One of the best Chinese foods I've had in LA. Huge portions, beware.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gifford Hwa
Everything tasted great. Beef noodle soup, spicy beef noodle soup, mala beef noodle soup. Now caution should be used with that devil spicy beef noodle soup. That is like ghost pepper crazy spicy.Pan fried buns and XLB were also good. The beef rolls were okay.ALLERGEN NOTES: No milk or egg used lol
This place is good if you like Din tai Fung but you are on a budget and actually want to be full after completing a meal. You definitely get good value for the money along with flavor.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
Darla
The young waitress had a bad face. If you don’t feel happy, don’t work! !Food is average.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
AJ P
Spicy beef noodle soup E2
Tuan Le
We ordered the xiao long bao, chicken fried rice, popcorn chicken and spicy wonton. Flavor is good. The xiao long bao was dried on the top and not as firm as the ones we eat at Din Tai Fun. The filling is really good though. Chicken popcorn was missing the fried basil leaves and could add a little more salt for my flavor profile. The spicy wonton is missing the tingling sensation of the Sichuan Peppercorn and wasn't spicy. All in all we didn't get the opportunity to really try their full menu. But from what we ordered, the food was decent.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Nick G.
Good food!My girlfriend and I came around 11:30AM to find the restaurant already almost full of people. Music playing, and people talking and slurping are the main things being heard. We got seated, looked at the menu, and made our selections on the order sheet. I ordered C10. Hot Oil Pork with Vegetable Wonton, D10. Devil's Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, and my girlfriend got D6. Spicy Braised Beef Noodle Soup.The food:- C10. Hot Oil Pork with Vegetable Wonton: These wontons were huge. They were a little sweet and a little spicy and had good flavor.- D10. Devil’s Spicy Beef Noodle Soup: I can handle spice but this bowl was spicy AF. I couldn’t finish the noodles because my mouth was burning. The meat was delicious, extremely tender and juicy. There was plenty of noodles.- D6: Spicy Braised Beef Noodle Soup: This was a pretty much toned down version of my order, D10. The meat was also very tender and juicy. This one is considered medium spice and I recommend getting it. Better balance of spice and more enjoyable.We only got waters but I did see people ordering iced teas, which came in a huge mug.As we left the restaurant we did notice that there was a ton of people waiting and that the place had gotten packed. The food comes out quick though so I can’t imagine the wait being too long.The parking somewhat sucks in the plaza as there are quite a few businesses in the same lot, including Mcdonald’s.Service was good, we were checked on a few times throughout our meal.Go try this place out!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
Bonnie W.
First time at this location and made the mistake of coming here on a Sunday. It was packed but the wait was quick for a party of 8. I didn't like that they forced you to order ahead of time. However, I can see why they do it because the waiter said it takes 20-30mins for food to come out but as soon as we sat down, the food came out quick. But before we got to our table, they didn't even give us enough chairs. We were missing 2 chairs and had to get our own chairs from a table that wasn't being used.My mom got the fish with pickled vegetable rice noodle soup and it was luke warm. We also got the beef noodles soup and that was lukewarm as well unfortunately. The xiao long bao was very good and so was the taiwanese vermicelli. We order pot stickers that never arrived and when we notified the waiter, they semi accused us of receiving it and I told them we did not so they notified the other busboy who was managing the sign in at the door and we got our put stickers. We also ordered a passion green tea that never came but was included in our bill and once again the waiter was in disbelief that it was "forgotten" and I told him to look at our table to show him we didn't get it before they took it off the bill. The service wasn't bad and they did their best with how busy they were.We felt so rushed eating and couldn't even really enjoy our food. They literally semi rush you and I felt so rushed trying to unbuckle my baby from his booster seat so they could clean the table and stuff. As good as their food is, I'll stick to their other location in Monterey Park. This location was is simply too rushed for me and the food was decent minus lukewarm noodles.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Cindy Lin
Best soup dumplings in SGV. Come at lunch - usually no line. Great beef roll as
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Roll Cake 6 牛肉卷饼, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包
Lance
Seating is a bit tight and intimate (not too far from neighbors), but the food is FANTASTIC! We had all kinds of dumplings which were delicious, but the best of the best would have to be the beef roll, which tastes amazing and has this really nice flaky-crunchy texture to it. 11/10 would come here and annihilate 6-10 orders of the beef rolls
The food is amazing, that’s why there’s always a line. They are super efficient and get you through super quickly. You’ll end up ordering while you’re waiting in line if there is a long wait. As a result, when you sit down you don’t really feel like you can relax because they’re always sort of rushing through customers to keep the line moving. The food comes out super quickly, and when it gets there, it’s great. We really like the pork bao (c3), it’s perhaps the best dumpling in the SGV. Super bold claim, I know. Everything else is great, I haven’t had one bad dish here. Wish they had a cold version of the sesame noodles as well.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Miriam Miriam
This looks like a very popular place because the restaurant was pretty crowded! It was my first time trying this place and we ordered beef soup noodles, pan fried dumplings, pot stickers, xiao long bao, popcorn chicken, and other popular dishes! The portion was big for popcorn chicken! I was already so full after eating that and dumplings. We always crave Taiwanese food and this was good, but not amazing. We are glad to have tried it though!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Potstickers, Beef Roll Cake 6 牛肉卷饼, Popcorn Chicken 盐酥鸡, Bao, Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup
Tim Wu
Ordered House Special Beef noodles, Sanqinbao, stir fried rice cakes. The rice cake dish turns out to be sweet tasting, not a little bit, way too sweet. That is the reason why I didn’t give a five star. The broth of the beef noodles is among the best I had with depth and flavor. The Sanqinbao is juicy with the crispy bottom but not burnt. No MSG after taste on the way home.Someone smoked in the restroom and stink up the room; I hope the proprietor would forbid his employees to smoke in the restroom. Wy I don’t think it was a customer? Because it was obvious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gen X Years
I was able to check in with Yelp so we didn’t have to wait long once we got there.Food was legit!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Noodle Soup, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup
Tom Shino
Dumplings, shrimp fried rice, beef noodle soup, everything we ordered here was so good. Will come back again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup
One of the best Chinese foods I've had in LA. Huge portions, beware.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Everything tasted great. Beef noodle soup, spicy beef noodle soup, mala beef noodle soup. Now caution should be used with that devil spicy beef noodle soup. That is like ghost pepper crazy spicy.Pan fried buns and XLB were also good. The beef rolls were okay.ALLERGEN NOTES: No milk or egg used lol
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, Long Bao, Beef Noodle Soup
This place is good if you like Din tai Fung but you are on a budget and actually want to be full after completing a meal. You definitely get good value for the money along with flavor.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
The young waitress had a bad face. If you don’t feel happy, don’t work! !Food is average.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Spicy beef noodle soup E2
We ordered the xiao long bao, chicken fried rice, popcorn chicken and spicy wonton. Flavor is good. The xiao long bao was dried on the top and not as firm as the ones we eat at Din Tai Fun. The filling is really good though. Chicken popcorn was missing the fried basil leaves and could add a little more salt for my flavor profile. The spicy wonton is missing the tingling sensation of the Sichuan Peppercorn and wasn't spicy. All in all we didn't get the opportunity to really try their full menu. But from what we ordered, the food was decent.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Good food!My girlfriend and I came around 11:30AM to find the restaurant already almost full of people. Music playing, and people talking and slurping are the main things being heard. We got seated, looked at the menu, and made our selections on the order sheet. I ordered C10. Hot Oil Pork with Vegetable Wonton, D10. Devil's Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, and my girlfriend got D6. Spicy Braised Beef Noodle Soup.The food:- C10. Hot Oil Pork with Vegetable Wonton: These wontons were huge. They were a little sweet and a little spicy and had good flavor.- D10. Devil’s Spicy Beef Noodle Soup: I can handle spice but this bowl was spicy AF. I couldn’t finish the noodles because my mouth was burning. The meat was delicious, extremely tender and juicy. There was plenty of noodles.- D6: Spicy Braised Beef Noodle Soup: This was a pretty much toned down version of my order, D10. The meat was also very tender and juicy. This one is considered medium spice and I recommend getting it. Better balance of spice and more enjoyable.We only got waters but I did see people ordering iced teas, which came in a huge mug.As we left the restaurant we did notice that there was a ton of people waiting and that the place had gotten packed. The food comes out quick though so I can’t imagine the wait being too long.The parking somewhat sucks in the plaza as there are quite a few businesses in the same lot, including Mcdonald’s.Service was good, we were checked on a few times throughout our meal.Go try this place out!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
First time at this location and made the mistake of coming here on a Sunday. It was packed but the wait was quick for a party of 8. I didn't like that they forced you to order ahead of time. However, I can see why they do it because the waiter said it takes 20-30mins for food to come out but as soon as we sat down, the food came out quick. But before we got to our table, they didn't even give us enough chairs. We were missing 2 chairs and had to get our own chairs from a table that wasn't being used.My mom got the fish with pickled vegetable rice noodle soup and it was luke warm. We also got the beef noodles soup and that was lukewarm as well unfortunately. The xiao long bao was very good and so was the taiwanese vermicelli. We order pot stickers that never arrived and when we notified the waiter, they semi accused us of receiving it and I told them we did not so they notified the other busboy who was managing the sign in at the door and we got our put stickers. We also ordered a passion green tea that never came but was included in our bill and once again the waiter was in disbelief that it was "forgotten" and I told him to look at our table to show him we didn't get it before they took it off the bill. The service wasn't bad and they did their best with how busy they were.We felt so rushed eating and couldn't even really enjoy our food. They literally semi rush you and I felt so rushed trying to unbuckle my baby from his booster seat so they could clean the table and stuff. As good as their food is, I'll stick to their other location in Monterey Park. This location was is simply too rushed for me and the food was decent minus lukewarm noodles.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Best soup dumplings in SGV. Come at lunch - usually no line. Great beef roll as
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Roll Cake 6 牛肉卷饼, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包
Seating is a bit tight and intimate (not too far from neighbors), but the food is FANTASTIC! We had all kinds of dumplings which were delicious, but the best of the best would have to be the beef roll, which tastes amazing and has this really nice flaky-crunchy texture to it. 11/10 would come here and annihilate 6-10 orders of the beef rolls
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Beef Roll Cake 6 牛肉卷饼
Restaurantji Recommends
The food is amazing, that’s why there’s always a line. They are super efficient and get you through super quickly. You’ll end up ordering while you’re waiting in line if there is a long wait. As a result, when you sit down you don’t really feel like you can relax because they’re always sort of rushing through customers to keep the line moving. The food comes out super quickly, and when it gets there, it’s great. We really like the pork bao (c3), it’s perhaps the best dumpling in the SGV. Super bold claim, I know. Everything else is great, I haven’t had one bad dish here. Wish they had a cold version of the sesame noodles as well.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
This looks like a very popular place because the restaurant was pretty crowded! It was my first time trying this place and we ordered beef soup noodles, pan fried dumplings, pot stickers, xiao long bao, popcorn chicken, and other popular dishes! The portion was big for popcorn chicken! I was already so full after eating that and dumplings. We always crave Taiwanese food and this was good, but not amazing. We are glad to have tried it though!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Potstickers, Beef Roll Cake 6 牛肉卷饼, Popcorn Chicken 盐酥鸡, Bao, Spicy Beef Noodle Soup, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup
Ordered House Special Beef noodles, Sanqinbao, stir fried rice cakes. The rice cake dish turns out to be sweet tasting, not a little bit, way too sweet. That is the reason why I didn’t give a five star. The broth of the beef noodles is among the best I had with depth and flavor. The Sanqinbao is juicy with the crispy bottom but not burnt. No MSG after taste on the way home.Someone smoked in the restroom and stink up the room; I hope the proprietor would forbid his employees to smoke in the restroom. Wy I don’t think it was a customer? Because it was obvious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I was able to check in with Yelp so we didn’t have to wait long once we got there.Food was legit!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Noodle Soup, Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup
Dumplings, shrimp fried rice, beef noodle soup, everything we ordered here was so good. Will come back again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Xiao Long Bao 小笼包, Beef Noodle Soup