5 stars for the fried green beans. I know that sounds random but they are really good! Each green bean was battered generously and deep fried. The beans were sizeable, juicy and complimented the batter really well. I hadn't seen this menu item at other Chinese places but I wish I'd discovered it sooner. I also enjoyed the eggplant here. They cut the eggplant into smaller slices than I've seen at other Chinese restaurants, which was pleasant. read more

M & S Kitchen - fried green beans - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

I ordered vegetable fried rice 10/10. I loved the different veggies and lots of flavor Orange chicken 12/10 so crispy and flavorful. The breading was so good! BBQ Pork 9/10 had lots of flavor but I prefer the red looking bbq pork. It's different than what I'm used to. Highly recommend this place. I'm not sure why has so low ratings. read more

Got some food here and it was bomb! The owner was all by himself :-( Good place for a quick meal. I got some soup, and he gave me a generous container that could feed maybe three? Really quick and genuinely tasty read more

M & S Kitchen - Hot & Sour Soup - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

I called in my order, it was ready, Sweet and sour Fish was very tasty, The Shrimp Chow Fun, was ok, I had him add 6 Prawns read more

M & S Kitchen - Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet, Fresh & Flavorful. Thanks - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

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Food was awful. The fried rice was white rice covered with soy or some other sauce. Not fried or seasoned. The white rice was visible in clumps. No egg or other veggies except sliced green onions. I added egg, sesame oil, seasoning and "refried" the rice. If I wanted to cook, I wouldn't have ordered. read more

So the owner is so sweet and just because I love his personality I will return again to try more items. It's definitely a hole in a wall type place. Where you place your order and stand and wait. This night I ordered beef chow fun and wor won ton soup. Both were just okay. Not bad, but nothing too great either. I will return and try other items. It's probably something I will like. Again, the owner really makes this place special. More businesses need to follow what he do. read more

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This place has two of my favorite attributes when it comes to a restaurant: it's GOOD and CHEAP! Is it the best Chinese food that I've ever had in my life? Well, of course it ain't! BUT... this little hole in the wall cranks out some damn good Chinese food for dirt cheap! And, when I say hole in the wall... there's LITERALLY a hole in the wall inside where you place your order at. It ain't fancy folks! Don't expect to dine in because there's no place to sit. This is strictly to-go but it's the best deal for cheap Chinese food in the area. You really can't beat their $6 lunch specials! And surprisingly, they have hella options to choose from! I ordered their Kung pao chicken lunch special and I wasn't left disappointed! My food was made to order and came to me piping hot, right out of the pan. The kung pao Chicken had a great mildy spicy flavor to it and the fried rice was nice and fluffy. It was a filling portion for $6 and they really loaded up on the chicken. I was really quite impressed! Judging from the outside, I wouldn't have thought much of it. But, that's why you should never judge a book by its' cover. This place was great! Lee, the owner, is such a nice guy! He basically runs the shop by himself and does the cooking as well. He was super friendly and told me to come back again in the future. He asked me if I liked everything before I left. I love when owners care about what their clients think. This is why I love supporting locally owned businesses! M & S Kitchen is an excellent local option for cheap and tasty Chinese food. read more

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Please tell me why have an online menu with different pricing when my BF told me the total he paid I asked why because prawn fried rice is 6.95 each and the 2 salt n pepper prawns 7.95 each then a lunch combo. He showed me the receipt Smdh to get the food and no flavor to the fried rice or the prawns. He told me the elder man was rude and slammed his card aggressively at him. Definitely not going back especially when the total should of been about $45 dollars read more

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8/2/2022: As a practitioner of traditional Chinese exerecises I have had a lot of Chinese food. Lee at M & S Kitchen delivers good quality at good value. I have ordered three entrees to go orders from Lee at M & S Kitchen over the last two weeks. Each time the food has been good and the service prompt. What is more, the dishes are large enough to provide dinner and lunch the next day--a very good economy for $14. The establishment is small, yet Lee has managed to make it esthetically pleasing, with Chinese paper cut art and wood work to turn a utilitarian space into a home. I recommend M & S Kitchen to anyone who is hungry for a taste of Chinese food. read more

hard to park. take away only. good food. nicest guy. i stop by here a lot cos it's on the way home from work. i think that's 85 letters. read more

M & S Kitchen - menu - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

Meet the owner, Mr. Lee. Super nice guy! Ordered the beef chow fun. Asked for spicy and it's perfect. Goes amazingly well with my Lagunitas ipa. Thanks and will be back. Here is the current menu/food porn read more

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M & S Kitchen is just a take out spot. no dining option. order thru a open window, pay, wait for food. offerings: lunch specials, appetizers, egg foo yung, fish & seafood, chicken, beef, pork, vegetables, chow mein, chop suey, soup, sweet & sour, etc. eats: beef chow mein(6.95) -food definitely hot, not uniformly cooked, little wok hay, beef, chow mein ok, bean sprouts, cabbage, veggies not evenly sauteed. leftovers: -quick courteous service, parking so so. read more

#####AVOID AVOID NASTY FOOD THIS IS NOT A 4 STAR RESTAURANT### How this place has four stars, I will NEVER understand. No way this place is 4 stars. Sure the owner was friendly but this was the foulest food I have had the displeasure of tasting in very long time and nice doesn't cut it when I threw away almost $35+tip on dinner. General Chicken Dish: I ate one bite and spit it out. I didn't even swallow the first bite. It food tasted like FREEZER BURN and rancid oil and too much soy sauce. This shit tasted like it has been sitting in the bottom of the freezer since 1984. It was also VERY overcooked and super mushy. Everyone else didn't dare take a whole bite but they tasted the sauce and all agreed it was inedible. Brocc+Beef: The Broccoli was so overcooked it was practically paste. The beef was tough and gristly - and the overall taste was just.. nasty. Fried Rice: Tiny chunks of mystery meat + too much soy sauce. Yup, they even fucked up basic fried rice. The food tastes like it's made years in advance with the cheapest ingredients possible and then stored in 5 gallon buckets in a dirty fridge. Congealed, yet mushy, you know what I mean? Fried Wonton: The WonTons themselves were OK, in fact they were the ONLY thing we actually ate. ALL the rest of the food went in the round file. Anyway, the Wontons were OK, BUT.. the ew, oh my f-ing god, the sauce was super thick like JELLO. You just KNOW it's been sitting in that little cup for 5 years in the back of the fridge. No one ate the sauce, either. How's that for fucked up? They fucked up the wonton sauce. That shit comes as a powder and they mix it with water or some shit. How do you screw that up? So yeah, an order of wontons won't feed 3 people, so we hopped in the car and went for burgers in the drive through. OH YEAH and just to add icing on this already shit-cake of a meal, a dime sized bit of the nuclear pinkish/reddish wonton sauce got onto my beautiful cutting board and I didn't realized it for a few hours. Well, the sauce stained the shit out of my cutting board. Now I have a mildly infuriating, semi-permanent reminder of the worst Chinese Food meal ever. read more

$11.50 for 8 pieces of shrimp. That is what you call a rip-off! I also ordered one of their lunch specials and there is almost no meat in there, mostly just vegetables. Will never come back to this place again. Go somewhere else to spend your hard earned money and there are definitely better options out there. read more

Food not great, very expensive. The place is in bad shape kind of run down. Definitely not going back.

Food was mid. Portion sizing on the salt and pepper fish was not great and the fish was not very flavorful. I will say though that the pork wonton soup and portion sizing on the chow fun brought this review up. read more

We just moved into the neighborhood and ordered our first meal here. As others have noted, the owner is extremely friendly and accommodating. His food is simple and good and he was very generous with the portions. read more

Went back here just 4 days after My first takeout there, lee the owner remembered me and gave me even more food, this time I actually ordered the shrimp with mixed veggies!! Again I was not disappointed!!! read more

Yummy spot that im lucky enough to have around the corner from me. The owner is really sweet as well. I usually get the chicken teriyaki lunch special with chow mein. I also enjoy their wonton soup :) read more

Quick and decent for its price are what i felt after having their beef chow ho fun. And it didn't upset my stomach afterwards. I feel it's probably most people's concern while walking into a pretty rundown kitchen such as this. The one unfortunate note was the strange after taste it left. No tables there. So unless you really don't give a damn and would eat at the waiting chair like I did, it's just for takeout. read more

M & S Kitchen - Beef chow ho fun - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

The food wasn't good, but the man serving the food was so nice. I was so hungry when I got the food too. I was disappointed. :(

I feel so bad! I live around the corner and desperately want it to succeed. Mainly because the man who owns the restaurant is the nicest guy and we always exchange huge smiles. But I have to be honest, the food is not that good and I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here. The food is cheap and is really for lazy locals who have the occasional craving for Chinese Food. I really just get the fried rice or chow mein because they're almost impossible to mess up. This is a takeout only restaurant and there are no chairs/tables for dining-in. If you do come here, keep it simple like fried rice, chow mein and potstickers. read more

I work in Oakland and live in Berkeley. I pass by this restaurant almost every work day on my way back home. On the outside, it looks a little scary--dilapidated and old. It's in a run down part of Shattuck on the Oakland/Berkeley border next to a liquor store and across from a building that used to be a Pizza Hut that closed over a year ago. So one day I decided to look up the reviews on Yelp and to my surprise, they were pretty good. So I decided to give it a try. I've only tried one dish so far, an all day lunch special--Beef Broccoli over rice for $4.50. The pic I posted looks like it's blurred but my cell phone was right over the dish and the steam coming off caused that effect. This is strictly a take-out joint. No place to sit to eat your food. Just four plastic patio chairs to sit while you wait for your take-out. The chef is an elderly Chinese man and he's gated behind a wall and there's a plexiglass cutout where you can order, pay and he passes the food to you. It's not a professional job, just a do it yourself barricade. After he took my money, he went into the kitchen and I could hear the stir fry. Such a familiar sound. I decided to sit down in the waiting area. Be forewarned, it doesn't look like it's been cleaned in awhile. Since I can't see the kitchen, I don't know what shape it's in but I'm optimistic and I'll let the food speak for itself. When I got my dish, it was pretty good. Lots of broccoli florets and it was al dente and not overcooked. Since beef is the most expensive ingredient, I was expecting the worst but it was marinated and flavorful but not too salty and they were in whole even slices, not chopped or chipped beef. Rice was whole kernels and not mushy or broken up. It's the way my mother taught me to make steamed rice. The sauce was a basic oyster sauce, not fancy but tasty. Looking forward to trying other dishes like the fried chicken wing and chow mein. read more

M & S Kitchen - Broccoli + beef over rice--$4.50. All day lunch special! Hot steamy rice, nice tender beef, lots of broccoli and no MSG. - Chinese Near Me - Oakland, California

Great Kung Pao Tofu! Very flavorful and tofu cooked just right. The serve generous portions. Good place for take out Chinese. read more

No flavor. Not enough meat overflowing with vegetables. The chicken wings are good.

Ordered some takeout food here to go. Got the egg rolls, shrimp fried rice, broccoli beef, as well as the orange chicken. Pretty standard takeout Chinese, nothing special. But quick fast and pretty cheap. No complaints here! read more

Hidden little mom and Pop shop, order take out window... food is pretty good authentic and flavorful, would def come back again

Good and cheap. Lunch special is only 7.95. I had the garlic tofu, fried rice was good too

If you go in with the right expectations you'll do fine with this place. Reminds me of shops in NYC with the funky homemade bulletproof glass divider between the single cook/order-taker/cashier. "Lunch" specials (served anytime) are a bargain and perfect for feeding workers and late-night drunken partyers. You are also likely to have a nice discussion with the local prostitutes and winos as you wait for your meal on a plastic chair. read more

There are some really, really good Chinese food spots in Oakland, all with unique quirks that make them so brilliant. M&S Kitchen is no different, in fact, it might be the cheapest of them all - and not in food quality. The place has one table and most (if not all) the orders are pickup. I've never ordered delivery as I live less than a block away. Being right near Chen's Garden, it took me over a year to get the courage to go and try this spot, as I thought "surely it's got to be good if it's been here as long as I have and still kickin". Well, it sure it. I went with the Wor Wonton Soup as my first go and realized when I picked up my food that he runs the lunch special all day long (after 5:30 the Fried Rice portion becomes Steamed Rice), but it's still around $6 after tax. Blown away, I gave it another go and selected the Mongolian Beef Lunch Meal from the menu. It was pretty tasty, jam packed with sweet and sour and salty and spicy flavors, but for $6 there wasn't much meat (not that I can argue, I was full and it was a good portion of food). All in all, this is a wonderful spot if you just transplanted from New York and are used to paying sub $8 per meal at a Chinese Food spot. The whole thing is run by one dude, but he keeps it locked down. read more

The chicken wings and egg rolls are good. I've tried the curry chicken on the menu which is good and hot when you get it. The chef is nice and patient. Out of all the Asian places close by this place is well reasonable, customer service friendly, OK atmosphere read more

This is kind of a funky spot, very small and you order through a small plexiglass window in a wall between the kitchen and waiting area which makes you feel like you should be wearing a Kevlar vest. Sign says under 24 hour video surveillance but if there is a camera I couldn't spot it. Might be kind of like getting an ADT sign for your lawn and not paying for the actual system. I've seen people pause and look in the window, then wander off likely due to that atmosphere, but I didn't let it deter me. Any way the fellow that does the cooking is a wiz at getting multiple orders out quickly and the prices are low even by Chinese restaurant standard. Is the food great? No. Is it decent and not greasy? Yes. Is the owner friendly and pleasant? Yes. I've been here multiple times when I need a quick bite to take home and don't want part with a lot of cash. So hence the three stars. Street parking, take-out only, cash only, open 11-9:30 daily 7 days a week except sometimes when he doesn't feel like it on Sundays. His words, so call ahead on Sundays. read more

Read reviews and thought I'd give it a try. Building and interior don't look great but don't let that fool you. The food was not only very very good but very well priced. The man who took and cooked my order was very friendly. Had pot stickers which were clearly home made and fresh egg rather than flour noodles and tasted excellent. Egg rolls were fresh and crispy and delicious. Fried rice was excellent with dragon breath and good fry, not oily and white like others. General chicken was all white meat, delicious and crispy. Highly recommend and will be going back again. read more

I live nearby and frequent this take-out retaurant about once a week on average. I love this place. It's old-fashioned and run by a lovely family. This one older gentleman does all the cooking and he is superb. His food is fresh, clean, non-greasy and delicious. I always get take out from here when friends drop by unexpectedly. I have never had bad dish, and rarely is his cooking "off". Please , please help support small business like this They need and deserve our patronage. My favorite dishes are: Pot Stickers Dry- Fried Ribs Green Beans Vegetable Fried Rice read more

Unassuming business with good, inexpensive food and a very personable owner/ cook/ taker-of-orders!

I do enjoy the food, the delivery has been pretty long at times and I have been hung up on twice, I hope by accident. I think this place looses one star because I think there is a better spot I rather order from right down the street. read more

Don't be fooled by its hole in the wall appearance. They don't need to be all fancy to serve good, affordable food. The service is always so kind and I like that my money goes to a family. This is takeout only and they get the food out in a reasonable amount of time. There are chairs to wait or a little store on the corner. I just park in the lot across the street real quick. read more

The best Chinese food for the price the servings are excellent for anyone looking for some Chinese food this is the place I highly recommend it the prices are great the food is even better read more

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Great hole in the wall Chinese, tasty food, good and fast service and prices that cannot be beaten. This is a regular lunch spot!

Greasy, don't go in! Probably more appetizing if I hadn't seen the inside of the place... Food was mediocre.