China Star

China Star is a Chinese restaurant tucked into a small plaza on Forest Hill Boulevard in the Woodhaven area of Palm Springs, one of the pockets of the village that sits closer to the West Palm Beach line than to the Congress Avenue shopping strip. The restaurant’s own website describes its food as authentic Chinese cuisine served at a convenient location with affordable prices, and it leans on that combination of a neighborhood setting and a straightforward menu rather than trying to be a destination restaurant. The name China Star Palm Springs, used on its website, ties the business directly to the village rather than to a chain footprint spread across the county.

The menu runs through the categories longtime Chinese American restaurant regulars will recognize: appetizers, soups, fried rice, lo mein, mei fun, chow mein and chop suey, egg foo young, and a full run of sweet and sour, chicken, pork, beef, seafood, and vegetable dishes, along with chef’s specialties and a diet friendly section for anyone watching sodium or oil. There is also a super family pack and combination dinners built for groups, which suits a neighborhood spot that fields a steady stream of takeout orders from nearby apartments and single family homes in Woodhaven. China Star leans into dine in and take out service rather than delivery apps, keeping its focus on the kind of fast, dependable meal that a small commercial plaza is built to serve.

Hours run Tuesday through Saturday from 11 in the morning until 9:30 at night, with a slightly shorter Sunday schedule from noon until 9:30, and the restaurant is closed on Mondays. That six day a week rhythm, with a single day off, is typical of small, independently run restaurants that do not have the staffing depth of a larger operation, and it is one more marker that separates a place like China Star from a corporate chain that never closes.

Palm Springs has a modest but real cluster of independent Chinese restaurants scattered along its commercial corridors, and China Star’s location on Forest Hill Boulevard puts it within the same general plaza as a handful of other small, family style restaurants that make up this part of the village’s food scene. For residents of Woodhaven and the surrounding streets, China Star offers a familiar, no frills option for a weeknight dinner without the drive out to Forest Hill Boulevard’s busier stretches toward West Palm Beach or the bigger shopping centers on Congress Avenue. It is a straightforward, locally run kitchen doing what small Chinese restaurants have long done well in Florida’s smaller municipalities: fast service, a long menu, and fair prices for the neighborhood it feeds.