I just wish it will be a bigger chowking. Its a hard to find a chair because they have limited space. Excellent customer service. The food is 3 over 5. Good food if your craving for some chinese fastfood. They dont put that much tho. Will be back again tho. :) read more

Chowking - Chinese Near Me - Milpitas, California

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Bad customer service. Food service is very slow. Customer service is very poor. Considering that theres a lot of customers they just keep on chatting. read more

Brand spankin' new place so it's nice to see. It was clean and the employees are friendly. Tell me why it's lunch time (12:30 p.m.) and you don't have chicken? It's one of the featured foods on the menu and you only had one piece of chicken in the window. I asked how long it was going to take if I ordered a chicken meal and was told that it would take 15-20 minutes. Really?! I ended up ordering Arroz Caldo ($2.99) which came in a very large container. Plan on sharing this with someone. I also got 1 Asado Pao, pork bun, ($1.89). Arroz Caldo: It's like your typical rice porridge, but it was missing ginger and salt. There was a couple of egg slices, ground chicharron, and green onions garnishing the top of my soup, but it was... eh. If it had the ginger in it I think it would've tasted a lot better. Pork Bun: Nothing to write home about either. I did finish eating it so it wasn't bad. Would I come back? Maybe. They do have party trays that feed 6 people for only $9.99. There was quite a selection of food to choose from so MAYBE I'll try them out for the next potluck. The store is competing with Goldilocks which is right across the way. To be honest I should've gone to Goldilocks instead of here. read more

I was craving soup one day and so I headed over to Chow King to try out the soups that they had. I have never eaten at Chow King before so I was being adventurous! I ordered their wonton soup, but got the wonton soup with noodles. The flavor wasn't that great and I couldn't finish my soup! :( Such a shame since I love wonton soup! I also ordered the 2 pc chicken with mushroom gravy and rice. Chicken is ok, but I could do without the mushroom gravy. 3 stars because it was just OK, but I would probably try it again! read more

Okay I say 2 stars, but their halo halo is probably a 4. I absolutely love their halo halo! Other than that the food is not too good. For the amount of food I get for the price I am getting, not worth it. The food quality is not even that great either. Not only are the portions small but its tastes seems so bland. There is not much to say about Chow King but praise their halo halo. Anyone know of other good Filipino restaurants in the bay area? read more

Chowking - Halo Halo - Chinese Near Me - Milpitas, California

I finally made my way down to this location... I ordered the garlic chicken combo.. about 1:30pm on a weekday and they actually cooked it good.. not like when I got the same dish at the Concord location.. .. at the Concord location they fried the crap out of that chicken and it might as well have been garlic chicken jerky w/ rice... we'll see next time i go if the food is decent... read more

This is a great place to eat if you are low on cash or on a strict budget. We ordered a 12pc crrrunchy chicken and a party tray of palabok for only $21.87. This filled a family of 6 and we still had plenty of leftovers for the next day. The food of course is not going to be the best but for the value it is worth every penny. The tapa and bangus is bomb and beats other filipino breakfasts hands down with the price of $5.99. LOL, at most fast food restaurants on their breakfast menu what can you get for that price and be satisfied. Updated: This place is now not worth going to anymore. They started off very good but their quality of food is just nasty now. I guess the old saying "You get what you pay for," is true in this sense. Bring back the quality of food and this place will be booming again. read more

Chow king has its usual fried chicken plates and soups. My mom decided to go with the congee w/ tofu. I got the beef wonton soup. The portions are a pretty good size for a "fast food" type of place. The congee was piping hot and had a strong ginger flavor. It came with fried tofu and lemon juice on the side. My beef soup was flavorful, the meat was tender, and the noodles were firm. All was going well until I found a thin piece of metal in my soup! Luckily I noticed it before I ate any further. I returned it and they offered me a new one. I appreciated the manager (I'm guessing she was the manager because she was dressed nicer than everyone else) coming over and bringing the new soup and apologizing for the last one. She said the metal was probably from the cleaning tools they use. This place is okay and satisfies the Filipino/Chinese food craving. Will be watching out for metal parts if I ever return. read more

Chowking - Congee with fried tofu - Chinese Near Me - Milpitas, California

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Chow King has the best Halo-halo (better than Jollibee, Goldilocks, Max's, and Kalesa, I think). All the other food is good too ("Pretty fresh," said my non-Filipino MIL). Just docked one star because the huge Chinese-style Fried Chicken is mostly batter. read more

One day my sister didn't feel like cooking. She put my BIL in charge of picking up dinner. Her coworker told her Chow King has great tasting chicken. $12 will get you 10 pieces. My BIL came home with the chicken and it did not satisfy. KFC's chicken tastes better. We definitely have had better. read more

They have the nerves to raise their prices on their king size Halo Halo because it's summer. I swear! Filipino's are sssssooo greddy with money. Better yet, i paid with credit card...they had the nerves to include a tip box on their reciept! What fast food joint include this? Of course, a Filipino fast food joint. read more

So my dad just literally came home with 2 orders of chicken won ton soup and I opened it up to mix in the soup and won tons and to my surprise I FIND A HAIR MIXED IN WITH THE WON TONS! So my dad is pretty pissed at this point cause he just drove from sunnyvale to milpitas to get some soup cause my mom was craving for it cause she's been sick. All that food went straight to the trash. We were just so disgusted! NEVER again will we return here! read more

It's fast food Filipino and it's exactly what you get so no problem there. Now to why 1 star. I had gone for a quick meal around 7:30pm and ordered the fried garlic chicken plate and they ran out of the garlic chicken so I asked if they can instead substitute it for the crunchy fried chicken and they said sure but I have to pay extra. wha?.. I wouldn't be substituting if they didn't run out of the garlic chicken but I have to pay extra? And then earlier this month I went and bought a family party pack that included 4 free 2 liter Pepsi bottles - great! I went in before noon to place my order to pick up at 5:30pm. They said they had no green beans but I can substitute it for something else and I didn't have to pay extra... I go back at 5:30PM to pick up my order and she gives me 1 2 liter Pepsi and she and her manager were going to get the 2nd bottle, I correct her and tell her it's a total of 4.They go off in some hall closet and 5 minutes later she comes back apologizes they ran out and to come back the next day to pick up the 2nd bottle - again it's suppose to be a total of 4 and my party is today and I need 4. Here's the thing...Chow King is across from Seafood City Grocery store so why couldn't they go pick me up the 3 bottles they owe me? I'm not baggin on the lady that helped me at all she was really nice but come on this is how you're gonna do your customers and not give them what they paid for? read more

This place is a joke unless you're getting the fried chicken! If you want real authentic Filipino food, look elsewhere!

Decided to try chow king. what a mistake. For a fast food place they are pretty slow with orders. I was waiting in line and the cashier lady motions me to come forward only to have me hold on as she cleans and checks up on some other stuff. I was expecting my food to come out within 10 mins max. I ended up waiting on my food for 20-30 mins. There was no apology. I would ask and they would say two more minutes or it's coming out real soon. I was starving too :( I'd rather have panda express than try chow king ever again. read more

Customer service suck!!!! The cashier, middle age woman, name LEA, was so rude!!!! I smiled at her and politely ordered a halo halo. LEA,What the hell is your problem? I handed you the money politely in your hand, why did you slammed the receipt and my change onto the counter when my arm was out and palm wide open for you??? Did you not see my hand? Are you blind? The coins rolled all over and even dropped to the ground. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? Rude!!! I m never ever coming back and your halo halo suck too! Bitch! read more

Quick Spot!?! hell nah! Serrrrvice is slowwww like pong pagong..... 20 min for tocilog!

No no no no. Worst money I've spent on food in a long time. Employees I encountered were rude and didn't even want to answer my questions about what's in the different types of meals they offer (I'm not Filipino food expert!) I order the pansit and the lumpia and both just tasted like salt. It's right across the street from my work but eff this place! read more

I'm sorry but this location is a complete FAIL! The line was ridiculously long but that's only because the 2 cashiers had no clue what they were doing. As I was approaching my turn to order, the cashier had me wait a good 2 minutes until she asked if she could take my order. As I'm in the middle of my ordering process, she completely cuts me off by walking away! WTH? Fast forward, we wait a good 30 mins to get our food since the manager who was calling out names had no idea of what she was doing either. I open up the family meal we purchased only to find the chicken was old, cold & stail! These guys just had their grand opening. It's a shame the kind of un-professionalism they showed, cust serv wise and food wise. NEVER AGAIN! read more

It should be ZERO! WORST FOOD and CUSTOMER SERVICE !!! We were there on 9/21/2013 at 3:28 pm (it was stated in the receipt) Our order: Chicken Arroz Caldo - from hell! Garlic Chicken Lauriat Meal - cold as ice! Egg rolls - dry as the desert! 1) My companion complained of his Garlic chicken being so Cold, noodles colder and the rest are tasteless! He just threw everything bec. he was pissed! 2)The eggrolls are shorter than a toddler's finger and so dry! I am so sure they are store bought, out from the freezer! Gross! Now, here comes the Arroz Caldo ( rice porridge with chicken and slices of eggs) I brought it back to the counter and told them that it was So Cold! The lady heated it. As I was waiting for my order.... I heard 3 lady customers beside our table complaining about how SALTY their noodle soup was! 2 of them approach the counter and complained. The "lady supervisor/ manager" just listened and told them about their "cook" being new and all! tsk! tsk! What a good alibi! Tne customer got another soup and the 2 other threw theirs in the trash! After my heated arroz caldo was handed to me I started to eat the rice, then I started to break the chicken thigh and ate a small piece - YUCK! I gave a piece to my companion for him to taste the chicken, he tasted the same! Yuck! Chicken Thigh tasted SPOILED ( you know the taste of a chicken from being frozen, placed at room temp for a long, long time making it , esply inside having bad smell and greenish) I brought it back to the counter and the staff told me that there was nothing wrong with their food. One lean male, "supervisor or manager" kept on telling me that it might be RAW! (that's worst, did you know that?!) huh?! It tasted rotten, spoiled chicken! But he insisted that it's Ok! Why dont they just accept it, Apologize and throw that big pot of soup and spoiled chicken?! My companion went to the counter and finally complained of the cold chicken etc. A family of 4 brought back their chicken orders complained they were so cold and too hard! LISTEN to your Customers please!!! The male staff told me that they would just give back my money ( $3.50) and will give me the new arroz caldo to go - I just said NO, I didnt want to eat that same soup again and I was so tired! NEVER AGAIN Chowking! ewww! read more

Decided to try their Wonton soup meal yesterday while waiting for my wife visiting her dentist office close by. It was almost $10 and I felt like the Wonton soup is a little better than a cup of instant noodles I made at home. Their little fried egg rolls are tasty. read more

These people are hella slow!!!! I waited 15-20 minutes for my tocino with Bangus meal!!! Although it was so delicious the service sucks !!! The food portions should be more! I'm a big bitch, I need more than 1 scoop of garlic rice. Overall I come here for their drinks or tocino. Their pancit and chicken is gross read more

Foods is delicious but the service is horrible I had to wait 20 mins and people behind me were getting there orders before me and they forgot to give me my dimsum I ordered they just took my money I'm very disappointed! I want a reimbursement for my missing food! I asked for help first and they decided to help someone else. read more

The employees needs to be trained how to conduct business in a professional manner.

They're cheap as hell. These cheap bastards don't even have salt and pepper for customers. They also don't give extra napkins. 2 napkins maximum per customer. No extra plates no extra utensils to give to customers read more

This 1 star is solely based on their Beef Wonton Soup, I can't speak about any of their other menu items.

Lot of stuff to say here. Unfortunately not all of it good. So where to begin? Well, in any instance, I usually avoid places near closing time. On this evening I rolled up at 8:30p. According to the Chowking signage, the place closes at 9:00p. I usually do this out of courtesy as being a working stiff in customer service back in the day, I know it sucks to be held back by last minute customers. Do keep this in mind for the extra star. At the same time, I think either the supervisors or the GM may have to re-think their policy or customer service strategy as it was really appearant that the employees where both rushing to clean up while serving customers. That said as a reminder to this or any establishment, when customers are present, that doesn't mean you shut down operations. Closing time doesn't mean quitting time. It means you need to figure out how much time after the last customer leaves, that your employees don't look like incompetents while serving the public. Get my drift? At the same time, just because the person behind the counter is getting frazzled doesn't mean they can't do their job. It means that you don't have to be a douche bag and maybe you should reconsider eating somewhere else. So after a short wait, I leave with my to go order of fried chicken, gravy, rice and spaghetti. This is where it doesn't get so good. Chicken: Breast meat and drumstick. Very small pieces. Crunchy yes, but greasy. Flat taste if any. Gravy: Salty brown gelatinous goo. Good thing they served it up in a plastic ketchup thingy. We'll leave it at that. Rice: Not cooked very well. Grains are too seperate. This is the white man's rice. Spaghetti: Now I like Filipino 'spaghetti' with hot dogs and ketchup and all. This version I do not like. It wasn't sweet, but sort of watered down tomatoey. Also missing requisite hotdogs. Truthfully, a generations worth of dead Italian grandmas are probably rolling in their graves with the Pinoy version of Spaghetti. But its a beloved version enjoyed by a many Filipino households and if you look at it, its a salute to the Pinoy love of western culture. Besides if you've ever seen that Kraft commercial about American cheese and how it stacks up against the Swiss ('well at least our cheese doesn't have holes in it') you can pretty much muster a sense of humor about Filipino spaghetti. So the other grind I have is not specifically with Chowking but with any Philippine based business that provides customer service to the public. Can we stop with 'Hello ma'am sir'? Its lame and self disparaging. If male customer steps up to the counter its "Hello SIR". Not ma'am sir. Same if its a lady. Not sure how this came about in the lexicon of customer service, but not only is it self disparaging, but also impolite. So it may look like I did a full out slam on Chowking. But if Chowking doesn't want to be 'Choke King', then I think some improvements in operations, customer service and product are in order. Hopefully they'll work through it and swing it in their favor. read more

The service is very poor. When I visited they were out of fried chicken, ice and Mountain Dew. When I complained to the manager he did not care. read more

This place was not the best place I've been to. I spent more than average for a less than mediocre meal. I was not satisfied while eating their food. I would rather go 15 feet to their left and get a sandwich from Aroma! read more

I came here on a very warm evening last week at about 8:30 pm. I was told they had HUGE halo-halos and I was really wanting something refreshing. I decided to order dinner for my family here as well. The pictures looked so yummy so I ordered the King Kong #3 (I think that's what it's called, my bad if its not ;-)). It is supposed to include garlic chicken, white rice, sesame balls, shumai and lumpia shanghai. I also ordered, the Supreme Fried Rice, beef asado siopao, Ube Shake and the Halo-Halo Classico. Unfortunately, because it was so late, once the food was ready, I just grabbed it and made my way home. As I opened my king kong meal, I was so disappointed! I had more rice than anything else. Little bitty pieces of garlic chicken that hardly had meat on it, 2 mini sesame balls, 2 mini shumai that looked super dry and NO LUMPIA SHANGHAI! Hello....that's what my kids were waiting for. My daughter started eating her siopao and the look on her face you can tell the siopao was definitely NOT satisfying. She said it was dry and tasted like plastic. Not happy, once again! The Ube shake was ehh. Too sweet for me. But my daughter said it was ok. I didnt think it tasted like Ube. But whatever. Then I finally had my Halo-Halo. Can I say, not impressed???? lol....I've definitely had better. Didn't like what I think were soggy banana chips, barely any coconut and the ube ice cream just didn't taste like ube. I would rather go to Goldilocks. Though they are a little pricier, their food tastes much better. Again, only my opinion :-) I will not come here again...... read more

I only come here for Thor breakfast and I have to say for a fast food Filipino place it's really good! I usually order their Tocino Bangus but since I gave up red meat for lent they also offer lent options which makes it even better for me during breakfast time! read more

Although this is a fast food restaurant - it has decent meals. I would eat here first before I go to McDonalds. Lol. I especially wanted to do this review for their Arroz Caldo. When I was sick my husband brought home some Arroz Caldo and I cringed at the thought it wasn't home made!...BUT when I ate it - it was tasty and delicious. It had good flavor, it wasn't oily and it had one chicken drumstick and a hard boiled egg. So now when I crave some Arroz Caldo - for a quick bite Chow King is a decent choice. read more

Overpriced, but wonton soup is goooooood. 2 stars because they need to learn how to clean.

I tried to call their phone number for phone order and got a "non business" voice mail, meaning it's a regular home voice message for all the phones when we buy it from the store. Usually, business establishments have their own greetings when the phone is busy. I went to the restaurant ordered spaghetti and asked for the manager at the same time. When discussing with him about the "unprofessional voice greeting", 3 of his female staff at the front desk were laughing at me while talking to him. They were so mean and very unprofessional! The discussion is not even funny and they showed disrecpect to their customers. These staff need to be trained for the correct etiquettehow to handle a good customer service. I was so disappointed how they run their business! Their food is not great, the spaghetti that I ordered has no meat , it's watery and too sweet. From the past, they even gave away my fried chicken to other customers and "THEY DON"T APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR MISTAKES! That would be the last timeI will order from them. Will not recommend to anybody! read more

Rude service and very unhelpful. They did an order they were able to give me last time but came back they didn't want to do again. Why service it the first time. read more

verrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy baddddd.....will never eat there ever again and i will tell my friends and anybody that i know NOT to go there and NEVER GO there ever again.... Just happened today: Me and my family decided to go for grocery shopping but it was dinner time so we decided to eat first before hitting the grocery store (Seafood City). Since my husband is not a fan of Goldilocks and wanted to go to Maxx's but we saw there was a big wait. So we end up going to Chowking...since we are in a hurry we thought it was a good idea coz we can get our food fast and eat fast then we still can do other errands after we ate. But unfortunately we end up waiting for our food for almost an hour... 1. ladies in the front does not smile...(they might thought they are already pretty that they don't need to smile to their customers) 2. i don't get the idea of serving your dessert first, this time we ordered halo-halo, but we wanted to eat our food first before eating our dessert, since our food was late, our halo-halo became SOUP!!!! 3. Since it was soooo long, i made a follow-up for our food then the lady just told me to wait for the sweet and sour chicken for another mins....(when food was serve, the sweet and sour chicken is like only half a cup, that took them more than mins to cook or warm it ?????) 4. I ordered chicken lauriat, but gave me a small pieces of fried pork...but then they serve my chicken but no gravy 5. The food was incomplete, they serve us siomai with no sauces and chicken with no gravy, so it's another mins to go and ask for them about it, but i hear someone at the back saying there's no more gravy...they thought i could not understand tagalog...then another wait... but COLD gravey came....) 6. i complained to them due to their cold gravy and the people in the back laugh at it.... 7. Manager sucks....since i freak out and made a scene, she came up to me and saying sorry and told me she was not there at that time...what kind of manager are you???? ( it's a good thing i did not able to think of getting your name or else you are definitely be mentioned here) I was so pissed off, i decided not to eat my food and just take them home since we cannot do our grocery shopping because they are close...so i went back to the front and ask for plastic bag, and somebody ask me if i am a Filipina and i said yes i am, and telling me to be patient....she don't know me, i have sooooo many patience specially in a fast food because i used to work at Chowking back in the Philippines wherein it is very busy not even half of the people at Chowking Milpitas today...it is more on the employees and how the management handle or maybe trained them in tems of organization, customer service, and food handling....i guess they all need to go on training on these criteria because they don't have any one of these.... read more

Arezcaldo tasted equivalent to tasteless watered down rice cooker diarrhea. Workers are impossibly slow and annoying. Their pancit tasted like instant pan-shit, there were no meat, veggies, nothing! read more

I am really disappointed by the quality of food that they serve. It's not the usual Chowking (my favorite fast food chain) I had in the Philippines. The service sucks the lady in the counter feels like rushing all the time and looks frustrated while taking orders. It's a sad reality that these big food chain companies are only after making money the moment they get it the quality of their products decline. I will never go back ever and discourage friends and family to even try it. read more

Quick spot to grab some bomb breakfast! Tapsilog with a side of bangus...MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Well my girlfriend and I were trying to go to "Savory Chicken" which was freaking closed on Easter even though their store hours said they were open on Sundays. So after walking around the same plaza, we just ate here. This is like Filipino fast food mixed with some Chinese items (basic chicken noodles etc). We ordered the 6 piece meal combo which comes with white rice and gravy and choice of side (we opted for one of the chicken noodle dishes; forgot the exact name). I will say this. The manager/owner, whoever runs that place has no freaking clue what she's doing. Everything is discombobulated. The workers don't seem to give a crap and I guess I don't blame them. But I worked fast food before and I always busted my tail but I guess that's just me. For one, the soda machine was broken. Okay crap happens. I asked for water cups and after receiving them, I asked if the water even works. She said, "I'm not sure, don't think so". What's the point in giving me 2 cups if nothing works? My order was missing my noodles! So I had to fix that. The order was "for here" and they basically gave me everything in "to go" boxes. Uhh hello? I need plates man. So I had to flag down another worker who gave me 2 plates. Idiots. The fried chicken had good flavor though, I will admit that. Noodles were average and rice is rice. Oh before I forget, we ordered an 8 piece of lumpia as well, which was decent. I doubt I would go back there b/c the service is just horrible. Also, I just don't like the way that in door food area is set up. There are hardly any places to sit and it seems impossible to find a main bathroom. read more