenient options for everyone, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. With a wide array of choices, from quick bites to vegetarian options, there's s...
Located in Arverne, Big Apple is a neighborhood favorite serving lunch and dinner with a focus on comfort food and small plates. We offer convenient options for everyone, including delivery, takeout, and dine-in service. With a wide array of choices, from quick bites to vegetarian options, there's something for every taste. We're committed to providing a welcoming experience, including a wheelchair accessible entrance. Big Apple is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We are closed on Tuesdays. We are proud to be rated 4.0 out of 5 stars by 195 reviewers.
What Customers Say About Big Apple
Big Apple in Arverne is praised for its fresh-tasting Chinese food, particularly the General Tso's chicken (all white meat) and pork dishes. Some customers have reported issues with rude phone service, delivery, and order accuracy.
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Big Apple Arverne Reviews
This place is fantastic! Can't say enough how good the food is, with quick delivery. The portions are big too. It is my favorite Chinese food place!!
RyDawg.....try them again. They had problem with delivery drivers and also they were very new. They now have the hang of things. Their food is unbelievable. There is not a Chinese Restaurant in Rockaway that even cones close to this place, I can absolutely promise that. I haven't had chinese food this good since I ate in Chinatown or last had China New Star. Also, they arw the only Chinese restaurant in Rockaway that actually puts egg in their fried rice. NO ONE does that anymore! All if their food is freshly cooked, they don't pre-cook food and re-heat. Give it a whirl and I promise you'll be hooked and will order again and again! No one in Rockaway can touch this place!
I never been to a Chinese restaurant that fried the chicken fresh. The chicken was so fresh and hot. I was 100 percent pleased. The guy even bought our food to our table. Excellent customer service and food
Really good food here and prices are a little higher then some places but the quality of food and the amount of food you get is totally worth it it is definitely my go to Chinese food spot in the area
Wonderful Chinese food and great service. Very nice most friendliest staff. The Food is superior to just about any Chinese take out place I've ever tried. And believe me I've tried many. Very fast and reliable delivery. Fresh ingredients skilfully prepared. Absolutely recommended try it!
There food is aw-mazing! The place is always clean. Since I found this place like two years ago it never fail or disappoints. Try a variety of dishes really enjoy their Thai food. They food is one closes to home. Customer service is an A plus although the language barrier. Their English and understanding is great.
I took my mother here for her birthday (she loves Chinese). I tried their spicy garlic tofu and it blew my mind. It was so flavorful, I wish I were closer so I could order it weekly😅
Best Chinese in Rockaway, period. Just do yourself a favor and avoid all the others, their food is legitimately fresh and the fried rice isn't yellow like everywhere else, it's actual fried rice.
Good fresh dishes. More than enough quality
One of the best Chinese food restaurants in Rockaway. Old school Chinese food. The fried rice has egg and perfectly cooked pork. Who does that anymore. When you get chicken dishes there real chicken not pressed or bad pieces. Your getting quality food here which will be smiles on everyone's face. I have tried something different every time from seafood, chicken , beef and pork and always quality dishes. Oh and the hot fresh mustard! Make a trip won't be disappointed and you will make this a regular trip!
This place is insanely good. Their chicken and pork dishes are the tastiest. I don’t think we had better Chinese food in NY than this.
This place is insanely good. Their chicken and pork dishes are the tastiest. I don’t think we had better Chinese food in NY than this.
I grew up in Chinatown, and this is the only Chinese restaurant in the Rockaway area I'll eat.
They actually remember my name;They try to satisfy everyone;The sweet sauce for chicken has a natural taste; remember to communicate suggestions to make you satisfied..
This is by far the best American Chinese food I’ve ever had. The general tso chicken is ENTIRELY white meat tenders. Unreal! It’s the Chinese food I’ve always wanted and never knew existed. Also, get the Szechuan dumplings - insanely good. Huge portions, excellent quality. I honestly won’t order form anywhere else :)
Well the most important thing to me is the food is delicious..No matter what I order I always love it..I would highly recommend this place to anyone.
I recently moved over here and fell in love with how fresh this place food taste. My first order was from the Chinese spot on beach 116th st near the chase bank and it was horrible. So horrible I wasn’t going back to try anything else. I found big Apple on google. My first order was half chicken with egg fried rice and it was too good. This order here in the photo is a shrimp and broccoli combo meal small. The portions is great. The combo comes with soup, egg roll. This order is $11.80 I believe, and it’s definitely worth it. I’m glad I didn’t have the same experience some people I see in the reviews had. This is my go to spot.
Good fresh dishes. More than enough quality
They actually remember my name;They try to satisfy everyone;The sweet sauce for chicken has a natural taste; remember to communicate suggestions to make you satisfied..
Well the most important thing to me is the food is delicious..No matter what I order I always love it..I would highly recommend this place to anyone.
Best Chinese in Rockaway, period. Just do yourself a favor and avoid all the others, their food is legitimately fresh and the fried rice isn't yellow like everywhere else, it's actual fried rice.
This is by far the best American Chinese food I’ve ever had. The general tso chicken is ENTIRELY white meat tenders. Unreal! It’s the Chinese food I’ve always wanted and never knew existed. Also, get the Szechuan dumplings - insanely good. Huge portions, excellent quality. I honestly won’t order form anywhere else :)
I recently moved over here and fell in love with how fresh this place food taste. My first order was from the Chinese spot on beach 116th st near the chase bank and it was horrible. So horrible I wasn’t going back to try anything else. I found big Apple on google. My first order was half chicken with egg fried rice and it was too good. This order here in the photo is a shrimp and broccoli combo meal small. The portions is great. The combo comes with soup, egg roll. This order is $11.80 I believe, and it’s definitely worth it. I’m glad I didn’t have the same experience some people I see in the reviews had. This is my go to spot.
Big fan of the chicken and pork dishes. Everything else is pretty average
My family and I ordered food from their website and walk-in take out. I order several dishes from shrimp and broccoli, fried rice, fried half chicken, to their BBQ ribs. All was tasty and not greasy. I like how they seasoned and sliced the chicken and the taste of the fried rice w/egg and ribs brought me back to my childhood when a lot of the chinesee food restaurants and their dishes were very authentic! I definitely recommend this spot!
The food is fresh, good and definitely not your regular Chinese take out. The wings are excellent along with the shrimp rolls, omg you must try. Great place and the staff are very nice.
Layout/atmosphere *Three tables Food/drink *Boneless spare ribs with pork fried rice - solid; sauce was sweet, little too much overall (amount on the meat); no bean sprouts but scrambled egg in fried rice (preferred that) *Egg drop soup - good *Egg roll - good
Layout/atmosphere *Three tables Food/drink *Boneless spare ribs with pork fried rice - solid; sauce was sweet, little too much overall (amount on the meat); no bean sprouts but scrambled egg in fried rice (preferred that) *Egg drop soup - good *Egg roll - good
Big fan of the chicken and pork dishes. Everything else is pretty average
My family and I ordered food from their website and walk-in take out. I order several dishes from shrimp and broccoli, fried rice, fried half chicken, to their BBQ ribs. All was tasty and not greasy. I like how they seasoned and sliced the chicken and the taste of the fried rice w/egg and ribs brought me back to my childhood when a lot of the chinesee food restaurants and their dishes were very authentic! I definitely recommend this spot!
The female employee Taking the order over the phone was very rude and uncourteous. She would not honor the lunch special schedule at 3:26 PM She would not take a delivery order.. I've never experienced that type of customer service before when I placed orders in the past. Because of this behavior is why I rated 3 but the food is good. Customer service is not good.
Excellent food, but this one delivery guy leaves a lot to be desired. I have bad knees and I'm not gonna hurry up cause he said so. Please for the love of God hire better drivers or go on an app.
Excellent food, but this one delivery guy leaves a lot to be desired. I have bad knees and I'm not gonna hurry up cause he said so. Please for the love of God hire better drivers or go on an app.
The female employee Taking the order over the phone was very rude and uncourteous. She would not honor the lunch special schedule at 3:26 PM She would not take a delivery order.. I've never experienced that type of customer service before when I placed orders in the past. Because of this behavior is why I rated 3 but the food is good. Customer service is not good.
I have this take-out another chance tonight after a prior order that was oily. Greasy again. And yes, the person taking the orders could work on being more inviting.
The food is usually very good and the proportions are fair. But the delivery man and staff are obscenely rude, this will be my last time ordering from here.
The food is good but the portions are sad...they give u those plastic containers instead of the regular paper ones because they hold half the amount
Great food, I'm very disappointed in my last 2 interactions. Both times deals with poor delivery. The very last one I had to call them 5 times to track my food and they stopped answering, so I ordered from somewhere else and then they show up, had to tell them to send it back where it came from. Again, food is fantastic but they are very unreliable when it comes to delivery.
terrible food, old rice, oily eggrolls, never has a good taste, this is not good chinese food, chicken with mushrooms came with no brown sauce looked horrible, SAVE YOUR MONEY AND DO NOT ORDER
Most unprofessional place in history of Chinese food. Customer service is very very very bad and they are the worst of all. I will keep posting my encounter with them as a shame and please people don't go there because you need respect for your money you want to spend.
Teriyaki chicken: Big pieces of dry, white meat chicken sitting on top of a small amount of tastless sauce. Nothing teriyaki about that. Boneless pork ribs: Tiny dry shredded pieces of tough pork. They forgot the small pork fried rice. Had to wait an additional 30+ minutes for the tastless rice to be delivered.
Bad customer service skills and the guy who takes orders always have a nasty attitude. They always forget to put sauces and utencils even after you tell them nunerous times. Id rather take my money and spend it somewhere else. Ill advise the same
Showed up around 10..no one paid no mind to me and when I asked if I could get food..one of the workers without even looking me rudely yelled "closed"...Google says they are open until 1030. Not sure why I was treated this way, but not gonna happen again..won't be returning. Thank you big apple!!!
Want bad service, attitude and getting rushed for your order like there's 2mil people in line behind you? You've found the place for you! G-d forbid cell service is a little shotty in Rockaway (as usual) and they miss 1 thing you say, you're automatically hung up on. Miserable experience every time, without fail...
They don’t bring the food you order the service old food to ppl in the black community the food doesn’t be fresh as when go in person no napkins no, spoons, or forks
So I ordered wings with french fries, I got only wings no french fries, the funny part they gave me 0 napkins!!! This place is awful!!! 1 star you deserve!
I ordered the lunch special online by 3pm, and picked it up at 330pm, the owner called me and said I must pick up the lunch special by 3pm, a dollar or two off. SmH Unreal
Took over an hour and thirty mins to bring my food and iam near by and had the nerve to be upset with me when iam trying to get the money when your company is not sufficient or professional... Snatched the money and and called me names when he didnt know i knew his language!!! Work on your costumer service
A couple of weeks ago on a Friday night I ordered Beef chow fun, and shrimp with broccoli. Food POISONING is what I bought. Woke up in the middle of the night with extreme stomach pain and vomiting. Took my body a week to recuperate. Will never buy from this place again. With the old owners I never got sick from their food.
Will never order again could never figure out why my bill was always more expensive than what it showed online. Coming to find out restaurant automatically charges you for a delivery tip because they assume that you are not going to tip the driver. This is absolutely illegal. They advertise free delivery and it is optional whether you want to tip the driver or not it is not up to them to automatically just charge you a fee without your consent
Look at this long black hair that was inside my steamed vegetable dumpling and then imagine how disgusting it would be pulling it out of your mouth and take note of how the hair is embedded in the dough. Update I called the " restaurant " and I was told “ not our probrem we don't make here, we will give you free dumprings and TWO free egg rolls “ WOW now I'm actually happy I had that long disgusting hair in my mouth! I hope I find a toenail in the free ones!!!
Asked for shrimp lo mien and got this! The female that picked up the phone was nasty and rude. When I called to say I had the wrong order she hung up the phone! Not a good way to keep customers! Will never order from this place again! Be ware this food looks disgusting!
Asked for shrimp lo mien and got this! The female that picked up the phone was nasty and rude. When I called to say I had the wrong order she hung up the phone! Not a good way to keep customers! Will never order from this place again! Be ware this food looks disgusting!
So I gave this place one more chance tonight, after dealing with a very obnoxious female taking phone orders, and an even worse delivery guy. I work in a Rehabilitation Center in Rockaway Park, and have personally seen their delivery driver yell at patients, and customers when they didn't pay fast enough. He is a terribly miserable person who shouldn't even be doing deliveries because he so angry and obnoxious. Tonight, again, I ordered. The delivery driver texts me a picture of the food, rather than coming into the building to deliver. Although I wasn't too happy about his delivery procedure, I STILL gave him a $4.00 tip. He threw my change on to the counter here at the rehab center, and stormed out. Do I eat the food? Their delivery driver was so obnoxious and disrespectful, that I question whether or not to even eat what was delivered. The food there is ok. But the service, attitude, and unpleasant people taking your order, and a mean horribly disrespectful delivery guy, that happens to be one of the most disrespectful obnoxious delivery guys I have ever met to date. Do not order from this place. These people have a seriously BAD attitude. So although their food is < pretty good > I will not allow myself to be treated like that by ANY establishment that I order from. They do NOT deserve another dime from me. Tonight is the last time that I will ever be ordering from them.
Got the order wrong and INSISTED that they got it right instead of fixing their mistake. Unacceptable.
Absolutely poor customer service. Very nasty staff
They lost me as a customer today They tried to charge me extra for Pork fried rice after ordering lunch special at 255 pm. This must be a new scam as lunch special comes with vegetable fried rice. After being a loyal customer and giving them tips they are so cheap and disloyal and untrustworthy that they wanted me to wait for vegetable fried rice to be cooked. They should have apologized and given me the Pork fried rice with my lunch special at lunch special price. Goodbye Big Apple.
The tables were dirty, they got my order wrong, then got nasty with me, then threw the food on the counter and sucked his teeth. When I asked them to put something on the fries they just threw the ketchup at me. Maybe they were having a bad day, but I won’t be ordering from them again. I didn’t even get a refund.
Unhygienic. Our office ordered the lo mein house special. Along with all the meats, a roach was cooked into the food. 🤮
Shame Shame Shame , I live in Rockaway Park , my family has been here for 4 generations . I can’t believe how upsetting this is for myself and my family . I have ordered here since this place opened up in my neighborhood . The service and quality of the food has gone down hill but this will be my last time ever ordering here again … I can’t believe that a restaurant would send food that is no longer good to eat . What I mean to say is … the food is rotten , going bad . Shame on you just to make a buck . Food poisoning is NO JOKE . Shame on you to put myself and my family at risk to getting sick just so you can make a buck . To my Rockaway Family please be careful what you’re ordering here . Please double check what you’re eating . Again I say , protect yourself . I will no longer order here . I will drive to Howard beach and get my Chinese food . Sooo disappointed ….. Can’t trust anyone anymore …
DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE ... I ORDERED DELIVERY IT WAS SOGGY FRIED .. WORST EGG ROLL I HAVE EVER SEEN OR HAD .. SO SMALL ESPECIALLY FOR 4 DOLLARS .. ORDER FROM DRAGON KING ! YOU WILL THANK ME
DO NOT DO DELIVERY WITH THEM. I ordered hunan beef lunch special & got beef with hard broccoli. Receipt & online receipt say 2 different things, wrong apt too it went to! But the food is good🙄
Absolutely horrible. Every time we order they forget something. tonight it was egg rolls and lomein! Food tasted horrible as well. They came with egg rolls then still forgot the lomein! Do not use this place they are horrible! So upset Kam fung is gone. Big Apple sucks!!
Got the order wrong and INSISTED that they got it right instead of fixing their mistake. Unacceptable.
Shame Shame Shame , I live in Rockaway Park , my family has been here for 4 generations . I can’t believe how upsetting this is for myself and my family . I have ordered here since this place opened up in my neighborhood . The service and quality of the food has gone down hill but this will be my last time ever ordering here again … I can’t believe that a restaurant would send food that is no longer good to eat . What I mean to say is … the food is rotten , going bad . Shame on you just to make a buck . Food poisoning is NO JOKE . Shame on you to put myself and my family at risk to getting sick just so you can make a buck . To my Rockaway Family please be careful what you’re ordering here . Please double check what you’re eating . Again I say , protect yourself . I will no longer order here . I will drive to Howard beach and get my Chinese food . Sooo disappointed ….. Can’t trust anyone anymore …
The tables were dirty, they got my order wrong, then got nasty with me, then threw the food on the counter and sucked his teeth. When I asked them to put something on the fries they just threw the ketchup at me. Maybe they were having a bad day, but I won’t be ordering from them again. I didn’t even get a refund.
DO NOT DO DELIVERY WITH THEM. I ordered hunan beef lunch special & got beef with hard broccoli. Receipt & online receipt say 2 different things, wrong apt too it went to! But the food is good🙄
So I gave this place one more chance tonight, after dealing with a very obnoxious female taking phone orders, and an even worse delivery guy. I work in a Rehabilitation Center in Rockaway Park, and have personally seen their delivery driver yell at patients, and customers when they didn't pay fast enough. He is a terribly miserable person who shouldn't even be doing deliveries because he so angry and obnoxious. Tonight, again, I ordered. The delivery driver texts me a picture of the food, rather than coming into the building to deliver. Although I wasn't too happy about his delivery procedure, I STILL gave him a $4.00 tip. He threw my change on to the counter here at the rehab center, and stormed out. Do I eat the food? Their delivery driver was so obnoxious and disrespectful, that I question whether or not to even eat what was delivered. The food there is ok. But the service, attitude, and unpleasant people taking your order, and a mean horribly disrespectful delivery guy, that happens to be one of the most disrespectful obnoxious delivery guys I have ever met to date. Do not order from this place. These people have a seriously BAD attitude. So although their food is < pretty good > I will not allow myself to be treated like that by ANY establishment that I order from. They do NOT deserve another dime from me. Tonight is the last time that I will ever be ordering from them.
They lost me as a customer today They tried to charge me extra for Pork fried rice after ordering lunch special at 255 pm. This must be a new scam as lunch special comes with vegetable fried rice. After being a loyal customer and giving them tips they are so cheap and disloyal and untrustworthy that they wanted me to wait for vegetable fried rice to be cooked. They should have apologized and given me the Pork fried rice with my lunch special at lunch special price. Goodbye Big Apple.
A couple of weeks ago on a Friday night I ordered Beef chow fun, and shrimp with broccoli. Food POISONING is what I bought. Woke up in the middle of the night with extreme stomach pain and vomiting. Took my body a week to recuperate. Will never buy from this place again. With the old owners I never got sick from their food.
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