Average. Fried rice is the best part. I don't recommend the Orange chicken or General Tso's.

Place is good with large portions ! The chicken wings here are to die for. The service is fast compared to other places

Happy Chef is about 5 minutes away from my boyfriend's house, so when we want some tasty Chinese takeout, we order from here. They are friendly and fast. My favorite is the Kung Pao Chicken (we ask for it to be made spicy). It is always consistent and really tasty. I've also had the pot stickers which were a little on the thick side for me. The dipping sauce was very good though. I have also had the Szechuan Chicken and it was not my cup of tea. So, you ask why a 4 rating...well, because I crave the Kung Pao Chicken. It's my fav! In fact, I want it tonight (even thought I just had it 2 nights ago...but unfortunately I am not in the city tonight...damn!). Oh and don't miss the bubble smoothies...I know you can get them other places, but they are so good, you should just get them everywhere! I get their strawberry all the time, super fresh! One final note - this is fast, take out, Chinese food. For what it is, it is very yummy. read more

https: The food is great at very reasonable prices and fast. They have only two chairs and tables . Take out. I had peapod and beef and shrimp. //www.yelp.com/biz/happy-chef-forest-park-2 read more

Stop by to pickup lunch after a long day of shopping. The owner was very nice. The portion size was large. we ordered 2 dishes and it feed 3 people and still had left overs. The food was very flavorful. I will go back again if I'm in the area. read more

Welp, you can't be the price, and now that Tsang is gone (another take-out joint right down the street that was so awesome you wouldn't even believe) there's not much else in the area. It's only average food, and you get like 10 times more rice and veggies than you do meat. They need to increase the meat portions and spice up their flavoring a bit. It's like the Dave Matthews Band of Chinese take-out: decent enough to make you want to stick with it for a bit at a time, but overall so middle-of-the-road as to be bad. The people who run it seem really nice and humble, so give 'em your business. Maybe one day they and their General Tso's will rise to greatness. read more

Love their smoothies! We've had strawberry banana, mango, and watermelon. They've all been delicious! I love the Crystal noodle dish with shrimp. My family also enjoys their eggrolls, barbecue pork and orange chicken. We've also had the Thai fried rice and that's been good too! Everything we've had has been really good and we are repeat customers. read more

By far the most superior Asian cuisine I've had in a while. Very friendly staff, and clean environment. No seating really, it's more for carry out. But best I've had in a while. :) read more

Parking was finally great (on Christmas Eve) the food was done fast and fresh. I recommend the large the tomato Pepper Beef and the BBQ fried rice and the egg rolls great between meals and visits on Christmas read more

Went yesterday and did not appreciate getting charged three times for my food. It was credited back but when i saw all the charges made me very leery of the place. Will not return. read more

Loved the bbq fried rice, delivery was super fast, and they have a lot of items on the menu that I am going to try--solid choice for Chinese and Thai takeout/delivery in my neighborhood. Yay! read more

I've been here twice in the last week! The food is good, plentiful, tasty and hot! Last week, I ordered the chicken with broccoli - yum! The gravy was tasty and the meal had plenty of vegetables. Tonight - I ordered their wings! I got 6 large, tasty wings for just $3.50! If I had gone down the block, I would've paid twice that much just for wings! And I love their friendly service - that's what has always remained with me everytime I've visited Happy Chef. I love their consistently good natured help - that goes a long way! So - if you're looking for a great meal, with good service at a good price - check them out! read more

I've come here many times and enjoyed it, although the chicken fried rice is way too moist. Last week I went and within a few hours after eating came down with food poisoning that knocked me out for quite a few days. I'm not one to leave review often but wanted to share and urge you to think twice before going here. I will never do so again - there are far better Chinese restaurants out there. read more

I don't know why these people are still open they might've I'll just close their doors you can't even walk into the place without freezing to death because they are so cheap they cant pay their gas bill because They don't want to heat on so the employees are freezing to death and of course what do you think is going with the food that they're making if their cocks are freezing to death you think the food is cooked the right way he'll know them as well just shut the doors down and the owner has a bad attitude with everybody you don't even want to be open read more

This guy gets mad when I order something off of the menu.... Then why is in the menu if it's so difficult to make?!?!? read more

I go here at least twice a month and get their combination fried rice, spicy I may add and I amen love with their fried chicken wings, they give any wing place a run for their money, they are light flavorful and not greasy or taste half cooked like some (Buffalo wild wings) places, try them u cannot go wrong!!! read more

They have horrible service. Also, they got my order wrong and wouldn't give me my money back or replace my food.

This place always saves the day. If you want cheap and good Chinese food, this is your spot. I like that they deliver. Just to warn you though; be patient with the person over the phone. They are difficult to understand. read more

Good food, Good portions, Great pricing, and Tasty smoothies. I will continue to come back and eat here.

Not good. At all. They messed up my order and still made me pay after waiting 25 minutes. The basil tofu had no flavor and the veggies are super big and hard to eat with a dinky plastic spoon. read more

Happy Chef is the best. After a long harrowing search I have finally found my favorite Chinese restaurant for take out. I love love love their fried rice and the shrimp with lobster sauce. The General Tso's is consistently amazing as well. Keep up the good work, Chef! read more

They have drastically changed my opinion on their food quality. The flavors are better, the speed of getting the order ready has gone up and they have dishes that other Chinese restaurants do not carry in the area. read more

I decided to try this out after reading some decent reviews of the place. I don't like to knock new places but this was seriously disappointing. Pot stickers are way too doughy and flavorless. Chicken fried rice, no flavor at all. Crab rangoon was not bad but the sauce was like jelly. I expect Kung Pao beef to have a nice spicy kick but that was lacking. Now I'm just kicking myself for trying the place. read more

Interesting the word happy is in the name of this restaurant. Received horrible customer service today and to make it even worse the food was so mediocre I couldn't even finish it. I will spend my money elsewhere next time. read more

This place has been my go-to for Chinese since moving to Chicagoland. The food is always good, and the prices are always right and the portions are HUGE. Like, I'm not sure how they make money. It's crazy! I always order knowing that I will have lunch and dinner set for the next 1-2 days. This is one place that is really, really good about substitutions, too (and I think that needs mentioning). Every single time my order is correct, hot, and delicious! Never change Happy Chef! I love you! read more

I can't believe I just spent $14 on delivery for this crap. I ordered the Thai Chashew dinner with tofu. To sum it up, it was, flavorless, slimy, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The tapioca drinks are the only thing that's decent; I had the Kiwi. Will not order from here again. read more

Pretty average. My Kung Pao Chicken was lacking any spice at all (I know!), and worse: it was pretty much one color. The whole dish. Even the celery had a brown tint to it. Weird. Egg rolls were acceptable, crab rangoon was good. But all told, this is strictly average. I trust there's better Chinese nearby. (Edited to add: I didn't even want the leftovers. It's a sad day when I don't want leftovers from a Chinese place.) read more

In the very beginning when we first stated to order from Happy Chef-the food was always hot & fresh. This is the only Chinese take out we order from now. The food is still good & we get our food in a timely fashion. read more

Ordered the Crab Rangoon for the stepdaughter as well as an order for everyone else since it was so well reviewed here; have to say I was not disappointed- very cream-cheesy as well as onion and crab flavour. Also tried the Mongolian Beef which all found delicious! Meat was tender even when reheated, and not like shoe leather like I have had from some other places. The Twice Cooked Pork was again delish, as was the Shrimp Lo Mein. All delivered in about 45 mins. which what I was told when I ordered- not bad for a Friday night. Not a bad dish yet :) read more

This was a review I did for Yahoo on 7-29-12. Ugh! These guys are going to be in rough times. If their best foot is forward, they must be walking backwards because I did not like what I got. I like many foreign foods from Malay to Middle East and several countries in between. But like most people, I have a special place in my heart AND stomach for chinese and thai. I live 2 blocks away from Happy Chef and I am a fan of Tasty House , which is another two blocks further into Berwyn. Tasty House serves mostly chinese food (and there are a bazillion chinese restaurants in a 5-mile radius), but seeing that HC serves thai food was a huge plus (and if they were closer than TH, I'd be walking shorter distances and supporting a business in my town), so I was willing to give them a try. Now I'm not plugging TH in particular, but as far as chinese food is concerned, TH has set the bar because they cook food in a way that I like. They ALWAYS have business and they've been around for as long as I have been living in FP, which has been 8 years, which tells me that they are an established local favorite. So getting back to HC, I ordered a typical standard dish, chicken pad thai. I did not eat in because I believe that the quality of food for those who eat in, those who take out, and those who request delivery, ought to be the same (discounting the fact that the food is piping hot and fresh from the kitchen if you eat at the location). So having eaten thai for years in all sorts of restaurants, I know what fine-dine cuisine is all the way down to bottom-basement fare. I paid $8, so I am expecting a dish that is at least average in quality. The two closest thai restaurants I know of are both on Madison, one is in FP and the other in Oak Park by the hospital. I would be able to get the same dish for roughly the same price and those places have set the bar for thai cuisine. So how was the food??!??, you are all asking... The speed of preparation was reasonable. I expect the dish to be ready to walk out of there in 10 minutes, which it was. I brought it home and immediately upon looking at it, I was very displeased. It only got worse after that. If you know thai food, even well enough to cook it, it is not noodles and meat and nothing else. It is supposed to be a mixture of noodles with other ingredients typical for this dish. This means bean sprouts, egg, nuts, shallots, garlic, chives, and onions. The sauce should be made with tamarind and fish sauce to give it that characteristic pad thai taste. When I first saw it, the noodles were red like they were spiced up. But it was not spicy (I did not order spicy) and the taste was *not* pad thai. The appearance and taste looked something like it was cooked with ketchup. The noodles were not soft, but hard (like they were not cooked long enough). There was no egg, very little bean sprouts and onion. The taste was so bad (matched by the appearance, I just could not get over how red it looked!) that I couldn't finish it. It was like an insult to Thailand, I can t imagine the cooks being thai and making such a creation where the plate is patriotically as Thai as baseball is red-blooded American. If this was their thai food, I was not going back to try out their chinese. Hello, Tasty House?... I'd like two orders of beef fried rice to go. Yep, it s me again. I'll see you in a few minutes. read more

Food was very salty and oily. My fiance and my stomach did not feel so good after eating here.. My throat felt funny, too.

Decided to give this place a second chance. It was a bitterly cold and snowy day and after working all day I wasn't in the mood to go food shopping or drive down to my normal Chinese take out place. Out of desperation I gave this place another try. I was pleasantly suprized. I orderd wonton. Soup which was very tasty as well as combo fried rice. This was also good, the meat was very tender and there was a good amount of each type(shrimp, beef, chicken,). It was also a very generous portion, I was eating it for at least 3 days after. My only complaint was that the rice was a bit bland when I did not eat it with a piece of meat. But I just added my own so no biggie' read more

Ok I don't know what everyone else had to complain about, but I've tried many Chinese restaurants and this one has been the best I've tasted in a while. Not greasy, everything is made fresh. Their Thai is pretty good too. We've had almost everything on the menu, and have no complaints. I believe its a MSG free establishment so no headaches for me! read more

Fast efficient and good food at a good price. I lived one block from KowKow for eight years but I've always preferred Happy Chef. Have them on my speed dial. read more

I will not order from here again. The food is horrible. My sister touted about how they have thai food, and let me tell you, it's not thai food! I got thai basil spring rolls. Basically, imagine an egg roll in a different wrapper. No basil, nothing the made me think thai. The thai basil noodle was stir fry with a congealed lump of rice noodles, with some veggies and three pieces of basil. It was obvious the cook doesn't know how to cook with rice noodles. None of the veggies nor meat were mixed in with the noodles, they were just on the side. The ball of rice noodles was so compacted, I wasn't eating rice noodles as much as chunks I managed to break off. The thai iced tea even seemed off, which is really disappointing. For the sake of matters, I also tried their shrimp in garlic and black bean. Nasty. Needed more garlic, and the shrimp were worrisome. Some were done properly, others were over done. The beans in the sauce had an overpowering bitter taste. All in all, nothing tasted that great, and even if it's free, I don't want to eat here again. read more

This place was awful! We thought we would try it out. We usually order from Tasty House which has way better food and cleaner! The potstickers were greasy and undercooked. The general tso chicken was dried out meat breaded and coated in a sweet sauce. The vegetable fried rice was cooked properly but had just a few canned or frozen vegetable pieces. read more

Worst Chinese food I have ever had. I don't even think the chicken was chicken. No flavor in anything...oh and it was the most expensive Chinese food I've ever had. Lunch special my ass. read more

Used to love this place! Food is pretty tasty. Best I've had in the area, until my visit a few weeks ago. I had placed an order and decided to wait in the store until it was ready. While sitting I was mindless staring into the kitchen, until I saw something disgusting. I watched one of the cooks drop a huge chunk of char siu (bbq pork, used in a ton of their dishes pork fried rice, lo mein, wonton soup, etc.) on the floor picked it up, chopped it, and put it into someones order. I was absolutely disgusted, quickly I asked for no char siu in my wonton soup and patiently waited until my food was finished. Since then I haven't been able to order from them, simply bc I don't know what else has fallen on the floor which could end up in my meal. read more

Always great food and willing to make it how you want. The guy at the front who I'm guessing is owner is very friendly. I work in the area and I could probably eat this food everyday and the price is reasonable. read more

It is as good as it gets for the price, indeed. This little hole in the wall is one fabulous restaurant! Every time I order there I am pleased all over again with the price and the quality. Today I got the Hunan Chicken and it's just wonderful -- just a hint of smokiness to the sauce, perfect almost-sweetness (just a shade sweeter than Szechuan) -- YUM! I love their red curry with tofu, the curry fried rice, the ribs are DELISH! and the thai hot-sour could make you cry. Delivery is fast and friendly, too. FYI, they are strict on the no substitutions policy for lunch menu but will switch out the dreaded styrofoam poison containers for paper if you pay $.50. read more