This place is so lovely, delicious, and affordable! Highly recommend, and it's a family-owned…read morerestaurant. I had been meaning to dine in for a while and only regret not visiting sooner. I enjoyed the Hunan Hot and Sour Soup on a cold, rainy day and it was an incredible meal. The service was excellent!

Great restaurant, almost don't have anything to complain to deduct a star…read more Noodles and app, better than the usual 4 stars, taste is authentic and they do put in more than enough flavor. Decor also classy, for big group like us a round table and less noise will be great. Most surprising was prices, for this quality in the busy downtown of Berkeley, certainly a good value.

$11 Singapore Chicken: cheap, filling, simple but delicious…read more $2 Mushroom Spinach Bun: loved it. Vegan? Absolutely worth it.

The Hong Kong milk tea is delicious! I always get it iced but the warm one is also very good…read moreespecially on a rainy or gloomy day. The owner is also super sweet and nice. It is a place I most definable love to support. Not to mention that the portion is huge and it is very affordable.

A friend of mine is a cook and he recommended this place so we had to try it. 10/10 highly…read morerecommend. Parking is a little tough, it's a small lot but there are street parking around. For a Saturday night I found parking pretty quick since there's not much else going on around. The service is incredible. Our server was super nice and attentive to our table giving us plenty of water and suggestions when we couldn't figure out what to eat because everything sounded good. All I can say is, everything we got was flavorful and delicious. I wish the portion sizes were bigger for the price tag it came with but it was all delicious all the same. Of course I got their nam kow, which I will admit is not as great as champa garden's but still worth getting. Again, the price and portion size is not the best but still delicious. My new favorite dish of all time is their yum khai dao. It's a bunch of fried eggs with salad on top that has a tangy sweet spicy dressing tossed on it. I'm a sucker for fried eggs so this is easily my favorite dish. We got both their savory roti and their sweet roti and I recommend both. The sweet roti comes with ice cream and their roti is covered with condensed milk. It's actually the perfect way to end the meal with something sweet after all the savory or salty dishes. We also got their grilled beef short ribs, drunken muscles and the O' Breakfast Grilled Pork. The pork and grilled short ribs were both so good we all almost didn't want to share with each other. The next time I come back, I will go for the pork and the fried eggs salad along with both roti's. 10/10

Tucked away in between Philz and Homeroom is Funky Elephant. Small interior with only about 5-6…read moretables inside with outdoor seating. The motherland curry was a joke of a portion at $21. The container was half full. There was a side of noodles and garnish that went along but still tiny. The flavor was there at least. The old school pad Thai wasn't really anything special either. The strawberry matcha latte was another miss. Super bitter. The service was nice.

just made it !!$11.95 lunch specials Monday-Friday 11am- 2:30pm !!!…read more I love all the vegetarian/vegan options, so tasty & most are on the lunch specials !! W/take out you get a sampling of fried salted peanuts !! The tasty soup is in its own container separate from the chewy noodles & tasty gluten puffs & mushrooms so it travels well !! Service so quick & pleasant, it's always very zen in this space

Feb 24, 2026 3:00 pm 3.7 stars…read more This place is smart to stay open when New Dumpling takes midday siesta. Always plenty of non metered street parking when I'm in the area for lunch. We are the only customer when we arrived. Very pleasant not overpowering jazz mood music plays. Our server has a very pleasant demeanor. We have Taiwan beef noodle soup. Nice and hot the way it should be. Perfect to my tongue textures of the beef cubes and egg noodles. The beef broth was amazing. At the end of our meal I was full. Too full to the point that I almost cried that I couldn't drink the last gulps but it was too small a portion to warrant taking home. Our Kung Pao chicken? Delicious. Chock full of chicken bites and delicious vegetables. Somehow the plentiful peanuts set my taste buds acraving. Wow wow Pao tasty. The only miss with this was that it was brought to us on a coldish serving plate. A common mistake. We didn't get to try this dish hot. We are now wanting our bill. Seems like long time wanting. To our dismay, our friendly server got herself enmeshed in an on again off again conversation with someone at another table shortly after we arrived. Then she disappeared for a while. We are tempted to guess the bill amount (turns out we guessed wrong by $1), leave cash on the table and walk out. Instead I get up and she appears at the register. Magic. We pay proper like and walk out respectfully. I wouldn't mind coming back.

Amazing food, try the fried chicken bowl. I got a side of cabbage slaw and it was very delicious…read moreand refreshing.

I have decided that the temescal neighborhood is one of my favorite places to eat in Oakland. There…read moreare just so many delicious restaurants here! I have been super excited to try hawking bird, and it did not disappoint. We got the satay chicken salad, curry fried chicken rice bowl, pickles, and the calamansi soda. Satay chicken salad -- very fresh and flavorful. the grilled chicken was very well marinated, and had lots of flavor. It came with a vinaigrette and a yummy peanut dipping sauce on the side. We thought it could use a little more greens, as the portion felt somewhat small. Curry fried chicken bowl -- this was our favorite thing that we got! The curry was flavorful and there was the perfect amount of it over the chicken and rice. There was a healthy portion of fried chicken and rice, which we appreciated. The chicken itself was super crispy and yummy. All of the components went very well together, and we really loved this one! Pickles -- this was just okay to me. the pickled vegetables consisted of assorted veggies including green beans, peppers, and cabbage. The veggies had a slight sweetness to them, but also were spicy! Not my favorite, but still pretty good. Calamansi soda -- honorable mention because I love calamansi and was so excited to see that they had this as an option! If you are a calamansi lover, you definitely enjoy this. it was crisp, refreshing, and had an authentic calamansi flavor. I'd definitely get it again! Overall, we really enjoyed our meal! We thought that the portions were the perfect size for sharing, which we loved. Next time, I'd definitely get the curry rice bowl again because it was so good! The decor was super cute, and the staff were friendly and attentive. If you are craving a chicken dish, we recommend you check this place out!

Basic American Chinese food, very fresh, just what we were looking for. The Tea Smoked Duck was…read morevery crisp.

The previous time we came to Da Lian was 20 years ago! Chatted with the waitress about how long…read morethey've been in business and they've had the same owner for about 20 years. Cool to see a restaurant stick around for that long. We got to the restaurant right when it opened for lunch at 11:30 on Sunday. Free street parking on Sunday! I thought everything was solid top to bottom, but here is my ranking in descending order: Braised Eggplant Tofu Clay Pot - I generally like this dish everywhere and they have a good version on this here - seasoned well, tender eggplant, and nice texture on the tofu Salt & Pepper Chicken Wings - non-traditional "salt & pepper" - thick coating of tempura-like batter, very peppery (black pepper), and wings set on a bed of sauteed onions. Sesame Bread with Green Onion - tasty, but unlike other "da bing" I've had. This was on the thin side, meaning you have a lot more crispy outside compared fluffy inside. This was also lighter on the green onion. Classic Shrimp & Chive Dumpling - can't go wrong with dumplings - an order comes with 12 dumplings, each filled with big pieces of shrimp. I liked the texture but it is a little different - looser filling instead of a solid meat/veg ball on the inside. Original Braised Pork Noodle Soup - I liked the flavor of the soup and noodles. There was a ton of meat (diced) but they were on the tough side.

Plenty of street parking right in front of the restaurant…read more There is a long ramp to enter the restaurant from the street side then a long divider inside the restaurant to get to the seats and staff, wonder if there is a reason for this detour. $11.95 nem nuong spring rolls (2 full rolls) This was really good and had the crunchy stick inside for texture. The second time I ordered it on another day though, the pickled veggies tasted a little "off". It is a bit pricey for a spring roll appetizer but at least the portion size is big. $17.45 #2 pho The meat was good quality, nothing too crazy about the portion size here. I thought the broth was light but didn't have deep flavor and the noodles were firm. I was very full after eating this and one of my two spring rolls.

A torrential rainy day earlier....Gio & I first checked out a new Pho place on San Pablo south of…read morehere...menu didn't list all the different variations of beef one could customize your order with...so we returned here for the classics...Gio got fatty brisqet & tendon I opted for (the 1st time) 100% tendon....ah the joy of loads of translucent cartilaginous protein ...good for me ailing joints...along with the perfectly not too sweet broth and their one of a kind fried shallot condiment the only thing I wish is that they used their old ceramic rather than metal bowls but oh my oh my been a long hiatus & so good!!

This no-frills, colorful Thai eatery serves amazing food with amazing portions for an amazing…read moreprice! Our favorites included the Pad Thai Chai Ya, the OG southern style pad Thai with coconut, tamarin sauce shrimp paste , shrimp and crab meat. The spicy eggplant is so delicious it'll help you eat your veggies! Another standout is the Khao Soi, a crunchy noodle with heaps of steak. The food is hearty, the service is good and the location is perfect for an afternoon of grocery shopping at Berkeley Bowl after lunch. Secrets of Tiger gets 5 stars for SAFAV: + Service + Ambiance + Food + Alcohol + Value for Money

Secrets of Tiger, Emeryville, finally tried it after walking by it forever. Storefront looks small…read morebut its way bigger inside, kinda surprised me. Got the hangover noodles everyones talking about, spicy in a good way, real heat not just chili oil for show. Pad thai chai ya was the move tho, tamarind and crab giving it more depth than your average pad thai, fried soft shell crab on top looked as good as it tasted. Decor is vibrant, cute without trying too hard. Portions were generous, took half home. Service was attentive, staff seemed proud of what they put out which you can taste honestly. 5 stars, hidden gem in emeryville and i live two minutes away so thats saying something