China Chef Restaurant
“I've been going here for years so I know most of the staff and get very well taken care of.”
“Note this is a review of when Dim Sum is served on carts during the weekends and holidays (11am – 3pm).”
“So I ask you guys to come try this place out, give it a try and don't drag yourself to NYC chinatown for a day..”
China Chef Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I hate only giving a place 2 stars but at the end of the day it's all about the food. It just doesn't taste good. Any of it. Plain and simple, get a new chef. Came in for lunch and was sat right away for dim sum service. There is only 1 cart going around, which would be fine, if the woman kept going around but she doesn't. Very inconsistent. We tried a beef short rib dish, spring rolls, turnip cake, general tso, veggie dumplings, shumai….to name a few. We def tried a variety. We definitely won't be back.
So I come here often but this time around I'm giving them a 2 due to SERVICE!
When you come for dim sum, the food just flows and I most of the time hardly ever wait for food. Well guess it was a bad day for us to walk in here because the service was just that bad.
Got your typical shrimp shumai, short ribs and veg/shrimp dumplings…..now mind you amongst my husband and I we can demolish those small dishes in like 5-10min. We wanted more food so we waited and waited and waited. We didn't get food for literally 20-25 minutes and that's bad when you're there for DIM SUM.
My kids were starving and we finally got our food but the waiting game was not making me happy. The food thank goodness was good but that service…..ugh….no apologies from the staff as they saw us dwindling our thumbs waiting for them.
The place stops serving dim sum at 3p and we got there at 1:30p. I was so upset they ran out of sesame balls but I did have my favorite which is the turnip cakes.
If someone pulls my arm to come again I kno I would, but I will be hoping for better service.
My family has been coming here for years to a point we're buddy buddy with the owner. We get pretty decent service for the 15-20 heads they have to serve. During weekend lunch or brunch time they do dim sum which isn't too bad. Overall the food is a bit too greasy and oily but it still tastes pretty good.
My favorite entree dish is the fried flounder. It has a good amount of crunch on the skin and soft and silkiness of flounder meat drenched in soy sauce. Second favorite is the yeung chow fried rice. It's a classic but serves a hefty portion.
The dim sum favorites are the pork shumai, fried shrimp ball and steamed shrimp balls. They are all really oily but I don't mind it. They used to give ice cream with fortune cookies on top of it but last time I came here they gave out slices of orange instead.
The decor could be more updated because its starting to look like its on its last breath.
I pretty much come here with my family because I'm not the one paying for it. If it wasn't for the dim sum and the numerous times I've been here with my family I probably would have rated it lower.
Used to be great dim sum bit the quality has gone down over the last few years.
Overall the food has been fine. It is the last place to find a sit down Chinese restaurant that isn't a takeout joint.
The service has been good in the past. The dim sum servers can be a bit pushy but nothing I haven't dealt with in Chinatown. I haven't had a bad experience with an agressive waiter as some have had.
I have no issue going back
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Going on the weekend is a must for the dim sum lunch. The dim sum is always warm and fresh. For dessert that have coconut jello which is to die for!
I frequent this place often and love the pan fried noodles – when you order to-go they package everything separately so that the noodles don't get soggy. I definitely recommend this place!!!
Great place to get dim sum in the Jersey area on the weekends. Pretty good selection and up to par with Chinatown. I have been here a few times during the week as well. They have a large selection of lunch combo options for a great price (comes with soup and an eggroll). There is a lack of dim sum during the weekdays since it is not in demand. The regular menu items are a little on the expensive side.
The Story: Friends wanted dim sum one Sunday morning – they recommended this place… so I was like…wouldn't hurt, right? It's average.
Food: They had pretty standard dim sum (ie. the basic stuff), not as many variety as you would find at a dim sum spot in Flushing NY or China Town. Their flavors were pretty average as well. What I didn't like is how the skin on the shrimp gao rips right away. They also didn't let us choose the tea we wanted. Chicken feet sucks.
Price: Prices aren't bad, we spent about $55 for a party of 4. Granted I didn't eat my full share because well… I didn't like it.
Decor: It was rather tight in there… I felt pushed up against my table. They also only had 2 carts going round for dim sum.
Service: Service was meh. I felt ignored honestly. =/
Parking & Finding the Place: they had their own parking lot which is a plus
I have been eating here for a long time…so i went last mothers day to take my mother out to eat with my brother….i found that its still the same, only thing changed is its now the next generation of the family running it for i didnt see the elder chinese guy who used to be there sitting people. Now to the food! the dim sum is still as good as it was when i was 7-9-14-18-21 years old….you know the foods good when you just think and remember the taste (#fatboyproblems). It didnt matter what age me and my brother would call the cart guy/gal and just ask for it all! I am talking give me all the shumai, shrimp dumplings, sharks fin, 3 chicken fingers tins,beef dumplings etc…and i mean each tin had three four peices of the item but me and the brother would really ask them to give us 6 of this and that…we really go in and beast lol…love the family time. The shrimp fried rice and house special is still as good, concong green vegetable with garlic is still as fresh as i remembered…..my only PROBLEM and still five stars because i am fortunate place is still in business dishing out amazing food for me to come eat awesome with family…so yes my only PROBLEM is, what happened to the sauce on top of the sharks fin! Lol…it wasnt there on the dim sum dish lol…please re add it the sauce on top of the dim sum sharks fin lol…i will be back for a holiday coming up! Lol