The Peking Duck was so good! Crispy skin, juicy meat, and everything tasted fresh. Definitely one…read moreof the best I've had in the area. I'll be coming back for it!

I recently came back to Beijing Tasty House for a family dinner after not visiting for a long time,…read moreand I was honestly surprised by how much it has changed. The newly renovated interior is beautiful, elegant, and much more upscale while still feeling welcoming. We've always liked their food, especially the Peking duck, and this visit reminded me why. The duck is just as good as I remembered--crispy skin, flavorful meat, and definitely comparable to many higher-end Chinese restaurants. Every dish we ordered was well presented and delicious. The restaurant now also offers Peking duck banquet menus, making it a great choice for family gatherings or hosting guests. The dining room is spacious, comfortable, and perfect for special occasions. It's nice to see a longtime local favorite keeping its classic flavors while giving the restaurant a fresh new look. No wonder it's been so busy since reopening! If you're planning to order the Peking duck, I'd recommend reserving it about an hour in advance.

Just came back from China and was craving some authentic Hunan food. The food here was fantastic…read more Had the Chicken With Chili Peppers, Dry Pot Frog, Yellow Beef Brisket (our fav), and the Pickled Long Beans with Minced Pork. Having just come back from Hunan days earlier, I can tell you the food here definitely holds up. I've tried two other Hunan spots in Alhambra over the years that don't quite match up to the food I ate in Hunan. Be careful of spice levels here as regular spicy is very hot and even the milder levels are still quite hot, and I say this as someone who eats spicy food daily. The restaurant is run by a brother sister duo and her daughter and the service was exceptional and unusually above average. She was very attentive and asked for feedback for each dish, offering to adjust seasonings and spices on the way. We loved the food so much that we ordered extra to take home. If you love spicy food or authentic Hunan food in general, this is a must go.

The weekend is when I usually get together with family and friends to dine out. We've been trying…read morenew places lately rather than going to places we've been going to for years and this post weekend was a very pleasant surprise. The name of the restaurant is Xiang Yu although the menu cover reads Encounter sounds exciting! We were not disappointed except for one of the dishes we were looking forward to, a Whole Streamed Live Fish. Their menu shows a choice of Redspot, Grouper, Sea Bass, and they had none, bummer! We decided on their Pickle and Sour Fish Soup, it wasn't a bad choice and we had plenty left over to take home where I'll add seafood for another meal or two. The five other dishes were also very delicious. Yhe restaurant was not that busy with only three groups of diners. The service was excellent especially since the server spoke hardly any English, fortunately one of us was totally literate in Mandarin Chinese. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the absolute cleanliness of the restrooms, they were immaculate!!

Thank you so much to the staff helping to make sure I got the bill tonight. We wanted to treat our…read morefuture in-laws to dinner so we had to make sure I got the bill. Success!!! Very busy when we arrived but a table for 6 cleared quickly so we only waited for 15 minutes or so. Very open space with table seating all around. Feels very festive! Scan the barcode on the table and place your order via their app. Fairly clearly laid out and easy to make selections. App is used just to place your order. You pay for meal when they bring the card reader to the table with your bill. For 6 guests the tip was an option IE not pre added to bill. We ordered... House specialty... Mild Sauerkraut Fish Soup with tofu skin. Very large portion. Came with some dried red chili peppers on top but the soup was mild and had great flavor. Plenty of thin sliced fish and tofu skin noodles. Chopped fermented mustard green mixed in provided the sour "sauerkraut taste". Very very good Mapo tofu, simply prepared tofu in a sweat inducing chili sauce. Great over hot rice Sweet and Sour Pork Spare ribs, super moist and fall off the bone tender Spicy Boneless Chicken feet, REALLY served boneless! There were a few small bone fragments in there but 99% boneless. Numbing chili sauce with crunchy texture cartilage goodness. Cucumber chunks provided a cooling crunch with each bite. Crispy Fried pork strips, crispy pork strips served with ketchup? and chopped crushed red pepper Garlic Shrimp Vermicelli , good size shrimp topped with garlic puree sauce over vermicelli noodles. Firm texture shrimp with a good garlic pinch. Soft and tender noodles with a nicely seasoned sauce. A few pieces of steamed broccoli as garnish. Very healthy tasting dish Fried green beans, deep fried with just a touch of charring to add to the flavor. Perfectly cooked to yield a crisp skin but soft inside texture They have lots of spicy options but they also offer mild versions of many dishes as well. If you are not keen on "spicy numbing hot" food then get the mild version. Great sichuan pepper flavor and scalp sweating heat. Sapporo beer to cool the palette. All Really good.

I really like the sauerkraut fish. So so good and addictive. You can have it either spicy or mild…read moreand I like eating it with some rice, where you can dunk a spoonful of rice into the broth. Nice patio dining area and dog friendly too. Order by scanning the QR code. Friendly staff and they do a really good job keeping your water cup full. Located inside the Santa Anita mall.

Amazing! My mom is from Hunan and I was born there and the food here is very very authentic and…read moreeven elevated. This is the best Hunan restaurant we've had in the US. We ordered the pumpkin leaves in chicken broth, the stinky tofu, and the signature spicy stir fried frog meat. The pumpkin leaves were so tender and they added century egg and spam to impart a unique flavor to the chicken broth. Thank goodness this dish was not spicy at all. The stinky tofu sauce felt authentic like the ones in Changsha but it was barely stinky, just tasted like a regular fried tofu in a sauce. The sauce was pretty good. Not spicy, probably would not get it again though since it's not stinky enough. We got "mild spicy" for our frog dish and it was still very very spicy!! It tastes so good but I couldn't eat more than 2 bites before I had to quit! They gave real generous pieces of frog too, no fillers. The frog seemed fresh, not frozen. It tasted like very tender chicken. The pepper flavor and how they chop up the pieces of meat is just like dishes you can get in Hunan and how my mom cooks her chicken (we don't cook frog at home). The ingredients are very high quality. This would be a more upscale restaurant in Hunan due to the quality of the ingredients. Honestly, I've been to many Michelin star restaurants as well, Asian cuisine included. The quality and taste of the dishes here to me is Bib Gourmand level. Hope the inspectors can check it out. There seems to be another Dong Ting Chun close by in SGV and the food doesn't look like it is on the same level. Dong Ting is a famous lake in Hunan so perhaps everyone rips the name off of each other. Don't be fooled, they do not seem to be related. You're not going to find basic run of the mill Chinese dishes like fried lo mein or garlic pea sprouts here like what you can find in a Fusion chain like Ding Tai Fung. The other restaurant on Valley Blvd has the basic Chinese dishes where this location has only recipes with authentic flavors and ingredients. Again be aware I don't think they are a chain/same owners. 我妈妈是湖南人，这家餐厅是我们在美国吃过最正宗的湖南菜馆。食材货真价实，新鲜又地道。虽然臭豆腐还不够臭，不过我们每一道菜都很喜欢。我妈妈平时嘴很挑，但她对这家餐厅很满意。我这个吃货觉得，它的水准达到了米其林必比登推荐的水平。

The good: -Service was nice when they did come by…read more -The free peanut appetizer was tasty and mildly spicy. -After a dish was remade without any spicy, it was incredibly delicious and I would come back just for this. I recommend erring on the side of doing NO spicy. The bad: -The AC was really mid while it was 100+ degrees outside. -No water refills until we almost finished eating the super spicy food. -Their "mild" spicy is VERY VERY SPICY! There was nothing mild about it! The staff confirmed that our dishes were "mild" but kindly offered to remake it as no spicy. I understand that spicy is a signature flavor for Hunan food, but I did ask for mild, which should have meant "please don't use chili peppers as the main ingredient in my seafood dish". -The dish called "Tea Oil Fried Local Chicken" was literally 80% spicy peppers and aromatics, and 20% chicken carcass BONES. This was extremely disappointing because the flavors were great, but there was only tiny niblets of meat that we could find throughout. I wouldn't have minded the bone-in chicken if there was any meat on the bones. Instead, it was all sharp shredded bones like eating razor blade without any satisfaction of meat. The whole $20+ dish was basically inedible and a waste of money.

Guilin noodles restaurant on Valley Blvd. This place serves specialty noodles from Guilin China…read more These noodles are on the thicker side also like the ones that are used in Vietnamese bun bo hue. Husband and I tried out the dry Guilin noodles and also the beef noodle soup, both were super good. The food is on the lighter side since there is a topping bar. You can mix and match the topping and seasoning to your taste. All the pickles at the topping bars were good. They even have some side dishes at the bar like cucumber salad and seaweed salad. Restaurant is super clean compared to other Guilin noodles places. Service is pretty much self serve. You ordered through a QR code at your table then they will call your number when your food is ready. There might be a language barrier, the waitress doesn't seem like they speak English.

This place seems to have replace the previous business. They still have Guilin noodles, which is a…read morerice noodle. Each table has a QR code that you scan to order. When the food is ready, they call you to the counter. You can add your own condiments, like pickled veggies, hot sauce, roasted peanuts, etc. I loved the cut up pickled beans. I tried the dry-tossed noodle $13.99, which lets you choose three types of meat. The crispy pork was most flavorful, but I really enjoyed the beef shank slices. It came with half a braised egg. I also tried some of the braised beef noodle soup. The soup was flavorful, and the beef was tender! It was light in color, not like the dark Taiwanese braised beef. Service was ok. The lady spoke in Mandarin that was really fast. You can self-serve water from their Coway filter. Indoor seating only Bathroom in the back Street parking (or in the back lot) Credit card/Apple Pay accepted

First timer here! Had some friends from out of town... we needed a place to eat. Prince dumplings…read moreand good alley had insane wait times so we decided to take a chance on spring. Wow! Everything was so good, moderately priced and service was excellent! Was a nice touch to have a self serve water/black & green tea station. We had so much! Stand outs were marinated egg, scallion pancake, garlic Chinese broccoli, potstickers. XLB's, beef noodle soup... and loved the steamed sole! Cant wait to come back!

I'm always on the look out for new restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley. I've been eying Spring…read moreDumplings in Rosemead for a while now. One day, I decided to come here for lunch with my family. The restaurant is quite small but also quite cozy. The air conditioning was ok, could have been stronger. The staff were very accommodating. My favorite item to get was the Chinese sausage steamed rice. The dish also included red onions and bell peppers which added a lot to the flavor of the dish. There was a generous portion of Chinese sausage. I also loved the seafood soup noodles with shacha sauce. The sauce was not too spicy and went well with the soup. The soup dumplings were ok, but solid. Same with the zhajiangmian. The steamed rice was my favorite part of the meal, and I would come back just for that.

Wow, it has been 4 years since my first review for Chef Tony Dim Sum in Arcadia. Time flies when…read morewe're enjoying great eats. It's time for an update... I recently purchased the 2026-2027 MySGV X 626 Night Market Passport Limited Edition valid through June 30, 2027. What a spectacular food passport with amazing free offers! Chef Tony Dim Sum is 1 out of the 24 participating restaurants. It was my very first restaurant visited and my very first passport stamp acquired. Cool beans! Free offering was 1 Steamed Dim Sum Combo for dine-in only. No substitutions. Not valid with other offers. Thanks Chef Tony Dim Sum! Dim sum combo came with 1 radish cake with preserved meat, 1 steamed BBQ pork bun, 1 shrimp dumpling with chives, and 1 lava egg yolk with gold foil. Every item in the combo tasted delicious. Flavors were on point. Portions were good. If I had to rank them from top to bottom picks, it would be (1) shrimp dumpling, (2) lava egg yolk, (3) radish cake, (4) BBQ pork bun. I dined-in on an early Sunday evening. They were not busy at all. It must have been the heat... maybe no one wants to eat out on a hot day. Restaurant was clean and in tip top shape ready to receive customers. Staff and service were great. Food came out timely. Although it seemed as though they steamed the dim sum to order because each item pretty much came out one at a time. No biggie. I rather eat my dim sum hot and fresh than cold and stale. I didn't just come here for the free food. I love to support local businesses whenever I can. I also ordered other dim sum and appetizers. 1. Cucumber Salad with garlic and vinegar - cucumbers were crisp and crunchy, but not very fond of the dark vinegar taste, will not get again 2. Shrimp Dumpling - very tasty, but portion could be a bit bigger 3. Steamed Chicken Feet with brown sauce - I have had better, could have been a bit more tender 4. Eggplant stuffed with shrimp paste - BEST pick ever! YUM... highly recommend for all eggplant and shrimp paste connoisseurs! 5. Sticky Rice Balls stuffed with egg yolk - surprisingly good, lightly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, egg yolk was sweet and tasty Total bill was $45 covering the purchased dim sum items plus tax and tip and excluding the free combo. Pricing was a bit higher than most dim sum places, but it's all good. This is just the beginning to MySGV food passport adventures. Can't wait for my next food spot stop and stamp!

Came on a weekend evening. Parking wasn't hard to find even though it was limited. Saw that they…read morewere a Mechlin Star restaurant and wanted to check them out. There wasn't a wait, but the place was almost full. Got the Pan Fried Taro Cake or 香煎芋絲餅 for $7.38, Wood Ear Salad with Mature Vinegar or 陳醋雲耳 for $9.98, Stir Fried Pork with Dried Bean Tofu or 香干炒肉 for $19.80, and Steamed Dim Sum Combo or 蒸點四拼 for $10.98. Ordered white rice for $2.00 a bowl. The Pan Fried Taro Cake or 香煎芋絲餅 was really good and crispy. The Wood Ear Salad with Mature Vinegar or 陳醋雲耳 was descent. The Stir Fried Pork with Dried Bean Tofu wasn't in the paper menu, but was in the book menu. It was really salty and oily. The Steamed Dim Sum Combo or 蒸點四拼 came with four items and felt expensive for the $10.98. Felt the price was expensive for what you get. Also, expected the food to taste better for being a Mechlin Star restaurant. Make sure you flag down the waiters because they will not check in on you. Saw a customer yelled at the staff because no one check in on her.

We came for the dinner special, which is an incredible value at $13.99 and comes with generous…read moreportions. We ordered the Shanghai-style Sweet and Sour Pork, Kung Pao Chicken, Sliced Beef with Onions, Steamed Greenland Halibut, Braised Pork Belly in Brown Sauce, and Stir-Fried Clams with Black Bean Sauce. The portions were large, making it easy to share family-style. The Shanghai-style sweet and sour pork had a nice balance of sweet and tangy flavors. The Kung Pao chicken offered just the right amount of spice. The sliced beef with onions was tender and flavorful. The steamed Greenland halibut was fresh and delicately seasoned, the braised pork belly was rich and melt-in-your-mouth. The clams paired perfectly with the savory black bean sauce. The restaurant has a spacious dining room with beautiful décor and a modern, elegant interior, creating a comfortable atmosphere for family dinners or gatherings. Combined with the generous portions and reasonable prices, it's a great spot for classic Chinese comfort food.

I've been trying to come here for a while because I've heard it was such a good deal but the lines…read morewere always so long. I finally came when there was no long and we were seated once our whole party arrived. The server kept egging us on to order more food.. like I get it but I found that kind of weird. He also told us that the lunch special portions would be smaller so it's okay to order more dishes. When it came out they were regular sized so now we just had a bunch of dishes and weren't going to finish.. again weird. They gifted a large bowl of miso soup.. which again again weird lol we served it up like Chinese style banquet soup and they had edamame as free app like isn't this a Chinese place?? The dishes were okay nothing to rave about. The overall total price in the end was not bad though so it was "a good deal," but quality wise I probably would not come back.