This restaurant sucks! it does not deserve even an imaginary star :( Their staff is not knowledgeable to handle payments in debit/credit cards, We were charged double for a single order. According to the cashier, she voided the first transaction because my card did not go through because their machine is super sensitive!!! But when I checked my bank, it went through. She collected payment of the bill on another card provided by my friend. It was also charged like mine was. My payment was supposedly voided by her. She promised that it will not be affecting my account but it did. To top it all, she promised that it will be within 24 hrs. I called up after after 6 days and she said it take 3 WEEKS for the amount to fall back into my account because they have to settle their mistake through their Los Angeles head office and to top it all, she said that if the amount has not been credited in 3 weeks I can go back to her and she will give me food /stuff!!!! What the heck is going on here????? I am thankful that my bank is handling this chaotic experience. Food wise, too dry and just serve like BLAH! :( read more

This is one of the worst fast food restaurant I've visited. Last night we order their sweet and sour pork, fried bangus, fried rice and pansit bihon. The fried bangus was fried in slow heat that you can see how black the cooking oil was.. so gross. The pansit bihon was literally just noodles only. I can't even see any small chopped green vege on the plate. Even worse the fried rice was literally swimming in a cooking oil. Then I order steam siomai but they serve it cold as ice. I'll definitely will not come back here to try oder food. read more

Okay...I would first like to say...I love Chow King's fried chicken...crispy...seasoned...non-greasy...a black man's heaven because I don't feel guilty after eating it. (calories). Saying that...I must say that the customer service at this place...STINKS...to high heaven. I'm not expert but it does not take 45 minutes to an hour to make chicken...well not unless your catching it...and killing it..first. Everytime i go in this place i have to wait over an hour to get my order. At first i was taking it personal..but after witnessing others going through the same chicken withdrawel pains as i did...I know they are just sloooooow. Do not go here at lunch time unless you own your own company..then you can't get fired for being an hour and a half late back from lunch. read more

Wow, I'm surprised at the ratings for this place. OK... granted I'm not Filipino and probably isn't a good food critic about Filipino food, but my honest opinion is that the food is tasty. The price is AWESOME. The food is much better than the American fast food chains (Yes, I'm reviewing this place as a fast food joint and not a real restaurant like some other reviews are trying to do) and way cheaper! For $4.99, you get a bowl of noodles and a bao! Yum... Where can you go do get that at a fast food joint? $5.99 for 6 pieces of chicken that are juicy! Again, I'm not filipino and can't speak on behalf of how the food is compare to authentic filipino food, but I can tell you that I liked it, tasted good, and price is just right. read more

Fast Filipino Food! You gotta love longanisa, garlic rice, fish, and a few fried eggs for breakfast! My mom took me here for some yum yums and shopping at the adjacent supermarket. The location is pretty funky and it was cold inside but if you're looking for some authentic-ish Filipino food this is the place for you. They even have boba/bubble drinks, taho, and halo-halo...mmmm! read more

I have been trying a variety of dishes here and I'm happy to say each one has been good. I have a pretty diverse palate (and I'm generally very critical) so I felt the need to write a review on a place that seems to have a weak fanbase. I've had a few filipino breakfast combos (tocino, tapa with eggs and rice) all very good. I recently had their fried chicken w/ pancit bihon and also their taho (very yummy!). Their service could be better but I've honestly had worse service at Goldilocks. Typical Filipino place where if you speak Tagalog you get better service. I don't speak it fluently, but I know enough words like "Salamat Po" which means "Thank you" and my effort to speak it gives me better service and good food. I will be going back again, they have my business. read more

Fair warning, this was my first visit to Chow King and only went here on my wife's insistence on checking out the new Filipino Complex off of Landess. Make no mistake, this is definitely fast food. Not gourmet by any means. I ordered the garlic chicken as the pictures on the menu looked appetizing and it sounded like a safe bet. For drinks, I tried the calamansi juice. My wife ordered the beef, braised beef IIRC. Both came with plenty of Rice as well as Bihon noodles. Overall I think the food was just ok. Maybe its just me, but the Garlic Chicken I am accustomed to in other Asian restaurants usually has some sort of sauce or gravy - this one was Deep Fried - and too many bones, not enough meat. The taste hit the spot, but I would have preferred more meat! The Bihon was good, and the Calamansi drink was refreshing this past weekend as it was a blistering 100 degress outside! Will I go there again? Possibly - I am interested in trying out their Tilapia. I am sure we will be in the vicinity as Sea Food City has a lot of items my wife likes. Perhaps next on the agenda should be Tokyo Tokyo... read more

Uhh, this is my first review. Ever. Combination of: 1) Being too lazy 2) Felt like had to review something epic or very unique 3) I always need 3 points Haven't been to a Chowking since I went back to the PI 2 summers ago. So, I have no recollection of the menu other than Chinese influenced. A couple things that pop into my mind as soon as I walk into the restaurant: 1) WOW. Another all-filipino joint. Literally crawling of flips everywhere. Screw diversity! Even closer to my house than Goldilocks. *(sarcastic) yay* 2) Where the f*ck did all these filipinos come from? Never have I seen so many, not even in Red Ribbon @ the Great Mall next door. Seriously, as if they literally got off the plane 3) Chowking's sandwiched next to Tokyo Tokyo (2 more points on this: a) Seriously amuses me how filipinos can't create any single unique thing it seems. From music to tv/movies to food. Copy/paste. copy/paste...) b) My Ninang (godmother for you none too familiar with this language called tagalog) seriously had no clue what kind of food they served at TOKYO TOKYO. Me: umm, the name wasn't enough? two times? silly family =P food was decent. it's fast food, so expectations should be held around just above mcd's and below good/decent filipino restaurants like barrio fiesta. I glazed over the menu and can mainly say you can cleanly categorize into 5 sections: 1) Dim sum/appetizer like stuff + soup (siopao, lumpia shanghai, dumplings) 2) Fried chicken specials. Family combos or personal meals. Did consider this deeply, but as I was poised on going to a BBQ that afternoon, wanted something light 3) 4-6 combo meals. Think highlights of Panda + pancit + rice. 4) Pancit lovers. Seriously like 6 different kinds. canton guisado. bihon guisado. lomi lomi i think? miki-bihon. palabok. +others 5) Dessert drinks. Looks like the best value of this place. Seriously. Our food order: Grandma: Embotido combo. Has a weird twang in it. Not a true foodie, my palate isn't really refined, so I couldn't dare tell you exactly what was different from how I'm used to. I'd give it a 3.5/5 Ninang: Garlic chicken combo + Halo Halo. Wasn't too bad. Texture was pretty decent, meat: breading : bone ratio pretty-to-very-good. but, although crunchy, garlic aftertaste was more raw and sharp than cooked. 3.5 Me: Miki-bihon something, shanghai, halo-halo. 4/2/5 Basically a thicker noodle 'gently' mixed with my bihon. for 3.99 i thought it was great value at the time of ordering. upon opening, realized for $4, i'm kinda missing about 25-33% lesser than i should. i know, it's fast food, but i'm more of a value whore of a foodie than drop an easy $20 for one plate type of foodie. cost-value is important to me if i want to frequent this place more often. anyways, the miki-bihon was pretty good. a bit salty, but not overbearingly. i've become more of a health nut in that i rarely go for truly salty fare or white creamy sauce type of foods if i can help it. plus i'll never stop eating to show off what glimpses of a 6-pack and other muscle i've got, so gotta curb the diet just a bit. as in, fried chicken only every other month now, instead of once a month...so, the veggies were pretty fresh. i did enjoy it w a lil lemon juice lumpiang shanghai. ick. texture was good. meat was good. only tiny lil sh*ts. 8 for 2.50, not bad if you think about it. came with a 'siopao' sauce. whatever. i stay away from sauces with greater frequency in general now, particularly if it comes separately packaged and not in a dip container next to it. had a weird taste to it. say like ginger or something. i dunno. was a bit subtlety sharp for me. ate a few, gave some to my aunt, grandma, saved the rest of my moms at home. BEST PART OF THE MEAL: HALO HALO. yeah. it's dessert, not a surprise? shaddap. i don't do desserts as much anymore. only if other ppl order and of course i have to chip in. with 3 exceptions only: ice cream, tiramisu, creme brulee. if there's room, i'll order it. but only if with a group/special occasion. i'm too cheap to buy ice cream all the time as well but seriously, for $3.99, that sucker was HUGE (twss joke here) great value. certainly more than what goldilocks offers (and they're opening in the same plaza, too!) grandma was telling me MIX! MIX! but still mixes when i scoop it up. i like slightly isolating the ube and other pieces per scoop so i can taste it. wonderful. def more value than regular pearl teas and most halo halo's out there. just more liquid slightly lesser ice cream. but in very good proportion Final thoughts: -this crap's still salty fare. go for the dessert 'drinks' -very polite staff. among the few things i love about flip joints vs non. will find seating for you if available if you ask -seating's terrible. if busy. they share with tokyo tokyo -no non-asians. if i ever see any, i'd get creeped out unless they're with filipino friends. otherwise, it's like a 50yr old man hanging out at a middle school but no kid. read more

Filipino Chinese dish. This place is also cheap the only thing that they don't serve that I miss is the steamed water spinach with shrimp paste but this place is still good and they have a lot of variety to choose from. read more

The flavors of home sweet home. Tapa with egg and fried rice is the best! Breakfast at any time of the day.

Service sucks! The girl was rude and just seemed mad. Not my fault if there's a line. Just wanted to order some food. She just gave attitude to everyone who was ordeing. Palabok-I'd rather get jollibee. Or go to red ribbon they have great palabok. Chicken was ok, a little tastier than chicken joy. I agree with the other post that we should have just gone to savory. Savory's chicken is better tasting. The owner and employees are always nice and friendly unlike chow king. Go to savory if you want chicken, go to red ribbon if you want palabok. Go to quickly if you want a better tasting drink. read more

The employees there were pretty rude. As Cherry Ann (I believe is her name) gave my change, she basically tossed it at me) But despite the 3 star rating I gave, I will still be a returning customer, I really enjoy their halo-halo and bola-bola. Other than that their customer service isn't so great. read more

I went to buy chicken at chowking, the crew was about to bag me extra sauce and the supervisor took the extra sauce away right in front of me. I was speechless to see the inappropriate behavior coming from a supervisor. The least she could do was apologize for taking the sauce and mention if I needed to pay for it, but she did not. She just took it from me. As a supervisor you should be setting an example for the crew, instead she made the mistake of disrespecting a customer right in front of her crew and making it seem like that's okay to do. That is not how a supervisor should be. read more

The pork siopao tasted spoiled and a day or two old all for $1.85 each!. The chicken was below average and the spicy chicken taste like they just put a dash of Lawrys seasoned salt. The service bad and unprofessional. cut you off just to yell at the microphone to see what is available, why doesn't she know this? Can't undestand why management allow such a bad service or is this their way of running the business. Or maybe the owner/management are back home counting their money due to the spike in business from the grand opening and not realizing in the long run customer service is what will make them money! I can undestand if the food is great and people will come no matter what but it's not! Typical flip management style and why other ethnic groups turn away and think our food is bad but its actually the service is what is turning them away. Same issues with Max's next door. read more

HOLY COW! I ordered garlic chicken... what i got did not even look like chicken. It looked like burnt pcs of bits and pcs of some sort of meat. It was sooooo fried it was inedible. I wouldn't even feed this to my dogs. The noodle lookin side dish was soooo salty. The only thing edible in my combo was the white rice. What a disappointment! Can i give this 0 stars? NEVER coming back! read more

Wasted my 40 minutes time just for waiting on a 'one' order of beef wonton, but the noodle was good though so ill give them 2 stars instead of 1. read more

I ordered Congee with Tofu and the Congee was too salty. So if you order one tell them no salt. Not good for people withe hypertension. Congee is supposed to be healthy alternative. read more

the wonton noodlesoup and steamed pork siomai tasted way different than the original chowking in the Philippines, sadly.

Service was horrible. I ordered the fried rice and pork bun. I was second to place my order between 3 of my other friends. All 3 of them got their food and finished it before I even got my order. Also noticed about 5 other people got their food while I just stood there waiting. I asked the cashier what was going on and she told me they were still making the rice. To which I responded well my friend had the exact same thing i ordered and ordered after me yet he has already got his. She told me his was old rice and they were making new one. After getting tired of waiting I asked if i could simply just order something else that didn't take a long time. I ordered some sort of a soup that was just okay. Nothing special. The pork bun i ordered was wrong they gave me some other strange bun which tasted disguising. As a present to them we left the partially eaten bun on the cashiers table. Yeah that present is for you I hope you are reading this review. Horrible horrible place I will never go here again. Only reason we ate here is because Tokyo Tokyo was closed at the time. read more

Ewwwww I just saw an employee spit her gum on her and and threw it in the garbage and not wash her hands afterwards.... I hope management sees this review. She was the one taking order 4/9/12 @ 10:38 am. read more

Bad food and bad service. How long does it takes to microwaved food? Because that is what you get when you order food from this place. I waited almost 30 min for my food. Some workers are just standing there and just talking. Some workers are eating and drinking while serving. I have to return my congee because it was cold and took another 4 min to get it back and still cold. read more

I know this quite low rating but it was not a good visit. I havent been here for a long time so my husband and I decided to try their Chinese style fried chicken and the beef wonton noodle. I dont eat red meat but my hubby ate it and I had the noodles and wonton, okay he had the chicken too. In ordering, the cashier was nice but what was disappointing the long wait. I noticed only one waiting before me and after waiting for more than 10 minutes and I was starving..well plus the people after me having their order served already..I checked and yap my food was not even prepared..well what happened..the cashier handed me the list that supposed to be going to the kitchen together with the receipt..I told them that i wanted a refund and I would not be able to wait any longer..guess what the food was ready in 2 minutes..okay they apologized..well it did not end there. the rice that was served with my chicken was an old crispy fried rice...I said that I wanted a steamed rice like what it was on the menu board..I was not even asked while ordering if I wanted a crispy fried rice...another thing my husband wanted to use their restroom and I was told that it was closed and he was directed to use the dirty mall's restroom... read more

I hate it when service crews at fast foods doesn't care what you order and are in a hurry to punch in orders that they won't even talk to you that's annoying as hell and you can find that here at chowking landess. WORST! I MEAN THE WORST SERVICE YOU'LL EVER ENCOUNTER. They even stuff your 5 plate orders in ONE small bag. F***ing idiots! read more

I've actually been to this place twice now (both on a weekend) and had the exact same experience each time. When I look at the menu, two things shout at me: Fried Chicken and Desserts. The fried chicken, although a little bit on the salty side (some Filipinos I think like it that way) was decently priced. What they keep forgetting though is that special gravy that makes the food that much more special. So when you get your fried chicken, check and make sure they included it. As for the desserts, although a pretty nice collection, they never seem to keep in stock all of them, e.g. Classic Taho and Gulaman Sago. It was early in the afternoon and they were already out of this stuff! Tisk-tisk inventory manager! The other desserts they have consists of pre-made slushies that come in tropical flavors. Although they're a little on the sweet side, they were OK given the price you had to pay for most of them ($2.99). But seeing that they're all just vending machines and not specially made, kind of takes away from that "special" feeling you get when you want to pamper yourself to something special. Personally, I think I'll be going to the one in Union City more often instead. read more

the food here is terrible! we ordered they're soy crispy chicken and fried chicken... both were halfway cook, speaks specks of blood was all over the chicken. and their soda was so flat.... no carbonation whatsoever!. we will never go there again. read more

I only tried their palabok because I love that stuff and often need to feed my cravings. The palabok was really good and large portions. I'm so happy I know where to get my palabok close to home. Of course being fast food its not great, and the toppings egg and shrimp are slim, but if you just need to get a quick fix, this place should do it. read more

I love ChowKing . My favorite is their Asado siopao. It's sooooooooo good. I love to wash it down with a mango shake

I have only one thing to say to this fast food, it's cheap and the chicken noodle soup is very salty! I definitely not going to recommend to somebody it's kinda embarrasing. read more

I love to eat the pancit bihon but I just don't like how I have to wait for so long for my order to be ready.

service is crap. food is crappier. but yea, i'd still come back for their taho and halo halo... oh and for my tokwa't baboy! (they owe me one from the last time.. i dont know how you could mess up an order that included three things?) ugh. read more

me and my mom went today to order some food they punch the order already and we paid it when they tell us that there already out of it we ask to get our money back but they taking so long and getting mad at us and didnt give us the right amount their customer service sucks ..their crew made a mistake and their the one getting mad at the customer, all of them doesnt have a potential to help a customer I wouldnt recommend this store location to my friends you need to hire a good employee who can do their job! poor service!! read more