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    Chef Cao's

    3.8 (128 reviews)
    ModerateChinese
    Closed 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Sesame chicken with lo mein

    Great food. Ordered the general tso's chicken with lo mein, sesame chicken with lo mein, and sesame chicken with fried rice. Both chicken dishes were amazing! Only critique is the rice was not flavorful enough, lacked pan fry flavor but still good. Can't beat a lunch special for under $10!

    Garlic chicken triple
    Texas L.

    Our food was delicious (pad Thai and garlic chicken) and they were so helpful when I needed them to double check food ingredients due to a dairy allergy. Our waitress was so kind. We will return!

    Nice new restaurant in south CS.

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    8 years ago

    Good place. High quality food. Reasonably hospitable staff. I really like the sesame chicken.

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    13 years ago

    Won't ever go back. They took my order and told me 25 mins later they ran out of RICE???? Seriously! At a CHINESE restaurant?

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    10 years ago

    It's a better place with better service. However, the flavor of food here are still modified.

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    10 years ago

    Aaaamazing! Some of the best spring rolls I've ever had. Everything was very good & reasonably price. I'll definitely be back!

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    14 years ago

    Excellent food! When it says spicy on the menu, it's spicy. We will definitely come back.

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    Salt and pepper shrimp is very good here. Suprisingly good chinese restaurant considering it's in College Station Texas.

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    12 years ago

    Wasn't super impressed until I tried the Singapore rice noodles....oooo mmm gggggg!!!!!!!! So delicious!! I am hooked. Must.eat.more.

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    10 years ago

    Best place to eat Chinese food. I come here all the time. Food is always hot and fresh.

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    9 years ago

    Best wonton soup I've found in our area. Spicy vegetable fried rice is another winner!

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    4.7
    (132 reviews)
    5.1 mi
    $$

    Came here with my coworkers. I've been here several times, but I haven't been here in over 2 years…read moreso I was nervous that it'd be drastically different because I loved this place. They did change the menu a bit, but it had what I exactly wanted. We ordered the Szechuan Mala Spicy Rice Noodle Bowl w/ Beef Slices, Popcorn Chicken, Shrimp Tempura, and Xiao Long Bao. The noodle bowl is the best. Tons of flavor and ingredients with the vermicelli noodles are just amazing. The popcorn chicken is delicious, nothing special. The shrimp tempura is delicious and has an amazing crunch. The Xiao Long Bao is more of a soup dumpling dim sum style. It was pretty delicious, but it didn't taste really fresh like you'd get from an actual dim sum restaurant. The staff are friendly and fast. Lots of tables to dine at. Parking lot is a bit small, but you can park on the other side of the buildings where there are more parking.

    great noodles here! they specialize in rice noodles and flavorful broths and each time i've been,…read morei've enjoyed the spicy beef noodle soup. everything comes in huge proteins and at a reasonable price. my friends enjoyed the cross the bridge rice noodle (make your own soup) dish where the sides were brought out along side the hot broth for them to construct. looked really good! i'll likely try this next time! the fried buns with condensed milk were an excellent dessert. super pillowy with a delicately crisp exterior and a perfect pairing with the condensed milk for a not too sweet dessert! this was my favorite item. staff are very friendly and there are plenty of clean and well laid out seats inside for solo diners or groups if all sizes. overall: 9/10 taste: 9/10 price: 9/10 great spot for hot soup noodles in cstat!

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    Golden hot&sour crossing bridge noodle soup
    Golden hot&sour crossing bridge noodle soup
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    Chef Cao's

    3.1
    (158 reviews)
    6.5 mi
    $

    I'm not sure why this place only has 3 Stars. I've never had a bad meal here, and it has one of…read morethe most diverse menus I've seen. Good food at a very reasonable price!

    So I was in town for training, was craving some chinese food, and this was the closest thing to the…read morehotel I didn't feel like driving.I was already tired from a long day looked at the.Reviews, nothing stood out on the.Reviews, they looked mediocre at best.I decided to give it a try anyways. Probably should have gone somewhere else. So I walked in the location.There wasn't very many people in there.There was two employees, both of them were on the computers.They pretty much ignored me for a couple of minutes before they decided to come.And help me.I looked over the menu fairly quickly.I already knew what I wanted.I wanted the combination fried rice.I noticed that it's said that the fried rice had scallops in it had never tried it before.So decided to give it a try.I was sadly disappointed. First off, I'm gonna start with. I've had scallops in the past and the scallops that they had in there or whatever they where were extremely fishy to the point of the entire Fried Rice tasted like fish. I ate the majority of the Fried Rice. It left an oily fishy taste in my mouth. I was just so hungry. I ate it and I fell asleep. I noticed that I started getting rumble guts in the middle of the night and yeah, you can figure it out from there. I think next time I'll probably steer clear of this place.And I do come to brian college station quite a bit after I ate there.The next night, one of the guys told me that I shouldn't have eaten there. Just walking in the location didn't look very clean.Look kinda unkepped. Would I ever come back? Probably not more like, definitely not. If you want to try it, try it out. Maybe I just had a bad experience.But yeah it wasn't for me. Combo fried rice 1 outa 10 just nasty fishy taste i have never had scallops in Fried Rice. In my entire life until that day I would never have it again. Location 2 outa 10 looked unclean Service 1 outa 10 staff was more interested in the lap top next to the bar.

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    Dry pot beef small portion. A bit pricey for $15

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    Dry pot beef small portion. A bit pricey for $15
    Shun De Mom

    Shun De Mom

    3.8
    (38 reviews)
    6.5 mi
    $

    Interesting dining restaurant. Not very cute inside. Smack in the middle of a construction zone…read moreoutside and parking is non existent. I didn't want to park at the restaurant across the street and risk getting towed so I parked down the street. The food was pretty solid and definitely feels like a place college students wouldn't mind eating at. I think that was all that was there when we went.

    TLDR: food quality went downhill after the renovations; would not recommend anymore…read more It breaks my heart to give Shun de Mom so low of a review. Last year in Spring 2023 (before the semester-long renovations), Shun de Mom was my favorite eatery in CSTAT. I ate here at least 2-3 times/month. However, they're not the same anymore (maybe a different management staff?). For starters, they changed their menu and removed the Thailand Chicken (my favorite dish) along with raising their prices slightly. More importantly, they changed the sauces so "saucy" dishes (like the Orange Chicken) just did not taste good. The chicken lo mein had very little flavor and the noodles seemed "rubbery" for some reason. Lastly, the salt and pepper pork ribs looked exceedingly deep-fried and I'm fairly sure had MSG on them. The only semi-decent dish was the chicken fried rice. So if you're hankering for chicken-fried rice within walking distance of campus, then this is your place. One positive is the servers were exceedingly friendly and the food came out fairly quickly (~10 minutes). The chairs are metal and neither comfortable nor uncomfortable.

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    Chicken lo mein
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    Lunch menu
    Menu: 1st Page (as of 2/16/2024)

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    Menu: 1st Page (as of 2/16/2024)

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