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Emmett Chinese Cafe

3.5 (12 reviews)
ModerateChinese
Closed • 5:00 pm - 9:00 PM

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We like the food a lot, especially the Snow White Chicken. The Hot and Sour Soup is also very good.

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Li’s Chinese Kitchen - Pork and seeds

Li’s Chinese Kitchen

4.4(19 reviews)
49.2 mi

First time stopping in after a soak at Mundo. Definitely looking for pork and seeds and egg rolls…read more The pork and seeds were soft, flavored and yummy. The egg rolls were pretty much a wrap with the pork and seeds but was still good. We will be back to try some different things

Li's is an odd little joint inside the unassuming Golden Rule building on Cambridge's main drag. We…read morehave stopped here a couple of times on a Sunday driving back from camping at Hells Canyon. Owner Liliang Sun operated his restaurant in Council for five years before moving to Cambridge in 2022. He's a one-man band, serving as host, order-taker and cook. The menu isn't extensive but offers a good variety. I ordered Kung Pao chicken while my wife and her friend ordered the general's chicken. The Kung Paolo was ok, but lacking the flavor and heat of the traditional dish. I liked that he added in-season asparagus, even though that's not a traditional ingredient. The dishcame with a choice of white or fried rice. The only diffwas a splash of soy sauce and a bit of scrambled egg. It didn't look fried and lacked green onions, meat and mushrooms. The general's chicken, an American-Chinese invention, was coated with a sweet sauce reminding me of 1960s sweet and sour. Mr. Li is nice and there were a number of customers who came in to eat and took orders to go while we were there. This isn't the greatest Chinese food in the world, but it was ok for three hungry campers.

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Li’s Chinese Kitchen - Kung Paolo chicken with asparagus and fried rice.

Kung Paolo chicken with asparagus and fried rice.

Li’s Chinese Kitchen - General's chicken and plain rice.

General's chicken and plain rice.

Li’s Chinese Kitchen - Mandarin chicken with chow mein.  Vegetable delight.  Mongolian beef is our favorite!(not pictured).

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Mandarin chicken with chow mein. Vegetable delight. Mongolian beef is our favorite!(not pictured).

Asian Wok Chinese Restaurant - Mongolian beef dinner combo

Asian Wok Chinese Restaurant

3.3(91 reviews)
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I'm not even sure how many times we have been here but every time it's been stupendous. There were…read morefour in our group. We got general chicken, Mongolian beef and sesame chicken. All served with fried rice and chow mien. We also added pot stickers. Everything was absolutely delicious. And a special shout out to the pot stickers. They were beyond amazing. And the staff here is always very friendly. Already trying to talk my wife into coming back next week.

Opened in 2008, this is family owned and the young wife of the husband wife duo who has been…read moreworking at the order counter on our couple of trips in is always so sweet and cheerful with all customers, greeting what seems to be regulars for take out as if old friends. She also speaks Chinese to whomever is doing the cooking in the kitchen behind her that diners can't see into through the high open widow space into it but one can hear the sounds of cooking and Chinese being spoken. In that exchange it is also friendly and maybe even familial. In my book it is the delightful attitude that adds the extra star to rating. And as much as local people are boo-hooing about the closure in this calendar year (2025) of a number of long time Chinese food restaurants in the greater Treasure Valley, from Middleton to Nampa to Garden City and Boise, it seems they want to be super critical of the true little mom-n-pop places like this. Just saying. THE FOOD: This Cantonese - Mandarin menu is structured to appeal to American palates for diners who think Orange Chicken or General Tsao's are real things. That isn't my husband and me given we have been able to enjoy some extraordinary Chinese cuisine via Chinatowns in NYC and SF when we lived there and in Portland (OR) too when there was briefly a restaurant with Xinjiang dishes. But even for us there are things here to appreciate (although, as with all Chinese food places where we do not know the owners personally, we focus on vegetarian options) and if one is looking for Chinese food to take away, one can do a lot worse than this. Dishes (rice included) are generously sized and are in the $12 - 14 range. Noodle dishes maybe around $12. THE SPACE & SEATING: If you are planning to go for the first time, you need to know the space is very small, a handful of booths split between both sides of the room, and a round table in the middle. Also, because it is small, they are going to occasionally have things like bags of rice and other supplies stacked on the floor outside the kitchen. For that reason I am unable to report if the loo is unisex or not because I couldn't get to it on the only eat-in visit because of the supplies that had just been delivered and stacked in the way. And on that note, in the vein of everything being connected to everything else, the owner and delivery driver had a delightful conversation as if they were old friends through this connection of supplier and owner. Our preference here is take-out and we note there seems to be a brisk business for them in that. PARKING: This is a sort of old time Western town themed strip mall in Star (which at one time may have been thought of as that kind of town but which has been gentrified of late by out of state - read California homebuyers) and it has a parking lot. ACCESSIBILITY: ADA parking in the lot. The round table seating might work for a wheelchair user but I didn't look at it closely. Other than that, booth seating. WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?: Right next door you will find Sea Salt Creamery + Bakeshop where the owner crafts outrageously good small batch ice cream and also does baking of delicious things from cookies to handpies to cakes to... See reviews for this biz too and do not miss it to pick up dessert to take home with your to-go Chinese food dinner.

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Asian Wok Chinese Restaurant - Friendly young owner

Friendly young owner

Asian Wok Chinese Restaurant - Hot and sour soup

Hot and sour soup

Asian Wok Chinese Restaurant - Next to Sea Salt Ice Cream & Bakery

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