221 Country Club Park (Crestline Village, Mountain Brook)
870-9358
Dine-in, take-out and delivery. A thread on cheap eats on Chowhound.com in August 2007 noted, "They are quick, pretty inexpensive, and more importantly, they DELIVER. I've had their pot stickers and steamed chicken and vegetables. Both were very tasty."

813 Green Springs Hwy Ste F
942-9782
On Green Springs Hwy. across from Mazer's in the Homewood area, Chop Suey is mostly known for good, inexpensive, Americanized Chinese takeout food, including egg rolls amd bacon fried rice. One person described it on Chowhound.com as "the little hole in the wall that could," and someone on the Homewood board on Al.com said, "Chop Suey is much better than that over-priced place on Valley."

7740 Crestwood Blvd. (Irondale area, near Century Plaza)
956-8287
Huge, all-you-can eat buffet with more than 100 items daily. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Get it to go by the pound. You can also order off the menu.

4647 K Highway 280, Riverhills Shopping Center, Inverness area
991-3197
Lunch and dinner. Beautiful, if a bit shabby, surroundings. Very good, typical Chinese-American food. Some of the best hot-and-sour soup in town.

7001 Crestwood Blvd # 606 (west of Century Plaza)
595-6868
We haven't been there, but have heard from others that they have excellent hot and sour soup and some of the best egg rolls in town.

514 Cahaba Park Circle (off Hwy. 280 across from Target plaza)
991-3803
Reviewers on Yahoo Travel give it five stars for the food, with high marks for hot and sour soup. If you're adventurous and not in a hurry, try the whole Szechuan fish.

243 West Valley Ave., Homewood
945-9558
Lunch and dinner. No alcohol available. Part of the Super Oriental Market, Red Pearl Restaurant offers Chinese-American staples like Sesame Chicken and Moo Goo Gai Pan, but also more authentic fare such as sizzling pork intestines in Szechuan sauce and fish head hot pot.

4500 Montevallo Road, Suite 103B (a block west of the intersection with Oporto Madrid; not far from Century Plaza/Crestwood area)
951-3168
A Bhamdining reader told us Shangri-La has "some of the best Chinese I've had in Alabama. Their hot and sour soup with fresh  mushrooms and shrimp is to die for." Reviews on Yahoo! Travel give it five stars, praising the hot and sour soup, egg drop soup, mu shu pork, crispy duck. One says, "High quality ingredients at fair prices served promptly. Can't ask or expect more from a 'strip mall' dining experience."

3154 Heights Village, Vestavia/Cahaba Heights
968-3988
www.wanschinese.com
Owned by the Wan family, which has owned and operated Chinese restaurants in the Birmingham area for over a decade. Fairly typical Chinese-American restaurant menu, with a few more interesting-looking offerings under the specialties menu, such as spicy stir-fried lobster, pine nut fish, and a pork dish that includes Chinese preserved vegetables. Lunch and dinner; limited delivery to Cahaba Heights, Liberty Park and Mountain Brook.