I've been coming here since 1993 when it first opened and the original cook Peter .I believe Daniel's brother ... I have never had a bad meal here and guess what???? they don't give you any goofiness about substitutions ,if you don't like celery ...which I can't stand cooked celery ..give you bok choy or whatever instead ...mushrooms... the friendliest ,nicest place and I love being able to watch them cook by the way their soups are phenomenal.. Linda has been there for years and I've never ever seen her unhappy... you my opinion and I've been in this area 37 years one of the three restaurants maybe four... consistently good food and that's the key isnt it??? read more

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Great food! Come here every time I'm in Clearlake. Restaurant is just a little hole in the wall but the food is amazing!

This is the best Chinese restaurant in the county. Always good service GREAT FOOD & if an error is made it is correct ed many times over! We usually get at least two meals out of dish & sometimes 3! Less expensive than fast food & much better! read more

Great food served fast at excellent prices! I feel spoiled. Not expecting such great service and food in the middle of all these fast food places. So refreshing to come in and sit down and be served. They treated me pretty good too. I will absolutely be back! read more

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I give this restaurant a 3.5 out of 5. The food is good the orange chicken is amazing. I give this review because the food is good, it's not great. The pricing is very reasonable in my opinion. If I would complain about this restaurant is that it's not the cleanest inside which it's hard to eat in a place where it's not very clean. The customer service is good as well. read more

My favorite place to eat in Lake County. The staff is very friendly. I have brought all my out of town friends here and they all seem to love it as well. read more

Magic Wok - Chinese Near Me - Clearlake, California

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If you are looking for chinese food in Clear Lake this is pretty much the only restaurant choice you have. The staff are very friendly and they serve you fast. Overall, my kung pao fish was tasty. The noodles served with it were too. The hot and sour soup was mostly salty. I prefer more sour and hot to salty. There were no vegan options on the menu. Decor is fairly run down and in need of a refresh. They are open on Sunday which is significant. No recommendation, you decide. read more

The staff looked miserable with no air conditioner. Very uncomfortable atmosphere with the heat from the kitchen without any A/C. It's not healthy for staff or customers. the owner needs to get the A/C up and running soon. i have eaten there many time before the pandemic and it had a good atmosphere and A/C, NOT ANYMORE. Plan to start going to Happy Garden in the Oaks. read more

very bad customer service. rude service overall. i felt judge by the waitress food is mid

Found this Gem on my lunch break as I'm on work and from out of town. The owner greeted me at the door a half hour before his doors opened and said he would cook for me. I absolutely love the chicken curry. read more

Linda and Chef are awesome! Food did not disappoint, and I saw on other reviews you can take something you do not like, like onions for example without any type of oh we can't do that. Will definitely be returning. Service was great, food was great. Leaving happy and fed. read more

I'm long overdue for writing a review of this Chinese restaurant. I've been dining here regularly since 1998 and have seen Magic Wok at its best and not so tasty times. Daniel, the chef/part owner is the flavor meister of this establishment. It is his original recipes that make this a stand out among the typically dull Chinese fare one finds everywhere. For example, his hot and sour soup (available free everyday with the lunch specials) pulls no punches. It is hot (very well peppered) but equally tangy resulting in a zinger that will keep you coming back for more. I usually squeeze some lemon in to intensify the tang. The menu is typical but with the sauces all flavor intensified with a sense that some MSG is being used. I personally don't mind a little MSG if used sparingly. Whatever favorite dish you may order, you'll find this restaurant's flavor decidedly richer, deeper, more intense then most. Daniel knows his sauces and consistently delivers magic in every wok performance from the recently remodeled open kitchen. My favorite is the seafood combination with its exquisite white ginger sauce. My only problems with the food over the years has been an occasional fill in chef that didn't measure up, or the stir fri sauces that were way to oily, prawns that were occasionally not fresh or the quality of their beef that is really questionable at times. Service is and has always been prompt and friendly. Prices are reasonable but it would be nice if they included an egg roll on their lunch specials instead of just a piece of fried won ton. read more

Thank you for the great reviews that led us to this restaurant! We were the only customers inside on a Sunday afternoon. Continual, solicitous service and a willingness to let us "camp-out" at the table, for an extra hour while I finished some blog work on my laptop, makes them my hands-down favorite when we are back in this town. Best so far: hot tea, calamari appetizer, pan fried noodles, house fried rice, & egg foo yung. Seriously the best we've had anywhere & at anytime. That's 40 years of nationwide Asian eating talking. Hope this town appreciates this chef. If not, he should hightail to somewhere that will. read more

I found this place online one day and so happy that I did. I make it a point to get chineese food here at least 2 times a month if I can just because of how good everything is. The people are pretty great too. read more

A good Chinese place. Daniel sure knows what he's doing! But the sauces could have more "pop"...it's the LACK of MSG that's the problem. I would much rather go to a place the used MSG in small amounts, when it is only detectable as a flavor enhancer, because it makes the food taste better. MSG occurs naturally and is present in the chicken and beef they cook (mmmm!) so avoiding it to please nutso customers is a mistake. I also wish they would put broccoli back in the General Tso's Chicken!! My favorite dish there is kung-pao shrimp. Just the right amount of heat, shrimp don't get chewy, and tons of fresh crunchy veggies. Bravo. read more

Many many years ago, I liked this place. I haven't been here in about 10 years though. I stopped in today, and sadly I won't be back. The place was clean and the staff was very pleasant, so it is unfortunate that the food was so bad. Both dishes were very dry, without any visible sauce which left them flavourless, and our crab wontons seemed oddly dried out. It was edible, but completely unappetizing. We didn't finish. read more

While visiting family, my husband saw this restaurant and decided to have dinner here. I was delicious and the Female employee was very fast and friendly. Will definitely go again while visiting my family read more

Came back after a few Year's, very good food. Clean not spotless but clean. Had the mushroom chicken lunch special was very good.

This place reminds me of an old diner built in the fifties or so. It is small, lots of windows and friendly staff. Linda waited on me. She was proud of this place and glad to work here. She makes the place more interesting. There were many call in orders while I was in there eating. No other customers on a Saturday around 1, but one more person showed up before I left. One person called in 3 orders of pot stickers while I was there. So I figured the pot stickers must be really good. I'll definitely try them next time. I went in during lunch menu and ordered Kung Pao chicken which came with cup of hot and sour soup. The hot and sour soup wasn't very spicy to me and I'm a bit of a light weight when it comes to really hot food. It was okay, not as much zip and zing as I'm used to but I enjoyed it. The Kung Pao was also, okay. Not very spicy and more oil than I'd like. I took most of it home. I added some chili sauce that was on the table and this really helped. I wished I'd put it in the soup too. I ordered it with Chow Mein which was a bit bland and I took most of it home but decided not to eat it as it was pretty oily. The chicken however, was good for dinner later. I also ordered some crab puffs. Super light and airy and didn't seem heavy or oily. Very good. I took most of them home as well and they were very good later. The food isn't the best but the best around this area. I'll probably go back and try pot stickers and something else another time. read more

Food is always delicious and authentic. Can't go wrong with their egg foo young it's the best one I have tasted.

Not sure why the low stars. Had a great lunch, with big portions. Linda was friendly and very attentive. We had the Cashew Chicken, Mandarin Chicken and Veggie Chow Mien, all hot, fresh, and delicious. Nothing fancy, but we find those seem to be the places with the best food. read more

Horrible just horrible! Bad service and Oily food, top it off they stopped giving fortune cookies to cut expenses, wonder what else they are cutting corners on read more

I love how the waitress is so nice and remembers what you like. The food is always good and comes fast. Clearlake is lucky to have this restaurant in their little town. We drive from Nice to eat here. read more

On the advice of my Grandson and my Gardener, we went to the Magic Wok tonight for dinner , It was a good experience! Food was tasty and fresh, service was more than prompt!! I would definitely go back! read more

It was good food I got to go. The house fried rice was very good. I left off the green onions. The sesame chicken was good too. It was ready within minutes. $18.00 for both. Not a bad price for two people to eat. read more

We have eaten hear several times. We sometimes get a creepy male waiter, and other times we get a hardcore female waiter. We do not care for either of them. The food is okay, but I've seen some things that should be refrigerated just sitting out which makes me wonder about the safety of eating here. We have never gotten sick though. read more

I've been really satisfied with the food and I was surprised it took me this long to try it out. It's Clearlake so my five star rating is in comparison with the other restaurants here. Don't except fine dining, but for the price point, they nailed it. You can also tell they make everything fresh since the wok is right in view. The people are nice here too! read more

Called in a order of chow mein to go, when I got there I gave the waitress 20.00. She didn't give me my change of 7.00. Didn't realize until I got home, tried calling and got a busy signal for 40 minutes. Drove back to resturant, she had the phone off the hook. The waitress will do anything to get a tip. Strongly do not recommend. read more

Pretty damn good. I had the honey walnut chicken and hubby had the moosho beef. We also got the assortment appetizer...next time I would skip the deep fried shrimp it came with because the were not devained and I couldn't tell which end was the tail...but other than that everything was excellent and it was fun watching them make our food ! read more

Extremely friendly service, walked in sat down and the waitress brought us our Menus. We ordered chicken chow mein, which was very good, cashew chicken which was excellent with lots of chicken and cashews, and veggie mushu which was also fantastic served with fresh rice. Service was fast and food was delicious all made fresh to order. $30 + tip Stoked meal! read more

I have nothing negative to say about this place. I ordered the vegetable and bean curd and the chicken chow fun. Great tasting food and you get to watch them make it. If you're here for work eat this Chinese food. It is good. read more

This place was a diamond in the rough!!! As vegans it's hard to find something to eat that is very good while were out and this was WONDERFUL!! We enjoyed the sweet and sour Tofu and the braised string beans (spicy green beans)! Linda was very very Nice and Friendly! We will definitely be going back :) read more

Just had dinner here with my man. I had the Mongolian beef and he had shrimp fried rice. All delicious. Lots of flavor in the Mongolian beef. Orange chicken is okay. Service was great. Very nice lady. Definitely going to be back read more

I have been going here several times over the past years. While it has always been pretty good I have noticed the restaurant is in need of a good deep cleaning. If They would do a good cleaning I would give this a 5 stars.the vegetarian choices are good and the food is always fresh, but the greasiness on the tables and on the walls just a little too much for meI. If the restaurant reads this, do not take it as a put-down but as a suggestion to be above the other restaurants in Clear Lake. Because I will be back I just dont like the clammy feeling when I go in at now. read more

I just loved it. The waitress was just lovely, very warm and sweet. The food is homemade style, and delicious!! I couldn't decide if I wanted almond or cashew chicken, so I got both! How nice is that?? Love this place, will visit every time I am in town read more

Great potstickers, great service, friendly staff and in the summer the AC is cranking. Just to warn you though the "Magic Wok " in middle town is not the same. different owners and chef's. I much prefer the clearlake wok. Enjoy! read more

WOW you have not eaten asian food till you eat here its the best

This place smell just like old Grease when you walk in and you can see all of it on the cook station gross food taste just like the place looks in side like old oil read more

I had Mongolian beef. Flavor is good but the meat is so chewy it's hard to chew it. I thought I was eating escargot. Come on guys take it from a nurse that is why people choke. Your jaws get so tired of chewing you swallow and choke. I would try a different dish though. read more

Great and tasty Chinese food. Ordered combo sizzling plate! Mu shu pork and the portion are big. Waitress is very attentative and friendly. Enjoy the pipping hot tea on a cold night. Walking distance fron best western hotel. read more