First time stopping by because I was craving chicken balut (ga lon), but they had already sold out, so I ended up getting duck balut instead. They were $2 each, which seemed reasonable. They also carry a variety of other eggs and pretty much everything chicken-related. Most of the staff spoke Vietnamese, but they were friendly. If you don't know how to pronounce something, just show them a picture or Google Translate and they'll know what you mean. I'll definitely be back next time for the whole chicken. read more

Dakao Poultry - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

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I only come here to get the fresh chicken and no where else. If you smile and speak politely to the older men here, you will get a better more polite service in return. The place is plain, clean enough and they work hard. Don't expect any royal service, just fresh chicken to cook whatever dish your heart desires. read more

Dakao Poultry - Porridge made with the chicken! "Chao Ga" - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

The sales clerk spoke rudely and impolitely, even though he appeared elderly. He showed no respect for customers buying meat at the shop and asked insensitive questions unrelated to the purchase. I only brought my child with me to buy the meat, and he showed his displeasure at me holding the baby. He was short and wore glasses. This will likely be my first and last visit. I think people should go to the market to buy their goods instead of coming here where they treat customers poorly, even though the payment was complete. read more

If I can give a 0star, I would love to do that !!! Bad customer service, we pay the food, not asking for FrEE!!! Go back to school to learn how to customer service from young people!!!! The chicken was dirty, we have to take extra time to clean again n again! Never wanna come back or recommend for anyone! read more

cheating! When they weighed meat, they didnt let the weight stop, I couldn't read it, then they didn't give you the receipt that told you how much you bought. I recommend you be careful read more

They don't have much parking but let customers wait while chit-chatting with each other. The lady in front requests another chicken cause the one he gives her is too skinny. He raises his voice, argues with the lady, kinda humiliates her in front of others. Customer service is really bad. They think they are superior than others. Không biết chú bán hàng có phải chủ không, nhưng thái độ rất hung hăng với khách hàng. Anh ta nổi giận, la mắng khi họ yêu cầu đổi 1 con không ốm yếu. Cười nhạo khách hàng sau khi đã khó chịu và lớn tiếng với họ. Lần đầu đi mua gà dùm mẹ mà tôi thấy thương cô mua gà phía trước. Nếu có nhiều chỗ khác bán gà tươi, cô chú Việt mình không cần đến một cái tiệm vừa bị mất tiền vừa bị đối xử không đúng phép. Họ tám nói chuyện để khách đứng đợi, trong khi parking thì không có. Thái độ trịnh thượng. Phải dùng từ " dịch vụ khách hàng quá tệ, thiếu tôn trọng khách hàng". Không việc gì phải đến nơi như vậy để mua gà!!! read more

I just witness something very sketchy. I was at the Dakao Poultry this morning at 8:15 on 2/18/25. I was behind this gentleman in a white and black stripe jogger suit. He was driving a white minivan. He had bags and bags of chicken and a couple of bags of gizzards and livers which they normally weight. So the customer gave the cashier $60 (which I know was wrong) and the cashier handed the customer back $65. I don't know if the cashier is the owner but that right there was fishy. I don't know if the owners have cameras but they should review the footage. Just saying. read more

Live fresh chicken for a great price. You can also get the gizzards from here as well. Not going to complain about the smell

Simply rude. Staff seemed "annoyed" by my simple questions and rudely ignored me when they felt like it. Maybe I caught them on a bad day but it seemed like business as usual. read more

My mom told me to buy chicken here because it's fresh. I stop by super early 1 morning and bought 3 lbs of chicken feet, 1 lb of gizzards, 4 lbs of chicken thigh. So far I've had the gizzards and chicken feet. They both taste really good. I can't wait to try the thighs. I'm really happy with this place. Will be back for more. read more

There are 2 windows. Be prepared to tell them female or male chickens. Most chickens-quite possibly every chicken you've ever eaten was female. I got two whole chickens to make beer can chicken. I asked for no head nor feet but got them anyways. Maybe they don't separate those? Not sure, but I can save those for chicken stock so no big deal. Chickens were $13/piece. They also take credit card. Not sure if these chickens are free of all that crazy stuff they feed chickens or if it's free range but it's solid. read more

i go to this place to get fresh chicken for the last 3 years . The quality of service has gone down gradually. The men alway gave me the chicken with many blackened bite mark on the skin. I asked to exchange and he got upset. Tôi thường đi mua gà vịt ở đây 3 năm gần đây. Chất lượng ngày càng giảm, họ thường đưa cho tôi nhửng con gà có thẹo . Khi tôi xin đổi con khác thì ông ta nổi giận. Hôm nay tôi mua 1 bọc xương gà tưoi nhưng về nhà phát hiện xương bị thúi vửa, mùi khó ngửi. Tui rất thất vọng về việc buôn bán mất chất lượng. read more

Got Fresh chicken thigh , for porridge. They have quail eggs $2 a dozen. But only few. read more

Dakao Poultry - 2.2lb of chicken thigh for $9 . 3 pieces. - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

I had heard about this place for a long time now and there is nothing better than a fresh chicken. What's the difference you might ask. Well, there is a huge difference in the texture of the chicken meat. However, since I was only making soup with it today, it really shouldn't matter, but since I was in the area, I decided to check it out. The place is clean. It didn't stink either. I had been to the chicken place in LA's chinatown and it stank like high heaven. I couldn't bear to be in there for more than a minute or two. This place is definitely a winner in my book. There are 2 types of chicken -- brown or regular. The regular ones are HUGE, like capons. The brown ones are $9 each and the capon ones are sold by the pound. When I brought it home, the feet and head were still intact. I totally forgot that they sold chickens this way in Asia. OH BOY! So here I am trying to get rid of the head.... I used some poultry shears and OMG, I got such a bad case of heeby jeebies and let out a few shouts here and there. One time, I accidentally poked the eye and it opened. WHOA!!! Next time I'm having them remove the head before I bring it home. read more

Dakao Poultry - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

Send my friend to buy several items. Gave me this receipt . Doesn't display the products nor price, just Total. read more

Dakao Poultry - a receipt for sale - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

Fresh poultry, good price! The customers speak all kind of languages but the cashier only speaks broken English.... Some of the customers help to translate, it works! Definitely will come back here for more fresh poultry. read more

One day momma came home lugging bags of chicken. Me: Momma. Why do you keep buying so much chicken? There's no room in any of the three fridges. Momma: Don't tell me what I can't do. Besides, you're going to finish the chicken. She cooks the chickens into Ca-ri/curry, makes rotisserie chicken, fries 'em up. She even made popcorn chicken. And guess what? I ate everything. Damn, glad I picked her as my mom. The chicken at Dakao is fresh. It's a storefront with a lot of workers dealing with a lot of dead chickens in front of your eyes. There's usually a line out the door but it moves quickly. My mom used to go to the chicken store down on Westminster/Harbor but no more. Dakao is her go-to place. They have free range/American, bones, eggs, the chewy chicken....I don't know all the names. You can also pick male/female, too. A whole chicken is $11.00. Notes: -Curb parking all around the store -Accepts cash/credit -If you go towards the end of the day, it'll be scrawny chickens as your selection. You can try to haggle read more

Dakao Poultry - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

I often came to this place to buy fresh chicken. The owner is not nice to the customers. I was ok because I think it is just his behavior. No thank you; no hello, no hi, no what can I help you. Very bad customer service. He does not even look at the customers. Today, I had a bad experience with him when I told him that I wanted to buy 2 chickens and chicken liver and heart separately, one pound each. He told me, "They go together". At first, I did not understand what he meant ... together with the chicken, no sell separately. I explained again. He did not let me explain completely. He repeated, "They go together", and started giving me an attitude by raising his voice. He said, "You do not understand. I explained and you still did not understand. You ...". Very rude. I said, "You are so difficult and very impolite. I asked and you answered very shortly and did not know how to explain. Then you told me I am this and I am that. I paid for the pice of 2 chicken and left the store. I will not come back to this place again. Just simply think that we, customers, bring the business to this misbehaved owner. We should be welcomed with nice greetings and services. Without the citizens from the Midway city and neighbors city, and especially Vietnamese people, his business cannot exist until today. In the past, he overcharged my credit card, I came back. He refunded without sayin an apology. Tôi thường đến nơi này để mua gà tươi. Người chủ tiệm bắt lịch với khách hàng. Tôi nghĩ không sao vì đó chỉ là hành vi của ông ấy. Không cám ơn; không chào hỏi (nếu có thì hỏi mua gì). Dịch vụ khách hàng rất tệ. Ông ta thậm chí không nhìn vào khách hàng. Hôm nay, tôi có một kinh nghiệm tồi tệ với ông ta khi tôi nói rằng tôi muốn mua 2 con gà và gan và tim gà riêng, mỗi loại một pound. Ổng nói với tôi, "chúng đi cùng nhau". Lúc đầu, tôi không hiểu ý của ổng là... đi chung với gà, không bán riêng. Tôi giải thích một lần nữa. Ổng không để tôi giải thích hoàn toàn. Ổng lặp lại, "Chúng đi cùng nhau", và bắt đầu thể hiện thái độ với tôi bằng cách lớn tiếng. Ổng nói, "You không hiểu. Ổng đã giải thích và tôi vẫn không hiểu. You...". Rất thô lỗ. Tôi nói, "Ông thật khó tính và rất bất lịch sự." Tôi hỏi và ông trả lời rất ngắn và không biết cách giải thích. Sau đó, ổng nói với tôi tôi là tôi thế này và tôi thế kia. Tôi trả tiền cho 2 con gà và rời khỏi cửa hàng. Tôi sẽ không quay lại nơi này nữa. Chỉ cần nghĩ đơn giản rằng chúng tôi, khách hàng, đưa doanh nghiệp đến cho ong ta ma ông ta khinh thường khách hàng. Chúng tôi đáng lẽ ra được chào đón với những lời chào lịch sử và dịch vụ tốt đẹp. Nếu không có những người dân của thành phố Midway và thành phố láng giềng, và đặc biệt là người Việt Nam, doanh nghiệp của ông không thể tồn tại cho đến ngày hôm nay. Cách đây khá lâu, đa co lần ổng ta đã tính tiền nhiều trên thẻ tín dụng của tôi. Tôi quay lại và nói cho ong ta biết, ổng bực bội, tra lại tiền và không nói một lời xin lỗi. read more

Great place to get live poultry. A bit cheaper than other nearby store, yet, chicken is very good and fresh. Great for chicken porridge, noodles or curry... Service is fast and friendly. They also accept credit cards. 6ft social distancing is required here. My only gripe is lack of parking. Although they have parking in the back of building, however, they're always full. Perhaps, those are for employees. Lol. Good thing is people in and out fast so you can get street parking instead. Would definitely buy here again. read more

Asking for a large chicken, he gave the small skinny bone chicken, $15 a chicken ít getting expensive now. you will loose costumers this way. This was the young guy who sale. Not the old guys, all buyer must check before go home. read more

Fresh and clean facility will recommend to friends and family. Everything It's reasonable

Nice people. Fresh chicken. They don't sell you ugly chicken like the one down the street.

This place is lying and scummy. I was completely ripped off. I bought drumsticks for $4/pound and this place gave me the left over fat and bottom, charging me the price for meat. Employees were rude and choppy as soon as I came in the store, even before I bought anything. I DONT recommend this place at all, and would give it 0 stars if that was possible. read more

Dakao Poultry - Mostly fat, does this look like it's worth $4 a pound?? They mixed up fat and other parts while charging me money for drumsticks. - Meat Shops Near Me - Midway City, California

Best and freshest chicken in town. Chicken in any asian market can not compared to those in Dakao Poultry.

Him: "MALE OR FEMALE?!" Me: I don't know, which is better? "MALE OR FEMALE?!" I don't know, what's the difference?! "OMFG *in Vietnamese, rolls his eyes, laughs* MALE OR FEMALE?!" Ahhhhh dough!!!! I don't know and I don't know what's so funny, I'm asking you a serious question!!! A female brown chicken then. Clearly I'm not Vietnamese and I'd appreciate it if they didn't say such smart asz remarks to me when I asked him which one is better for what I'm making. Although it might not be as bad as I think it means, for that I'm not Vietnamese at all, I think you're just being an aszhole to me. Besides service, the chicken was ok. I'll come back for fresh female chickens all the time now because I don't need another embarrassing moment of "OMFG, MALE OR FEMALE?!!" read more

As a kid, I used to hate going with my parents to the Tiem Ga Vit Song, or Live Poultry and Egg shop to buy freshly killed chicken and fresh hen eggs, in addition to the creepy delicacy known as Ga Vit Lon or duck embryo eggs (balut). There was this one other place right down the street I recall in particular, this tiny shoebox of a store, if you want to call it that. You walked in and it felt like you were stepping into some shady medical clinic, surrounded by blech white walls with only a window partition that was shut tightly until you rang a bell for service. Ding! Door slides across and you put in your order to the brusque clerk. Door slides shut again and then a few minutes later, your freshly killed chicken is shoved through the window, all boxed and bagged. As a kid, I would imagine that the poor bird was getting slaughtered while we stood there and waited and I always thought I would hear squawking or something, but never did. But it was the smell that got to me, this earthy, acrid odor that only live poultry can give off. So I was prepared to pinch my nostrils inside Dakao but it was super clean inside, no foul stench at all. There's still a window partition, but it's much bigger and had actual see-through windows. Beyond the windows was an immaculate, stainless steel kitchen set up, where my mom tells me if you come early in the morning, you can see workers pulling out feathers on killed chickens. Now of course, some of you might be wondering, uh, why freshly killed chicken as opposed to the nice and neat Foster Farms stuff at Ralphs? Freshly killed chicken yields a lot more bite and spring to the meat, not all mushy like what's referred to as "ga my" or American chicken. It's perfect in pho or banh canh (Vietnamese udon) goi ga or Vietnamese cole slaw. It's also great simply steamed and eaten with muoi tieu chanh (lemon, pepper and salt dipping sauce) my fave or with mam gung or ginger fish sauce. read more

I'm currently on a ramen obsession and I needed to source some good chickens to make the stock. Dakao Poultry is pretty mysterious when you come in. Right when you enter there is a cash register, and no signage at all. You can get a whole chicken with it being male or female. If I remember correctly, I think the employee said the female's meat tasted better with the male's bones making a better stock. The chicken comes with the head and claws. Also you can buy chicken bones for a dirt steal of .70 cents a pound. As for my personal preparation I used a pressure cooker for the bones I bought. The result was a super nice gelatinous stock. What was kind of weird (in a good way) was when I cooked the chicken bones, not much scum came out as usual. Meatwise, the chickens are pretty lean and don't come with much. With that being said, I prefer these chickens for stock creation. Knowing Vietnamese will give you the opportunity to ask more questions, but they do speak some English. Lastly credit cards are accepted. read more

Best poultry joint with brand new facility. You can hear the birds crying in the background. All glorious offals are available for purchase.

yeah, when my mom sent me to buy some chicken i was like oh holy crap its that place they used to make us go to when we were kids. Tiem Ga Vit Song. and that place was RANK. seriously. but this time the palce was clean i saw what they had behind the window and the man had my chicken ready within seconds. the only problem, you should specify when you want a big chicken just saying two chickens is not enough i thought they had an average sizes. and mother complained that i didnt tell them to get the big ones. gosh idk. i eat KFC. the parking sucks. when i was waiting in line behind some man i kept thinking, is my car okay? its just street parking. and the place is so TINY. but whatever, the chicken was good for what mother needed to cook with it. CASH ONLY. you can call to order. read more

I went in buy 2 walking chicken on feb 13. As i mention to the guy, i want the chicken with the meat tougher, more chewy then other kind. I consistent asking twice. But got home, after cooking, turn out not the one i paid for. They cheating on the new year time, selling the cheaper one and took mở money in. Please, every one, do not go to this place. Go to the one on corner of edinger and harbor. Their more reliable and honest. read more

If you just need a fresh chicken from a chicken killer, this place is comparable to Baladi Poultry just a block down. Parking here is a little easier since they have their own parking lot in the back. Chicken: 4 Stars, Parking Lot: 1 Star = 5 Stars. read more

We use this slaughterhouse for all of our fresh chicken needs. Good for pho ga. The chicken here tastes better than any store bought chicken, regardless if it is organic, free range, gluten-free, GMO or whatever B.S. designation is being touted this year. The chicken here has a springy texture to it, and a good amount of subcutaneous fat. Sometimes we will get chicken from Baladi down the street. Both places are good. Why are all the chicken slaughterhouses in Orange County located in Midway City, an unincorporated county area? The area is a little shady. read more

I didn't go to Dakao Poultry, nor did I have to wrangle the chicken, but I did have the awesome chicken soup my wife made with the chicken she got from here and it DOES taste different. There is a stronger chicken taste to the broth. Can't explain it. read more