Delicious authentic Chinese cuisine. Fast service in house and delivery. Hot braised chicken wings are savory. Salt and pepper sea bass is crispy and fresh read more

We've been coming here for a really long time (15+ years) and the food is hit or miss. Some days it's really good, some days it's really bad. I don't know if they change cooks or if they don't have enough business that they serve old reheated food or they just don't care some days. We picked up take out on 6/15 and the food was amazing! Everything was delicious! Hot and fresh, my husband and I stuffed ourselves and then went back for more later that night! =) Tonite my husband just picked up dinner (7/1) and my bbq pork fried rice tastes like burnt oil and lots of pieces of pork fat (not bbq pork). The sesame crispy beef is usually a favorite but tonite it's drowned in sauce (not crispy), really oily and it's weird like they put a tempura batter on it. My bbq pork also has a lot of fat and it's kinda brown, like the meat is old. We paid almost $70. and neither of us can power through this dinner so in the trash it goes....=( I wish Fortune Star was consistently delicious, we would be eating there a couple times a week. Unfortunately when the meal is bad, we don't go back for a while, like months later. Literally leaves a bad taste in our mouth. read more

We got Chinese takeout to go for an early Mothers Day Dinner. Everything was delicious and tasted fresh! My favorite was the walnut prawns as the shrimp were the perfect size and the coating was tasty! The green beens and beef dish was yummy too but the beef was a bit tough to chew on. However, I would definitely come back and try other items on the menu! read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

We had my dad's 90th birthday yesterday. Nine people figured we'd try fortune Star the service was OK. The food was below average hardly no taste. The only thing that actually was OK was the hot and spicy soup, so disappointing 240 dollars fried rice bland chowfun chow mein boring potstickers OK Kung pow chicken where's the chicken broccoli beef where's the beef? Should've figured it out when we went there to pick it up at lunchtime place was empty.btw I have runs for the past hour read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Bill - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

First time coming in. Nice and clean and good spacing between tables. We only seen 2 of the staff but both very nice. The food came out fast and hot. We both enjoyed our meal. The Szechuan prawns were delicious and we also got the salt and pepper prawns. Also delicious and I highly recommend them both. The chow mein was very tasty as well and all of the dishes that we ordered there was plenty of. Would definitely return. read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

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Food was made fast! We got some dumplings first. These were expensive since there were only 6! We enjoyed the tomatoes and noodles with beef. Super sweet but still delicious. So so tasty! Then we got a chicken dish that was slightly spicy. I forget the name. We finally got a seafood dish that came with a good variety. The sauce was filled with umami and it paired well with our other dishes. This is def comfort American Chinese food. They have a lot of dinner packages too. read more

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I ordered yesterday salt and pepper fish , vegetable chow mein . The fish has soaked lot of oil , greasy , not good at all . Chow mein was oily , watery , not good at all . I threw the food as it was not good at all , as I wasted my money . I will never order again from this place . read more

Fortune Star wasn't the first choice since across the street was on vacation. This is more of a take out spot. I came with a group of 7 around 6 pm on a Sunday and there wasn't any other table there until closing. That's gotta tell ya something but there were take out orders at least. We tried a lot of different dishes and nothing was good. Everything was salty and with MSG. This place is probably the worst Chinese food in a long time. Service wasn't bad, food came out quick. Salt and pepper squid-too much breading Eggplant, this was fried and very oily Beef chow fun with gravy, super salty Bean curd with vegetables, heavy with the salt Sizzling beef/veggies, don't order Salted fish fried rice was edible Chicken with veggies, not good Street parking only. read more

An easy no frills establishment located in San Mateo. Good variety of classic Chinese dishes, lunch specials, dinner specials. Plates were amply filled with fresh ingredients. Service quick. My only bummer was no tea was given at the meal. read more

We generally like this restaurant and have been going here for years. We recently had lunch there and it was just OK. The pork with mixed vegetable were very watery, sweet, over cooked pork, and the vegetables were soggy. My wife chow mien did not look fresh and seemed to have been prepared much earlier. My fried rice lacked any favor at all. Portions we large and the Hot and Sour soup was excellent. Service was very attentive and we were well taken care of. read more

this has been my local chinese restaurant since i've been a young lad. Nothing crazy, but Never disappoints. Will never switch up on this spot 10/10 read more

We took our who family there for my mother-in-law's 90th birthday... she loves Chinese food. The food was delicious, and we had a ton of people there. They were very nice and brought us plate after plate of food. Everyone commented on how good it was. The staff was very patient with us as we all sang "Happy Birthday" to the family's matriarch. Everyone had a great time. I would definitely recommend this restaurant for small and large gatherings! read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant is located in San Mateo. I had passed by this place many times. I decided to try it out. I entered during off peak hours -- it was between lunch and dinner. I looked over the menu and placed an order to go. Soon a couple came in to eat. I studied the menu while they were seated. Soon my order was ready. I took my goods while the waitress took the couple's order. The food was good. I will make it a point to make a return visit to dine indoors next time. read more

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Finally found a yummy Chinese restaurant. Their menu has all of our favorites and the food is delicious!

I wound up here because it was the nearest Chinese restaurant to where I could find parking. I had no idea what to expect. My eye was caught on the menu by 'hot braised shrimp' but what I got from it was quite unlike that dish at other restaurants. The shrimp (fortunately with no shells or tails) were breaded and the sauce was thin but dark and rich. Veggies were carrots and bell peppers. But it was very tasty. The shrimp themselves were hefty enough, the breading remained crisp and was unusually flavorful and less mealy than Chinese breading often is, and the sauce was quite appealing. Pot stickers for appetizer were also hefty and crisp, not over-breaded. I was just about the only customer for an early dinner, and the others were not Asian, not a good sign, but I was quite satisfied with the food here. read more

The food is good if you are eating in the restaurant. their takeout food is less desirable too much soy sauce and green beans overcooked. They got one order mixed up and it's probably a two star for takeout. Restaurant is clean & in-house staff are attentive. read more

Love their WonTon Soup! Son loves Beef Chow Fun. Very good. When your sick...hot WonTon Soup!

So grateful they were open for Christmas Day. It's been a long two weeks prepping, decorating and shopping- too tired to make dinner for four.! Been to fortune star several times prior to Covid so it's been a while ... Although some of the reviews were negative, I didn't see what others complain about.. Placed the order Christmas Eve - gave them a list with my name, time if pick it up, my phone number what we wanted, & how many per the order.... Just to make it easy for them since they were very busy. I only saw one waitress for the whole restaurant. I did put on my list no MSG, less salt, less oil due to friends health issues... Thanked them with a smile & a Merry Christmas! (it helps to be nice).. Had one guest that doesn't eat pork or beef the other one likes meat ... so picking from the menu so everyone can be happy took a while. Ordered the vegetable chow mein, vegetable, fried rice, honey walnut prawns, broccoli beef, sweet-and-sour chicken, pot stickers (which they were more like Goza style (crispy) , vegetable delight.... Two of each except for the beef and rice.- Christmas Day picked it up. Everything was hot and OMG could not believe the portion size. -- so large. (it looks like when you 1 you get the typical Safeway container enough for two people)... but when you order two orders... you get a very large banquet style container-- and I have to say we had enough for eight people!... which was awesome as people got to take food home with them and plenty of leftovers for me the next day. The restaurant there was a guy I'm not sure if the owner that he was so nice and helped carry the food out to my car and they also gave us free crispy eggplant and I must say it was so good!!! it had a little bit of sweetness, but like garlic sauce and it stayed crispy throughout our meal... definitely I would order that next time! Everyone thought the food was very good. We all had second portions. The walnut prawns were very yummy in a white sauce. The sweet-and-sour chicken was a hit Mongolian beef was very tender. Of course the eggplant was delicious. The chow mein was great... there were no complaints. Everybody said it was delicious. The service was quick, very nice people, the food was very, very good... I would definitely go back. Thank you, fortune star you are definitely my go to restaurant for Chinese food !! read more

Food, two much salt in sauces, "braised" fish was deep fried with something poured over it, loaded with oil, unedible. Restaurant is messy which is indicator of messy kitchen. Not authentic. There are many better choices for well prepared Chinese cuisine in San Mateo. The best dish was seafood tofu clay pot but it had very little seafood, a few shrimp and calamari, no fish. Loaded with cheap tofu. Servers limited English read more

It's spot on for cheap, greasy, msg filled Chinese takeout food. My parents wanted to sit in so we did, and honestly it was a decent experience. It was super casual where you didn't need to dress up for it at all, and we ordered their Fortune Star dinner. If you didn't know, you always get served the soup first, then the rest of the entrees after finishing the soup. We did order a few extra dishes on top of what was there as well, and rice is extra. Around 10 dishes + soup served around 9 people, the food came out super fast, they took care in making sure that vegetarian dishes and non vegetarian dishes were separate, and we pretty much finished everything. Yeah, stuff like the beef with satay had so much MSG you could probably be the cause of California's drought problem with all that thirst for water, but when you crave for some Walnut prawns or cream cheese wontons at 3pm when everything else is closed it's a decent option. Overall, it's decent if there aren't any other options, and also if I want Chinese takeout. read more

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Thursday afternoon my friend and I went in to order food. It was a little after 3 and when I asked if they still had lunch specials the lady said no. We said thank you and we were going to find some place else to eat. She said ok and asked what we wanted. We wanted to do 2 Orange Beef lunch special with fried rice. Luckily my friend asked how much each one was. They lady said $16 each. The menu shows lunch specials $10.95-$11.95. No item on the lunch special shows $16. We were trying to leave and the lady said it was because the beef is more expensive. A lot of the beef items on the lunch special are $10.95 with the exceptions of the Szechuan and Mongolian beefs being $11.95. We felt they were trying to raise the prices. Friday around 11:30am my friend blocks his number and calls asking how much the orange chicken lunch special is. He is told it $12.95 and with tax a little after $14. My friend is African American and now we are under the impression that it was a discriminatory move to try to raise the prices on us like that. I will never go there or support this racist business in any way. read more

Was craving Chow Mein at 2pm while at work so it's either a Chinese restaurant or Safeway. So I drove over 25th Ave and saw a Chinese resto with parking right in front. Saw that they have lunch special that extends till 2:30pm, I ordered the Chicken with string beans and noodles. Order was done in 5minutes. Paid $15.00 for a very salty chicken lunch and very bland noodles. I should have just gone to Safeway! read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

I'm a little bummed...they used to serve their lunch specials with wonton, eggroll, fried rice, chow mein and soup. I guess this is the COVID Lunch special, the "fried rice" is just rice stir fried with soy sauce. Bummer... read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Salt and Salted & Pepper Fish Fillet Lunch Special - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

I always ask for little oil and it comes with too much oil. I love their food. We've been going there for over thirty years. It's a good place. Go there. It's good food and friendly service. Just ask for a small amount of oil read more

Good place with decent food and friendly service. I had dinner here and was suprised with the food for a decent price. Was a quiet place but we were there on a Wednesday later in the evening. read more

Ordered chicken a salty fish fried rice, beef with bean curd, beef chow fun and eggplant with fish clay pot. Came in a box so delivery was good, I had been comparing prices and these items seemed reasonable compared to other places but don't expect huge portions. Food was good so no complaints. read more

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Decent service. Terrible chow fun noodles, almost-ok beef, some onion and nothing else to it. Dingey, not a great experience.

The food is good but a little on the salty side so ask them to use less salt. The portions are good and no msg. This place has a lot of take out orders. Service was good and fast. Price was fair fir the amount of food. The ladies are nice. read more

Would give 0 stars if possible. We used to come here all the time until the service and food quality went straight downhill. In one last attempt to see if this place was still decent we ordered a Chicken Salad to go. They drowned the food in dressing, something they've never done before. When we pointed out the salad is completely soaked we were met with yelling and accusations we didn't ask them to separate the dressing. It wasn't worth arguing. The food and service deserved 0 stars. read more

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I do have to say the food is really good. However, since I Doordashed all this food to a tune of 100.00, they proceeded to pile up tons of rice and very little Chinese food because they knew I was not eating in the restaurant. Very disappointing.... I really feel cheated. However, if I was eating in the restaurant, there is no way they would make every patron pick rice with every dish. The rice is an addition and you pick what you want. It is very clear they wanted me to pay mostly for rice and a very steep price. Never again. I'd love to post a picture because now they don't come in the red/white containers, you have to have it in a regular white container for more food, which is where the pile up the rice and tiny bit of Chinese food. read more

Fortune Star Chinese Restaurant - Tons of rice and very little Chinese food. - Chinese Near Me - San Mateo, California

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The food and the service are great. Able to modify food for special diets. Great potio for the price

I have been coming here for years and they have always had good food, so I hope this is an aberration. They didn't have my order ready and there was only one table eating in. It was pretty clear they hadn't even found my order. After 20 min I took my food home. The hot and sour soup was completely bland, and the minced chicken in lettuce wraps was almost all onions, and chicken was not minced and also so bland I couldn't eat it. If this is the new normal, I will not be back. read more

I've eaten here for years and loved the food. They used to serve their lunch specials with wonton, eggroll, fried rice, chow mein and soup. now was it left to eat is just awful. avoid this place. read more

Fortune star is your typical Chinese food restaurant. It is okay "Americanized" Chinese food (ie orange chicken, beef and broccoli, fried rice, etc). It can get a little greasy and their deep fried foods are not consistent in taste/quality. For example, when we got it last night the walnut shrimp and orange chicken were fried in really old oil. They do throw in free potstickers or egg rolls with your order. We usually only get takeout, so I can't speak to their service. I would just say it's mediocre food. read more

FANTASTIC FOOD! Great service. Pot stickers are delicious (I order mine crispy) and the Mongolian beef is fresh and very tasty.

I know, I know. Sweet and sour pork is not really Chinese food. But it's SO good! And we love it, along with other dishes that I really am not certain would be recognized in China: sizzling rice soup, mu shu pork, BBQ pork fried rice, General Tso's [meat] (chicken, shrimp, etc.), orange beef, etc. If you like that type of food also, then Fortune Star is for you! Basically, this is our "go to" place for American Chinese food in San Mateo. On another note, we've ordered $500+ of food here for large group lunches (i.e., church gathering, etc.) on more than one occasion. We have found the folks here to be prompt, the food was on time and hot, they offered us discounts, etc. So I would highly recommend Fortune Star for that type of event also. read more

Good food for affordable prices! I love their service and the staff's positivity! I ordered sweat and sour pork, chicken chow mein, wonton soup, chicken fried rice, and cashew chicken. It was all super yummy. It is a very casual place so don't feel the need to dress up. I am visiting this area of San Mateo and it is very casual compared to all the restaurants that I have been to here. read more

Had another take out meal from Fortune Star. Feedback on other dishes: Crispy Duck - Not particularly crispy, but that's not surprising given it was takeout. The bigger issue was that the meat was a little dry and tough. Broccoli Beef - Solid rendition of this staple dish. Chicken with Snow Peas - Juicy chicken and properly cooked vegetables in a white sauce. Mixed Seafood with Tofu in Clay Pot - Fried tofu and assorted seafood, but the overall flavor was just okay. Beef Chow Fun - More saucy than other versions I've tried, but very tasty. It did seem a little light on beef and vegetables. read more

The food has the appearance and the taste of bird vomit to its chicks. I guess Fortune is the only thing the restaurant is after. Good job!

Tried their food thru delivery. They were on time and the driver seemed friendly enough. The food wasn't the greatest. The chow mein wasn't very flavorful, more on the bland side. The fried rice was decent, a bit dry. Forgot what type of meat we got but most of the pieces were hard, but covered in plenty of sauce. read more