Top Asian Fusion Restaurant in La Habra
Pick Up Stix Fresh Asian Flavors
1331 W Imperial Hwy suite f, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
Used to eat at pick Up Stix at least once a week sometimes three but the last three or four visits were very disappointing. The service has always been good but the portions and prices have me looking elsewhere. Last time I ordered I think that tiny container of house special chicken was $11 and change?I had the pleasure of meeting the founder years ago and he was very proud of the restaurant chain that he had built. I believe he sold it shortly after and you can tell the difference. It seems like everything is getting worse these days for one reason or another and it's sad to see my beloved Pickupstix follow. Most companies blame Covid for high prices, small portions and poor service but I would point to In-N-Out Burger, Chick-fil-A, Costco and other highly profitable and highly rated companies that are thriving pandemic or not.Don't be a follower Pickupstix, you've always had great tasting food but there's more to it than that.
Higo Sushi Peruvian Fusion
1451 W Whittier Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
I was looking to have some sushi with my daughter for a Sunday night dinner. I went online to look and I happened to come across Higo Sushi Peruvian...The place was spotless with a host that seats you, there is a sushi bar and dining tables. Everybody there was so nice and professional, very helpful. I ordered garlic edemame, two thumbs up, they were so delicious. The sample roll, it had 4 varieties of what I assume are their most popular rolls, two pieces each. The roll was outstanding, each one was unique in flavor and tasty for lack of a better word. Had another roll, cant recall the name, but delicious as well. Tempura was the crispiest Ive had to date and the warm sauce was very good. For dessert we had these little crunchy cookies and also an ice cream that was orange in color but had this mild vanillaish flavor and great consistency. The food is infused with Peruvian flavors, and there are Peruvian classic cuisine options like Lomo Saltado. When you are seated they bring pickled cucumbers and ginger with wasabi paste as well as a Peruvian favorite similar to an avocado green chile not sure exactly what its called but it was to die for. Prices were spot on, they might even raise them and I would still return. Happy customer. P.S. a couple arrived 5 minutes before closing and they were welcomed and treated gracefully. Very impressed.
WaBa Grill
1351 W Whittier Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
Found a small metal nail, the size of a piece of rice in my waba plate, I ate it, felt something hard and cold, and immediately spat it out. I was offered to have my name put down on a piece of paper and and IOU for another waba bowl. I don't know how or why there is a nail in my rice, but that is never acceptable. If I was being less cautious, and I had swallowed the nail I would be in a big mess to try to get it out and it would've become a big legal problem for waba.
The Cajun Crab
520 W Lambert Rd, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
We ordered the crab and shrimp combo bag, the garlic edamame, the ramen, chicken tenders and fries, 2 mechaladas and a strawberry smoothie with strawberry popping pearls.Let me begin by saying this is a brand new place and I understand that they're probably working out the kinks, but the ordering system is kind of confusing not just for me as the customer but apparently for the staff as well. There were only two employees when we at their 6:20 pm Wednesday evening. Unless you have a solid 2 hours to go and have dinner this probably isn't a place for you.The food was average which was disappointing because my bill was close to 200$ it had potential but the sauce had way too much of a sweet tatter, the garlic was extremely raw and I'm sorry but raw garlic is a vary unappealing taste, the edamame wasn't cleaned properly it was covered in that fuzzy film on the outer layer and unfortunately the chicken tenders were way over cooked and tasted just like the oil it was fried in. The 2 employees seemed nice enough when I seen them the couple of times but they were extremely overwhelmed and it showed. Which I did find odd because we were the only people there at the time (myself and two small kids). The worst part was we had ordered a smoothie with popping pearls and it literally took 50 minutes and it was made incorrectly. I might return but I'm going to definitely wait a few months so hopefully that will allow them to work out the kinks and not serve people raw garlic.
Poke Parlor
1900 W Whittier Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
The food here is very good. However, this is our second time coming here and also the second time we've had bad customer service.As a poke place, I feel you really have three main factors to distinguish yourself by.1. Quality ingredients, which this place definitely has. Though let's be real, this factor probably isn't all that difficult for any given poke restaurant to manage. It's not like they have to cook much of anything.2. Price. This place is not cheap, but not outrageous either. The portions are reasonable. It'd be fine if not for…3. Customer service. I don't know if we just have had bad luck with our visits, but both times the staff have just been rude and inattentive. They rushed our choices, and tried to rush us forward to the next station, even though they had no other customers. I don't want to assume it's because they're trying to be skimpy with the portions/amount of options you choose, but it sure felt that way. And they also really don't seem like they want anything to do with actually serving their customers.Look, I can sympathize with the staff. I've worked in the restaurant industry. But c'mon, you're putting ingredients in a bowl, and that bowl isn't cheap. It's not particularly difficult to do, and hard to mess up up UNLESS you don't put a little effort into customer service. We got what we asked for, but it felt like pulling teeth, for no discernible reason.While the food here is pretty good, we won't be coming back anytime soon. If the prices were cheaper we could put up with poor customer service. But let's be honest: poke bowls are just good ingredients in a bowl. We have other options in area.Hopefully things change down the line and we can give it another try.
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Ultramen Japanese Restaurant Sushi & Ramen
159 E Imperial Hwy, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
To start, we immediately noticed something was off because the restaurant is supposed to be Japanese but the owner was Korean, and the lanterns hung up said “ramen” in Chinese (拉麵 lamian), not Japanese (羅麺 or ラーメン). I'm aware that just because someone is Korean does not mean they don't do a different food well (ex. many sushi restaurants are owned by Koreans and they're amazing), but the other factors just made the restaurant seem like it was thrown together assuming Americans wouldn't notice because we don't know any better.That aside, the second red flag is that the menu has soooo many fusion items. Sushi tacos, sushi burritos, to name a few. It was a big read flag but we decided to still give the restaurant a shot.Honestly, the food is pretty whack. We ordered tonkotsu ramen, spicy miso ramen, egg rolls, and gyoza.The tonkotsu ramen tasted like it's heated from a pack. The noodles were good but the broth was very basic with much to be desired. It was okay. Definitely nothing to write home about and not worth coming back for.The spicy miso ramen tasted like they got the tonkotsu broth, and added a gochujang/miso mixture to it… it was really not good at all and I didn't even finish it.The eggrolls were free and tasted like they were from Dollar Tree (which may explain why they're free if you check in on Yelp). They taste exactly like the ones from Panda Express, if you know those.The gyoza was probably the best part of the meal but that isn't saying much. The filling was actually very good, and you could taste the ginger. The weird thing is that they don't offer it to be deep fried or pan fried… it only comes deep fried. This gives the exterior a hard texture that isn't super desirable when it comes to gyoza.Soooo… to put it shortly, I don't think I could ever truly recommend this place to anyone. They would do a lot better if they tried to specialize really well into one thing instead of trying to have a ton of things but not really anything actually good. Also, if they're gonna be a Japanese restaurant… be a Japanese restaurant. Don't have lanterns written in Chinese ?
300 Bowl Coffee Shop
370 E Whittier Blvd, La Habra, CA 90631, United States
This eatery is an unexpected fusion of old-school american diner and americanized chinese food. Thats right, you read that correctly.Expect huge portions and delicious ones at that.I had a BLT and it was fantastic. The bread expertly prepared and toasted, lettuce and tomato crisp and fresh as if just picked. Bacon was crisp and excess bacon grease was removed. The accompanying string fries were also fried perfectly and not greasy, and they filled the plate. I loved the meal.My cohort ordered sweet and sour pork and vegetable fried rice. Again the portion filled a family sized plate to overflowing. The sweet and sour was delicate and the fried pork top notch. The vegetable fried rice was spiced to flavourful excellence.The server was also great, friendly and efficient, but not intrusive.No, I am not related to anyone attached to the restaurant. It was just such a surprise and pleasure to eat there. I know this review is a bit of a gush.Highest recommendation.