New China at 9869 Ocean Highway West, Carolina Shores, North Carolina.

I always judge a place by their Dim Sum / pot stickers / dumplings and their soup. Ordered to go in person, both the steamed and the fried ones, and a pint each of egg drop and spicy sour.
Food was freshly prepared and out the door within 10 minutes or so.
Now....for the big surprise....
It seems that they have tailored their food to a certain clientele. The dumplings were exactly the same ( except the "fried" were only done on one side ).... as for the filling.....it was sweet barbecued meatballs, you know, the food service gnarly kind they serve at Ryan's!!!! I have no idea who had suggested this to them. The dipping sauce was also overly sweet, again, not authentic.
The soups were okay, even though the spicy had hardly any mushrooms or tofu in it.....
Seems the quality of Chinese restaurants, which to me means "serving Chinese food", rather than bland sweet backwoods food made to resemble Chinese dishes, has been on a constant downlisde in the last three years.
Pity.
There's another place nearby that serves proper tasting Chinese dishes. We won't stray again...