Food was good, quantity was great. Spice level could be better. The service was ok, we went on a sat night, they were not busy. It seemed like they had more to go orders and might be short staffed. The phone kept ringing for 2-3 mins continuously and no one picked up, that was annoying as we were dining in read more

Came here tonight with a big group of friends and overall we enjoyed the food. My favorite dish was definitely the salt and pepper pork chop--very tasty and perfectly crunchy. We also ordered the green beans, Singapore noodles, Mongolian beef, walnut shrimp, and egg foo-young, and most of the dishes were flavorful and satisfying. We had a group of about 30 people and arrived around 9 PM, which understandably overwhelmed the staff, so the food came out later than expected. Despite the wait, the flavors made up for it. The only dish that didn't stand out for me was the Mongolian beef--it was mostly just spicy and lacked the balance I was hoping for. Overall, good food and a nice spot for sharing dishes with a group, just be prepared for a longer wait if you come with a large party late in the evening. read more

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. read more

China Chef - Kung Pao Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein (Small Tray), #11. Wonton Soup. - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

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 read more

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The Mongolian beef was terrible....I ordered it to go and when I got home I had a few chopped up pieces of beef but the whole plate consisted of onions .I might as well had cooked 2 whole onions and ate that. I was very disappointed to say the least . read more

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

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. read more

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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. read more

China Chef - Combination Chow Mein, Sweet and Sour Pork. and Dry Cooked Green Beans - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

I've been coming to China Chef for over a year now, and it's easily one of my favorite spots! The food is always delicious everything has great quality, fresh ingredients, and amazing flavor. It's also very affordable, which makes it even better. The atmosphere is cozy and welcoming, and you can tell it's a family-owned restaurant. The people here are always friendly and go out of their way to help. Whether it's dine-in or takeout, the experience is always great. read more

The food is delicious. The prices are very reasonable. They serve large portions and the take-home lasts several days. The staff is friendly and helpful. Their new decor is clean and inviting. read more

I went into China Chef to see if they still had a lunch special. The lady made me feel like a third rate citizen. I don't know if it's my blonde hair or my electric bike. I don't think we have any cultural differences. Everybody in the immediate area is really friendly. The lady looked at me and sternly said no. She looked down and made a very apparent sigh of anger like I interrupted her working on a physics project or something. I said "OK maybe I'll come in earlier tomorrow." In reality wanted to write a review. I was a customer service supervisor. It's not that difficult of a concept to master. She was extremely rude and made me feel horrible. I'm a good judge of character, and our interaction was horrific. Ig this is the way you treat your customers, I wonder how much patience and respect you have for your food. I will never come back. The economy is not great now I have no idea how rude arrogant people even exist in this business. Oh just one other thing since I'm on high octane coffee. I think the restaurant would probably hold 30 people comfortably. I was the only one in the restaurant. I was the only only thing she had to deal with. Some people just aren't cut out for this business. read more

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! read more

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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. read more

China Chef - S7. Salt and Pepper Baby Pork Chops - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

I've lived in the area for over 13 years and now I have a favorite Chinese restaurant. The food is consistently good. The fried prawns are prepared exactly like they should be--battered and fried. No panko or bread crumbs here. They stay open very late (11 p.m.) Thursday-Saturday. Who does that these days? They do a lot of to-go business and delivery service business but give the dining room a try. The staff is friendly and attentive. read more

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?!? read more

China Chef - 75% of my 13 dollar dish was onions - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

Not impressed with their food at all. The chow main has no flavor, the food wasn't very tasty... The service was okay but the people were far from friendly. I don't see myself returning read more

Yum yum yum! Got some delicious combo fried rice, sweet and sour chicken and green beans! Absolutely a must try! I will definitely be back read more

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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! read more

China Chef - Chicken Fried Rice - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

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came to this fine establishment tonigby. after living in contra costa county for 14 years and unable to find a delicious Chinese restaurant -- for context I'm from SF and I am picky. tonight, I ordered the pot stickers, beef chow fun, beef with string beans, and the salt and pepper pork chops. the food was delicious and the quality was top notch. full flavored and not skimpy on the portions. the service was also excellent. the ambiance in the restaurant was comfortable. our server, a young girl, was friendly, approachable, and answered all of our questions. the price is right for what you get. I highly recommend this place! read more

This was my first time trying this restaurant, and I was very disappointed. I'm a person who love Asian cuisine, but this was not it. The food smell very good but the taste of it was not so good because there was no seasoning on the food. Most likely, I would never go back here again like I said it was very disappointed, and I wasted a lot of money to only eat a tiny bit of it. read more

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

Placed an order of Beef with black bean sauce and a side order of white rice. I did not expect Beef with black bean sauce to come with so many vegetables and such a small quantity of meat. I thought from the title it was just going to be just beef stir fried with black bean sauce. The vegetables that came with this order were corn, onion, celery, squash, and bell pepper. Beef was pretty tender. The sauce however was a different case because not much black bean was tasted and the saltiness almost purely came from soy sauce and salt. Rice came in a very small order box. For one person, one order of a dish and rice is pretty filling, but if you are eating together with someone, make sure to order one more rice. read more

China Chef - Beef with black bean sauce - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

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Very disappointed. Food is bland, things that are supposed to have sauce on them are dry, overcooked Chow mein: 1:/5 no flavor, noodles too greasy Beef chow fun: 1/5 bland, get a little bit of flavor when you get a bite of beef Generals chicken : 1/5 dry chicken, no sauce to speak of, too bready, doesn't resemble any generals chicken I've ever had Honey walnut prawns: 2/5, not a fan of the breading but these were the only item we finished Do yourself a favor and just go to Panda Express read more

China Chef - 4 of us and this is all we could manage to force down. - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

This food was so bland. The sweet and sour pork was dry, pot stickers were burnt. They must have used day old rice and meat in the bbq pork fried rice and the Mongolian beef only had 2 pieces of meat the rest was all onions to save money. read more

China Chef is open for inside dining this week. no outside dining. offerings: typical Chinese American menu. pricing on website is out of date. eats: beef chow fun (10.25) -usual portion of rice noodles, onions, green onions, bean sprouts, carrots -slight unami flavor, sodium aftertaste from excess soy sauce and/or salt one other flavor from beef slices unidentifiable. 3.5 stars lunch specials look like a good deal. big parking lot on right side. read more

China Chef - Beef chow fun (10.25) - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

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

Good food. Quick & reasonably priced. Help. Don't like to be told how long my review should be.... read more

We paid $100 for dried out old take out food. The only thing fresh was the green bean chicken. Even the wonton wrappers seemed a day old. In the past this place ( In person food was good) but this was unacceptable and down right nasty. won't be back. Something must have changed. read more

I only come to this location for the lunch specials with my family on Sundays The resturant is in a quiet shopping plaza near the sun Valley mall. The ambiance is a dark room with the lights off the entire time. Staff doing utensils in the same room as the customers. Some weekends are busier than others. This past weekend, there is no one in the dining room except for me and my family. Staff is usually attentive to our family needs. For less than 20 dollars, we got salad, hot and sour soup, and our entre. Today I got Mongolia three ways with chow mein. It was a large portion and brought leftovers home. Much more worth it compared to a small plate at panda express. Overall, I enjoy this place ALOT more than the food options at nearby mall. If you want good meal for the price, come for the lunch specials between 11 am to 3 pm. read more

We love this place. Family and I come here at least once a month specifically on Sundays. We order chow meow, fried rice, sesame chicken, Mongolian beef, honey prawn and generals chicken and it is all delicious. read more

So nasty! No flavor in any of the food! Only thing good here was the Diet Coke in a can. read more

We got DoorDash ordered from their ghost kitchen, Good Night. Menu differs. Food was bomb! Whole family approved. Orange chicken, broccoli beef, chicken chow mein, rice, everything was fresh and tasty! read more

China Chef - We got DoorDash ordered from their ghost kitchen, Good Night-Kitchen - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

I was bummed that my visit did not live up to my expectations. I ordered takeout and I was just made to see that all of the takeout containers were in Styrofoam. This was shocking to see in 2024 given the environmental impact of Styrofoam. The fried rice did not have any taste or flavor, even though it looked delicious. read more

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

China Chef catered our company event and the food and service were fantastic! They gave us plenty of food and delivered early so that we can set up; other restaurants were not even open before 11am. Lowest delivery fee ever! Highly recommend this restaurant. read more

Healthy, good comfort food. Our order is always ready on time (we pickup) and at a reasonable price. Our goto for takeout.

Just ordered their hot and sour soup and Singapore noodles from doordash and I've never tasted anything like this. The hot and sour soup was hot, in temperature, overly salty, brown water with a little tofu, maybe a half dozen matchstick bamboo pieces, and threads of wood ears that I tried to fish for at the bottom of the container. I tried to eat a couple spoonfuls but it was just straight bad. Singapore noodles were the same. Bland. Sad. Kind of tasted like if La Croix came out with a curry flavor of sparkling water and if you really use the power of your imagination, there might be a hint of flavor. Super bummed because I ordered the hot and sour soup in large and I'm tossing it in the trash. I picked out the shrimp in the Singapore noodles and fed them to my dogs. No need to rinse, they weren't seasoned anyways. Immediately reordered the same food from a different restaurant so it's super cool that I spent over $60 for some dog treats, hot and sour soup, and Singapore noodles. read more

China Chef - Bland rice noodles and shrimp that my dogs got to eat. Supposedly "Singapore noodles" - Chinese Near Me - Pleasant Hill, California

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The food is flavorful fresh and hot but the egg rolls like seasoning and The Wonton that they serve you at the lunch special and egg roll is always cold but the one is very nice friendly staff I had Singapore noodles and sweet and sour prongs that was delicious 8 out of 10 read more

My rule usually is, maybe it was a bad day, and the food is not always this bad. I will usually go back and give the place a second chance. The food from this restaurant was so bad, on so many levels I will not be using that rule this time. The Pot Stickers were burnt, dry and tasteless. Moo Shu pork pancakes were ok, but we received them with two torn 1/3 to 1/2 through the cake. The filling itself again, like the Pot Stickers was tasteless redeemed slightly by the sauce that comes with it. With two disappointments out of the way that brings us to the Hong Kong style Chow Mein. This dish should be renamed to a more appropriate description of the dish. Frist thing that comes to mind is Some Sort of Soup Poured Over Burnt Noodles. This dish was absolutely horrible. The gravy (sauce) was as thin as water with no flavor. The vegetables were soggy as if they were boiled as soup instead of being wok fried. Now it's time to end this misadventure with Pork Fried Rice. Instead of being fluffy (or semi such) it was pasty much like Japanese sticky rice with clumps of white rice in it. I'm not a young dog and I can honestly say I have many, many, many Chinese dishes from many Chinese restaurants. This was truly the worst. read more

I have eaten here when I was attending Diablo Valley College. I have to say that eating here was good. I had lunch and dinner at this location and I have to say the proportion of my food was great. I enjoy eating lunch here. I always gotten the lunch special, Broccoli Beef. I love how my food turn out. The inside of this location is nice and quiet. It can be busy during lunch. Parking is very easy to find at this restaurant. Thankfully I did not have to struggle to find parking at both side of the restaurant. I will come back to this restaurant read more