Their Egg Flower soup was sooo good I had to order again. This time I tried the garlic shrimp really good too! I love the fact for almost all the entrees you can get a half order, perfect for one, and steamed rice is included. read more

Ordered delivery, arrived 15 mins early. All the food wad hot and fresh. Received really good portions. Thank you (: Will be ordering again! read more

Cool place to get some good Chinese food. Never had a problem with my order or my food. Everything I had was pretty good and I can't complain. As far as surrounding Chinese food establishments, this is a definite spot to try out. read more

I order food from here all the time. It's a good place to order from on those nights when all you want to do is stay home and enjoy a good meal that you don't have to prepare yourself. I love getting the beef and broccoli, shrimp fried rice, and some pot stickers. Nice little combo of foods. read more

Nice Chinese food with great lunch specials.can be a little on the greasy side but at least the flavor doesn't lack.Pretty pricey if you don't get the deals.The portions are good tho considering the quality.Perfect for when you want to be home and get some nice eats.The side dishes are very good as well. read more

No 1 Chef - Sometimes you just gotta double up on the specials when you are single and fat - Chinese Near Me - Gardena, California

I can walk to this place but delivery is better so I don't have to park my car and wait or call ahead once ordered it comes really quick maybe coz I'm 3 blocks away and too lazy to drive there .good food for the money , beef chow fun , shrimp fried rice , bbq pork , shrimp w sauce you're all set . And yes they speak English very we'll over the phone .. read more

I ordered a vegetable chow mein plate, eggplant szechuan, and a plate of curry samosa. I'm not here to complain about taste because it was all good. However, I should've known something was up when their 10-pc samosa was only $5.49. Just look at this; I'm insulted! I want my money back. The "Have a nice day" is mocking me. read more

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No.1 Chef is currently my go-to, local Chinese spot. I've ordered delivery a few times and really enjoy the food. I love their hot & sour soup ( so glad I found a place that prepares it the way I like it ). Their Kung Pao, chicken chow mein, and sesame balls - under their appetizers - were yummy. They have a long list of items on their menu, so there is plenty to try. An item I wasn't too crazy about was the sesame chicken- it was a bit too saucy, and sour. read more

Food is okay. We order from this place only if we're too lazy to drive to go eat good Chinese food. Nothing more than just convenient Chinese food. read more

Ordered delivery from Grubhub. I ordered the chicken chowmein and sesame chicken. The chowmein had lots of chicken breast but hardly any vegetables. The sesame chicken came with a small box of white rice. It wasn't too sweet and not greasy. The price wasn't too expensive. Delivery, for my area, cost a little over $2 with a minimum of $12, and came pretty quickly. The delivery guy was polite. It's not the best Chinese food out there, but still tasty enough for me to order again. read more

The food is cooked and prepared well, and is usually hot and tasty. Delivery is always in a timely fashion. The delivery person is always fast, polite and efficient. The food is always securely in the bags, which are then stapled shut. It's all very well done for delivery. My only complaint is that I asked for four chopsticks to be included with the order, and they keep failing to include them. That is a royal pain in the you-know-where, which is why I withheld one star. UPDATE: Chopsticks always included now. Food still good and tasty. No complaints. I love this restaurant/ delivery service! They try very hard to please me, the customer! They supply a very convenient service! I love and rely on this restaurant! read more

Food was very reasonable priced but once they removed the half order made it too expensive for two seniors meals

I enjoy checking out small local eating spots, and I struck gold when I discovered No. 1 Chef. I have a favorite Chinese restaurant in downtown Los Angeles that I have patronized for over twenty-five years, and No. 1 Chef is my new go-to if I can't get downtown. I'm gradually working my way through the menu, and so far my favorites are Chicken Chow Fun, Wor Wonton Soup, Shrimp & Chicken Egg Rolls, Pot Stickers, Vegetable Egg Foo Young, Shrimp Fried Rice, and my absolute favorite, Vegetable Tofu. Other family favorites are Brocolli Beef, Chicken Fried Rice, and Szechuan Shrimp. I recommend that you order online for delivery or takeout. My only wish is that they expand their delivery area. Pros: The food is fresh, and the dishes are absolutely delicious. Even the soy sauce is of a higher quality than most. Prices are on par with similar restaurants; the portions are enough to feed four. They deliver. The owners and staff are friendly and accommodating. Cons: Limited street parking. read more

Make sure you say you want fried rice or they'll just send you white rice he'll if I wanted white rice I'd make my own read more

No 1 Chef - Fucking white rice wtf - Chinese Near Me - Gardena, California

I order 3 lunch specials , 2 with special instructions of no soy or peppers, those 2 meals came drench in oyster or black black sauce, so salty that where totally uneatable.. I called the restaurant and explain the situation, wanting to return the food to exchange or credit for next time since the kungpao chicken was OK, but manager refused. I ofeered to return the entire plate so they could understand how it was just no eatable and still refused, won't order here no more, for not having to loose 2 plates now they lost a 5 customers read more

No 1 Chef - Chinese Near Me - Gardena, California

Always a grand slam. Their portion sizes are unbelievable. Be careful, you will over order. Please don't let their prices lead you to believe that the quality of the food is not A1. You won't be disappointed. Delivery is always a suspected! Cudos to No. 1 Chef read more

If I review, I was impressed! I can never find Egg Foo Young prepared old school style, you know real egg omelette the way it should be not that preformed over cooked hockey puck. Not only prepared to perfection, but the sauce on the side and hot as if it came off the stove from my own kitchen. I ordered online from the Website button option from my smart phone search. Arrived exactly as indicated from the confirmation screen upon check out. I mean everything was hot. I couldn't handle the egg rolls by hand. I don't know how or care how they got it done cause they got it done!!!! Now this is my "order in" Chinese spot from home now on. read more

I would have rated NEGATIVE stars if I could have! I am an avid Chinese food water and I have never had such flavorless food! They only gave me 2 hot sauces and six soy sauces for a family meal? this place should be closing soon please don't waste your money . BTW delivery containers are styrofoam so the tabs pop easily can't reclose food read more

Never visited this store in person. I order their food from DoorDash. I order from No 1 Chef once or twice a week. Their food is always top notch delicious! My go-to Chinese delivery. Everyone should have one. read more

I ordered my food by telephone and had it delivered. She said, 45 minutes but he was here in less than 25 minutes. I ordered the half order of Broccoli Beef and Orange Chicken; Shrimp Fried Rice, and Vegetarian Egg Rolls. Everything I ordered was hot and fresh. The broccoli and beef were tender and the brown sauce was seasoned perfectly. The rice was tender and I had plenty of medium-sized shrimp throughout. The chicken was tender, but the batter was a little too heavy, but it was okay- the orange sauce had just the right amount of sweetness. The egg rolls needed more vegetables but they were good too. I'm single and I love good food - I had enough for 3 plates! Now, that I've tried the basics, I'll try some of their other spicer dishes. Highly recommended. read more

I thought this place is great. Good portions, tasty and fast. Would highly recommend. Delivery was great too. Food tasted real good. Big portions of shrimp. read more

Terrible!!! Unless you are starving, you will not like this food. The texture on the chicken is really suspect.

Great flavors made fresh! been here 2 times for takeout really enjoyed everything we orderded. Mangolian beef,kung pao 3 flavors, pan fried noodles were great too. read more

Nastiest fake food I have ever eaten. Big ginormous msg filled imitation noodles that look like they soaked up too much water. Thia tea is in a can! Like come on seriously. An egg rolls are so big like they injected them with hormones. If they were good it would be amazing but they're so high because they're so fake and unauthentic it's ridiculous tried to charge me 1$ per sweet and sour sauce extra when they know the egg rolls are way too big. I don't know I'm a Chinese lover and have never even went out of my way to leave a review. But this is the worst Chinese food. Left overs from two days ago is better than this. read more

This place is amazing!! so far i have tried their beef broccoli, sweet and sour pork (with the sauce on the side), shrimp fried rice, fried shrimp, and my favorite the beef chow mein! Hands down the best chinese food i have tried. And the serving sizes and prices are great! Another thing that i loved about this place is that they say the order will be delivered in 30-45 minutes and the longest i have ever waited is 15 minutes!! this is my fourth time ordering from here, i am definitely becoming a regular to this place. read more

We got beef chow mien, garlic shrimp, and the cheese wontons. They all were bland and were nothing like the good we have in NYC , but thier delivery was promt (under 30 mins). Im from out of town and this was the closest best rates Chinese food place. I'd suggest ordering something else. read more

I've been happy with the food a few times before. But this last order went to waste. The rice was bland and the chow mein was just nasty. New chef? Not sure if I'll try it again. read more

This place is HORRIBLE.. they are very high priced for small portioned tasteless food.. I paid for more onions and bell peppers then meat and they forgot my drink.. so he brought one back in a 7/11 bag and I was charged 4 dollars for the same 2 liter he spent 2 dollars for at 7/11... I will never support them... read more

Grrrrreat food! Really tastes authentic quality. Too bad the delivery driver couldn't find my place (and doesn't speak good English...errrr). Otherwise, I'm completely satisfied with the "bang for my buck". read more

We ordered because my in-laws are always on the lookout for the perfect (read similar-to-their-favorite-place-that-closed) egg fu young, and the picture here looked about right. Unfortunately, the food was NOTHING like the picture. I could have lived with that though, if the "food" wasn't so terrible. Don't get me wrong - I wasn't expecting really great food from a random 3-star Chinese delivery place. I was expecting average food. But I did not get average food. I did not get somewhat-below-average food. I got so-fucking-bad-it-made-me-angry food. I am actually, viscerally angry that these people took my money and then served me this crap. I'm not super picky, and definitely not the kind of person who throws away food. I might be a bit disappointed, but I've never received takeout food that was so bad I didn't eat it before. So when I say 85% of this order ended up in the trash that really means something coming from me. I could write all night about how bad this food is, but I'll just hit a few of the highlights. First, the "Golden Fried Scallops" This was so bad I uploaded a picture. That's not a golden fried scallop - it's a 1/16 inch slice of scallop the size of a nickel (if it even is scallop) pressed into a huge blob of fried cornbready substance. If you can believe it, the basic cheat of serving me a piece of scallop the size of a nickel wasn't actually the low point of this appetizer. The low point would be that they served it to me in breading that was also terrible. It was very dry, powdery, rock hard, and tasted like unseasoned burnt cornmeal. When I was 9 I tried to make cornbread by mixing water (not enough) and corn meal (only) and "frying" it on a dry pan until it took on the consistency of a small rock. That was the last time I tasted anything like this. Seriously, how do you fuck up breading? Second, words like "Kung Pao", and "Szechuan" actually mean something. They imply specific ingredients and cooking methods. Again, I wasn't expecting the food to be great, and every restaurant does things their own way, but at least the food should be recognizable as what you ordered. I ordered three, very distinct dishes, and the fact that I can't really tell which is which is a major problem for me. Every dish is just a pile of random, chopped, apparently steamed(!) vegetables smothered in a brown sauce (the same brown sauce on all three dishes!) that has basically zero taste. One has an egg pancake under it, so I can guess it's egg fu young. Another has lighter colored "meat" and a few dried peppers, so it must be the "Kung Pao Chicken". By process of elimination that means the third must be the "Szechuan Beef" All three have the same vegetables, all three are covered in the same brown sauce, all three smell the same (like basically nothing), and all three taste the same (like basically nothing) and I can't tell the difference and that's sad. Third, their meat seems faker even than your average cheap takeout fare. Not just the usual "highly-processed meat-strips from a bag" that you'd get in your average takeout, but more like "100% processed fake-meat garbage from a can". I would bet very heavily that their "beef" and "chicken" come with a list of ingredients as long as my arm and most of them aren't "beef" or "chicken". Fourth, FAKE GODDAMN SOY-SAUCE. I know this is common, but I still - this was a $70 meal and they can't give me a half-cent packet of real soysauce? I guess this food deserves hydrolyzed corn protein with caramel color. Fifth, the fried rice really wasn't. It was steamed rice with some soy sauce (or hydrolyzed corn protein and caramel color) on it. read more

No 1 Chef - This is the "golden fried scallop" it's a nickel-sized slice of scallop in a big blob of super hard fried powdery stuff. - Chinese Near Me - Gardena, California

Folks, these people are total amateurs. I ordered Szechuan beef and let me tell you, there was nothing Szechuan about it. Szechuan beef is sauteed in oil with Szechuan peppers and carrots. It seems like they threw the kitchen sink in it except the very important Szechuan peppers. The end result was this sweet soup with beef, carrots, zucchini, 2 types of mushrooms, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and a couple of other things. It was practically swimming in 2 inches of liquid with no sign of oil. Now let's talk about the rice. You either serve steamed rice or fried rice. What they served pretended to be fried rice but it was not. It was yesterday's steamed rice soaked in soy sauce. Come on, is that the best you can do? The egg roll was bland and I didn't even bother trying the wonton. I will certainly not be coming back here. read more

Read the less then 5 star reviews and they seemed to be on things other then the food. I had the half order of sweet and sour chicken, steamed rice, and pot stickers. With delivery fee and tip the total was 20 bucks. Food was fresh, hot, and delicious! I'm stuffed!! Definitely suggest them to any sceptics! read more

I ordered the eggplant tofu, shrimp in lobster sauce lunch, and 3meat kung pao lunch. I love this place! The food arrived fresh and hot. The lunches came with an egg roll, fried wonton, and soup. Usually fried rice is dry from Chinese take out spots but this was flavorful and a bit moist. The shrimps were huge, juicy pieces. I definitely would recommend this place for delivery. read more

This has been our go-to "Chinese take-out" for over 5 years now. Consistently good food.

Okay so I found this place on Eat24 ordered the food and waited. I placed my order at 1:21 pm and the app have me a 2:16 delivery time which was perfect because I had to get my daughter ready for her nap...door came at 1:54pm....the guy who delivered the food was very rude...he knocked on the for like 15 times and it was ridiculously loud then he shoved a pen and paper at me which I signed but If You don't want to deliver good in the rain then make your store a pick up only store...the food was not good at all ordered the chicken wontons which was all wonton no chicken....and I ordered chicken egg foo yunvor whatever it's called which was a soup with my foo parties at the bottom which completely disintegrated into the soup which was supposed to be a gravy for the party....anyways I won't be ordering from this place EVER again.... read more

Stopped by on my way home. A bit bare of a place but the food and service are great.

I ordered the beef and broccoli and orange chicken. The service was fast and the food was really good. You pretty much get what you see here - the prices and menu are standard for Chinese take out and the taste doesn't disappoint! read more

this is what good service and food means. the best chinese food i have had in years. hope everyone gives it a try.

this is the worst place everrrr!!!! the sushi is frozen it is not freshly made , when i took a bite of my sushi it tasted like ice ... so disgusting do not recommend anything from here . read more

The food was very good. We ordered the Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken with egg rolls.