This review is solely on the food, not the wait staff or the inside of the restaurant as it was a to go order. The service is fast, food was ready within 15 mins. The only thing is I asked for beef and chicken Yakisoba and it only came with chicken. I personally did not like the taste or seasoning of this restaurants Yakisoba but that's why is a taste thing. The portions were large but with how fast the food came out I expected it to be hot but it was lukewarm at best. I will definitely try this place again and pick something different. read more

When a business changes owners, it should be noted. New owners and it isn't the same. Previous reviews won't mean squat. It's not the same, even simple things like Gyoza, has chanced. Quantity of food and portions are different. Not happy. Not going back. read more

I have came to this location for years. I have never had a bad experience with their food. The ones worki g there are nice and explain the menu items if you have questions. Their food is delicious and as authentic as you could get in the area. read more

The food is always delicious. You can tell the chicken is cooked fresh. They'll add extra anything if you ask for it and service is fast. There are places to eat in the restaurant and its nice and clean. We always go back! read more

Food was fresh. Service was good. Ambiance was ok not a fancy looking but clean and comfortable.

My husband introduced me to Kobo on our vacation to Washington over Christmas...amazing! Staff are so friendly and the food is wonderful - not overly oily etc. Try their house made chili sauce (which you can buy to take home!) Prices have gone up considerably due to inflation, but the noodle bowls are still around $11-$13 and very filling. Try this place out! read more

Kobo Teriyaki - Veggie lo mein bowl and chicken lo mein bowl and house made chili sauce - Japanese Near Me - Chehalis, Washington

The people working here are just the nicest sweetest friendliest of people. I really hoped I'd like the food. I gave it three tries. Ordered the chicken katsu and found it extremely tough to eat. Next time I ordered the sesame chicken but it had no flavor. Next time I ordered an orange chicken bowl but ended up with teriyaki chicken with a side of what I believe to be orange sauce. Too much cabbage in my bowl, I got three carrots and one piece of broccoli. Other family members got other things such as the sushi, gyozas and egg rolls and said it was ok but not to die for. After three tries I am going to try elsewhere but will keep them in my mind if I can't find something better. read more

Decent teriyaki place for a quick fast food bite in a pinch. Pricing is decent and the food has enough flavor and good taste for the amount of time they take to make it. 6/10 ‍ read more

Just finished up my General Taos meal (#22) and it was absolutely incredible everything was cooked to perfection! The host Cat/Kat was also super friendly and very helpful as well! I will have to stop by again for the chicken katsu as well read more

It's a good little teriyaki place. It's not fancy inside. You order at the counter. The teriyaki beef is good. The prices are reasonable. If you want fancy Japanese food, this place isn't for you. If you want tasty food at a reasonable price, it's great. read more

Stopped by here last night after a car cruise in nearby Centralia. First time here , place looked nice and clean . My wife ordered the teriyaki chicken breast plate but the lady behind the counter said she was sorry but they had run out of breasts so we both ordered the # 1 teriyaki chicken , rice and veggie plate . I assume the chicken was thigh meat , which my wife usually isn't fond of but we both absolutely loved our meals. Very generous portions of chicken , in fact we both only ate half of our meals and have leftovers for tonight. Good job Kobo Teriyaki , we will be seeing you again very soon ! read more

Bento box was really great. I like how crispy the tempura crust is and the lady was nice.

We four friends met here for lunch, and all agreed to give them 5 starts! The restaurant was spotlessly clean and tidy. The nice lady who took our order at the counter was helpful and friendly. The menu and prices were wheat we had expected, just right for quality food. I had the "Rice and Vegetable Bowl" ($8.50) with Teriyaki sauce on the side. My vegetables were cooked perfectly and the rice tender, it was plenty of food. We all had the complementary hot Green Tea. My friends had different Teriyaki plates that came with rice and vegetables, they could not eat all their food and took home extras. There are many choices including Susi. I have had the California Susi in the past, it was very good. We all recommend you try KOBO, it is a quiet relaxing place to meet for lunch. read more

Good food And the prices are very reasonable Always really busy, but I guess that's always a good thing read more

Kobo Teriyaki - a keyboard and a menu - Japanese Near Me - Chehalis, Washington

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This is a great place to grab some lunch. I have been coming here for the past 15 years. the spicy chicken teriyaki is by far my favorite. The taste is just as good as the first time I had it. as well as the price has stayed the same over the years and the owners are super nice and friendly. Also the portions are very adequate. Left over chicken teriyaki is not bad either. read more

The service was friendly and fast, but the food quality is poor. I ordered a chicken and beef to go, the chicken was really dry, the beef was not really beef I don't think... Kind of grisly. The small amount of vegetables were really soggy. What a disappointing meal! I paid twice what I would've paid at another place. I don't understand why the reviews are so positive. There's a much better place across from the Chehalis swimming Pool, or Fuji teriyaki in Centralia or dragonfly by the fairgrounds, they are all amazing places to eat. I will not be back to this one. read more

Always delicious, always friendly, always good soft music. This family owned restaurant is the best place in town! I can't say it enough! My hubs and I just this place so much! read more

About a year ago I used to come here all the time. Then somewhere in the beginning of summer 2021 something changed. The portions got smaller, the quality of food went down, and the prices went up. I waited until just a few days ago Sept. 27th to come back to the restaurant, crossing my fingers it was back to how it used to be. Sadly, it wasn't. The chicken Katsu was soggy, and looked like it sat under a warmer for an hour or more. Maybe a different dish is better but less you want to be disappointed, I'd stay away from the Katsu. read more

They intentionally try to make portions look large but fluff the bottom up with white rice & put the meat on top, and a ball of white rice on the side to look like it's the only rice. There was less then 10 pieces of chicken in my $13 teriyaki ! I asked for a side of teriyaki sauce & she said it was in there. It was soy sauce. A very tiny cup. Then she didn't give me any sauce for my egg rolls. They rush you out too. Horrible value for the product you get. The veggies are not fresh, they are frozen. The breaded chicken & shrimp are all generic frozen breaded ones that they heat up and put a generic sauce on. The orange chicken sauce is the same as the egg roll sauce & general tso sauce. They originally gave bigger meat portions. So angry that I paid all this money for less then one chicken breast full of meat. The "salad" is just steamed frozen mixed veggies with NO seasoning !! Very watery. read more

Kobo Teriyaki - Teriyaki chicken. - Japanese Near Me - Chehalis, Washington

So so good!! Got food to my whole group of 20 in less than 15 minutes!! 10/10

Food is amazing and usually takes 10 minutes or less to get. Everyone is super friendly and the dining area is pretty clean.

Was very disappointed I ordered the chicken beef pork dinner hardly any meat on it but tons of rice 3 big scoops but not much meat very disappointed it was 21.95 so not very good for the price it was good just to much rice not enough meat read more

Okay.. so I've been here a lot .. basically 2-3 times a month and my family (adult) has frequented this place and several of my friends swear by it. But today? I spent 20+ on chicken and prawns. Since I have a baseline for what the normal quantity is at this restaurant I've noticed a couple things. Staff is friendly. When she said 5 minutes for my meal once I paid for it, I mean that's super fast and super great if done Correctly.. but everything tasted pre cooked and like it had been under a heat lamp for a long time or microwaved. Prices went up significantly.. no big deal as the prices for ever are going up, but.... Here's the bullet points: Eat in.. you get a normal quantity of food.. Order to go? .. rice is double and meet is half. The chicken was cut super thin.. think low quality beef jerky and it was almost as dry. Also.. prawns are prawns. Shrimp and prawns are different. Prawns are sweet, shrimp not so much. Prawns are larger. Shrimp are small. Don't try and pass shrimp off for prawns I won't go back after today's visit. read more

I really like this place! I regularly grab lunch here. The staff is very friendly and the service is quick. The food is fresh and tasty and the prices are reasonable. The gyoza are great and I love their steamed vegetables - just right every time. I also love that they don't use MSG and offer brown rice. I usually order the "bowl" version of the meals as I find them to hold more than enough food. By the way, the full plates are huge (I think they could be split just fine). read more

Dunno what happened here but lets just say that the bathroom at my work should have been cordoned off after me and my co-workers came back for an "emergency session" in them after eating at Kobo. All three of us had chicken teriyaki, rice, and stir fry vegetables. All three of us were in a meeting shortly afterwards and started sweating and hearing each others stomaches gurgle. One by one we each slunk off to take care of business. NOT GOOD. My stomach was not right for the rest of the day. Not sure what happened but obviously it wasn't good for any of us. Contamination of some kind obviously occurred. I have been there before, not because I like it, but because my coworkers do. The portions are ok, except for veggies, which is like a tablespoon. The prices arent so great compared to other teriyaki places and the meals DONT include soup. No refills on the 2.00 medium pop either. Well, unless you want to pay 50. Irritating to say the least. The bathrooms are abysmally gross. I am pretty sure the floors havent seen a mop in over a few months. Not to mention that the open/curtain door to the kitchen is immediately adjacent to the bathroom. Ew. The staff is nice. I will give it a star for that. Pretty sure I wont be going back here. I would suggest skipping it and heading down to Happy Teriyaki down the road. read more

Placed my order via phone (verified order before disconnect). Picked up order to find Beef Yakisoba (ordered chicken), 2 chicken teriyaki plates both with fried rice where it was supposed to be a side of fried rice and both of those to contain the regular white rice. Staff tried to argue I was in the wrong. I personally have an egg allergy which they could not seem to understand the severity of the problem. In the end remade my order. read more

I ordered like $40 worth of food, I decided to eat in as we were traveling back to Portland...boy let me tell you that food was out the door and on the tables before I could sit down, this worried me the most. I'm trying to figure out how can this food can be cooked so fast! After a quick taste of all items, I found the rice to be terrible, as a rice lover I was totally disappointed. I ordered fried rice, this stuff was still white in color with speckles of peas and carrots. No flavor and not hot. The teriyaki chicken was very rubbery definitely not fresh, they tempura fried a carrot slice, and zucchini, and worst of all a potato slice, yes a potato slice was dipped and fried in Tempura. After being completely blown away by this I decided to give my plate a few more bites, then I noticed the food had a soapy aftertaste almost like the dish detergent soap on the plates. Absolutely terrible. We left and I will never return. read more

I like this place, the food is always good. My problem is, when you order extra meat, why is that the amount of rice grows by 3. I love the way their rice is prepared, the meat nicely grilled but, I ask for extra meat and I get over the cups of rice? The price for 3 combos was about 80$, if its a mistake I totally understand but, seriously it's happened 3 or 4 times. read more

Hands down my favorite Teriyaki place of all time. When I even have a thought about going to a different teriyaki place I feel like a filthy little cheater. Loyal to Kobo's forever!! Amazing food and super kind people. read more

Took an entire softball team of 22 girls and 3 coaches. The owners were so inviting and organized. The food was AMAZING along with the service. 10/10 would recommend. read more

Typical teriyaki place - service is quick and the food is good. The only thing I don't love is they charge for drink refills which is unusual these days. I still go here quite often though. read more

This was an okay run-of-the-mill teriyaki joint. I got the teri chicken veggie plate. I was happy with the generous portion of meat, but disappointed that the bulk of the veggies were cabbage. read more

went into kobo teriyaki with 20 girls for lunch. We figured it would take forever but they were super quick. Had no errors and was very delicious. Even gave us free meals for next time we came. Great food!! read more

Got it out fast and was so extremely nice after we had a full team of 20 in here dying of hunger. Such amazing people.

I love this place and it's much closer than my old favorite. There is a large menu with a verity of selections. Huge portions! Good prices and fast friendly service. They also have a punch card you can get stamped for everything you buy. Since getting pregnant I can't top craving tempura vegetables, so I get a stamp for my side order as well. read more

While waiting for tire service at the nearby Walmart, we grabbed lunch at the only non-fast food option- teriyaki! Service was friendly and she seemed to remember all the regulars by name. Food was good- sort of typical PNW teriyaki menu with meals including meat, rice, and veggies. I had the spicy chicken at spicy level 4, which was the highest on their scale. I like spicy, so if I'm ever eating here again, I'll ask for an 8... The beef teriyaki reminded me of the teriyaki you get at plate lunch restaurants in Hawaii- the teriyaki sauce is on the sweeter side. read more

My bf and I stopped here on the way home from a trip after seeing a yelp review on this place. We were not expecting this place to be as good as it was! The food was amazing and the woman at the counter was friendly and kind. We got tofu and chicken teriyaki and it was the best we have ever had. Plus, the wait time is insanely short. We sat down and after ordering, got our food within 5 minutes. It was hot, fresh and so good. This is our new favorite place to go read more

Chicken Teriyaki with Fried Rice is excellent. Definitely worth coming back to, if you live in town. But since we're just visiting, worth recommending. read more

Kobo Teriyaki - the front of the restaurant - Japanese Near Me - Chehalis, Washington

Fresh and delicious! A little expensive for the portion size but so worth it!! The best I have had since moving from the Seattle area years ago...its an almost perfect match to Ichiban teriyaki in Kenmore Washington. I will be back very soon! read more

Quick service and good food, pretty basic but worth going back for. Price is comparable to other teriyaki restaurants. Location is convenient for quick on/off I-5 access or take your time and check out the other stores in the shopping center. read more