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    China Chef

    3.4 (298 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, 4:00 PM - 10:30 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Happy hour specials
    Good for groups

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    S13. Honey Walnut Prawns

    Food was great. I ordered Honey one shrimp. I give it a 10 out of 10 from a customer stamp interview delicious I usually get my honey one shrimp at panda express and there's a fantastic but here it's fresh crunchy sweet and has very fresh walnuts and very fresh shrimp come try.

    Kung Pao Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein (Small Tray), #11. Wonton Soup.

    I was impressed with the food and the price for what I got. The service was amazing and quick. Music was great so great to eat and forget of everything else while you enjoy the amazing food.

    Chicken Chow Mein (Small Tray)
    Javier H.

    Been driving by this place for years I heard they remodeled and new owners I think anyway it nice inside believe it or not we thought driving by it was just a take place no it's actually pretty clean and new inside . I definitely would go back its very clean and good food . We both enjoyed it very much . We ordered salt and pepper calamari and chicken chow mien and general Taos chicken excellent choice all breast meat very tasty. So if you are wondering try them next time you feel like Chinese we are going back

    Sizzling rice soup

    I really wanted to like this place, but unfortunately the food completely missed the mark. Every dish we ordered was shockingly bland--absolutely flavorless and under-seasoned. I've never in my life had to add salt to Chinese food, but tonight it was necessary just to make it palatable. To make matters worse, the portions were incredibly small considering the price point. The Mongolian beef had more onions than beef in it and the lemon chicken was very low in protien compared to breading. For what we paid, I expected far better quality and quantity. Chinese food is usually a comfort meal packed with bold flavor, but this was anything but. Disappointed and won't be reordering.

    Combination Chow Mein, Sweet and Sour Pork. and Dry Cooked Green Beans
    Harold G.

    China Chef in Pleasant Hill is a completely new experience. It has been renovated and has a new professional staff. The ambiance of the new renovation and the excellent food preparation served by the new staff is terrific. The name is the same but everything else has changed. I highly recommend it.

    15. Egg Drop Soup
    Scott A.

    We wanted take out for the whole family and decided to try a place we had not ordered from in the past. We can't speak to the ambiance since we got take out but I can say we loved everything. We tried the following dishes: Vegetarian Egg Rolls Egg drop soup Chicken skewers Chicken Chow Mein Combination Fried rice We really enjoyed everything. The chicken skewers being more like fried chicken was unique and delicious. The egg drop soup was one of the best I've ever tried. The kids ate all the noodles and even though we ordered a ton of food we had no leftovers. That is the highest compliment I can offer! Give them a try!

    S7. Salt and Pepper Baby Pork Chops
    Marlon T.

    My wife found China Chef by ordering from a delivery service for dinner to order for our toddler son. She didn't ask me before ordering and chose dishes like salt and pepper shrimp and fried rice. Our son loves fried rice and will usually eat any type of protein with this dish. My wife ordered beef and broccoli as well to try a new Chinese restaurant with good reviews. We all really liked the food, the fried rice is packed with flavor and the salt and pepper shrimp was really well fried and seasoned. We liked this restaurant and ordered takeout soon after our first delivery service. I ordered the salt and pepper pork chops for a takeout order while including fried rice for our boy. We all liked the food and the sesame balls for dinner are a good dessert. This place is great at frying proteins and making your takeout orders in a hurry! It's located near the Sun Valley mall and easy parking for pickup orders. The salt and pepper pork chops are great. We are happy to find a great Chinese takeout restaurant for days we don't want to make dinner.

    Chicken Fried Rice
    R A.

    We just moved up to WC area and we were looking for a good hole in the wall Chinese Restaurant. Unfortunately China Chef is not it! Ambiance brings me back to the 80's! Not updated at all! Food was mediocre at best. We ordered the Beef Chow Fun, Chicken Fried Rice and the Beef with mixed vegetables. The chow fun was no FUN. Seriously! There were more vegetables than the actual FUN NOODLES! The noodles were thin and not plentiful. The taste was ok, more like oyster sauce poured over vegetables and some noodles. The Beef with vegetables looked like the beef chow fun!! They both looked exactly the same but one had some noodles underneath all the veg. We couldn't even tell which was which! The chicken fried rice was ok, I mean nothing to write home to mom about!! The service was good and the server was nice! I don't think we'll be going back here anytime soon! Sorry!

    75% of my 13 dollar dish was onions
    Tomas C.

    Online ordering doesn't work, staff even acknowledged it doesn't work half the time. So after waiting over an hour, had to call in, give my order over the phone and wait over another hour for delivery. Once the food arrived my Mongolian beef was more like Mongolian Onion. Never in my life have I ordered a dish, other than perhaps the bloomin onion from Outback, and gotten a plate of damn near all onion. What the hell?!?

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    The food was great my family loved it. It was a good price for the amount of food and quickly made.

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    They are fairly good food could have been better so they lived up to the expectations

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    Thank you for you visit Arturo! Hope to see you guys back soon!

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    Delicious Chinese food. Located in a small shopping center near Sun Valley Mall. The staff is really nice and the food is consistently good.

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    I just had their Spicy Tangerine Beef, and it was delicious. It's now my new favorite dish.

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    Food is consistently good, service is good (warm and friendly), recently remodeled cozy ambiance. We eat there often..

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