Same good quality food back in old days authentic Chinese food fresh healthy food 10 thumps up read more

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Absolutely stunning food. Family run Chinese restaurant which doesn't have any vibrant interiors or looks to go with but absolutely nails it with the food they offer (Tried hongkong fried crab,sizzling oyster, Peking pork and five spice beef brisket.). Service is fast. Hardly waited for 5 mins. They do have few parking spots at the back. We are surely heading back to try some more items here. read more

Waitress was rude, and unwelcoming; Food was decent; salt shaker was unclean; staff was having a loud conversation .... Would not go back; read more

This place is our family's spot for celebrating any big occasion: birthdays, career milestones, holiday dinners--you name it. This place is the epitome of an ultimate Chinese family dining experience with a strong menu. I always will recommend the green beans, full Peking duck with the buns, scallop fried rice, salt and pepper squid & any of the soups to share with the table. read more

This is disappointing to write because my girlfriend loved this place. We had heard about a change in management here but we hadn't been in for some time. We went in and ordered a bunch of food including snow peas tips, honey walnut shrimp and string bean chicken. Great that we also got tea served immediately. When we got our food we thought everything was pretty good and started munching. My order of string bean chicken seemed rather heavy on the string beans but I didn't really think about it. Imagine my surprise when after finishing most of the mountain of string beans, THERE WAS NO CHICKEN. We called our server order and pointed this out and the response was "Oh, I didn't hear that part." Ooookay, we all make mistakes no biggie. Can we get some chicken cooking for this then? "Noooo, sorry." Ooookay. That immediately turned us off from coming back. Leaving it at two stars because the food we did get was decent and the ambiance feels legit like a family resturant should be. Too bad the service doesn't match. read more

I was excited to come here for the first time since COVID. Things have changed. It has been remodeled and apparently changed ownership. The decor has been updated to a more simple, clean aesthetic (no more carpet, banquet decorations, or chandeliers). Many of the menu offerings are the same, but sadly, were not prepared the same way as before. Seafood fish maw soup: The fish maw was plentiful, but seemed undercooked. It was more chewy/gummy than crunchy. Salt and pepper squid: the squid and batter was very thin and not crispy. The onions had good flavor. Enoki mushroom and tofu hotpot: This was good, and arrived bubbling in its pot. It literally only had enoki and shiitake mushrooms, and tofu. Usually, there are more veggies too. Hot tea and white rice are included. read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - Salt and pepper squid and seafood fish maw soup - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

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Even though it's a small quaint restaurant, but their Asian cuisine is excellent and not overpriced like other restaurants.

I came in a Sunday evening with family. The food came out quickly after ordering. The tea and rice were free which is amazing. We had roasted half duck, salty fish and chicken stew, and sweet and sour pork. All were delicious and very large portions. We even had free desert. The service was wonderful. read more

Still the best canto restaurant in town, with a legacy of about 30+ years. You can order items individually, or in a big party order one of the banquet sets (range $150-$246). Review of my favorites: -Peking Pork. Tried and true classic sweet and sour dish, always good with rice -Salt and Pepper Squid. A favorite, with the combination of fried, crunchy, and chewy. -Crab Special. Great flavors. You can eat the head too! Ask for gloves. -Onion and Oil chicken. Great chicken pieces, well flavored and plenty for the party -Steamed fish. Eat with the garnishes and sauce. Don't flip the fish! Remove the bone. If it's busy (usually is) you will need TJ do street parking. Unfortunately like many restaurants in Portland, Powell's got their windows smashed recently and had to board it up. A sad sight, but it did not affect the employees at all. read more

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Food portion was big! Environment is average among other similar restaurants I visited in other cities. Service was good. read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - Bifengtang crab - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

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I've been coming here since I was a little girl and my mom says she's been coming here since a little girl too This is my all time favorite Chinese food place ! It always has the best food that gets served up quick ! read more

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Absolutely amazing food that we love to keep going back. But the male server is very corky. When we went back again the other day. He ignores us when we politely request a different table even there are other tables available and ask the other female server to ignore us too. We were there for 10 mins being ignored. Very disappointed! read more

Seafood at restaurant is way overpriced so it is recommended that you walk less than 5 mins to pick your own seafood from seafood market next door and bring it over to the restaurant to have them cook for you ($15 service fee), which is still better pricing than order seafood at the restaurant. Speed to deliver food was fast! Portion of food was good for its price. Cleanliness was ok on average as you would expect in a typical Asian restaurant. read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

This restaurant never fails you！Service has always been consistent, the dishes are authentic, price is reasonable, the portions are generous, and they serve food quickly. read more

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Delicious food for a very fair price. Definitely recommend the calamari as a appetizer

As one of the longest standing restaurants in this part of Portland, Powell's has been the quintessential Chinese American establishment with sprinklings of authentic offerings. In terms of Portland Chinese, it's solid. Compared to the rest of the country, it's very average (#1). I appreciate that the Chinese name (寶華 - "bo wah" or "bao hua") is similar sounding to Powell. While every other place has a typical name, I give them kudos for staying true to the name. The place was undeniably old school for so long, but their recent renovation (#2) during the pandemic is a welcome update. They are a mini banquet hall, with plenty of group friendly tables with a rotating lazy susan on top. The Cantonese fare here is a good option for those who want it but I can't say I've had anything outstanding here. Beef chow fun and their walnut shrimp have been their money makers, but are generally lacking in flavor. Black bean clams, steamed fish, ginger lobster have been a bit blander than I'd like, with price to portion ratio somewhat subpar overall. Much of the non-fried dishes are a bit saucy and even then, the flavors aren't entirely there. One thing I have enjoyed is their soups. The complimentary herbal soups that are attached to the meal sets are quite nice. I appreciate the chunks of meat, carrots, and the semi-salty but pungent aroma of the broth. I do appreciate the good service over the years. It might be the best part of our visits over the years as a family. The staff and owners have been the nicest folks, which is why we continue to support them. I'm hoping that with the renovation will come some new and interesting dishes on their menu and hope their existing fare will get better in time. _____________ (#1) Probably 3.5 stars at best. (#2) Goodbye red carpet! read more

This place is incredible! The best General Tso's I've ever had. Also the best sweet and sour pork. But by far my favorite dish (and I never thought this would happen) was a VEGETABLE! What?! Their salt and pepper green beans are next level. I could not stop eating them and then ordered more to go. And no, they are not battered or fried the way most of my preferred vegetables are. (Tempura) The parking lot is small but there was plenty of on-street parking. I loved the lazy Susan style tables and large portions that encourages everyone to try a little of everything. If you don't like food sharing, go with like minded people. If you are the only one that hates the experience and mean mug the rest of your party every time a fork strays near your entree, maybe you married into the wrong family. All in all, this was a fantastic restaurant. read more

The lunch menu offers several basic choices, each of which comes with a little of nearly everything. Hot tea, a small cup of hot and sour soup, the menu item -- I opted for the Mandarin chicken -- an egg roll, two breaded shrimp, and rice. The food is standard and filling. The Mandarin chicken was OK but had no real orange flavor. Breaded chicken pieces covered with a darkish sauce. Forgettable egg roll and breaded shrimp that were mostly breading. Reasonable price on the lunch menu. Attentive service. Nice enough decor. read more

Tasty food. Generous portions. Friendly service, buuuuuuuut... beware that their parking lot! Go to Google maps and look at their parking lot. You'll see that patrons routinely box you in by parking directly behind your car. Sometimes there's even more than just one row of cars that have boxed you in. The owner (?) chuckled about this and said it happens all the time, and I had to wait an extra 10 minutes with my dad just standing in the parking lot while the owner tried asking people who's white minivan was parked behind me... pretty sure I see that same van in the darned Google view. Powell Seafood, nobody else has this problem with their parking lot. This is very strange. (And it's not funny.) read more

I highly recommend Salt & Pepper Squid, String Bean, and Beef Brisket in a Clay pot. Friendly and great service. read more

This place has been around for a long long time and I had driven past it a million times. But I never came in until last year when they hired a new chef and I made like 10 visits in 2 months. Personally, I prefer this place over HK, Wong's and other Chinese places. Parking can be difficult. I recommend parking on the street so you don't have to move your car or ask people to move theirs. The building is a bit old and easy to get overlooked if you drive too fast. There is a ramp on the way to restrooms and that area can be slippery. (Watch your steps) Ventilation is not the best and your clothes will smell if you stay inside for too long. That's it for the cons. I'd say the food is good and I could tell which ones were cooked by the new chef and which ones were not. Lots of experienced Chinese chefs here tend to cook things in a certain way such as using lots of oil. The way the new chef cooks is really refreshing and more authentic in terms of Chinese food. I hope he can keep his style and doesn't get "Portlandized" so quickly. I usually order 2-3 specials if I come with 1-2 people. However, they changed their menu recently and it has fewer specials now, and the new specials are not as affordable as the old ones. The old specials can still be found on other pages and are priced reasonably. Eggplant pot is my personal favorite. Good customer service. I recommend this place. In fact, I am going again in 1 hour. read more

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SeaFood is so yummy and fresh. The chief has made a perfect balance of the freshness and taste! read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - Clam - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

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Like their fish and chips, also tasty tartar sauce. Quick friendly service at the window

I ordered the whole pan-fried Sole. It was very crispy and cooked perfectly. If you don't know how to filet a whole cooked fish, I'm not sure how you'll like it; but if you do, I highly recommend! read more

I've lived within blocks of this place for over 8 years and haven't looked twice at it due to the fact that I'm a vegetarian. However, I read they have a veggie menu so I've checked it out twice now and have been happy both times. The dishes are flavorful and delicious and the service is great. So glad we found a great Chinese option close-by. read more

We ordered our food and they gave us half our order while we waited 30 plus minutes for the rest of our food they didn't give our table enough waters never came to ask if we needed anything we just sat there waiting for someone to come 30 minutes later we just ask them to pack up the other half of the food because our toddlers has become impatient waiting for his food as he watches everyone else eat so if you go eat here be prepared to WAIT for everything including water. read more

How the mighty have fallen. The place is filthy, dirty. The owners are screaming at each other. Folding boxes in the dining room while people are eating. Taking the chopsticks and not bring us forks. Talking down to us in another language. I don't know how much worse this place could get, but it used to be one of the best there was. read more

I do not enjoy giving poor reviews but our takeout last night (11/16/22) was atrocious. Typical American order - General Tso Chicken x2 , large fried shrimp (12 pieces), egg rolls (3), sautéed green beans, small hot and sour soup and Singapore rice noodles. Total came to $100. Restaurant was pretty full around 6:30 pm and the food smelled amazing on the ride home. We were all very hungry and unfortunately very disappointed within minutes of diving in. -General Tso was bland and dry. -Fried shrimp was undercooked and doughy (our daughter also uncovered evidence of uncleaned shrimp). -Egg rolls also undercooked and doughy. -Green beans cooked properly but no taste -Noodles just tasted weird, almost sour. -Soup was awful with zero flavor. In their defense, we ate at the restaurant 4 months ago and it was a solid 4 stars so maybe just a bad night for the chef. I called to let the manager / owner know of our poor experience and she offered us empathy and a credit to come back. I will wait to see if I receive a response to this review. Hopefully she responds and lives up to her offer so I can post a follow-up positive review, assuming the next time is better. read more

Just found out that Powell Seafood is under new ownership. I really miss the old owners as they had taken the time to get to know us and so not to see them anymore. My heart is broken. The old owners would love when I practiced my Chinese on them. Most tables for four people were taken out and replaced with tables of 10. Since the roof is so low, and building is sooo small this only adds to the place being extremely extremely noisy!!! Our table of 4 could not hear each other talk!!! the table of 12 to 15 people sitting next to us was extremely extremely loud and noisy. The server even asked them to be QUIET! (Didn't listen) They packed these tables of 10 in there so there's no room to sit back relax and enjoy your meal. My husband kept getting bumped into and run over by the waiters and people walking by because everything was so tight. The prices have definitely gone up. We ordered our four favorite dishes which we always order plus salt and pepper shrimp appetizer and the bill was $120. Every time that we have come here previously, our bill was never over $100. The food used to come out on these huge platters. Now all the food comes out in a pie plate sized dish, which is totally smaller than than a platter size plate! under Previous owners --We have been going to Powell Seafood for a very long time. My husband is Chinese, and he told me that this was the closest to authentic Chinese food that he could find. NOW We are very disappointed in the service, the prices, quality and quantity of food served. It breaks my heart to think that we may not be going back there because our recent experience was so dreadful. Sidenote: as we were ending our meal, I had gotten up to use the restroom. When I came back to our table, I noticed that there were many dirty dishes and plates of used food stacked up on our table we were originally sitting at. I found my party of four waiting outside. They said the serving staff started loading up our table up with dirty dishes and half eaten food plates -- while they were sitting there talking n waiting for me So RUDE so they decided to get up and leave and wait outside. They believed the waiters wanted us to leave so --they just got up and left!!! How RUDE! this has never happened to us before. To be rushed from our table! I didn't even get to finish my beer! I've never given a one star review before, but this whole experience really sucked! read more

If you've read some of my precious reviews, you'll know that I usually don't like Chinese food, because it's often too oily. However, while looking at the menu of Powell's Seafood Restaurant, I thought I'd try this place out for dinner. Honestly, the food here wasn't bad at all! And it was pretty damn cheap! (Only $44 for a party of 4.) We ordered a total of 4 dishes: steamed eggplant with salted fish, steamed tofu served underneath a scallop-based gravy sauce, steamed prawns, and honey garlic spareribs. The steamed eggplant and tofu dishes, in particular, were the standouts of our entire dinner. They paired great with white rice, since there was so much sauce that came with the dishes, not to mention that they both had this addicting umami flavor. The prawns were done well, though there's not much else to say about them, since they were plain steamed. The honey garlic spareribs, on the other hand, weren't as good as they sounded. It was mostly because the sauce just didn't taste right. Overall, though, this was a solid place for Chinese food. And since that's coming from someone like me who's picky around Chinese food... that's saying a lot. ;) read more

A wonderful local restaurant with great food. Recommendation for the Singapore Noodles! read more

I got the general tso lunch special. The price is great for what you get, I believe it was 6.95 for the general tso, rice, 2 fried shrimps and 1 eggroll. I'm used to eating general tso where the chicken is crispy. This was on the soggy side - no crisp to the chicken. I'm not sure if thats how they make their general tso but I wasn't the biggest fan. Do others get their general tso chicken here crispy? Maybe the orange chicken is different? The sauce on the general tso was a bit more on the salty side for me as well. I think I'll try the orange chicken next and see how that is. read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - General tso lunch special - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

The seafood dishes are great. Conch clams come with a very tasty sauce for you to dip in. I think it's garlic with salty shrimp paste. It's really good. The chicken was good and it tastes even better after a day. The bbq pork was just so so. Very fast service. read more

Powell's Seafood Restaurant - Conch clams - Chinese Near Me - Portland, Oregon

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I had high hopes for this place. We went on a Saturday night and there was only one waitress. It got quite busy so we were patient but after asking for water about 8x we were on our last straw. The cups were also not clean. And the cherry on top was when we were paying.... we split the bill between two cards and the restaurant was very forceful by tell us that we should be paying 15% tip, when we were trying to explain to them that one of us is playing for the full tip and that it will be zero on the other one, they looked angry. Come next Monday... I check my bank account... they charged us the 15% tip even when we wrote in zero. The food was mediocre. read more

I really love this place. The food and environment feel very authentic. The crispy chicken is something we order every time!

I was just turned onto this restaurant by a friend who lives on the East side. Some great surprises, Pinot Gris for $7.95 a glass and the best fried shrimp I've ever had. My entree, mixed seafood in a ceramic pot was a mixed bag. Terrific shrimp and clams but the rest of the seafood was unrecognizable and tough. Good service and the entire bill was only $37. read more

Crispy skin/surface beneath the sauce--I prefer General Tso's chicken this way. My neighbohood place does it soggy. I was quie full when done with lunch, which also included hot & sour soup (done a little differently than other's I've had, and tasty0 egg roll and two shrimplets. Last time I was here they either didn't have or just didn't provide the lunch special menu. Dinner items tend to be over $16, with the lunch specials a good deal at $9. Friendly service though the waitress was in constant quick motion. read more

Reminder to future self - check Yelp for previous reviews you may have written before ordering food from someplace you only ate at once. I was in the neighborhood caring for a friend's pets while she was away and I wanted to pick up some food from a place I could walk to. Did I mention, I was in the mood for seafood? I completely forgot that I don't like this kind of Chinese food, it's too bland for my palatte. The seafood in the two items I ordered was overcooked and tough. The prices are good and the portions are generous. read more

Interesting name for Chinese restaurant, with partial Taiwanese flare, which is great for us. The very friendly and polite waitress server was overworked by herself, but still able to get things done fast. She made a great recommendation of vermicelli with shrimp eggs. It's cooked in traditional ceramic pot, which distributed and retained heat + flavor very well. Excellent for cold rainy weather. Thank you. And somebody please give her a raise. read more

Feasted at Powell's Seafood Restaurant So much delicious seafood! One of our fam's fav seafood places in SE PDX. We always order a few dishes & share. This time we were celebrating, so we ordered from the prix fixe family menu. I recommend when coming with a big group & there are a few choices, depending on the size of your group. Salt & Pepper Chili Fried Dungeness Crab Sizzling Oysters Sea Bass ~ ginger, mushroom sauce Clams ~ black bean sauce Boiled Conch Mushroom Broth~ king trumpet, enoki, white button mushrooms, glass noodles We had the choice of how we wanted our crab & sea bass prepared. My favorite crab & clams ever, we always have to get it every time! First time having the conch here, it was really good & the dipping sauce was delicious. Everything was great, like always! read more

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