Robbie R.
Yelp
I was on my way back to Red Bluff from my work assignment in the Bay Area and stopped in Sacramento here to meet up with a friend that wanted to invite me to dinner with some friends.
"CF Cheng", wow, I'm surprised they haven't gotten sued by you know who, for too similar name of a Chinese restaurant. All the big chains will usually sue for name infringement or something like that.
Well, the food here is way better than it's famous namesake that caters to western American tastes .... including cheesecake for dessert. The food here at CF Cheng's is more "authentic" catering to the tastes of Chinese people who don't want Orange Chicken or egg rolls or those crab free Rangoon things.
My friend who is Chinese did all the ordering ahead of time for our table. We all sat at a big round table that had one of those glass spinning thingys in the center of the table to serve and share all the food on. I sort of thought this was gonna be a bigger restaurant inside, but I guess as long as the food is good!
We had a soup that I didn't recognize, but was a very tasty veggie type soup. Then we had a braised pork belly in a brown sauce, a steamed pork patty, clams with black bean sauce, snow pea shoots with a garlic sauce and finally what looked like General Chicken .... but was way better than any General Chicken I ever had. All the food, even the sort of weird dishes, all tasted very good, even that weird pork patty that had dried salted fish in it, I was told.
Everybody else seemed to enjoy the food as well. Don't know if I'd come back here on my own, but if others that knew what to order had a dinner, I'd go!