Lucky Express

One of my favorite local spots to bring friends and family from out of town to experience. This…read moreplace does not disappoint. My favorites are the Shandong chicken and their signature hand-pulled noodles, so delicious! They are a popular spot so depending on when you go, can be a bit of a wait to get seated. It's not that big and can be a little tight inside. However, there's a reason why they stay busy, because their food is worth the wait! This place is a must when in Oakland and looking for some really tasty Chinese food.

Well in the area for a little festival but they hadn't started yet and I was hungry so I wandered…read moredown to this hyped restaurant so see what all the fuss was about. ( This had been on my radar to DoorDash) Suprisingly I was seated quickly as it was 12:30 on a Sunday. The menu is quite extensive. I'd been craving chili sauce dumpling and I saw those on the menu and ordered spicy combination noodles. At the waitress suggestion and reading previous reviews I opted for the hand pulled (warning they are a $1 more). Service was quick and I was also served a pot of nice oolong tea. Now the dumplings were spot on thought I had to add more chili sauce. The hand pulled noodles were ok. Maybe because I'm not a big chowmein person and prefer the chowfun noodles, I found them too chewy for me. Also I had to add the chili sauce too. I also ordered to go greens and Black eared mushrooms. There is plenty of food and I have food for two days as I have rice a home to go with the greens. I think I'll stick with New Gold Medal though.

Dinning area

Shan Dong Chicken

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Wonton with Spicy Sauce

Gum Kuo Restaurant

3.9(1.2k reviews)

7.8 mi•Oakland Chinatown

It's been a long time since we came here to eat! We ordered the fish ball noodles that a lot of…read morepeople recommended online. The fish balls weren't the bouncy kind, but they still tasted pretty good. Husband thought they tasted a little fishy though Mom as always, went for her pork liver congee. Husband wanted pork cheek, while I wanted to try the BBQ pork, so we got a double combo. And sure enough, the pork cheek was better! Husband also ordered a bowl of wonton and roast duck noodles. Both the wontons and roast duck were surprisingly good!

I grew up eating this as a kid and still love it to this day. Gum Kuo has my favorite salted pork…read moreand preserved egg jook in the whole wide world! Whenever I'm feeling sick or just feeling something comforting, I'm always craving their jook with a you tiao from here. Their jook is so thick and flavorful. It's really unmatched by other places which are more watery. They have a huge menu including roast meats that you can see them chopping but I always go back to my jook order. Service here is no-frills and the restaurant probably hasn't been renovated since it opened (outside of new tables and chairs). Typical Chinatown restaurant service and it can get quite loud.

Inside full crowd

Beef Chow Fun

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Rice Noodle Wrap with Chinese Doughnut

Huangcheng Noodle House

4.5(1.5k reviews)

7.9 mi•Old Oakland

Amazing food and service! Come check this place out if you are in Oakland. Everything was really…read morefresh and the prices were great! Will definitely be coming back for more! The potstickers, pork ear, and noodle dishes are amazing with fresh, authentic, vibrant flavors in each bite!

*Great ambiance, feels like a great mix of walking into a corner food stop in China or visiting an…read moreold friends house ** Service is attentive with great recs and an adorable robot **** So easily accessible and price range is so good compared to the portion size ***** One of my favorite Chinese joints in Oakland now 谢谢

8.9 mi•Temescal, North Oakland

D11.Chongqing Street Noodle-

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Tomato noodles with egg. The best.

Yu Yu Za Zang

4.3(381 reviews)

This place has been around for a while!!! and they remodeled it…read more Came here yesterday after a bad experience at another place to have our lunch/now dinner. We were greeted and seated right away with the choice of any opened table. The server offered a booster for the baby and we told him it wasn't necessary. We order jajangmyeon, gan jajangmyeon, tangsuyuk, yangjangpi, and jjampong. Still as delicious as I remember. While we were eating my niece (the baby) was giggling and we saw that the server was playing with her. He was attentive and provided us everything we needed...thank you for showing us what really customer service is!!!!

Ambiance - 4/5 I've…read morebeen coming here for many years, and it looks like they've done some remodeling since some of my earlier visits. The place feels a little different now, and I also don't see the older lady and gentleman who I used to see here anymore. I love the new wall decorations. The interior looks like an older style resturant with the menu being on the top right when you walk into the resturant. There is also a pile of random stuff in the left corner when you walk in. Customer Service - 4/5 The service was good and everything came out smoothly. Nothing particularly stood out to me about the service this time, but I had a pleasant experience overall. Small note I didn't feel very welcomed when I walked into the restaurant. Food - 5/5 Dish Ordered: Jjamppong (Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup) - 5/5 What impressed me about the jjamppong was that every ingredient was treated right. Eating the squid by itself would've been delicious. Eating the shrimp by itself would've been delicious. But now you fuse everything together with the noodles and soup? Now that's one solid dish. The heat level was just right for me. I love spicy food, but I don't want the spice to overpower everything else. My tongue was still able to taste the seafood flavors coming through the soup, and that's important to me. The spice complemented the seafood instead of covering it up. Every ingredient felt like it contributed something to the final dish. I never had this dish in Korea. but if I had this guess. This would be it. Tangsuyuk (Sweet & Sour Fried Pork) - 5/5 They take this dish to another level. The pork was tender and fluffy with a slight crisp on the outside. That combination alone would've made it good, but the sauce is what really brought everything together. And when I say sauce, they don't just give you a little bit on the side. They give you a whole bowl of it. You can actually submerge your pork into the sauce and get an even coating of all that goodness. I've had many different sweet and sour pork sauces over the years, and this one hits differently. Honestly, this sauce could be its own dish. It's not a side piece. That's how much I enjoyed it. Pickled Radish - They also give you pickled radish, which I always love whenever I'm eating Korean food. That crunch adds another texture to the meal, but more importantly, it gives your palate a nice refresh between bites. Especially when you're eating something spicy like jjamppong and something rich like tangsuyuk, that refreshing bite of pickled radish fits perfectly. Additional Comment: I've been coming here many times over the years, and the quality has always been solid. Restaurants change. People change. Interiors get remodeled. I don't see the older lady and gentleman I remember seeing here anymore, but I'm glad the food has remained something I can come back to and enjoy. There's something special about having a restaurant you've eaten at for years and still being able to sit down, order your food, and think, "Yup, they still got it." Would I come back? Hells Yeah. I've already been coming back for years. The jjamppong delivers the seafood flavor and heat I'm looking for, and that tangsuyuk with the sauce is something I would be happy to come back just for these two dishes. I also love their black bean noodle (ZaZangMein)

6.9 mi•Lakeshore, Lower Hills

Left side seating arrangement

Zazang Myun (Black Bean Noodles) /

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8. Szechuan Prawns

Lin Jia Asian Kitchen

4.2(577 reviews)

I'm really on the fence about this review. I love ordering…read moreand getting my food roaring hot right on time, every time. THE FOOD!!! What were we eating before Lin Jai? (Oh yea... we were eating Shen Hua on College - EDWARD COME BACK TO US!!!). If it waddles, quacks and tastes like a duck... Lin Jai seems very Chinese to me (howdy y'all) but they call themselves "Asian Cafe". Who am I to argue, but most dishes I love there seem pretty Chinese to me??!? I don't know where the lights-out super cuminy beef is from (Uyghur, or Mongolian?) and the Singapore/curry noodles (curry perfection) might be from Taiwan. The fish dishes seem to float down from some fishy astral plane... THEY HAVE MU SHU!!! They're fully staffed by people that seem to love their work... Ok, I'm starting to GUSH... Dang it, just get carry out and shut up about it already

Quality of food has gone way down. Meat is tasteless. Sauce can't fix that. The last couple of…read moretimes I have eaten here I have been very disappointed, despite how promising it was in the beginning, when it first opened

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Buddha sculpture,.as though floating on a lotus

Ming's Tasty Restaurant

4.3(716 reviews)

Ming's seems like an establishment for dim sum in Oakland, and I am glad I finally got to try it…read moreout. The building itself is so unassuming, you'd never expect a great dim sum place to be here! Came on a Saturday mid-afternoon, and fortunately, did not wait too long for a table. My partner and I definitely ordered TOO much for just us two, but we wanted to try an assortment of things! The standouts were their rice noodle roll w/ crispy shrimp, siumai, and hargow. Their siumai and hargow were so plump and juicy! Usually they're tiny at dim sum spots. Everything else was good as well! We even took some home to our families. My parents really enjoyed their chicken feet too! Service was amazing and fast. They are so kind! I get why Ming's is people's fave.

Terrible place to go if you are a vegetarian. Non starter. The only options are plain noodles,…read moreplain rice, or plain veggies. I had to make do because I was with a group. I asked them to show me what was vegetarian and took special care to note that I cannot eat shellfish. They circled things in CHINESE, not in English, so I ended up ordering something that had shrimp in it!!! And then I told the guy and he would not refund it because he "told us in advance" even though he circled in Chinese and still allowed me to order it after I just told him I couldn't eat that. So annoying. How do you have that level of incompetence at a restaurant?

Snowy Baked BBQ Pork Bun

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Interior Glimpse

Imperial Soup 皇帝湯

4.4(259 reviews)

So clean inside and out…read more This place brings me back to my best childhood memories. Excellent food-everything is very tasty ; including the chicken, morels, and herbs soup. Service is professional, quick, efficient, and friendly-the perfect amount of attention.

This has been my fav go to for nutritional soup whenever I'm in Oakland. Love their wide variety of…read moreherbal soups and how they make it easy for patrons to choose by grouping the soups by : body detox, beauty care, healthy liver, nourish lungs/kidney etc. We had the Chicken with Morel mushroom & herbs soup (羊肚菌石斛炖雞) along with the traditional silkie chicken with dried scallop & herb soup. For main dishes couldn't resist their delicious wonton noodle soup as well as Their steamed rice with dried shrimp/fish minced pork served on lotus leaf wrap which added nice touch of lotus leaf fragrance to the steamed rice. And ended with another nutritious dessert - steamed chick pea & peach gum with dried rose. 玫瑰花冰糖炖雪蓮子桃. Love how it's not too sweet with nice rose taste to it.

7.0 mi•Lakeshore, Lower Hills

1/2 steamed chicken

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16b. Beef Flank with Steamed Rice Noodle

Dumpling Hours

4.3(264 reviews)

Women-owned & operated

Fine dining

I love the egg drop and seaweed soup, and the long baos. The sautéed green beans are some of the…read morebest in the neighborhood. Lots of well maintained seating and an attentive and efficient staff. Well balanced background music. They have both physical and QR code menus.

We were the first to arrive, so they were kind enough to let us in to sit til they opened…read more We ordered lots of food you'll see in the photos, pretty good choices but they were out of beef, you would think they would be prepared for weekends because I heard other tables trying to also order beef noodle soup. Their prices are steep, much higher than other Bay Area restaurants serving that same style of food. Service was good, got too see the ladies wrapping all types of dumplings. Would return to eat again

Pork Xiao Long Bao

Interior

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Juicy Pan-Fried Pork Buns

Mr Liu Noodle House

4.5(131 reviews)

I stayed over the weekend in Oakland for outside lands. My brother recommended a noodle place…read morenearby his home since soup is on the menu. We arrived just at about dinner time and the waitress took our orders just 10 mins after seating. The dishes were served fast, tasted very savory and spicy. I am happily surprised how the stur fried green beans were so crispy and loaded with umami. I had a beef bowl noodle soup and the serving is enough for 2-3 people. I would visit again if i visit Oakland in the future.

I really enjoyed this spot, although my one complaint would be that everything (including the…read morechairs) felt slightly greasy... We ordered the 牛肉面、牛肉卷饼、莲藕片和担担面. My personal favorites were both the apps: the lotus and the beef rolls. The lotus was simply seasoned but it reminded me of some of the 凉菜in China. The beef rolls had tender meat but the pancake portion were crispy and well fried - a great textural contrast. Noodles were also good, I think the 刀削might have a slight edge because it was more Q.

6.6 mi•Montclair Village, Oakland Hills

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House special beef noodle soup

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24. Shredded Pig Ear

5 Spiced Kitchen

4.4(155 reviews)

Update: 6/21: Food is still great here. Service is very accomodating. The only issue I had was that…read morethe mai tai that was their specialty was very weak and watery. When we told them about what it tastes like, they charged us for additional alcohol to be placed into it. They never told is they were going to do that not that we would be charged. The drinks were already $15 prior. The last time, the female owner made out drinks and they were on point. No need to add anything else or be charged extra. The bartender on this day, did not do a great mix at all.

Pretty big resto in Claremont, more for big parties. Flavorful Chinese dishes w a good sized menu…read more The bar has $10 cocktails for happy hour!