worst meal ever. Cold food, slow to come out of the kitchen. Service was awful. server had a very indifferent attitude. will not go back

I have been coming here for years. There food has always been pretty consistently good. Last night I got dinner to go and it was really on point! I ordered two pick your own combination plates. I love that they do that, I hardly ever see that on Chinese restaurant menus. You get a ton of food and it's really reasonably priced. I got a two item plate and a four item plate for $23! I will definitely be back. read more

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poor quality food that tasted reheated and duct tape was holding together most the booths. Even for the simplest dishes I don't recommend coming here. read more

We really enjoyed Chen's last night. Like everyone else says, it's what American people expect when they go out for Chinese food outside of an International District. My husband had the special beef (hehe) while I had a combo with Kung Pao and Chicken Chow Mein. Everything was served super hot and tasted great. I was hoping the Kung Pao would be spicier, but the waiter brought me some chili sauce that fixed it up. The egg roll appy is realllllly good, and the egg flower soup was easily the best I've had. It is easy to over order here because what they don't tell you is that for $10, you get a ginormous plate of food!! We are having leftovers for lunch today. Service was exceptionally friendly. Would definitely recommend! read more

Tucked away at the end of town, it is almost hidden. The family (all 6) spent a full day on the beach and we were sunbaked, hungry and tired. The youngest two kids have been asking the entire trip for Chinese food so we pull in on our way back to cabin. Clean, open big tables. Good service. Took orders quickly. Egg Soup was so good we ordered a big bowl. Our individual dinners all came exactly as ordered/modified. Overall great experience but I still feel I should explain the 3 stars. Lost one star right off the bat for no egg roll options with meals. And I live near Portland OR, where there are Allot of very good Chinese restaurants and they have egg rolls. read more

Chen's Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

I knew better than to get Chinese food outside of either Portland or Seattle, but I was feeling a noodle soup. What I got was technically a noodle soup, but with...spaghetti noodles. Now, there are a lot of Asian noodles to choose from. Even if it's unconventional to use "chow mein" noodles, like lo mein, I would have shrugged. But spaghetti noodles? Ain't nothing Chinese about that. When I asked the Chinese waitress, in Chinese, she confirmed it was spaghetti noodles and thought it strange. And that I should have ordered the Wonton noodles, which have, you know, normal noodles that go in a broth. It was a very strange experience. After we got our food, and after I talked at length to the Chinese waitress who gave me to-go boxes, we waited 10 minutes for our check. It never came. Eventually, we went up to the counter and paid. On our way out, I ran into some Chinese women who were complaining about the fried rice they got the night before. So the take home message is, if you're Chinese, avoid this place. But most of their clients were not Chinese, and seemed pretty happy. read more

Chen's Restaurant - Pork Noodle Soup. Yes, those are SPAGHETTI noodles in a "Chinese" noodle soup. - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

Horrible, they can't even make Asian food. Their egg rolls were just scraps, and the potstickers were frozen foods u can buy in a grocery store. Everything about the food was off so we left without getting the rest of what we ordered. Disgusting. read more

Quality has gone down the drain here. Not sure if supply issues but everything was off in some way. Lack of flavor in everything. Pork fried rice was literally just rice with a few tiny pieces of pork. Egg roll was undercooked and sesame chicken had no sesame seeds. Last time eating here for a while unless they improve substantially. read more

Most every year we find ourselves in Long Beach, WA, for fishing or kiteflying, such a great getaway. The drawback in this town is that reliable food is difficult to find. Places you think would be acceptable dish up trash for unbelievable prices. We have always enjoyed our visits to Chens. All of the 'family' style dinners are oriented around what I call 'AmeriChinese' dishes; you know, the stuff my parents (your grandparents) called chinese; almond-fried chicken swimming in gravy, sweet&sour chicken, deep fried prawns, chicken chow mein (using the deep fried noodles, not soft ones). So this place does very well serving up really good 'bad' chinese food, that I normally would never order. But its like 'old school' week, and to get a great deal on dinner (family style), we go with it, and it is indeed tasty. My teenage sons LOVE it. The platters came heaping with deep fried prawns, the chicken chow mein had fresh vegetables, and the BBQ pork portions were thick and generous. And while everything normally comes with eggflower soup, the waiter let me have hot-n-sour, and it was pretty good, right amount of vinegar. The wait staff was plentiful, swift, pleasant and gracious. In a tourist fishing town that curiously seems to shut down @ 6, Chens is open late (along with McDs and Subway). We'll probably keep coming back here. I only give it 3 stars because, well, its 'A-OK'. read more

The person who took our Take out order was Very pleasant. With that said, We love chinese food and were happy to see this place open on Monday after driving by several other restaurants which were closed on Monday. We have eaten at many chinese places in various states and this place was horrible!!! The taste of the 4 different dishes we ordered were not good! The three chicken dishes were breaded so thick it was hard to find any chicken meat and several pieces were just deep fried breading with NO MEAT!! The Pork Fu Young was so hard we could almost not cut it with a fork. The Porch Chow Mein had very few vegetables and had very little to No Flavor. It is so frustrating when you are hungry for a GOOD meal and end up with such a disappointing meal! If we ever pass this way again Chen's will Not be a restaurant we eat at! read more

Small town Chinese restaurants are usually hit or miss... When you're hungry for rice, you follow your gut, literally, and get Chines food and deal with the consequences later. We ordered Crab Rangoon's, Beef Chow Mein, and Vegetable Chow Mein, and plain rice. Kept it simple for 2 adults and 2 very picky kids. We ate so fast and with plenty of left overs. The noodles were full of vegetables (broccoli, snow peas, water chestnuts, sliced onions, shredded carrots, baby corn, and FRESH mushrooms!) Big portions! Overall, it was much better than expected! We would definitely go back when we visit Long Beach! I feel good supporting this family owned business. read more

My hubby and I go to Long Beach many many times during the year and have been for a number of years. We have our favorite places we visit EVERY time - it's tradition, however, we'd never eaten at Chen's and boy have we been missing out! Their food is soooo good! Prices are great, portions are big (we had lots of left overs) and the staff is super nice. Now we understand why their parking lot is always full! Chen's will definitely be worked into our routine when we're in Long Beach :-) read more

The hostess/server was super nice and helpful! The food was tasty and had huge portions, as per usual at a Chinese place. The hidden gem, though, wait for it..... A FULL PAGE ON THE MENU OF COCKTAILS! Whoo Hoo! read more

For a off the beaten path not to bad. Portion reasonable not mass food. Pork chow main with crispy noodles always a fav. Looking forward to trying other favorites. read more

My boyfriend and I came to Long Beach on a weekend trip. As a new tradition we've been trying to find a Chinese restaurant to go to for dinner in each town we visit. We were told Chen's was the only Chinese cuisine in town. I read the reviews on this place and was nervous but optimistic. I really really wanted to like the food here and was hoping to be pleasantly surprised.....Unfortunately the negative reviews seem pretty spot on : ( THE FOOD: I ordered the appetizer plate which came with Egg rolls, BBQ Pork (with pretty good dipping sauce), Crab Rangoon type things, and Fried Shrimp. My boyfriend ordered the Almond Chicken Chow Mein. **The BBQ Pork was very dry and tough, though the dipping sauce was very good. I ate one piece and my boyfriend ate one piece and we both decided not to have any more. My boyfriend actually refused to try the Egg Roll but I gave it a chance. It was pretty soggy and seemed like it had been refrigerated, re-breaded, and then fried. I did not take more than one bite. The fried shrimp was okay but there was a LOT of breading (I agree with the review that said there was more breading than there was shrimp). The Crab Rangoon things with cream cheese were actually pretty good but again, a LOT of fried dough (or wonton wrapper) compared to the filling. My boyfriend's Almond Chicken Chow Mein wasn't bad, but it unfortunately wasn't very good either. *They did have a very large list of cool sounding cocktails on the back of the menu if you're into that sort of thing but we didn't order any. THE SERVICE: We waited a few minutes to be greeted because everyone seemed to be in the kitchen but the server who greeted us was very friendly and accommodating. She checked on us frequently and was very pleasant. THE RESTAURANT: The restaurant was pretty small, clean, and quiet. There were probably 20 or so booths and then a back room with tables. The decor was cool and the restroom was very clean. All in all I wouldn't call the food "inedible" but I also wouldn't encourage anyone to eat there if asked. read more

Chen's Restaurant - Appetizer plate: BBQ Pork, Egg Rolls, Fried Shrimp, and Crab Rangoons - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

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We took a wrong turn and noticed this place with a full parking lot at lunch. So this must be a good place to eat. And it was! Everything was delicious and fresh. Generous portions The server was pleasant and helpful. Will certainly eat here again! read more

While in Long Beach this last time, some friends of ours that we were visiting insisted that we try Chen's because it was the "Best Chinese Food" they had ever had. I am always skeptical when people preface a place like that. Prior to going, I checked out their reviews here on Yelp and having been to Long Beach before, thought the chamber might not like Asian's or something because the rating was lower than most. Yes, I believe that Long Beach has a conspiracy, most establishments have 70 to 80 reviews and are all four and five stars but if you actually visit these places, they are mediocre to terrible. SO, because our friends wanted to go here, I thought why not. Well, the service was good, the restaurant was clean, but that's about where the positives stop. The food was just "Meh", in fact I think I have had better from Panda Express, and well that's just terribly, white washed, Chinese crap. We ordered one of the family dinners, the portions were more than enough, we had a to-go box for each of the entrees they brought us. Of all of them that we had, the General's chicken was the best. None of the dishes were even remotely spicy, including one of my all-time favorites, "Kung-Pao Chicken" which didn't even have a pepper in site. It was a let down really. We did order the Supreme Sampler to start, which was decent. I liked the egg rolls and the shrimp, their sweet and sour sauce they bring is different but the mustard, barely mild in spice level. Well, there you have it, the only Chinese place on the peninsula, but who goes to Long Beach for anything other than seafood? read more

Well, we were at Chen's in Long Beach Sunday night. After having read all the positive reviews about this place on Yelp!, I'm convinced that we must have entered a mystical portal of some kind when we walked through the door of Chen's, and it sent us elsewhere. Seriously, we did not eat at 'the best Chinese restaurant ever'. Not by a long shot. The egg flower soup was good. That's where the positive accolades end. The food is deeply fried. The egg roll was so bad that I had to cut it open, and take out the food inside from the armor-like, deep fried shell. The sweet and sour pork and sweet and sour chicken were also deeply fried, beyond recognition. And the almond chicken was prepared the same way as the sweet and sour chicken, but with just a different sauce drenched over it. The pork fried rice was cold, but even if it were warm, I can't imagine it tasted any better. We had 'crab puffs'. They were so deeply fried that I'd call them 'crab crunches', not puffs. Ugh. It's so disrespectful to treat crab so poorly. We left more than 60% of our food on our plates. "No, thank you, we don't need it boxed to go." The water was really good. Easily the second best thing we had, after the egg flower soup. As we were driving home, we were thinking, 'Man, I wish we'd had just gone to McDonald's.' Someone else wrote that Chen's was worse than Panda Express. That person should be given an award! Panda Express looks like a Gordon Ramsey restaurant next to Chen's. The only other positive aspect that might be influencing people to write positive reviews of Chen's is this: It is remarkably cheap. A four-item combo (ex. Pork Fried Rice, Sweet & Sour Chicken, Egg Roll, and Almond Fried Chicken, served with Egg Flower Soup) is only $10.75. But $10.75 is still a rip off when the food is barely edible. read more

Absolutely the best meal in a long time! There were 6 of us and a HUGE group but the waitress was amazing! The food was hot and delicious!

Terrible I order to go food about 30 min before they closed. I should have looked at it before leave nothing was what I had ordered was in my bag beside orange chicken with no orange sauce. I tried calling when I realized what happened but no answer. What a bummer I won't be going back. read more

My boyfriend and I stopped here while staying at the Sou'Wester. Lovely little restaurant. Our server was sweet and helpful. We shared a combination plate and were pleased with the amount of food that came out. The sweet and sour chicken was our favorite. Hot tea is always a plus. Very peaceful music played throughout the experience. 10/10 read more

Stayed nearby and tried this place. We thought it was all really good! It's always hit or miss with Chinese food and this was hit!

Food was fresh and delicious, and the service was excellent! We ordered combos and had food left over to take home. We will be back! read more

Chen's Restaurant - Great combo! Pork fried rice, bbq pork, fried shrimp, and Kung Pao chicken. Absolutely delicious! - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

Eating Chinese Food on the Northern Oregon Coast is very similar to eating at McDonald's. Each one tastes the same and after a while, the lack of flavour and originality grows very old and tiresome. After reading the food critics review in our local paper, we figured we'd give Chen's a chance. (Alllllll we arrrrre saaaaaying, isss give Chen's a chaaaance) Sorry, had a Lennon moment there. This particular critic commented on how Chen's was not the usual Chinese that we get here, so it was worth a shot. First notice was a crowded parking lot on a Thursday night. Howling winds and rain did not keep folks away. Second observation was the amount of Asian folks dining there. I don't think that I can recall ever seeing any Asians (other than employees) eating at any of our local Chinese places, and Chen's had at least 5 tables with them. Not to sound racist, but that is a good sign. Third observation was this really odd dude dining alone and singing (actually quite well) county western songs to himself as he dined. It was a little odd and distracting and got some odd looks from folks, but he seemed really harmless....just in his own universe. As he put on his fourth sweatshirt and gathered his gear, it was hard to tell if he was a drifter, a resident at one of the rehab centres, or just a happy lad, but he paid his bill and moved along. Menu has a nice selection and the opportunity to build your own combos from a selection of the usual suspects. Some of the prices are much higher than other local Chinese places (shrimp fried rice is $10.95 -- many other places it is no more than $8). We got a family combo for two and even though famished upon arrival, had leftovers for lunch the next day. Easily, the best Chinese food that I have had on the North Coast of OR / South Coast of WA. Egg Flower soup was hot, flavourful, and thick. Really good. Appetizers of BBQ Pork (very tender, moist, flavourful.. just perfect. NOT Dried and tough like many places), great egg rolls (crisp, not as fat as some places, but really good), huge plate of fried shrimp. Pork fried rice was flavourful, moist, and really good, Sweet & Sour Chicken was fresh and perfectly done. Special Beef Chow Mein was great as well. Lots of tender beef, veggies and lo mein noodles with awesome flavour. I like soft noodles in chow mein and am not into the types they regularly serve everywhere that are all veggies atop crispy noodles. Amazing service & Some of the best hot tea. Their menu has many options and some unique finds such as their Chinese fruit cups for afters. Great meal at a decent price that will have us make the extra drive to get there. If you want something a little different and damn good...try Chen's. read more

Chen's restaurant is one of those places that you must go to if you are in Long beach and you like chineese food. We decided to do take out and the food was great. For all of you vegetarians--they have a nice selection of foods available. This is a really good restaraunt in Long beach read more

The new owners know nothing about Chinese food. This used to be my grandmother's favorite restaurant, she would be shocked to see what has happened to it. My wife and I went there a few weeks ago and our chow mein did not have any noodles in it. The waitress told us if we wanted noodles we need to order off "The Noodle Menu". We told her that chow mein is supposed to have noodles in it... Later we over heard the same conversation from another table. There is a Thai restaurant in Long Beach, go there instead. read more

Huge portions, great menu variety, friendly service, and tasty "Americanized" Chinese food. Lots of locals dining and everyone in the joint (staff and patrons) were really nice. Everyone in our family got their fill and we had leftovers for the next day. Can't believe in all the times we've visited Long Beach that we never stopped in. We'll be back :) read more

I like cheesy Chinese-American food, but this place takes out the cheesy part. None of the foods or sauces tasted bottled or canned. I can say that was some of the best sweet-and-sour sauce I have ever had; and the dipping sauce for the BBQ pork was spot-on delicious, along with the pork itself. Everything tasted fresh, and it was served piping hot. And I normally don't like fortune cookies, but these were the bomb. Obviously made fresh and full of flavor. Beyond that, great service and friendly staff. Cheap on the atmosphere, but I personally don't mind. Five stars! read more

This place is over priced for what you get. I ordered a lrg egg flour soup which cost me 7.85 and it was a small container. I asked to speak to manager i was told owner was there so i said i would like to speak to the owner she refused to come out and speak with me. This was my third and final time of going there. I like to give places a couple of chances because in our world today shit happens, this place does not improve it just get worse. I would give them no stars none deserved. Ok in order to post i have to give them a star, the star is ok nly so i can post read more

Love this place, especially their Green Tea in clay pot! Everything we have had so far is awesome!!! read more

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We've driven by Chen's many times when visiting Long Beach and finally decided to give it a try, based upon a recommendation from somebody recently. Now we are kicking ourselves for waiting so long! Our waiter was a very nice young man with a good sense of humor, the restaurant was very clean, and the service was fast. Our food was excellent. I had my standard fried rice and it was good as any I've had anywhere. My wife ordered shrimp special noodle chow mein and said it as the best Chinese food she had in a long, long time. And that's saying a lot, because we eat at Chinese restaurants at least two or three times a month! We will definitely be going back again! read more

The server was great, and had a great attitude. That being said is the only reason this restaurant earned a star. The food was dryer than the Sahara desert. The general Taos, orange, and sweet and sour chicken were all the same over-breaded chicken (hopefully), with a small amount of measly sauce to compliment it. Bring a water truck, because your gonna need it when your mouth is starting to crack due to the complete absence of moisture. needless to say the the fortune cookie was the most moist food we received of the night. STAY AWAY! read more

Poor service, watered down (literally, water) drinks and sauces. The ONE saving grace was that the General Taos was adequate, and actually chicken breast meat. read more

Chen's Restaurant - Us LEAVING Chen's & not coming back. - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

Dreadfully mediocre Chinese food establishment on the Long Beach Peninsula. The pork foo yung had the life sucked out of it long before it even met my table. It looked like it was made on a George Foreman grill. The sauce tasted like a just-add-water powder mix, and the egg roll had about as much integrity as Ted McGinley's latest Google search. This place came highly recommended to me by a dude I used to work with, although he ended up quitting due to a drug addiction, so there's always that. I also had to ask for a knife on two occasions and I'm still waiting for it. What a trainwreck! read more

Want to rate this higher, but it was so supremely A-OK, I can't. We ordered take out one night, and while the portions were gigantic (and I mean HUGE), they were nothing special. It was this or the Thai place as our only options, and I think we should have gone Thai... The gentleman who took our order though was super helpful and gave us plates when we asked and offered silverware as well. read more

A place to go (the only place) for Chinese food. There are better ones in Astoria or Seaside, but you're in Long Beach ... Eat a Razor Clam for crying out loud! The staff are very nice the food, for the most part is okay. Portions are large and reasonably priced. read more

I want so badly to give this place 5 stars but I also want so badly to give it 1 star. My first experience there was awesome. We sat in the restaurant and was very impressed by their food options. I also loved that they have lots of pictures of their food in the menu. Service was quick and really good. This is why I want to give it 5 stars. The next 2 times we went there a few of us got really bad food poisoning hence the reason I'd give them 1 star. I am now so nervous to eat there that I am unsure if I'd go back read more

Chen's Restaurant - Funny drink menu - Chinese Near Me - Long Beach, Washington

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Let me start by saying this past year we've been here a few times and loved their pot stickers and hot oil, normally get Walnut Prawns and General Taos Chicken. Tonite, however, started with a dirty glass with lipstick on it for my husbands beer. Then we got the pot stickers with the oil. The oil container was nearly empty and when trying to spoon oil to drizzle on pot stickers, kept coming up with black parts of sludge and oil was tasteless, so asked waitress for new fuller container of oil. She came back with a tiny saucer filled with a little oil almost 7-8 min. Later by then pot stickers weren't hot anymore and oil had no flavor. Asked if she would take them off our bill since we only ate one and she said yes. Got our entree's and first bite of walnut prawns was lukewarm to cold. Same with husbands chicken. We looked at each other and said we're done asked to speak to Mgr. No Mgr. there supposedly. So my husband spoke with another waitress other than ours at cash register told her what happened, said we were leaving and asked what if any do we owe. We had left both uneaten entree's at our table, a full bottle of beer and about two sips taken from my plum wine. She rang it up and handed to him, full charge for everything. Including the pot stickers which our waitress said she would take off the bill. Waitress at cash register said she was not allowed to take anything off of bill, even if we didn't eat the food. We were quite incredulous. Husband said we were going to review on Yelp, she said Yelp is a scam. So needless to say, buyer beware. So a day later my husband went into Chen's because he felt strongly about last nite and wanted to talk to owner. Saw one of our fav waitress there who knows us from coming in, long story short, she told owner what happened, he was very upset and extended an invite to come back and order what we did last nite, no charge. So he did stand up for his customers........ read more

Don't think your getting anything near Chinese food. The pork egg fu yung was a pasty (breadcrumb?) filled tough pancake with pieces of pork thrown on top...the instant gravy made it all taste like a horrible frozen dinner. My friend had a dinner special combo. All onions and celery over soggy chow mein crunchies. The sweet and sour pork and shrimp were so heavily breaded that it was hard to identify the tiny bits of pork and shrimp. Unfortunately we threw it out. This was our second time (giving it a second chance) and we were hoping for a nice take out dinner at home. read more

I ate here are couple of days ago and it's hands down the worst Chinese I've ever eaten. I got the daily special and it included general T chix, crab won tons, pork fried rice, and BBQ pork and rounded it out with some eggs rolls, oh not to forget the egg flower soup. *general T chicken over cooked, chewy and dry. *crab won tons over cooked, hard, dry and under filled. *pork fried rice dry, lacking in flavor *BBQ pork very dry, flavor was OK *egg rolls were dry and hard on the outside and gooey on the inside. *egg flower soup lacked flavor plus the chicken in the soup was tough. In conclusion, stay away, far far away. I hope the owners read these reviews so they can improve the quality of the food read more