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    New Hong Kong Restaurant

    3.7 (393 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Open 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, 3:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Joe P.

    It's been awhile since I've been here, and the food is still good. I brought my boys here and they enjoyed the fresh food. We ordered a bunch of entrees and we enjoyed every bit. The service was kinda slow but not bad. The restaurant was clean. Good place to eat. We will be back for more.

    April '24
    Steve D.

    1750 E 14th St San Leandro, CA 94577 "New Hong Kong Restaurant" serves Americanized Chinese food in downtown San Leandro. I was driving around San Leandro on a Sunday evening, and decided to try this restaurant. First off, let me tell you the food here is excellent. Large portions, proper seasoning, and good presentation. If you order takeout or delivery from this place, you will have a good meal. I ordered, for dining-in: - Yang Chow Fried Rice - Pork Spareribs w/ Black Bean Sauce - Fried Prawns Service was decent. I really didn't like using a QR Code menu. The lady didn't come to get my order, so I had to go up and tell her what I wanted. My table setting was a plate, a fork, and a napkin. So I had to ask for chopsticks and a rice bowl. The decor is outdated. The old style tables and chairs look like 1980's era. But the food is good, and portions are large. I would suggest the restaurant print a few traditional fold out menus. Overall a good experience, maybe a 3.5 score. Yelp 4.0. Would I return? Yes! Good Chinese cooking! Support Local Business!

    I have been ordering and eating from New Hong Kong for over three years. The food is very delicious, including walnut shrimp, spicy and sour soup, and Fried noodles. The service was very friendly. The price is very cheap.The design environment is simple, but very neat and clean. They also accept special orders!

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    I gave this place one star because there is nothing lower than that. Beware they do not have their health department pass displayed on their door or anywhere in the restaurant that was the first red flag. Also, we went in there with my family and we were looking for a chair for my baby's car seat and cashier/ONLY employee in sight was not very helpful and she was hesitant to let us use the big table to accommodate my family and I even though the restaurant was completely EMPTY we were the only patrons in there. We were sitting down for quite some time and were never offered any water or given menus nor received a welcome which was astonishing sees as they were not busy. The cashier just stood there on her tablet. I can't speak for the food because we didn't get a chance to try it; but again, I don't know why they don't have their health department score displayed. What do you guys have to hide? It also smelled like cigarettes as if somebody was smoking a cigarette in the kitchen. Stay away from this place and take your families somewhere worthwhile!

    Tomato Beef Chow Mein
    Mike L.

    I tried this place because I needed to make a quick lunch order on Doordash and this seemed like a good fit. I ordered a wonton noodle soup for my mother in law and she wasn't a big fan. I think they used the same thick noodles that they use for chow mein and she is used to the thin egg noodles. I ordered a tomato beef chow mein for myself, while I usually like the pan fried noodles, I like the flavors. Tomato beef is usually done a little bit on the sweet side with pieces of beef, sliced tomatoes and cooked yellow unions. Not the best I've had, but it was okay

    Salt and pepper fish fillet, BBQ fried rice, Peking spare ribs, dry braise beef chow fun
    Jennifer C.

    Take out review: Best Peking spareribs I've had just about anywhere! The other items we got (salt and pepper fish fillet, dry braise beef chow fun, and BBQ pork fried rice) were good, not great, but the spare ribs provide PLENTY of reason to return. Prices are also cheap compared to other places around town. Can't wait to try out the rest of the menu! Quick tip - call to place your order instead of ordering online to save money.

    Good food, price are reasonable.
    An C.

    Great food, price are reasonable. Definitely will come back. It's an easy grab and go too, lots of to go orders. But dine in its quick in servicer too.

    Yang chow fried rice
    Lisa L.

    Yang chow fried rice was just okay, had long strips of cabbage and shaved carrots that I didn't like, also bland. Quick service and large portions

    Broc n beef
    Jenny T.

    Ordered through Grubhub for contactless transactions and meal delivery service. The only thing I can say about the service is they delivered it faster than what Grubhub had estimated. For the food... if you order $30 worth of food, then you get a free chicken chow mein. I couldn't pass up freebies, right? So, this is what I ordered: * Filet fish w/bok choy - 4 STARS: the fish was prepared well and was flakey when I ate it. But there were more bok choy than fish. * Beef and broccoli - 4 STARS: no complaints here. It was prepared the way I like it and tasty. * Dried fried spare ribs - 0 to 0.5 STARS: here is the downfall... I've never tasted short ribs that tasted stale! I can tell they didn't change their oil to deep fry these ribs, it needed to be switched out. Also, I thought the batter was too thick, I ended up peeling it off. Even with that off, I still tasted the funk, so, I give this an inedible score. * Chicken chow mein - 2 STARS: although I got this free, I have to say this was overly salty and oily. The only good thing I have to say was I love the fat noodles.

    Salt & Pepper Spareribs Dinner Plate - 2/5 stars
    Lincy H.

    It's pouring today so we decided to get some takeout from this place. We got dinner plates. I got the kung pao chicken and my husband got the salt and pepper spareribs, both with chow mein. Our plates were EXTREMELY SALTY and lacking flavor :( Also, not a big deal, but there were no peanuts in my kung pao chicken even though the dish is named "with peanuts". We also got pork buns and they were sooo dry, with very little filling in the middle. Much better after putting them in the air fryer! The food was all quite disappointing. Definitely won't go back!

    Honey Walnut prawns
    Britney V.

    Whenever I order door dash for Chinese food, I order from here. I like their food. It's always good. Not the best, but consistent and close by. Usually gets delivered within 30mins of ordering.

    Beef chow fun(8.45) yummy. Slightly oily.
    Victor G.

    New Hong Kong has been here for decades. it's presently open for take out only. ordering by phone or at table near the door. offerings: typical Americanized Chinese menu. eats: (dry)beef chow fun (8.45) -tender beef slices with onions & bean sprouts, slightly greasy -good "wok hay" stir fry technique. 4.5 stars fab. values, excess oil a turnoff. very cheap lunch specials available

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    I was sick and I thought that would give them a chance but the food was just ok.... I will give them another try another time?? Maybe

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    Good food and friendly service! We ordered whole bunch of food and will be coming back soon

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    The food is always good and pretty reasonable...and they deliver. Needs to open a little earlier.

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    3.9(175 reviews)
    0.3 mi
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    Came in for dinner on a Thursday night, they were not that business. The service was good and…read moreattentive. All their plates were huge portions and everything tasted great and authentic. Appetizer Combo Platter is the BEST value for your bucks. It came with Salt & Pepper Fish Fillet, Salt & Pepper Calamari, Tempura Green Beans, Crispy Shrimp Chips. 100/5 Honey Walnut Shrimps, perfectly made. 5/5 Mongolian Beef, large pieces of very tender beef stir-fried with red and white onions. 5/5 Singapore Style Vermicelli has the perfect Wok-Hei (smoky flavour) with curry. 5/5 Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan) Stir-Fried with minced garlic. 5/5 Lobster E-Fu Noodle, lobster was perfectly made and the noodles had good flavors. 5/5 All the dishes came out pretty fast. Differently coming back!!!

    Let me start with this was a door dash order. Everything arrived warm and as ordered. Secondly…read morenothing was inedible. However 100% of the food was bland. Nothing distinct . I have never did this about any Chinese food before but everything lacked salt. There were a few pieces of garlic and a few pieces of ginger in two of our dishes. We had a tiny bit of soy sauce left in the house that my husband got to before my daughter and I ate. He lucked out. The food was fresh. The veggies were perfectly cooked. But there was zero flavor. No sauce with two of the dishes that claimed to have some. Just boring. Tonight , the day after I chopped up most of the leftovers and made a soup. So it it is not going int the trash. However if I was not someone who knows how to cook it would have been in the bin. I hope that HKC can take this review and do better.

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    2.9(1.1k reviews)
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    Came here for dim sum and there was a long waiting list. The food was mediocre…read more There must be lots of MSG because I kept drinking water afterwards.

    I came here for a family birthday dinner. It's located in greenhouse so there's plenty of parking…read morearound, even if it means just a tiny bit further away. The restaurant is really big and we sat at a table for 14 pretty comfortably. We were also here on a Saturday night and the restaurant was full. The service is your typical Chinese restaurant vibe where you leave a little bit emotionally abused after paying for overly priced menu items. We did the à la cart and easily spent up to $1500. Better off with the family plan meal but nothing was of interest to us except one or two dishes. It took forever to come out and I mean FOREVER to a point where we almost cancelled a few dishes and called it a night, but they kept saying it's being made. With as many people and as massive as the restaurant was, and the price tags, I was expecting a more efficient service. A couple of times we saw our dish being brought to the wrong table and the people going "oh we didn't order this." With all of that out of the way, I am giving them an average score of 3 starts because the food did bring them back up. It was actually really good. My favorite of all things we ordered was their sea bass with string beans. The sea bass was fried crispy, garnished salty and still soft inside. It paired really well with the string beans. We ordered a bunch of other things that I couldn't tell you what the name was in English and they were above average taste wise. Their complimentary dessert however, was mass produced and tasted like they added too much water to it. This was the only one I was disappointed in. I still say this place is extremely overpriced but for a family meal experience and if you ever want to impress a date, why not.

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    Baby Cafe

    4.0(241 reviews)
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    Whenever we are in San Leandro and have cravings for Hong Kong Cantonese food, we always go to Baby…read moreCafe for our go-to restaurant. Their food (for breakfast, lunch, dinner) are always pretty good and plentiful. Plus we don't have to go to SF or Oakland. The ambiance is pretty good for a restaurant plus the restrooms are always clean. We also like to go to Baby Cafe for their HK breakfast around 9:30 am when parking is plentiful. For lunch and dinner their food is delicious and filling but parking can be a hassle. You can always find parking along the streets. The staff are pretty accommodating and they do speak Cantonese, Mandarin & English. Shoutout to the chefs and staff!

    I met up with my cousin at Baby Cafe on a Tuesday evening around 5:30PM. First off, it's a win on…read morethe parking lot I didn't need to search far and wide for parking! There was no wait to get seated, and we appreciated how most of the seating was spread out. It was a bit warm inside so if you're sensitive to heat, I would dress lighter. Servers will not come by your table unless you flag them over so make it obvious if you're ready to order. We ordered the string beans and beef, the famous baked pork chop with a little mild cheese and sweet tomato sauce over white rice, the salt and pepper chicken wings, popcorn chicken and the crispy Hong Kong style noodles with stewed beef and tomato. If we could have had more space in our tummies, we would have go the Haianese Chicken because we saw it served on other tables around us and it looked delicious. ALL the food was comforting and good. The cool surprise was the drink that comes with the pork chop dish, there were several to pick from but I picked the cold honey lemon tea and found it wonderful and highly recommend this. My cousin and I were having a lengthy conversation lasting almost 3 hours, and maybe because it was a slower week night they never pushed us to pay the bill while we were chatting, so we really appreciated they valued our uninterrupted time together.

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    Jin Gege - Sweet and sour fish

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    3.4(153 reviews)
    2.5 mi
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    Their menu inside and their receipts spell their name as one word...Jingege. Why different on this…read morelisting? There's usually a pretty good line right by the register, so this place is pretty well known by the Asian locals. Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup ($16/2*) First outing here I sat for lunch and tried this. Surprisingly disappointing seeing how busy and popular this place is. The wontons were okay, decent flavor with a strong sesame oil presence. But they weren't that plump and luxurious, just seemed like homemade/amateur versions. Which is fine, except given the nicer restaurant feel, I just expected something more elevated. The noodles were fine, super thin egg noodles that had a nice QQ. BUT their broth was so bland and unremarkable that it kinda ruined the whole experience. I couldn't even taste/detect the protein that made up the stock, just tasted like murky liquid to me. And zero condiments on the table, so I just ate the wontons and the plain tasting noodles cuz the broth couldn't offer anything to the noodles. Womp womp. And their bowl of choice is very weird to eat from. Super tall bowl that if you leave a spoon in there it will sink and be submerged for you to fish out...in piping hot liquid. If I would have reviewed this place just on this one visit, then it surely would have been a sub 3* rating. But I knew I couldn't leave my impression with that one lone visit. Roast Duck - Half ($20/4*) Came back for some take-out deli items and I was handsomely rewarded. Total 180 experience from the soup outing. Their ducks here are slightly more expensive than most others for the area. But it is still worth it imo. They cut it with good skill and even for a take-out box they present it nicely, with the shape of duck still somewhat intact. The skin is not crisp at all but it is very well rendered. Some pieces were not that salty at all but some other pieces are well seasoned, which I thought was strange. But overall a very solid roast duck is to be found here. There's also a big scoop of these tiny beans that are slightly sweet almost like baked beans just not as gloopy. But the bean texture is very al dente, almost crunchy, which I found very strange. Macao Roast Pork w/ Rice ($19/4.5*) This is crazy good...I'll even say special. Super seasoned pork belly is roasted til the skin gets crisp...like chicharon status, except it is just a very thin layer of crispness. So the balance between the sturdy crunch and juicy flavorful meat was practically perfect. It is definitely on the salty side, almost the same intenseness as eating Spam with white rice, but white rice offsets those salty components beautifully. And they garnish this massive plate with perfectly blanched gai lan (Chinese Broccoli) and some other pickled greens that add a nice sweet and tangy component. So between the decadent pork, white rice and diverse greens offerings just made this a complete one stop shop that could make a regular out of me. There's also a Share Tea next door so I've got a harmonious tandem going on here. Lucky Ducky Me yassss!

    I ordered take out of their soy sauce chicken ($30) and BBQ pork ($21). The chicken was moist and…read moreflavorful- just the right balance of sweetness and saltiness. On the other hand, the bbq pork was wayyyy too fat. There was hardly any meat, I basically tossed the whole thing away. A good BBQ pork should have the right mix of meat to fat ratio.

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    3.1(543 reviews)
    1.3 mi
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    9 out of 10 dishes we ordered were very good! Would be happy to try many more…read more Service was quick once orders are placed - could get busy so it's nice to go after the lunch rush on a weekday! Typical Asian establishment, family friendly! Would love to see a menu friendlier to non-Chinese reading customers or at least better pictures of each dish. Did not like the xiao long bao we ordered; preferred Din Tai Fung's version.

    As a heads up, I have never come here without my husband who speaks Chinese. It's much easier to…read moreorder exactly what we want by understanding how to communicate. We come here for the dimsum because we know it's good. We always order the herbal chicken feet, baked BBQ pork buns, fried pumpkin, and the green veggies with the sauce. The tea on its own is really good and always steaming hot. We have never been asked for tip and we're actual discouraged from tipping bc it's added in. The host is very friendly and accommodating. They serve quickly and the food has always been steaming hot each dish that comes out. The portions are very generous that we always take leftovers home and it's good still. We enjoy the food but I highly recommend bringing someone that speaks Chinese (canto) for best service bc communication will impact the overall experience. Restrooms are iffy, they're always sticky with a film even in the mornings. It never smells bad, I can tell they do make their rounds but I cant understand why it's always sticky. It's also very stuffy and humid in the restrooms. Yes, they smoke outside but I never smell inside the restaurant itself. Each table is clean and they're quick to clear the empty dishes so they're not in the way. Parking sometimes feels like finding your own spot in not so clearly defined lines but people here seem to make it work even with the lack of the markings so it's fine. Handicap is limited in spaces though. There's a party room in the back and it's well used, I see people having fun in there.

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    Pretty tea set and keeps the tea hot!

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    Asia Delight #2 - 4/24/25 FYI. Got here too early. Not fully open yet.

    Asia Delight #2

    3.3(227 reviews)
    0.3 mi
    $

    This was my second time getting food from Asia Delight #2. The first time I tried the shrimp with…read moremixed vegetables, which was very flavorful, and the pork ribs in black bean sauce, which were also really good. This time I ordered the yellow curry chicken and the fried pork ribs. The ribs were just okay, a little too fatty for me. The yellow curry chicken I would not order again. It was very bland and watery compared to other yellow curries I have had, which usually have more depth and umami. I even tried adding salt to improve it but it did not help. On top of that, the potato chunks were huge, almost the size of a tennis ball, which threw off the dish. I also got their thin chow mein noodles, which I prefer over the thick ones, and a hot and sour soup. The soup was actually one of the highlights. It had the sourness I look for since most places fall short on that, although it was a bit too salty and I had to add some water. Still, I would definitely order it again. Overall, this spot feels like one of the better fast food style Chinese places in the area. I would come back, but I would stick to certain dishes.

    Stopped by for a quick Chinese takeout and it hit the spot. We ordered the chow mein noodles, salt…read more& pepper fish, and General Chicken. Everything was tasty and came out quickly, which made it perfect for a fast meal. The chubby noodles had a nice texture, the salt & pepper fish was crispy and flavorful, and the General Chicken had a good balance of sweet and savory. It's a solid option when you want something quick and easy, and they have a lot of different dishes to choose from as it's similar to Panda Express setup but authentic food.

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    Garden Cafe - Salt & Pepper Capelin, 椒鹽多春魚

    Garden Cafe

    3.9(304 reviews)
    3.9 mi
    $$

    This place is an absolute amazing find in Castro Valley…read more When those late night munchies arise, Garden Cafe is there to save the day! The food is fantastic. Always fresh, hot and full of flavor. I had the baked pork chop rice and man is that good. Pork chops are tender. That tomato sauce over the rice! I also got the clay pot chicken with jalapeños. This packs some good heat! Try the Taiwan boba tea. Probably one of the best I've had. The flavor balance is perfect. I love that it comes in a glass mug. They're open late night. Parking may be a challenge as it shares the lot with a liquor store and bar.

    Garden Cafe is a solid, reliable spot right in Castro Valley when you are craving classic Hong Kong…read morecafe comfort food. It captures that authentic cha kaan teng vibe without needing to drive across the Bay. The Chicken Chow Fun here hits the spot. The rice noodles have great texture--tender with just enough chew--and they get a proper sear in the wok for that subtle smokiness (wok hei). The chicken slices are well-marinated and smooth, and the bean sprouts provide a fresh crunch that balances out the dish nicely. It's generous, comforting, and not overly greasy compared to many other local takeout options. To wash it down, their Hong Kong Milk Tea delivers on authenticity. It is strong, smooth, and brewed with that distinct, bold black tea base balanced out by sweet evaporated milk. Ordering it iced keeps the flavor rich without watering down as you drink it. The only reason it knocks off one star is that service can be a bit slow during peak dinner hours, and the dining space gets tight quickly. But for quality, everyday comfort food and a classic Hong Kong tea fix in the neighborhood, Garden Cafe is consistently a great choice.

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