Top Chinese Restaurant in Cupertino
Shanghai Family Restaurant
10877 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
This is a great local chinese restaurant. The food is delicious and they have a wide variety of authentic dishes. Their pan fried pork buns are some of the best in the area, which is saying something for Cupertino. The service is friendly and fast, the serving size is good, the prices are reasonable, and food is just as delicious served to go during the pandemic. Weve visited this restaurant many times with friends, and well be back more in the future.
Taste Good Beijing Cuisine- Cupertino
20916 Homestead Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Flavour totally off. Taste bad. Over-priced. Menu overly produced. Decors are flavourful, but its all show, no substance.I do not write counter-recommendations often. But this one has to be the poster child of my Chinese restaurant rule of thumb: Do not trust a restaurant whose menu contains dishes from all cuisines in China. This 京味小馆 comes with a special twist.The original rule was formulated against traditional restaurants run by older generations (often 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants), catering to mostly American clientele. This one is run by first-gen Chinese catering to mostly ethnic Chinese. (This is another reason why this one is so disappointing: Most such new crop of Chinese restaurants are excellent.) Usual suspects of the original rule most often raise Cantonese flag while their menus include all cuisines. This one raises Beijing flag, but all its flagship dishes are of Sichuan flavour.If I choose to dine in Beijing Cuisine, why would I order Sichuan dishes? (BTW, the flag itself is itself questionable because by any count, Beijing flavour can hardly count as a cuisine in China. To their credit, the restaurants Chinese name does not exaggerate cuisine.) So I ordered several very typical low-brow Beijing dishes that I enjoyed during my eight-year stay there. None of them tasted close to what I used to have in Beijing. Several do not even taste descent.The restaurant has very flavourful decors that reminds people of modern Beijing, not the traditional Beijing as its Chinese name would suggest. I heard some diners loudly bragging about their prior experience at the location and praising its food quality. Several picture frames show photos of the owner with various modern celebrities of sorts. The menu is luxuriously produced, with photos that make your mouth water if you ever had those dishes. The moment I walked into the restaurant, I whispered to my daughter that this is a place that kan (砍, or chop) its patrons. (A similar Beijing colloquialism is zai, 宰, or slaughter.) Still, if the food is good, sometimes I am willing to pay a little for these productions. Alas! (Service is relatively speedy, but they hurry you in an unpleasant way.)Do not listen to any of the messaging, be it from your loud next-table diner, from silent celebrities in wall photos, or from the overly produced menu. Taste is bad here. (I am willing to admit that I did not order their flagship dishes. But then, if I want Sichuan food, I go to a restaurant that brags about its Sichuan cuisine so I can properly judge.)
Dough Zone Dumpling House Cupertino
19600 Vallco Pkwy Suite 130, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Food- my biggest complaint/observation is that the dumplings, baos and green onion bings that we ordered appear to be made offsite, by machines. The food is then warmed up or cooked on site. Thats why the XLBs are not juicy and the baos look perfectly round and are not pinched sealed with imperfections on the exterior. Youre basically eating 99 Ranch-bought frozen food thats steamed or seared at the restaurant.- others reviews that complain about portion size is spot on. Small bowls of noodle with not much meat. Charge more if you have too, but the portions and ingredients look anemic.Service- really non existent. Customers scan the QR code and order on your phone. We ordered 10 dishes and the only dessert option - some banana bing. That was actually tasty. But the big issue is they brought the dessert out with all the food. Theres no awareness of dining service. The dessert should come last. That should go without saying. Im eating sweet with salty at the same time.- No one came to check on how the food was or to refill the tea. Dont think theyre trained to do so and cant blame them when theyve been conditioned into an auto tipping culture in the Bay Area.- there does not seem to be a manager or GM on site. If there is one, that person should be demoted.Dough Zone is what happens when restaurants overly focus on efficiency and near term profitability. The food needs to be on point first, especially for Chinese food.This is a one-and-done for us and most people that dine here as evidenced by the fact there was no line. There was a huge hour-plus wait when they first opened.Why 2 stars, and not 1. At least the place and food was clean.
QQ Noodle
10889 S Blaney Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Love the garlic pork noodle, egg and chive noodle and the beef in chilli oil dish. It gets busy by 6:45pm and especially the winter.Depending on the day you go, the noodle can be inconsistent. Sometimes over cooked, sometimes watery, sometimes just right. But for the portion, Chinese restaurant benchmark, you cant complain.The soup noodles tend to lack Broth flavor and I recommend the sauce noodles.
Koi Palace Contempo Cupertino
19369 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Another great restaurant from the koi palace team! Their food was excellent and we loved every dish. I would highly recommend their seabass and pan fried wagyu. So good! Also their service is great, much better than your typical chinese restaurant.
Red Hot Wok
10074 E Estates Dr, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
This is one of the few Chinese restaurants my Chinese, East Asian, South East Asian, Brown Asian, Cauc-asian, non-Asian and Wannabe Asian friends all enjoy. Its as close as you can get to authentic Chinese food without upsetting anyone who doesnt normally enjoy it. Well, Im not saying its the best Asian restaurant in the area, but I have yet to find someone who dislikes it.The price is amazing for food of this quality. No matter you decide to order, do get the mango snow shaved ice.Red Hot Wok can get a bit crowded during lunch and dinner times, but its well worth it.
Royal Cuisine
10477 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
I was here for lunch as they are usually closed on Wednesdays. The service is great and the good portions are big. I ordered the chicken and my friend ordered the shrimp. It tasted great and then for dessert we ordered the sweet potato dipped in sugary syrup which you have to dip in cold water before you eat as its very hot due to the sugary syrup. This is something very special for children in China who enjoy these as a dessert. It reminded me of giving healthy food wrapped up in cheese so that kids eat healthy ?. For me the soup portion looked too big so it is advisable to go when youre hungry and can eat that big bowl. They do have a lot of options on their menu such as dim sum and dumplings as well. I will say give it a try and you will love to visit here. Make sure its not on a Wednesday as they are closed for business.
Southland Flavor Cafe
10825 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Well im from sacramento, and there are zero authentic taiwanese restaurants in the greater sac area. for over 30 years i would drive to eat at the taiwan restaurant in berkeley, but theyre shut down for remodeling. so i decided to check out other taiwanese restaurants in the bay area. after googling over 20 places i decided to give this place a try mainly because of their extensive menu. they carry stuff thats not available anywhere else besides maybe rowland heights near L A. i ordered 5 different items to go, and tried it within 15 minutes to make sure the taste wasnt affected. 4 out of the 5 were as expected, good but not quite great as in real taiwanese night markets, but good enough that id go back. the last item was the pork intestine noodles, which were a bit salty but tolerable. the boss lady did explain to me before i left that they have more regular chinese customers than taiwanese customers, which could explain why the chefs may not have cooked enough taiwanese dishes to perfect it. overall i like the atmosphere, the friendliness, and of course id go back again for the food! and their prices are very reasonable!
Grandmas Kitchen
19541 Richwood Dr, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
Worst Chinese restaurant in Cupertino. 小酥肉 I ordered has no meat inside but like fried dough stew. All Food taste extremely salty and oily in order to cover the smell of ingredients. Don’t waste your money there even with discounted food price.
Chef Yangs BBQ
10831 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014, United States
The sanitary conditions in the restaurant make me worried as the plastic bowls and spoons look like they have been used for thousands of years without their original white color(which has become black). I found there was non-washed food in both bowls. The food has already dried on it. When the food was brought to the table, the mutton and chicken offal tasted very un-fresh and smelled bad. The worst thing is the spicy hotpot. The food tasted terrible. The traditional dish MALATANG hot spicy pot is different from other Chinese restaurants. It is all vegetable and tastes like pig food(Taste just like vegetables in a little spicy water). when I asked them why they didnt explain initially it is different from the traditional MALATANG spicy hot spot(name is MALATANG), they said they are a BBQ restaurant and their spicy hot pot is just like this. The vegetables tasted very bitter, I was wondering if they didn’t wash the vegetables so we could taste the pesticide., or if the vegetables had already rotten and they didn’t take out the rotten parts. I got a diarrhea at home few hours later. The restaurant never wash their dishes before they give them to the next customers and don’t wash their vegetables. I will never go to this restaurant again.