Great, clean atmosphere with delicious steamed and pan fried XLB. We also enjoyed the sticky rice…read morepork ribs We will be back!

So yummy!!! Staff is very nice and attentive. We will definitely come back!…read more We ordered the soup pan fried pork buns, beef iron plate, combo fried rice and sesame balls

This is a Chinese - Korean restaurant in Pleasanton since 1987 …read more It offers a quiet and serenity atmosphere. Inside decorations are very elegant and authentic . It has Chinese paintings , beautiful vase , Chinese calligraphy with style , ceramic and brass figures of Mongolian horses, etc . I love their Kung bao chicken and Szechuan beef . The flavors are bold and spicy . However , I can only handle mild spicy and not extremely spicy . My favorite dishes was fish filet in ginger sauce with vegetables . The clear sauce with the seafood is so tasty . We got free appetizers ( vegetable egg roll and fried wonton in sweet and sour sauce ) . Inside the dish were also cooked bok choy, carrot , mushrooms , slices of water chestnut, green onion in a ginger flavor gravy . It tasted great with either rice or or brown rice . Service was great . Lady waiter came by often to check on us and added more ice water . The restaurant is clean and the lady deep cleaned the table after the customers left . Restroom is also clean with pleasant air freshener. I appreciate the ambiance very much . It is classic and elegant. It s a great place to meet up with friends and have a chat. No one would rush you to leave. Just enjoy the food and drive deep into your conversations. We don't see anything like this anymore now days . Would love to come by often to try other dishes .

I went here for lunch today, ordered seaford jam bang noodles,…read moreportion is big, soup is tasty and they even offered me a small plate of 2 fried spring roll and cracker, I will come back in the future! I love the interior environment, old fashioned and quiet sense of feeling, the waitress is courtious...

good food and service; reasonable prices. ice ambience, clean restaurant. Ample parking in the…read moreback of the restaurant

A Pleasanton landmark. You have to go. Classy, great food and reasonable…read more I'm a fan.

Really really great authentic Chinese food! What a treasure…read moreto have wonderful food. Every dish amazing. Cucumber Salad- fresh, crispy, refreshing peeled cucumbers perfectly seasoned. 7/5 Jellyfish chicken salad- crispy green onions, fresh juicy chicken, and crunchy soft jellyfish with a touch of sesame oil and a little sour. Perfect. 8/5 Sesame pancake - soft chewy fresh bread green onion bread with a crunchy crust of sesame crust. 8/5 Weekend only- Sweet warm soy milk. 7/5 Weekend only- Mochi rice with pork floss inside. 7/5 Cumin lamb- great mild lamb with mildly spicy sauce. 6/5 Green bean with ground pork - good crispy green beans with ground pork tubes. Nice and sweet. 7/5 Lamb with green onions- good lamb cut with onions. 5/5 Comes with free tea, rice is $3 a cup. Chili oil, shoyu, white pepper condiments. Busy, chinese fast service. Clean bathrooms

Hunan Chef is one of our favorite Hunan cuisine restaurants in the Tri-Valley area. They served…read moreauthentic Hunan cuisine, and this was evident on the day we came here for a Sunday lunch, as the place was packed with Chinese families. On the weekends, they have a special Chinese breakfast menu, offering items such as sweet or savory soy bean milk, fan tuan (rice rolls), green onion pancakes, etc. If this is your first time here, I recommend trying a few dishes from the Chef's Recommendations. We had the bean curd sheet with pork and jalepeno, shrimp with mountain yams and woodears, and the fish gluten tofu soup. The portions were very generous here, so much so that our family of 4 couldn't finish several of our dishes, but we get to pack out and enjoy them at home.

This is hands down my favorite noodle place! I usually get the Beef Tomato Noodle Soup but after…read moreseeing another customer eating the dry noodle version we had to give it a try. The beef is so tender and flavorful and the gravy that comes with the dry noodle is incredible. They are both very similar so if I had to choose one I'd probably choose the dry noodles. Definitely ask for the chili oil as it brings everything to the next level. The restaurant is small and clean and is usually busy but we never have trouble getting a table. Staff is nice and you order on your phone so there is not a lot of service but staff is still friendly. You can also request a physical menu if you prefer as well. Definitely try it out their homemade noodles are the best and have that perfect QQ texture.

Stopped by CA Noodle this past Friday over my girlfriend's craving for noodle soup and we wanted to…read moretry something new. Seeing CA Noodle show up on our yelp search and it was nearby, we decided to check it out. The location is pretty convenient, located in a plaza that shares parking spaces with several other restaurants and a McDonald's. The inside only seats about 10-14 parties of 2-4, so a pretty small restaurant. They had 2 waiters staffing the entire restaurant, but the menu and ordering system is all done through a POS via QR code. The menu was quite large, offering no many choices like pot stickers, noodle soups, chow mein, and little appetizers like pig ears. We ended up ordering the pig ears, pot stickers, pork pan fried bun, and 2 noodle soups. The good: pig ears. The pig ears were cut in various sizes and the flavor was spicy. Definitely to our liking! The neutral: the pork hamburger item and pot stickers. While the bun was tasty and crispy, the mean in between was a bit dry and the taste was a bit mild and less salty. We made it better by adding pig ears with every bite lol. The pot stickers were fine but it didn't really give a crispy bottom taste and more of dry pan sear. It definitely needed sauce as the filling was a bit mild too (very consistent mild tastings after the pig ears. The bad: the soup dishes that we ordered were definitely needing a flavor bomb. While the noodles we ordered were great and had a ton of chew and the protein in the dish was plenty; the soup lacked in taste. My girlfriend had to ask for additional salt to add to taste and it made it so much better. I ate mine as intended and I wasn't as satisfied as compared to if I were to eat at ox9 or muragame. Overall, I thought our meal was about a 3.5. While we enjoyed watching the World Cup while eating our food, the taste of our food was much more desired and it didn't scratch our itch for a rich soup. Unfortunately, many of the other patrons seemed to catch on and order the chow mein instead. If we come back, it's probably what we would order next. Until next time!

*** Vegetarian Review ***…read more Full disclaimer. I haven't been to the restaurant, but I've tried their vegan potstickers at the Kaiser Vallejo Farmers Market. So, since I wasn't able to find a check in for that market, I had to come here to sing their praises. 6 Vegan Potstickers at the market are $13. I recommend spending the $1 for chili oil. Not sure what they charge at the restaurant for these fried pockets of deliciousness, but I tell you if these taste this good at a farmers market, packaged in a box, and I wait 10 minutes before I find a seat in the hospital cafeteria, and it still tastes this good, the restaurant must be out of this world. The wrapper has a great thickness and offers a sticky and chewy bite. Pan fried still comes out after having these steam in a to go box, so the restaurant would probably make these pan fried babies have even more texture. Comes with a dipping sauce, but combine it with the chili oil if you can handle a little heat and Yes Chef!! I heard they are at the SF Ferry Building Market on Saturday and Walnut Creek Farmers Market on Sunday. Double check those, but finding a great vegan potsticker is not easy.

My husband and I tried this place for the first time for dinner tonight with our almost 1year old…read moreson. The woman was incredibly attentive and ensured the baby's water wasn't too cold and brought scissors if we wanted to cut his food into smaller bites. The restaurant itself was very clean and welcoming! The orange chicken was the star of the meal , well balance and perfectly crispy. We got the lamb dumpling which were extra juicy and the pork and cabbage dumplings were a classic. Homemade chili crisp oil was available at the table. Please consider supporting this local business the next time you're in the mood for Asian food!

Fiery Shang's weekday dine-in set is the best deal in the area. I ordered the $59.99 Weekday Set…read moreand was genuinely impressed. Instead of cutting corners, the set served boiled fish fillets in chili oil, half Peking duck set, Shanghai steam soup buns, etc, all the flavor is was absolutely great and authentic. For this price, I expected a skimpy portion, but all the main courses are full sized. Compared to their regular menu, this is an absolute steal. Also a full size hearty duck bone soup with Napa cabbage is included in the package, its homemade taste is so satisfying. The service was fast too, perfect for a work break with a few fellows.

4.5 rounded up due to the surprisingly warm service…read more Had low expectations for this Shanghainese restaurant in Pleasanton/Livermore area but was pleasantly surprised. I picked it for a family lunch after going to the Livermore outlets. The decor and ambience is typical but relatively nice. We ordered a bunch of Shanghainese classics: Soy milk 4/5 - if you order multiple servings it comes in a large bowl meant for sharing. Can order cold or hot with sugar on the side. Xiao long bao 4.5/5 - I'm pretty picky about xlb and I am partial to the Shanghainese style (vs Taiwanese style you get at DTF and other places) and this was surprisingly good. Before this, my fav in the bay area was I-Shanghai Delight and honestly I think this might rival it. Filling and soup were both savory and light and incredibly umami. Maybe the wrapper at I-Shanghai is a bit thinner but honestly not a huge difference to me. Would def recommend if you like this style. Braised minced eel 5/5 - OMG this was the highlight of the meal for me, and I think only ppl who like this eel dish would understand. I honestly have not found good Shanghainese stir fried eel anywhere else in the Bay area. Chef Zhao's version was good once upon a time but then the most recent time we went, it tasted weird and not fresh. I-Shanghai Delight's was also no good (not fresh). This is the one dish that I will keep coming back here for. Razor clams with ginger and scallion 5/5 - This was also a crowd fav. I don't love clams usually but these were big and meaty and tender, and the sauce is what you would expect. Highly recommend Stewed yellow croaker soup with pickles 3/5 - This was ok and could've been better. Flavor of the soup was good but I think the fish tasted a bit overcooked/dry and could've been more tender. Shredded pork with wild rice shoot 4/5 - This was fine and a very traditional Chinese dish. Nicely done but nothing amazing. Red bean pancake 4/5 - This was a good dish, just not what I expected. I like the red bean pancakes where the pancake part is more doughy while this was like VERY crispy. But the flavor was good Lastly, the lady who took care of our table was SO nice and so chatty and so patient, despite the usual chaos and indecision of large family gatherings. She also packed up all the food for us and even gave suggestions for surrounding Chinese supermarkets. All in all, it was a really pleasant experience with good food and I will def be going back for more

We stopped by for dinner as we were craving some good Cantonese style options. I'm always open to…read moreflexing my Cantonese in front of my girlfriend too. For anyone coming, the parking can be really bad as it shares probably 20 or so spots with several other restaurants. It's near impossible to park nearby with the alternative of parking near the Panera's or even the target. There's plenty of tables and seats inside, and it was pretty slow when we dined in. Convenient televisions on two different sides where all the workers were casually watching, and quite the chatter in the kitchen where they're all watching the World Cup. That doesn't really affect service however as they're quite attentive when called for. We ordered the salted fish and chicken fried rice, and the medium bbq platter with char sound soy sauce chicken. All very delicious! The only thing is that they can bit on the pricier side with $20 for the fried rice and $30 for the bbq plate. Overall, I thought grand cafe definitely scratched our itch for Cantonese style dining experience. It typically comes with great food, good service, and a bit of nostalgia from being from the Bay Area.

Grand Cafe is a Cantonese restaurant located in the Fallon Gateway, not far from the San Francisco…read morePremium Outlets. They operate in the space previously occupied by Gum Kuo. My brother and I met a few friends here for dinner on 11/28/2025. At around 7:15pm, the place was completely full. Fortunately, our friends arrived a little earlier and secured a table. The interior was clean. A couple TVs on the walls were showing different sporting and news programs. Their menu featured a wide array of non-Americanized Cantonese fare. We decided to do family style and got half a dozen dishes to share. They were: Beef Filet with Mixed Mushrooms, 1lb of BBQ Pork, Fujian Fried Rice, Beef Chow Fun with Gravy, House Pan Fried Noodles, and Salted Pork Bone and Peanut Porridge. Our food arrived in about 15 minutes. Overall, I was impressed by quality and authenticity. Despite the slightly higher price point comparing to other similar restaurants, they didn't skimp on anything. The rice and noodle dishes were loaded with delicious toppings, and the taste was on point. The BBQ pork and the beef filet dish were both fantastic. The meat/fat ratio of the BBQ pork was just right, and the beef filet cubes were tender and flavorful. The porridge was just okay. My mom's version still reigns supreme. Service we received was very good. Our server was very friendly and gave us helpful suggestions. She did forget our iced water, but I am willing to overlook that. I got a chance the chat with staff before we left, they were all very genuine and friendly people. Overall, I was very pleased with my experience here. The food was authentic and tasty, and the staff were friendly and helpful. If you want authentic Cantonese food but don't want to pay the super premium price, this is definitely a good option for you. I will return. 4 solid stars.