Surprised by extensive menu, not just the traditional BBQ roast items. Complementary tea, takes credit card, open later than other Oakland Chinatown restaurants, fast service, good for breakfasts start 8am, lunch special and dinner combination (3 entree special price, including soup, good for family)
This place may not be the cleanest buuuut you're coming here for the food! Bwahaha. So don't come here if you get grossed out with things like that. 😬 I came here to "snack" on some rice rolls cause I love them!
- Duck: Needs more duck! There were also chopped bones thrown in. Boo. But so good!
- Shrimp: Needs more shrimp! There were only 4. :(
- Dried Shrimp: Yum.
- BBQ Pork and Cilantro: My favorite!
- Chili Oil: it's not spicy but more so for flavor I guess. Stir it well or you'll scoop up the salt and it'll make your food super salty.
I'll keep coming back when I'm in the area and may even try the egg noodles next time, even after seeing a large pile of noodles just chillin' on a table waiting to be put away haha.
Great choice for roast/broiled/steamed deli specialties and an extensive cafe menu that's available in Chinese and English. Standouts are roast pork, roast duck, soy chicken, and offal mix (ngow jaap). Steamed rice rolls are made fresh and to order as well, highly suggested if you've never had it SUPER fresh!
Staff communicates well and handles crowds with ease. Our go-to whenin the area, and definitely recommend coming in for takeout (or dine in when safe). Parking in the area can be a challenge, but the Pacific Renaissance Plaza underground lot is fast and convenient.
Classic Hong Kong Cantonese food. Good prices for good food.
Matthew Foong (Oldorangebmw)
+5
There's really no arguing the bay area is THE place to get the best Chinese food around in the US. However, as I've grown up, SF Chinatown has become too expensive and touristy to go for food whenever I'm around, so I opted to come here in Oakland's Chinatown to take some friends (with very low exposure levels to Chinese food) for some good, old-fashioned Cantonese grub. This place was legit. The service was merely adequate. There wasn't even a bathroom to be dirty. But the food was cheap(for the bay), had relatively large portions, but most importantly, tasted absolutely fantastic. It's unpretentious and unassuming, just as it should be. From what we had, I'd highly recommend getting a half duck and the beef chow fun. Everything else was still very, very good, but those were definitely the standouts amongst all the other places I've been to in the bay.
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