Delish! Lived in brea for years and don't know why I never came by before. I hope to come back soon during these tough times. Had the chicken fried rice, orange chicken, and chow mien. Everything was perfect and delicious. read more

Absolutely delicious Chinese food with great selection and even better pricing. The employees here work their ass off and it is very busy usually so you might wait a little but it will be very much worth it. Try the king pao tofu, beef or chicken. Paper wrapped chicken is also amazing and not something many places offer anymore. Lunch special is a perfect size lunch for between $7-8. My go to Chinese food restaurant. read more

We had Red Lantern cater a church lunch for us, and everyone loved the food! We ordered the Orange Chicken, Teriyaki Chicken,and Crispy Beef along with chow mein and fried, white, and brown rice. The Teriyaki Chicken was the biggest hit! The food was great in quality and in quantity! We had enough for everyone to eat until they were full and then take home leftovers! Along with the great food, we received very nice service. The owner and the Yelp Eats representative contacted me to confirm the reservation. Delivery was prompt and helpful with transporting the trays of food, plates, utensils, etc. read more

This food is always hot , delicious & ready to eat. Awesome customer service and prompt service.

Had the combination mu shu that was supposed to come with 4 pancakes. They forgot the pancakes, and the mu shu barely had any meat too

Good food tucked away in the corner of the Vons parking lot. I've been here numerous times, the food is always good and customer service is excellent! I usually get the eggplant and orange chicken which you can customize with extra spice or white meat for a little extra. Beware it gets crowded at lunch hour as it is a pretty small place. read more

My boyfriend and I ordered take out tonight , kung pao chicken and sweet & sour chicken with white rice. This should be enough for 2 people but we are still hungry. They barely put any chicken in these dishes, it was mostly onions. I definitely overpaid for this, they should just call this vegetable dishes. Never ordering from this place again. I've ordered from other chinese restaurants before and haven't seen them be this stingy with their chicken .The only reason I am giving it 2 stars instead of 1 is because they delivered really fast. read more

Red Lantern - This is what was left over after we ate the small bits of chicken. - Chinese Near Me - Brea, California

Love the food! Good service! The food is amazing! Cute ambience, and the food is delicious!

Used to love this place but it seems the quality has gone down...waaaay down. Not only did we wait at lunch for our menus and water (had to ask for water) for about 10 minutes (with no one else in the restaurant), I had the runs all evening after having the bbq pork chow fun...something wasn't right. So, unfortunately, bad food (today) and bad service. May have to wait another year to eat here again to see if things changed. read more

Red Lantern is truly a gem. The best Chinese food in Brea hands down! If you haven't tried their fried wontons, orange chicken or fried rice yet, don't wait! You will not regret eating here. So yummy and the staff is super friendly too. read more

Finally a good Chinese restaurant! We look forward every weekend, to go visit our friendly server Lisa and have some really good hot Chinese food! Best hot sour and egg flower soups. Try the orange chicken and Mongolian beef, delicious! read more

This place is my favorite chinese restaurant in town in orange county!! Their orange chicken is delicious and my family loves the shrimp and lobster sauce. But overall this place is great! You wont be disappointed! read more

Little hidden gem for real Cantonese Cuisine. Need to add "Almond Duck" to menu. Great value tasty

Fantastic and authentic. Everything is so fresh and delicious every visit , never disappoints. If you're in the area do not pass this up if you're craving some sweet & sour chicken, kun pao beef or crispy wontons! Our dinner was awesome tonight thank you! read more

I love this place! I had the fillet mingnon French style. It was different but it was really good!! I couldn't stop eating it. Great neighborhood place with great cream cheese wontons! I tasted a little onion in them YUM. Will definitely return. Service was prompt and friendly!! Food is made fresh and served hot! read more

Just ordered a significant take out order, as I was having my entire family over. ($350+ in food). After I picked it up and got home, realized no soy sauce, no fortune cookies, no white rice, no hot mustard. Disappointing. I called after we finished eating, the manager said they'd give us an order of egg rolls next time we went in. Wow, great service recovery for a frequent custome, wouldn't you say? Terrible. We won't be back read more

Ordered soup and a couple apps. Food was good Issue is I ordered delivery and clearly indicated I was at a hotel, requested spoons and napkins and didn't receive either. read more

Absolutely the most rude manager ever. I called to complain about their food tasting completely awful. My soup came delivered to me cold. The fried rice tasted a week old and when I call to complain the manager gives me so much attitude. Would not recommend this place at all read more

Been coming here for years. Their spicy seafood noodle soup is amazing and has me coming back for it over and over again. I would definitely recommend this unassuming place to everyone read more

This is the most delicious Chinese food I have eaten around, serving is fast! Service is very considerate, satisfactory. read more

Crispy Beef, more like soggy beef. Broccoli looked old/past its prime, veggie spring rolls were still cold. and Sesame Chicken was soggy and undercooked. Will not be ordering from Red Lantern again. read more

Come for the lunch special! Comes with soup, egg roll, white, brown or fried rice and an entree. Great taste at a great price. read more

Red Lantern - Lunch special beef and broccoli - Chinese Near Me - Brea, California

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This is truly the worst Chinese Restaurant I have ever been to. The food was terrible and the service wasn't any better. One of us ordered Kung Pao three flavor and it really should be renamed Kung Pao onion. There was very little of anything else. I had ordered teriyaki chicken which was made with all dark meat chicken. Normally tender, this chicken was stringy, chewy and dry. I couldn't even eat it. I ordered extra teriyaki sauce and it really didn't help. I left most of it on the serving plate and didn't even finish what was on my plate. When the server asked if I wanted a to go box, I told him no, that it was so dry I couldn't even eat it. He really didn't even seem to care, it may be something he hears frequently. This same server had brought a knife to the table when I requested it and as he was walking towards me I could see him wiping off the blade of the knife with his fingers. WTH??? Even if we weren't still in a pandemic it's a disgusting thing to do. The bathroom was also absolutely filthy. read more

Wow! Wasn't expecting the food to be so good! Ordered through Grubhub and it was on time & excellent! Ordered chicken& broccoli and chicken & mushrooms. Had a very light sauce that was very tasty . I'll order again!! read more

Disgusting!!! Ordered the salt and pepper chicken and chaw main. I couldn't even finish half of it. It was disgusting, swimming in oil, and it took me 5-6 hours to get over the slight food poisoning I got from eating this food. Stay away read more

Having lived 15 yrs in Hacienda Hts where a new Chinese restaurant opens every 15 seconds, and taught ESL Asian students who gave me their recommendations on "great" Chinese food, (bottom line? It's all in the Anglo taste buds subjectively), I'm establishing my "creds" as an American with a taste for healthy Chinese food. It's not easy to find it; let alone close to my home in Brea. However, joy unbounded, today I tried Red Lantern for lunch. The waitress spoke English well, and was very attentive, sharing with me that their chef is from Hong Kong and the owner from China. The veggie eggs with homemade orange sauce were outstanding. The lunch special off cashew chicken was the best I've had in years plus the citrus-based salad dressing was delightful. Cheap, highly salted, MSG-laden buffet-style Chinese crap that passes as food is not my thing. This place is definitely NOT that and you pay for that benefit nutritionally and fiscally. That being said, wow, this place is a little gem. If you live in Brea, rejoice! Not just because it's a cool lil' city but because Red Lantern is in here now! Yes! It's available on Grubhub too! read more

This place is absolutely amazing! The food taste so delicious, and the serving size is enough for 3-4 people. Oh my goodness, they delivery. Yeah that's right, you heard correctly, they deliver. Oh yeah I almost forgot, friendly service. Cheers. read more

The littlest rug rat and I were on our way to visit grandma and needed some lunch. My child is not a picky eater and if there is one genre of food this kid consistently loves, it would be Chinese. I was breaking multiple laws as I drove down the street scanning for a place to eat while at the same time consulting my bookmarks and the Yelp mobile Nearby function. Red lantern popped up and the results seemed encouraging. We need something fast and reasonably priced, so I figured this would do the trick. We went with two lunch combos and at $6.99 each, with soup, egg rolls, fried rice and a main; that is a pretty competitive price. My son had the egg drop soup which I would content was much better than the sweet and sour soup, which was meh! The surprisingly bad part of the meal were the egg rolls. They tasted like they were dipped in chemicals or plastic. It is pretty hard to mess up an egg roll and these we horrible. Seriously, not even worth a second bite... And, now, for some good news. The mains of chicken cashew and Brocolli and Chicken were very tasty. They weren't overly salty, the vegetables seemed fresh and the sauces complex. I struggle to rate this place between a two and three star. However, with the meh soup, chemical egg rolls and boring fried rice, the solid main dishes which were a 4, just couldn't save the Lantern from a 2... read more

I just ordered chicken and green beans. I got a full tray of green beans which I would go so far as to say were edible. The entree contained four pieces of chicken each the size of a fifty cent piece. With tax I paid $10.78. It came with rice. So if I now stir fry a chicken breast I'll have a meal. read more

We like their foodour favorite restaurant for Friday dinner. Take out food is always hot and packaged for easy take away.

We ordered take out tonight since this place was near to my house in Brea. We ordered garlic chicken, chow fun, and Szechuan beef. My wife is from mainland China so we are used to eating quality Chinese food and we understand that you can't get that at takeout places, but we expected better than what we got. They cut corners to try and save a few dollars (typical Chinese thinking Americans are stupid) and 90% of the vegetables were onions! Not even Panda does that. Only 1 or 2 pieces of squash. No broccoli as the picture shows, no carrots, no snow peas, no beans. Just all onions! NOT ONE SINGLE PIECE OF GREEN VEGETABLE! Unbelievable! They use so much oil it's almost unreal. The chow fun was so greasy that we had to throw it away. I have never seen chow fun this greasy. I have never in my life eaten worse Chinese food than this. Plus, they charge as much as regular Chinese restaurants when this is fast food Chinese worse than any I have ever eaten. Do yourself a favor and stay way from this place. It's total garbage. I have a belly ache now from eating this greasy food. Oh, I forgot to mention the Szechuan beef tasted exactly like our garlic chicken! There was no Szechuan flavor at all. They used the same exact sauce they used in the garlic chicken to cook the Szechuan beef! Can you believe that? If you read the reviews, 99% are Americans who don't know any better. You don't see Chinese people eating here. Not even ABC (American Born Chinese) would eat this junk. They all go up to Rowland Heights where the real Chinese restaurants are. I can't believe this place is in business. read more

This is my favorite chinese restaurant in brea. Good food. My favorite is the fried pork chops... Not too salty and not bland. The chow mein is awesome too. Pretty much everything I ate here was great! Ever since the place had new owners, the food seemed to improve quite a bit and looks a lot busier inside than I have ever seen before. The lunch specials are pretty reasonable and are pretty good as you get an entree, rice and an egg roll for around 6ish. read more

Expensive Chinese food. Bad service overall never going to dine at this place. The waiter ignored our table with water. Attended the table next to us with water but I had to get up from my table to get some water. read more

Beef Chow Fun is tasty and Gourmet Mixed Veggies is really good. Nice place for take out. read more

Red Lantern us my local choice for Chinese. The menu consists of the usual items that you would expect. They earn their high points from using fresh vegetables, meat with all the weird junk cut out, and not overcooking everything into homogenous muck, like so many other places. Fresh and crisp, that's how they do it. Decor is clean and pleasant, the waitress is attentive and friendly. The dish that really stands out is the sizzling rice soup. It's so good that sometimes I'll make a meal of it. read more

Red lantern is like any average booty call. It's not the best you've had, but it's there when you want it, it's convenient, they'll be at your door within an hour, and it will leave you satisfied. It's not the best Chinese, but its not the worst either. The best thing about this place are the to go containers they give you. They're like plastic reusable tupper-ware, so anytime we order delivery, we'll keep these babies for future use. On to the review... Like: Shrimp in lobster sauce Fish in black bean sauce Kung pao chicken so so: Orange chicken (could be a little crispier...maybe because it was soggy due to the take out, but it was just alright). No way: Crispy chowmein noodles. I've ordered it twice. the first time i got it there was absolutely nothing crispy about it!!! just your average happy wok kind of chow mein noodles! super disappointed...I thought maybe they took my order down wrong as it was not crispy at all. So I ordered it again to pick up, and as soon as the food was ready, I looked into the box, and it was yet again soggy chowmein noodles...oh well. Now I know... and knowing is half the battle!!! read more

Came here looking for great Chinese food. Wanted to order the pork chops, orange chicken, mu shu, and walnut shrimp. Had plenty of choices for seating. The only occupied tables were just about to leave. 15 minutes later, we left. We didn't get water, an order, or even a, 'Hello'. Very sad. I shake the dust off my shoes. read more

I love that this place delivers and makes their food so fresh and so clean, clean! Perfect flavors with no MSG. Shrimp fried rice extra onions extra spicy is my favorite. They deliver both at our work and at home so it's super convenient. If you love fresh vegetables, order the steamed vegetables with garlic sauce on the side. I don't use the sauce but my daughter loves it. I prefer my vegetables plain steamed. This place is hands down, the most authentic and reputable Chinese restaurants in the area' read more

They really short the chicken, beef and shrimp on all orders. Make you pay extra for what should be standard chicken beef and shrimp

With covid you think restaurants would be grateful for business. We went today and the woman that waited on us for to go orders was beyond rude and un accommodating. We were long time patrons and I don't know if we'd go back because of her horrible attitude. I don't complain as I know these establishments are suffering but this certainly won't bring People back read more