China Cate in Sault Ste. Marie

226 Ashmun St, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783, United States

★★★★☆
(273 reviews)
Categories: Chinese restaurant
Address
226 Ashmun St, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783, United States
Plus Code
FMX3+Q9 Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
Time Zone
America/Detroit

Business Hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11 AM–9 PM
Wednesday
11 AM–9 PM
Thursday
11 AM–9 PM
Friday
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday
11 AM–9 PM
Sunday
11:30 AM–9 PM

Services

Service options
Takeaway Dine-in Delivery
Popular for
Lunch Dinner Solo dining
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible car park Wheelchair-accessible entrance Wheelchair-accessible seating Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Offerings
Comfort food Healthy options Quick bite Small plates Vegetarian options
Dining options
Lunch Dinner
Amenities
Toilets
Atmosphere
Casual
Crowd
Groups Tourists University students
Planning
Accepts reservations
Payments
Credit cards Debit cards NFC mobile payments Credit cards
Children
Good for kids
Parking
Free of charge street parking Free parking lot

Photos

Reviews

4.1
★★★★☆
273 reviews

Most Mentioned

prices (33) plate (4) delivery (4) health (3) town (3) plastic (3) stars (3) atmosphere (3) sweet and sour chicken (2) crab rangoon (2)
5 stars
145
4 stars
67
3 stars
21
2 stars
14
1 stars
26
★★★★
September 25, 2024

Sweet little girl. Daughter. On her bike inside the restaurant. I didn’t really like the egg too young but it wasn’t what I should have ordered. The rice was great. My husband had sweet and sour chicken. Probably try again but won’t order same thing. No hot tea. Just soda. Better for pick up.

★★★★★
July 2, 2024

Favorite Chinese food! Love them, have been coming here for ever and will always be a loyal customer to them! Best deal in town Lunch specials are awesome!!

★★★★★
May 12, 2024

Idk what everyone’s problem is, China Kate is reliable, delicious Chinese food. It is just as good as any other Chinese takeout I’ve had over the years. Portion sizes are large enough to share, the staff have that place running like a well-oiled machine and order to pick up has never been more than 20-25 minutes. I love this place honestly

★★★★★
March 15, 2024

Orange chicken was absolutely smacking. They even gave my party desert and an extra drink free of charge, would recommend to anyone who is looking for a good Chinese place in town

★★★
March 12, 2024

I would eat here again, it wasn't bad but not the best. Hot sour soup tastes burnt. I've had other soup like this, not my thing. I'd give it another shot though. Chicken was a bit chewy, crab cheese was good but shaped weird and not a lot of filling. The fried rice was really good.

★★★
August 9, 2023

Since most Chinese restaurants use the Chinese starter kits for opening a restaurant it is hard to find a good Chinese restaurant these days. This place falls under the same tradition for restaurant starter kit food. We had broccoli and shrimp with noodles combo, chicken egg foo young with rice and chicken lo mein with rice. Portions we smaller than usual. Nothing really exciting to write about. Same traditional Chinese fare. Inexpensive. Low quality design I g area. We will most likely not come back

★★★★
May 15, 2021

Some of it was really good, some not so much. General Zsos chicken, good. House Family egg foo young, good. They came in plastic dish containers. The rest in pictures, had a funny taste while in cardboard, but when put on a plate, better. So, not sure why on that 🤔 but, if I do go back, im asking for plastic go trays.

★★★★★
July 2, 2020

We get take out here ALLLLLL the time - they're usually faster than the time they give you, but sometimes they're so busy you have to call a few times to get through. And if anyone wonders they've done more redoing their checkout to help prevent the spread of covid-19 than most places in town. Whatever you do, make sure you get some of their pork egg rolls! But their lo mein, moo shu, and dumplings are also really good

★★★★
Local Guide
October 23, 2024

Best chinese in town imho.

★★★★★
Local Guide
August 23, 2024

The best Chinese food weve had in quite some time! Glad the dining room is open!

August 23, 2024

Vegetarian options: Terrible food. Greasy, salty, poor service Tofu was over-fried. Food : 1/5

★★★★
Local Guide
June 23, 2024

The Food is Amazing. Always HOT an cooked awesome. Nice little Asian place love it. Ps ( the sweet tea is amazing as well )

★★★★★
Local Guide
May 23, 2024

All amazing good food service and prices only thing they need is delivery

★★★★★
April 23, 2024

ALWAYS GOOD

★★★★
Local Guide
April 23, 2024

Fast, cheap, and accurate.

★★★★★
Local Guide
March 23, 2024

Clean comfortable spacious restaurant. Affordable and delicious. The vegys were cooked perfectly in the meals. Vegetarian options: They actually have a soup made with vegetable broth rather than chicken.

★★★★★
March 23, 2024

This place is amazing, the food is so good and they are super nice!

★★★★★
March 23, 2024

They handled a big group of school kids without an issue. Were super nice and the food was spectacular!!

★★★★★
Local Guide
February 23, 2024

China Cate is Amazing food so far everything that I have ordered is Great. I am a very Happy Customer and I will let everyone I know to give them a try.

★★★
Local Guide
January 23, 2024

Food was ok. Prices ok. Nothing special. Didnt even ask if we wanted a drink. Place was empty at supper time.

★★★★★
January 23, 2024

10/10. Szechuan Beef was so good! Prices are always great. Cant go wrong here, I get it every week. Quick delicious food, great prices.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Good food for take out. Almost no one eating inside. Good food at good value. Highly recommend.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Friendly service and very good pricing! My husband and I both full dinners that we couldn t finish for $28 total. The chicken fried rice is always amazing. Cream cheese wontons are great too.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Best in the area. Very generous portions. Highly Recommend!

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

My shrimp fried rice had 2 tiny canned shrimps and appeared to have left over pork and chicken bits. The steamed pot stickers were good..not a real clean place, table was dirty

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

The food here is awesome and very authentic relative to what one can get in Michigan. The only problem is its downtown Sault ste Marie and the window, passer by first take on this business is awful. They need to clean their windows. They need to clean the shades and they need to make the entrance much more inviting. Otherwise the food is wonderful and the price is fantastic. Downtown development authority needs to help them with inviting people in.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Always my favorite Chinese place. I order every time I visit the Soo. The interior needs some updates but the food and service is always great. But like anywhere they have their off days too where it may not be as good as most days. 98% of the time I have 0 issues with this place.

December 23, 2023

there was hair in my soup and the rest of the food was bland/undercooked. waste of money.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Take out! Great!

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Great food and in a timely manner.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Nice place, ok food, no table service, but they have tables to eat there.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2023

Very nice staff. Everything was delicious. Reasonable prices.

★★★★★
December 23, 2023

Luv their food!!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Asian food at its best a la carte.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Always fresh choices... An abundance of plenty of choices...staff is very delightful... This place for Asian cuisine is my forte...

December 23, 2022

Prices on there online menu are cheaper then what they actually charge the staff is very rude and the food quality was poor

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Great prices, friendly staff and EXCELLENT food. Definitely will be visited again.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Sesame chicken was excellent. Sweet and sour chicken left much to be desired.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Was a very good meal. The cook was on point. I wish I liled closer.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Kung Pao was good. All our food was good, and relatively cheap. Our server seemed mad but she was speedy.

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

The best takeout restaurant in the soo

★★★★★
December 23, 2022

Great food! Always freshly made for you, tastes great, never a long wait and prices are fair. I recommend

December 23, 2022

I got food from them last night i BBQ boneless spare rib combination platter Steamed dumplings Egg Roll and a shrimp roll And a order crab rangoon. The egg roll was small and inside of it was brown. The shrimp roll and inside of it was brown it was not fresh I got old Rotten food and the crab rangoon had zero to no cream cheese filling. I spent over 25.00. This place is a disaster they USED TO HAVE GOOD FRESH FOOD NOT ANYMORE

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2022

Good food.

★★
December 23, 2021

They claim to be out of stuff all the time and give people the wrong order the blame it on you . Wont serve people. They do give refunds which is why I give 2 stars.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

We love China Cate, best Chinese food in the U.P.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

The food is very good but the place has a crazy screaming Chinese woman taking orders and running the register. She is definitely in the wrong line of work and should not be interacting with customers or anyone else on this planet. She is better suited to working somewhere alone with nobody around. She was screaming because I paid for my meal with change and I could overhear her being kurt with customers who were thinking about there order or yelling at other customers for asking for more napkins. Everyone should get a discount for having to put up with a rude person. I dont know why she has to yell, it all pays the same.

★★★★★
December 23, 2021

Chinese food, enuff said.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2021

Our food was good but our spicy dish was not spicy at all.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Really like China Cate... always solid ... wife and I like going there

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Its ok could have more fresh foid

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Always get food here when I come up this way. Orange chicken is on point.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Food is really good as usual but the service is always unfriendly and uninformative. I asked what was in the chicken chow mein fun and all I got was, chicken and chow mein... Very helpful. Not a huge Chinese foodie so Ive never tried it and was curious what kind of vegetables were in it if any.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

The food was great! The portions were huge for a great price!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Awesome food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Normal chinese food, fair prices and great staff! The only thing that could even make it better would be delivery or online ordering, but that is more of a convenience thing as a college student

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Ivy is the best!

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Great food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Food cooked to order. Fresh and plenty to fill you.

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Love their food N the prices arent bad.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Best Chinese takeout in both soos

★★★★★
December 23, 2020

Great food

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Great food and great deal!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Food is good, not the best Ive ever had but I like it

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Chicken & Broccoli

Local Guide
December 23, 2020

Dingy, dark, and drab decor. The food was mediocre at best. Get some decent silverware or even plastic wear?

★★
December 23, 2020

Wrong stuff and very expensive wont be going agian

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

So freaking good.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

For the choices we have.... Good... Food was nothing to write home about... But it was decent

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

I love the food at this location. Its delicious and you definitely get your moneys worth and I am a big guy and can hardly ever finish a meal with out being full. You can see into the kitchen from the service counter and I think its sort of fun to watch them make rice in the wok just because its sort of satisfying. I wish this place had more customers.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2020

I usually like their food but I dont recommend the pork fried rice. The pork was all dried out and it was more like cut up hotdogs.

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

I always ask for extra spicy..they will not cook to my specifications..they dont wash the pans from customer to customer. How clean are they and cross contamination?????

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Always good!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

I absolutely love the food here!! Best Chinese food in town!!

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Good food. Decent prices. Nice staff.

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Very nice service !! Good food, and good experience .

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Best Chinese fare in town. Fast and plentiful portions. Eat in or take out. They dont deliver though. All in all, a great place for a good meal.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Fresh, delicious Chinese food, cant be beat. Such a great deal too!

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

The staff there is honestly so nice and wholesome. They treat you better than anywhere in town, at leas that was my experience. One time about two years ago around Christmas time I placed an order for my medium sized family, me, my son, my wife, and my brother. I somehow lost the money I went there to purchase my food with (im a regular) and the very nice lady in front told me not to worry about it, and I can pay her another time. The total amount was about 45$ mind you. So I come back the next week after Christmas and new years is over and I go to pay her for my tab and she refuses the money and says keep it like the warm hearted individual she is. So I place another order, and secretly put a 100$ in the tip jar. I go there regularly to this day, because the food is amazing but the people are even better. They are the best people in this town and deserve the best in life.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Good food, good prices.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Cheap food. Yummy!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Phenomenal!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Cozy

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Awesome food fast service great customer service everytime

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Ok

★★★★
December 23, 2019

Good food with friendly staff who politely took our order and promptly delivered our meals.

December 23, 2019

This restaurants poor health, you dont come here again, feel disgusting

December 23, 2019

I just found cockroach in Tao s chicken.Its poor health, you dont come here again, feel disgusting never come back again

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Yum!

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Really great food

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Yummy

★★★★★
December 23, 2019

Great lunch specials and great portions!

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2019

Too many things on the menu that are no longer available. Fried rice is rather plain and pre made.

★★★★
December 23, 2018

Food is good. Prices are great. Staff are nice in person but rude on the phone.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Good price for a good meal

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

This is my favorite restaurant in town the food here 100/10

★★★★★
December 23, 2018

Love this place. Food is priced fair and its good.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Better then average Chinese food! I liked it!

December 23, 2018

Its not possible to give a negative star but Id give them a negative 3 stars!!! Any restaurant that hangs up on someone because they made a mistake on their order doesnt deserve a star!!

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Very good Chinese Cuisine

★★★★★
December 23, 2018

Great place great service. Good food always great prices and fast service whether walk in or call ahead very accurate srevice and orderes. Best place in town for quick easy good food giant thumbs up highly recommend

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Good affordable food!!!

★★★★★
December 23, 2018

The food is great and the owners are always pleasant and polite

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Only been here a couple times, but has been quick friendly service and good food.

Local Guide
December 23, 2018

This place is racist towards Anishinaabe people in which this is our territory and original homeland. The Owners and their daughter kept looking at us and giving us stares. This was the stare of racism because they are afraid of Native/First Nations people. They were also very rude to us overall. The food was not food of any sort of substance and is not authentic Chinese. DO NOT GO HERE! Ive been to authentic Chinese restaurants in Detroit, Chicago and New York. This was not food nor Chinese. This must be food for the dumpster.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Love this place, wonderful people working here.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Good food, great atmosphere and friendly workers.

December 23, 2018

Bad ppl cant count change

December 23, 2018

Worst Chinese take out I had. Bought 2 large house special fried rice just to have 5pcs of shrimp on top of the rice and tiny piece of meat for $18. Very frustrated!!!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

For fast good Chinese style food for a great price!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Good, cheap food! I recommend going during the lunch hour and getting your main dish, plus rice on the side for $5.99

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Awesome Chinese food

★★★★★
December 23, 2018

They are efficient and quick.

★★★
December 23, 2018

Associates are pretty intolerant and rude, but the food and value is good

December 23, 2018

Garbage. The general tsos chicken meal tastes exactly like imitation maple syrup.

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2018

Hit or miss, good most of the time. Typical of its genre

★★★★★
December 23, 2018

Love this place, great food, fast and very nice staff!

Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Terrible place they dont even know what almond chicken is. they dont give you cream for your tea. they dont have dinner rolls. not friendly at all. no table service. its very cold and in professional

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

The food is good,

December 23, 2017

The lady working on this day was ignorant we were a little late picking up our order and she told us to learn to tell time because she had to make it all fresh. We didnt ask they chose to do that we were fine with the way it was we still had to go home so it was cold all over again and it just waisted our time as we had to sit there and wait for our food to be cooked again. And the food was over cooked very dissatisfied.

★★★★★
December 23, 2017

Great food, cheap prices

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

One of my favorite places to eat.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

I always love their food, even though they increased the price by a dollar on their large sizes its still worth it! Id be a little wary though because you cant ask for extra fortune cookies and even if youre willing to pay for them they wont give you any more.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Great food for take out

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

This place has deteriorated, imho. Soup was gelatinous and lukewarm, took it home to try and dilute, discarded altogether. New mgt I suspect, owners/ staff dont care

★★★★★
December 23, 2017

Staff is nice and the food is good, love the cheese Rangoon and price is great

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Great food,sized portions, and prices

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Best chinese in soo michigan .

★★★★★
December 23, 2017

Great food, great service, great value!!!! Best Chinese Restraunt in town :)

Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Just left this place on 8 11 17 First off I used the mens room no paper towels Then I see a cook use this rest room and come out with dry hands,, The food was HORRIBLE they are dirty unfriendly the place should be shut down by the health department ,

★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Good restaurant in the Soo.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

We order take out frequently from here. Always friendly, fairly priced, and quick.

★★★★★
December 23, 2017

Great food and service!

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Great place

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Great Family owned restaurant & Very Friendly. Great service! Food is Always Fresh and Hot. We Love Ivy. She Always greets us, with a Big Hello, and a Smile. We are regulars, hope to see you there

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Conveniently located downtown, fast service.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Food is delicious and usually quickly made.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Great lunch and dinner plate options!

★★★★★
December 23, 2017

Really good food for a really good price. The amount you get is perfect. Love this place. If theyre busy, which they usually are they are super kind and apologetic.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Fast service. Great prices. Awesome food.

★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

The meat is poor quality, even for a Chinese restaurant. Fried rice is dry, and flavorless. Doughnuts are overly greasy, with disproportionate sugar.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 23, 2017

Best bang for your buck in town.