Thanh Ky Restaurant

This is one of my to go places for Asian comfort food. The chicken is delicious but today we ordered the duck over their rice, combo noodle soup, fried tofu skin over shrimp cake and water chestnut and an egg soda. The fried rice is very simple but its flavor and chewy texture is the stuff I've bern wanting all my life without realizing it. Try the sweet and spicy sauce. It was so good that I figured out the source and bought several bottles in a nearby neighborhood store. Sweeter than most hot sauces and less spicy. Use it generously. The egg soda is sweetened condensed milk, soda and a raw egg yolk. Delicious and refreshingly sweet and smooth. Give it a try as long as you don't mind going to a dive. This place has a steady stream of customers regardless of day or time.

Cash only! I have not eaten here for years and now when I'm visiting Oakland, I suddenly have a craving for this place. Their thick noodle soups are delicious as well their chicken roti rice plate. An appetizer I always get is their Fried Shrimp Roll with the sweet sour dipping sauce. It's so hard to forget that dish. It's one of the main reasons why I keep coming back every time I'm in town visiting.

Last year gave 4 stars and reviewed. My next paragraph is an update. Best combination fried rice!!! Ate half and saved half for dinner since I am trying to diet 😂 As of 10/14/2018 I don't write unless it's really bad experience and this is one of the rare times. I am really easy going, but this made me write and sadden the rest of my day. Wasted 1hour here which could have been avoided. This place has good food. But it wasted almost an hour of my family time and in the end we didn't even get to eat because we would have had to wait another 30 minutes. Keep in mind we were already hungry since we planned to eat here. So we signed in as family of 5. They did offer us a table of 4 but add a seat on the side. We declined and wanted the big table since it's tight and packed there if u add a seat. We gladly wait our turn. As time goes by a few lines below our name is a group of 10. We still wait. Then I noticed they called the group of 10. I approached the man and asked we haven't gone yet. His reply was they called in before you and made reservations. I told him, but you didn't list them on the list beforehand. If we had know we could have at somewhere else. Ive been eating at thanh KY for over 10 years. Took all my family and business people to eat there. I would not have mind to eat else where just don't waste my family's time. He told us wait 10mins. So he just gave our table to a group of 10 and the only other big table has a group that just ordered from him. So how can it be less than at least 20 mins. Mind u he could have asked the group of ten to wait for that table but made us wait instead. This all could have been avoided if he wrote the group of 10 down so we could have came next time to eat. I also didn't know a packed Asian place lik this took reservations. We all would do it if this was true. It would be chaotic. I don't know if he was telling the truth or not but it could have been avoided if he let us knew inadvance of waiting almost 1 hour for a table and then wanting to make us wait more. Needless to say u can go here with 4 or less people. There were many flaws before but u can overlook it with good food. But this one wasting my time was over it. I will not take my family here or any of my business vendors/ clients anymore. If u are 5 or more ask multiple times before are committed to waiting or u might end up wasting multiple people's time while hungry and feeling pushed away by their employees close friends or family members who want to eat before you. Not a good feeling for the rest of the day. I hope that after this review they will strive to improve and it will be a better experience for others to come, I wish them the best, but it looks like we are fated to never experience this place again.